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During a U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on mass tort bankruptcies and the potential need for legislative intervention, where the committee was looking into Johnson & Johnson’s failed divisive merger bankruptcy plan, ALI members Melissa B. Jacoby of University of North Carolina School of ...
Continue ReadingThe New Yorker Radio Hour recently published No More Souters, an episode of the “More Perfect” podcast, discussing Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter’s career.
Heather Gerken of Yale Law School, Kermit Roosevelt III of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and Peter J. Rubin of the ...
Continue ReadingJoAnne A. Epps of Temple University has died at age 72. A member of ALI for more than 25 years, Epps served on the Member Consultative Group for the Model Penal Code: Sentencing and Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers projects.
Epps joined the Temple ...
Continue ReadingThe American Law Institute has elected new members who will bring their expertise to ALI’s work of clarifying the law through Restatements, Principles, and Model Codes.
“The election of members to the Institute is such an important component of our process,” said ALI President David F. Levi ...
Continue ReadingWilliam & Mary Law School will honor Gregory S. Alexander of Cornell Law School (Retired) with the 2023 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize during the 20th annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference.
The prize is given annually to a scholar, practitioner, or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of ...
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