Melanie Kalmanson Elected Member of American Law Institute

Melanie Kalmanson, a Quarles & Brady partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group, has been elected a member of the American Law Institute (ALI).

The ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law. It drafts, discusses, revises and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes and Principles of Law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. By participating in the institute’s work, its members have the opportunity to influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas, to work with other eminent lawyers, judges and academics, to support the rule of law and the legal system, and to contribute to the public good.

In addition to her commercial litigation practice, Kalmanson is a member of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project Steering Committee, has been involved in multiple death penalty pro bono projects while at Quarles, has written law review articles on the topic and teaches a course on Florida capital punishment law at Florida State University College of Law, her alma mater.