Richard L. Revesz | December 29, 2020 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the winter 2020 edition of The ALI Reporter. In my Winter 2016 Director’s Letter, I looked at the U.S. Supreme Court’s use of ALI materials during the 2013 to 2015 Terms, as part of an effort to examine how the...
Richard L. Revesz | October 20, 2020 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the fall 2020 edition of The ALI Reporter.On June 30, 1923, William Draper Lewis addressed a gathering of the Maryland State Bar Association at Atlantic City, New Jersey. His speech was entitled, “The Work of...
Richard L. Revesz | July 23, 2020 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the summer 2020 edition of The ALI Reporter.This year has been an extraordinarily difficult one. We are ensnarled in a pandemic that has caused a staggeringly large number of deaths and deep suffering and has laid...
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...