Megan Dingley | November 18, 2021 | Inside The ALI, U.S. Foreign Relations Law
The Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States: Selected Topics in Treaties, Jurisdiction, and Sovereign Immunity, which was published in 2018, has been receiving significant attention in federal and state courts. The Restatement was...
Pauline Toboulidis | October 27, 2021 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, Inside The ALI, Property, Student Sexual Misconduct, Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions, Torts: Remedies
At its meeting on October 21 and 22, 2021, the Council reviewed and discussed Council Drafts and approved drafts and portions of drafts as listed below.* Children and the LawThe Council approved Council Draft No. 7, which included §1.20 from Chapter 1, Parental...
Richard L. Revesz | October 1, 2021 | Copyright, Inside The ALI
On September 10, the Global Innovation Policy Center of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to The American Law Institute concerning the Restatement of the Law, Copyright project. The below is ALI Director Richard L. Revesz’s response to this inquiry....
Richard L. Revesz | August 3, 2021 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the summer 2021 edition of The ALI Reporter. The last 18 months have transformed the United States (and the rest of the world) in ways that were unimaginable in early 2020. A virulent pandemic has claimed more than...
Andrea Kang Wooster | June 11, 2021 | Inside The ALI
In Borden v. United States, No. 19-5410 (June 10, 2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a criminal offense that requires only a mens rea of recklessness does not constitute a “violent felony” for purposes of an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Lyrissa B. Lidsky, Geoffrey P. Miller, Kenneth W. Simons and Christiane C. Wendehorst | May 4, 2021 | American Indian Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Data Economy, Inside The ALI, Torts: Defamation and Privacy, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
Have you ever wondered what exactly goes into completing an ALI project? There’s nobody better to talk about the ALI process than four veteran Reporters whose projects may be completed at the 2021 Annual Meeting. In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, Reporter on one...
