Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan and William S. Dodge | March 31, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Sections of Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Jurisdiction, Sovereign Immunity, and Treaties, are on this year’s Annual Meeting Agenda. With member approval, these three portions of the project will be completed this year....
Riley Plumer | February 17, 2017 | American Indian Law
INTRODUCTION On July 1, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort v. NLRB. The three-judge panel unanimously concluded that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a generally applicable federal statute,...
Edward B. Foley and Steven F. Huefner | December 14, 2016 | Election Administration
The idea of expedited procedures is hardly foreign to American law. Indeed, its application to elections—and specifically recounts—is not without precedent. It is perhaps surprising that more states have not adopted specific procedural mechanisms for the expedited...
Pauline Toboulidis | November 15, 2016 | Policing, Sentencing
ALI President Designate and Duke Law School Dean David F. Levi recently held a roundtable discussion with Patricia Breckenridge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri; Nathan L. Hecht, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas; Martin Hoshino,...
Margaret Love | September 7, 2016 | Sentencing
The provisions on sentence reduction in the Model Penal Code: Sentencing project have recently played a key role in federal sentencing reform efforts. In one case a federal task force on corrections credited the ALI for one of its recommendations; in another. the...
