Welcome to ALI
Founded in 1923, ALI has a membership consisting of judges, practicing lawyers, and legal scholars from all areas of the United States as well as some foreign countries, selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in the improvement of the law.
ALI, through a careful and deliberative process, drafts and then publishes various Restatements of the Law, model codes, and legal studies to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work.
ALI News
The Spring 2008 issue of The ALI Reporter, our quarterly newsletter, is available online.
The Vision of ALI
ALI President Michael Traynor spoke about the past, present, and future of ALI on a panel at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. To read his article "The First Restatements and the Vision of The American Law Institute, Then and Now," use the links below:
Article without annotations (13 pp.).
Annotated article (27 pp.).
2008 Annual Meeting
85th Annual Meeting
May 19-21, 2008
The Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
Recent Publications
Restatement of the Law Third, Trusts, Volume 3
This new volume covers trustee powers and duties. It also includes an updated version of the Prudent Investor Rule volume published in 1992.
A Concise Restatement of The Law Governing Lawyers
This compilation contains Restatement provisions that are especially pertinent to an introductory study of professional responsibility, legal ethics, or legal malpractice.
ALI Reporters' Studies on WTO Case LawThis compendium contains the joint analyses of WTO cases by experts in trade law and international economics.