Richard L. Revesz | March 25, 2020 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the Spring 2020 Edition of The ALI Reporter.In a recent column published in the New York Law Journal, Hughes Hubbard & Reed partner John Fellas describes the forthcoming Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law...
Richard L. Revesz | December 11, 2019 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the Winter 2019 Edition of The ALI Reporter.The ALI has been keeping tabs on judicial citations to Restatements of the Law since the early days. At the 1937 Annual Meeting, for instance, Herbert Goodrich...
H. Mark Stichel | October 28, 2019 | Inside The ALI, Liability Insurance
The Restatements of the Law have played a vital role in the rationalization of American jurisprudence for nearly a century. As Justice Anthony M. Kennedy recently remarked at the ALI annual Meeting, the Restatements and the ALI “did for the American, Anglo-American...
Richard L. Revesz | October 9, 2019 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the Fall 2019 Edition of The ALI Reporter.The ALI Style Manual, a somewhat obscure publication that nonetheless plays an important role in our work, provides relatively clear drafting guidance for Restatements...
H. Mark Stichel | August 12, 2019 | Inside The ALI
The American Law Institute was founded in 1923. Since then, the ALI has promulgated Restatements of the Law in several subjects and other influential works such as the Model Penal Code and the Uniform Commercial Code, a joint venture with the Uniform Law Commission. ...
Richard L. Revesz | August 9, 2019 | Inside The ALI
In the past few years, we frequently have seen the charge that the ALI’s mission is to state what the law “is,” rather than what the Institute thinks the law “ought to be,” and that we recently have strayed from this mission and should right the ship. This charge most...
