A University of Georgia law professor is one of only two being honored by the American Law Institute with a national award for early career legal scholars.

ALI announced this week that it will award its Young Scholars Medal to Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, an associate professor at UGA Law whose work focuses on class actions and other forms of mass litigation.

According to a release by UGA, Burch's scholarship is notable for its interdisciplinary approach, drawing on social psychology, behavioral law and economics and political philosophy. In the release, Goodwin Liu, a California Supreme Court justice who chairs ALI's Young Scholars Medal selection committee, cited Burch's “innovative analysis of strategies for solving principal-agent problems in aggregate litigation.”