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Upcoming Meetings & Events
Restatement Third, Employment Law
September 11 - Members Consultative Group & Liaisons
September 12 - Advisers
Bay Area Member Reception
September 23 - San Francisco
Restatement Third, Trusts
November 13 - Advisers & Members Consultative Group
Current Projects
Visit the Projects section to learn more about our current projects, including:
Principles of Government Ethics
Restatement Third, Torts: Economic Torts and Related Wrongs
Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations
Restatement Third, The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration
In the Spotlight
CLE Program: The Third Restatement of Torts: Everything You Wanted To Know, But Didn't Know Whom To Ask
CLE Program: Demystifying Software Contracts: ALI's New Principles—"By the Book" and in Industry Practice
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Featured Publications
Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm
Volume 1 covers the most basic topics of the law of torts: liability for intentional physical harm and for negligence causing physical harm, duty, strict liability, factual cause, and scope of liability.
Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation
This work supplies up-to-date coherence to the law of aggregate litigation. The Principles aim to help judges, legislators, and others make aggregation decisions correctly, and to improve the management of cases in which aggregation is allowed.