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The American Law Institute is the preeminent legal reform organisation in the United States and its centennial is a landmark event. This book brings together an outstanding group of expert scholars to provide an in-depth scholarly history of the ALI, its role in legal reform, and the various ways it has impacted law in the United States.
List of contents
- Part I: Founding and Development of the American Law Institute
- Chapter 1: The American Law Institute at 100: A Three Decade Personal Reflection, Roberta Ramo
- Chapter 2: The Need for Restatement of the Common Law: A Long Look Back, David Seipp
- Chapter 3: The Work of The American Law Institute in Historical Context, Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White
- Chapter 4: Restating the Law in the Shadow of Codes: The ALI in Its Formative Era, Deborah A. DeMott
- Part II: Restatements
- Chapter 5: Canon and Fireworks: Reliance in the Restatements of Contracts and Reliance on Them, Richard Brooks
- Chapter 6: Conflict of Laws in the ALI's First Century, Symeon C. Symeonides
- Chapter 7: The Restatements of Trusts - Revisited, Naomi Cahn, Deborah Gordon, Allison Tait
- Chapter 8: Torts in the American Law Institute, John C. P. Goldberg
- Chapter 9: The Restatement of Property: The Curse of Incompleteness, Thomas W. Merrill
- Chapter 10: The International Law Profile of the ALI, George A. Bermann
- Chapter 11: Constructing a Legal Field: The Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, W. Bradley Wendel
- Chapter 12: A Short History of the Restatement of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Emily Sherwin
- Part III: Codes
- Chapter 13: The Uniform Commercial Code and the Ongoing Quest for an Efficient and Fair Commercial Law, Robert E. Scott
- Chapter 14: From Restatement to Model Penal Code: The Progress and Perils of Criminal Law Reform, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
- Part IV: Principles
- Chapter 15: Special Interests at the Gate: The ALI Corporate Governance Project, 1978-1992, William W. Bratton
- Chapter 16: The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Addressing Family Inequality Through Functional Regulation, Linda C. McClain and Douglas NeJaime
- Chapter 17: Aggregationists at the Barricades: Assessing the Impact of the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, Linda S. Mullenix
- Part V: Restatements and Legal Theory
- Chapter 18: Restatements and Realists, Robert W. Gordon
- Chapter 19: The Restatements as Law, Frederick Schauer
- Chapter 20: Restatements and the Common Law, Andrew A. Gold and Henry E. Smith
About the author
Andrew S. Gold is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and his primary research interests address private law theory, fiduciary law, and the law of corporations. He was previously the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School; an HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University. Professor Gold is also co-founder of the North American Workshop on Private Law Theory and a member of the American Law Institute.
Robert W. Gordon is Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford law School. He is a legal historian specializing in the history of the legal profession, contract law, and the uses of history in legal argument. He began his teaching career at SUNY/Buffalo, Wisconsin and Stanford Law Schools, and has returned to Stanford after 16 years at Yale, where he was Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History. He is a past president of the American Society for Legal History and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Selden Society.
Summary
The American Law Institute is the preeminent legal reform organisation in the United States and its centennial is a landmark event. This book brings together an outstanding group of expert scholars to provide an in-depth scholarly history of the ALI, its role in legal reform, and the various ways it has impacted law in the United States.
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The American Law Institute: A Centennial History traces how the ALI, one of the most important legal institutions in the United States, continues to pursue its original mission of reducing complexity and promoting uniformity in American law..., contributors examine crucial debates and decisions that have shaped the organization.
