Pauline Toboulidis | June 10, 2022 | Inside The ALI
A Washington Post article by Richard L. Hasen discusses presidential elections and potential revisions to the Electoral Count Act (ECA). In the piece, Hasen mentions proposals for reform presented in the Principles for ECA Reform, published in April 2022: There’s much...
Pauline Toboulidis | June 1, 2022 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, Consumer Contracts, Copyright, Inside The ALI, Policing, Property, Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct, Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions, Torts: Remedies, Uniform Commercial Code
Last month, ALI membership met at the 2022 Annual Meeting to discuss and vote on 12 ALI project drafts. Below is a list of the projects by date presented to the ALI membership for discussion at the Meeting. Learn more about the actions taken at the Meeting here. All...
Megan Dingley | May 6, 2022 | Children and the Law, Inside The ALI
In In re C. L. E., 502 P.3d 1154 (Or. Ct. App. 2021), the Court of Appeals of Oregon cited Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law § 15.30 (Tentative Draft No. 2, 2019) (subsequently renumbered as § 13.40), which the membership approved at the 2019 Annual...
The American Law Institute | May 2, 2022 | Inside The ALI
There is wide agreement that the Electoral Count Act (ECA), the 1887 law governing the final tally of electoral votes for President, is badly outmoded and in need of reform. But many difficult choices will lie along the path from this general consensus to concrete...
Richard L. Revesz | May 1, 2022 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the spring 2022 edition of The ALI Reporter. The attack on the Capitol on January 6 shocked most Americans and focused attention as well on the law that governs Congress’ ordinarily ceremonial count of the...
Jennifer Morinigo | March 4, 2022 | Inside The ALI, Policing, Sexual Assault, Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions
At its meeting on March 2, 2022, the ALI Council considered drafts and revisions for three projects as listed below.* PolicingThe Council approved the following material: §§ 9.01 and 9.06 of Chapter 9, Forensic-Evidence Gathering, Chapter 12, Informants and Undercover...
