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

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

Grace Li is an assistant professor of criminal law. She writes and teaches about the nature and role of prison in contemporary American life. 

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 writings have appeared or are forthcoming in the University of California Irvine Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the UC Law Journal.