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University of Colorado Law School Professor Andrew A. Schwartz has been elected to the (ALI). Schwartz, the Laurence W. DeMuth Chair of Business Law, is one of 45 legal scholars and practitioners who were chosen to join ALI in December of 2025. The 102-year-old organization is dedicated to producing scholarship that clarifies, modernizes, and improves the law. Membership is highly selective, and Schwartz’s election recognizes his cutting-edge scholarship, noteworthy professional achievement, and commitment to improving the law.��

ALI drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes, and Principles of Law that are widely influential in the legal academy, legislatures, and courts. Its membership is limited to approximately 3,000 judges, lawyers, and law professors from across the United States and around the world.

“Professor Schwartz’s election is an extremely well-deserved honor and a reflection of the rigor and impact of his scholarship,” said Colorado Law Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss. “Our community is incredibly proud to see him recognized at the national level, and I have every confidence that his contributions to ALI will be as valuable and influential as his teaching and research here at the law school.”

Schwartz, who joined the faculty in 2008, teaches and publishes on corporate, securities and contract law, and has become an internationally recognized expert on investment crowdfunding.

“This is a tremendous honor, and I’m grateful to my colleagues at Colorado Law for their support and mentorship over the years,” remarked Schwartz. “I’ve long admired the ALI’s contributions to American jurisprudence, and I look forward to helping advance its mission of clarifying and improving the law.”

Schwartz is the author of one book, Investment Crowdfunding, published by Oxford University Press, as well as more than forty scholarly publications. His major articles have appeared in leading flagship law reviews including the UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Notre Dame Law Review, top specialty journals such as the Yale Journal on Regulation and Harvard Business Law Review, and peer-reviewed journals like the New Zealand Law Review.

In 2017, Schwartz served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Auckland Law School in New Zealand. He has won numerous national awards for his scholarship, including the AALS Scholarly Paper Competition and the Federalist Society Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition. At Colorado Law, he has received the Provost's Award for Faculty Achievement, the Gilbert Goldstein Faculty Fellowship, the Sandgrund Award, and the Outstanding New Faculty Award. His research is frequently cited and relied upon by courts and commentators across the country and around the world, including numerous citations by the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation's leading venue for corporate law.

Schwartz earned his Sc.B. in Civil Engineering from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia University, where he served on the Columbia Law Review and was named a James Kent Scholar (top honors) all three years. Before entering academia, he clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Following his clerkships, Schwartz practiced corporate law in New York at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Professor Schwartz joins several other current and retired University of Colorado Law School professors who are elected members of the ALI:

• S. James Anaya
• Kristen A. Carpenter
• Ted James Fiflis
• Lolita Buckner Inniss
• Mark J. Loewenstein
• Christopher B. Mueller
• Daría Roithmayr
• Wadie Edward Said
• Marianne Wesson