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UK Professor Elected to American Legal Institute

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Sarah N. Welling, Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law in the University of Kentucky College of Law, was recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Welling's election to ALI, the premier learned society for legal academics, is recognition of her national reputation in criminal law. She is the only woman UK Law graduate currently in Kentucky elected to this prestigious organization. 

Founded in 1923, the ALI drafts and publishes various Restatements of the Law, model codes and legal studies to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work. 

Welling has been teaching at the College of Law since 1981. Prior to becoming a law teacher she practiced with Isham, Lincoln & Beale in Chicago, Illinois, and served as law clerk to Judge Eugene E. Siler of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky (now the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals). She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a Coif graduate of the College where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Kentucky Law Journal.

She specializes in federal criminal law, particularly money laundering laws. She has served as an adviser to Congress on money laundering in wire transfers, as an adviser to the Department of the Treasury on bank secrecy laws, as a CIA consultant on money laundering and as a team leader in a two-day operational exercise on money laundering conducted by RAND. She has spoken on money laundering in Poland, Croatia and China. She has been a visiting professor at the William and Mary School of Law, and has published articles in such journals as the Hastings Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Quarterly, and the William & Mary Law Review.

Welling is another example of the academic excellence among faculty at UK Law. Other UK faculty in the ALI include Jonathan Cardi, Mary J. Davis, Kathryn L. Moore, John M. Rogers and Dean Allan W. Vestal.

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