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...
Pauline Toboulidis | April 16, 2020 | Inside The ALI
The American Law Institute has partnered with the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School to produce the podcast and video series “Coping with COVID.” The first episode in the series is now available on the ALI podcast Reasonably Speaking, or may be watched as a...
Peter Jarvis, Trisha Thompson and Christopher R. Heredia | April 7, 2020 | Inside The ALI
This article was originally published as a client alert from Holland & Knight on April 3. In a time of crisis, thoughtful lawyers look for ways to apply pre-existing authority to evolving situations. Since so many lawyers and clients are now communicating with...
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...
H. Mark Stichel | October 28, 2019 | Inside The ALI, Liability Insurance
The Restatements of the Law have played a vital role in the rationalization of American jurisprudence for nearly a century. As Justice Anthony M. Kennedy recently remarked at the ALI annual Meeting, the Restatements and the ALI “did for the American, Anglo-American...