Judges’ Insight into the Task of Sentencing
Members of the judiciary recently shared their thoughts on the challenge of sentencing in an article for The National Law Journal.
Now Available: Law of American Indians ALI CLE Courses
Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians Reporter Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Associate Reporters Wenona T. Singel and Kaighn Smith Jr. recently teamed up with ALI CLE to offer two courses on the Law of American Indians.
Providing Guidance in Campus Disciplinary Procedures
Deborah Tuerkheimer who serves as Adviser to ALI’s Student Sexual Misconduct: Procedural Frameworks for Colleges and Universities Principles project, discusses the special challenges of this area of law and the timeliness of this project’s aim to provide guidance to institutions in their investigations and proceedings in campus disciplinary procedures.
Book Review- Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life by Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim’s Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Indian Life offers a thoughtful invitation and a skillful guide into the largely uncharted terrain where federal Indian law meets tribal Indian law.
Restatement: International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
In his International Arbitration column, John Fellas discusses the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration—a 12-year effort primarily concerned with the role of the U.S. courts with respect to arbitration proceedings. The author describes it as a “majestic, comprehensive, and clear account of the U.S. law of international and investor-state arbitration that belongs on the shelf of everyone involved those fields.”
U.S. Supreme Court Cites Foreign Relations 3d and Conflict of Laws 2d
In a dissenting opinion delivered in Hernández v. Mesa, No. 17-1678 (February 25, 2020), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg quoted Restatement of the Law Third, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States § 402 and Restatement of the Law Second, Conflict of Laws § 145, Comment e.
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