Legal Infrastructure and the Forgotten Story of the Restatements

William D. Henderson | November 17, 2020 | Inside The ALI

This article was originally published on Legal Evolution on Nov. 1, 2020. The following is the abstract. This essay is about the importance and value of building shared “legal infrastructure,” which is a term coined by the eminent economist and law professor Gillian...

October 2020 Council Meeting Updates

Pauline Toboulidis | October 28, 2020 | Children and the Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Conflict of Laws, Government Ethics, Inside The ALI, Property, Student Sexual Misconduct, Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions

At its meetings on October 13 and October 22-23, 2020, the Council reviewed and discussed Council Drafts of seven projects and approved drafts and portions of drafts as listed below.* Children and the LawCouncil approved Council Draft No. 6, containing §1.60 from...

Restatements: Views of a Founding Father

Richard L. Revesz | October 20, 2020 | Inside The ALI

This Director’s Letter was originally published in the fall 2020 edition of The ALI Reporter.On June 30, 1923, William Draper Lewis addressed a gathering of the Maryland State Bar Association at Atlantic City, New Jersey. His speech was entitled, “The Work of...

ALI’s Contributions in a Time of Crisis

Richard L. Revesz | July 23, 2020 | Inside The ALI

This Director’s Letter was originally published in the summer 2020 edition of The ALI Reporter.This year has been an extraordinarily difficult one. We are ensnarled in a pandemic that has caused a staggeringly large number of deaths and deep suffering and has laid...

Coping With COVID: How the Courts are Preserving Access to Justice

Pauline Toboulidis | April 16, 2020 | Inside The ALI

The 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...

Restatement to the Rescue: 20-Year-Old Treatise May Help Ease Work-at-Home Privilege Problems

Peter Jarvis, Trisha Thompson and Christopher R. Heredia | April 7, 2020 | Inside The ALI

This article was originally published as a client alert from Holland & Knight on April 3.  In a time of crisis, thoughtful lawyers look for ways to apply pre-existing authority to evolving situations. Since so many lawyers and clients are now communicating with...