Jonathan Cardi, Kenneth W. Simons and Jennifer Morinigo | April 23, 2018 | Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
In this video, project Reporters Ken Simons and Jonathan Cardi discuss what makes a confinement an intentional tort, including confinement by assertion of legal authority. Included below the video is the corresponding Black Letter and Comment from the 2018 Annual...
Elizabeth S. Scott, Richard Bonnie, Emily Buss, Clare Huntington, Solangel Maldonado, David D. Meyer and Jennifer Morinigo | April 20, 2018 | Children and the Law
Two Sections from the 2018 Annual Meeting draft deal with this topic. Black letter for each Section is included below. The full draft contains Comments (with Illustrations) and Reporters’ Notes. Section 2.30, on parental authority and responsibility for medical care,...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Wenona T. Singel, Kaighn Smith, Jr. and Jennifer Morinigo | April 17, 2018 | American Indian Law
In the American Indian Law project draft that will be presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting, two Sections deal with tribal powers over nonmembers – § 34, Civil Regulatory and Adjudicatory Authority over Nonmembers and § 35, Tribal-Court Exhaustion Rule. This is the...
Jennifer Morinigo | March 1, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Signed into law in January, the new law relates to foreign judgments (except for taxes, fines, or domestic relations) and protects against monetary judgments entered in nations whose courts fail to provide due process. From the New Jersey Law Revision Commission’s...
Stephanie A. Middleton | November 6, 2017 | Sexual Assault
ALI’s Sexual Assault project will update the Sexual Offenses provisions in Article 213 of the 1962 Model Penal Code. The project will define and grade offenses based on the act—what a person does—and the person’s culpability or mental state. In order to understand the...
