Professor Florey Joins American Law Institute

Professor Katherine Florey has been elected to the American Law Institute, the nation’s most prestigious non-governmental law reform organization. UC Davis Law now counts 26 current or emeriti faculty in the ALI.

A Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, Florey teaches and researches in the areas of private international law, federal Indian law, civil procedure and public health law and policy. Within these fields, she is particularly interested in the extraterritorial application of law, theories of jurisdiction, and tribes' regulatory and adjudicative powers. Florey received UC Davis Law’s 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award.

Florey’s scholarship has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Virginia Law Review, California Law Review and UCLA Law Review, among other leading academic publications. She has written and/or commented for media outlets including Newsweek and CalMatters on topics ranging from former President Donald Trump’s legal woes to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

Before joining the UC Davis faculty in 2007, Florey served as a law clerk to the Honorable William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and as an associate at the San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest LLP.

Florey received her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she was articles editor of the law review and received the Thelen Marrin Award for graduating first in her class.

Florey holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, where she graduated summa cum laude, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. Before law school, she worked for several years as an editor, travel writer and theater critic