Worrying about Wisconsin, While Waiting for Its Election Returns
Edward B. FoleyAs we await results from Wisconsin’s April 7 election, we must wonder whether this election is one that fails our national commitment to genuine democracy and, if so, what to do about it.
An Insight into ALI-ELI’s Principles for a Data Economy – Data Rights and Transactions Project
Steven O. WeiseWe read, see, and hear much in the news about data issues. Much of it concerns questions of privacy, real and property rights to data, and the proper use of data collected in the course of everyday lives and business.
Coping With COVID: How the Courts are Preserving Access to Justice
Pauline ToboulidisThe American Law Institute has partnered with the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School to produce the podcast and video series “Coping with COVID.” The first episode in the series is now available on the ALI podcast Reasonably Speaking, or may be watched as a video hosted by the Bolch Institute.
What Happened in Wisconsin
Franita Tolson and Edward B. FoleyIn this podcast episode of Free and Fair with Franita and Foley, election scholars Ned Foley and Franita Tolson analyze the partisanship and polarization that contributed to the state’s fraught primary, and how other states can do better in their upcoming elections.
Project Spotlight: Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Concluding Provisions
Michael Green and Nora Freeman EngstromWe think that one can only understand how the project titled “Restatement Third of Torts: Concluding Provisions” came about and what it will address with some background about the Third Restatement of Torts. So, this profile might more appropriately be titled, “A Brief History of the Third Restatement of Torts.”
Comprehensive Rezonings
Sara C. BroninOf all powers given to local governments, the power to zone is one of the most significant. Zoning dictates everything that gets built in a locality—and thus effectively dictates all of the key activities that take place within it.