PHILADELPHIA – The American Law Institute’s membership voted today to approve Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, the first Restatement to comprehensively examine the legal regulation of children. Launched in 2015, this Restatement covers issues such as parental rights and state intervention in cases of abuse ...
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA – The American Law Institute’s membership voted today to approve Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Medical Malpractice. Led by Reporters Nora Freeman Engstrom of Stanford Law School, Michael D. Green of Washington University School of Law, and Mark A. Hall of Wake Forest University School of ...
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA – At today's opening session of the Annual Meeting, The American Law Institute’s membership elected six new members to its Council, which determines projects and activities to be undertaken by the ALI and approves the work as representing the position of the Institute.
The new Council ...
Continue ReadingToday, a bipartisan group led by Bob Bauer (NYU School of Law and former White House Counsel to President Obama) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School and former Assistant Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration) issued “Principles for Insurrection Act Reform.” The distinguished group, convened at ...
Continue ReadingThe American Law Institute (ALI) is pleased to announce that Stephen Breyer, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will appear in conversation with two of his former clerks at the Institute’s Annual Meeting.
Justice Breyer will be joined by Caitlin Halligan of ...
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