Grace Y. Li, A.B., J.D.

• AB, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• JD, New York University of Law, New York, NY

Grace Li is a Fellow in Law and incoming assistant professor. She is part of Ohio State’s Race, Inclusion and Social Equity (RAISE) cohort, which brings tenure-track faculty members to the university whose research addresses racial and social issues. Professor Li researches incarceration and the state’s responses to crime. Some of her current work explores associative life in prisons.

Before joining the faculty at Moritz, Professor Li was a Fellow in Residence and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School’s Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. She clerked for Judge Theodore McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and served as the Kirkland & Ellis Public Service Fellow/Staff Attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union. Professor Li has worked as an educator in prisons and jails since 2011, including with the non-profit organization the Petey Greene Program. 

Her article Associations in Prison appears in the University of California Irvine Law Review and she has a forthcoming piece in the Michigan Law Review.