Edward B. Foley and Steven F. Huefner | December 29, 2016 | Election Administration
In Part One of our series, we commended the state of Virginia’s effort to coordinate its recount and contest procedures for a presidential election in a way to enable the state to meet the Safe Harbor Deadline. And Virginia is a state with particularly noticeable...
Jennifer Morinigo | November 1, 2016 | Election Administration
The American Law Institute has released its updated Principles of the Law, Election Administration: Non-Precinct Voting and Resolution of Ballot-Counting Disputes, Part I: Principles of Non-Precinct Voting: Early In-Person Voting and Absentee Voting and Part III:...
Noelle Phillips | November 1, 2016 | Policing
The Denver Police Department is rewriting its use-of-force policy to align it with the community’s changing expectations for how officers handle volatile situations and to reflect progressive policies recommended by national policing experts. The new policy will shift...
Joseph Lavitt | September 28, 2016 | Liability Insurance
This Commentary [originally published in the Rutgers University Law Review] focuses on the proposed Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance 2016, Tentative Draft No. 1, sections 4, 13, 18, 19, 21, and associated materials. Tentative Draft No. 1 of the American...
Margaret Love | September 7, 2016 | Sentencing
The provisions on sentence reduction in the Model Penal Code: Sentencing project have recently played a key role in federal sentencing reform efforts. In one case a federal task force on corrections credited the ALI for one of its recommendations; in another. the...
