Annual Reports of The American Law Institute
Selected past Annual Reports of The American Law Institute may be purchased. For information about price and availability, please contact the Institute’s Customer Service Department.
The American Law Institute 50th Anniversary
xii, 302 pp., 1973, Order Code 5002, $17.50 -- Order this item
This book was published on the occasion of the Institute’s 50th anniversary to recognize its founders and those who have since sustained its efforts. Included are the 1923 Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law, which gave birth to the Institute; lists of Organizers, Founders, and Members; Officers and Members of the Council; Reporters and Advisers for Restatement and Codification Projects; Members of the ALI-ABA Joint Committee on Continuing Legal Education; Proceedings of the 1973 Annual Dinner; and a Bibliography of publications dealing with the Institute and its objectives and procedures.
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The American Law Institute 75th Anniversary
xi, 370 pp., 1998, Order Code 6077, $30 -- Order this item
A special publication commemorating the Institute’s 75th Anniversary, this volume contains major essays on its history by John P. Frank (“The American Law Institute: 1923-1998”) and N. E. H. Hull (“Restatement and Reform: A New Perspective on the Origins of The American Law Institute” and “Back to the ‘Future of the Institute’: William Draper Lewis’s Vision of the ALI’s Mission During Its First Twenty-Five Years and the Implications for the Institute’s Seventy-Fifth Anniversary”), together with the full text of significant historical documents relevant to the essays, including the Institute’s founding document, the “Report of the Committee Proposing the Establishment of an American Law Institute” (1923); the “Statement of Essential Human Rights” (1945), an important influence on the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights; and the report of Learned Hand’s “Special Committee on Future Program” (1947), which provided a blueprint for the Institute’s agenda in the years following World War II. Also included are lists of the Institute’s leaders during its first 75 years of existence — Organizers and Founders, Officers, Members of the Council, and Members of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education — and a comprehensive bibliography of writings about the Institute and its work during that same period.
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Minutes in Remembrance (1923-1975)
x, 158 pp., 1976, Order Code 5631, $10 --Order this item
This volume expresses the Institute’s appreciation for the contributions of those of its Council members who have passed away. The volume includes the tributes as they stand in the records of the Council as of the end of 1975.
Minutes in Remembrance (1976-1997)
x, 162 pp., 1998, Order Code 6078, $15 --Order this item
This volume of memorial minutes contains pithy but eloquent appreciations of the life and work of deceased members of the Institute’s Council authored by eminent colleagues.
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ALI Audiovisual History Series
ALI Audiovisual History Series
To preserve for posterity the recollections of persons who have figured prominently in the work of The American Law Institute, the Institute has undertaken an ongoing oral history of the organization and its various projects.
ALI Audiovisual History No. 1 — Herbert Wechsler
The first installment of the ALI Audiovisual History is an edited transcript of an interview with Director Emeritus Herbert Wechsler. The interview, which was videotaped at Professor Wechsler’s residence in New York City on April 23, 1989, was conducted by Paul A. Wolkin. It includes Professor Wechsler’s candid reflections on both his years as Chief Reporter for the Institute’s Model Penal Code and his tenure from 1963 to 1984 as the Institute’s third Director. A pamphlet containing the edited transcript and a videotape of the interview are available.
Pamphlet v, 38 pp., 1990, Order Code 5317, --Order this item $10; 2 videotapes, 2-1/2 hours, 1990, Order Code 7001, $50 --Order this item
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ALI Audiovisual History No. 2 — Homer Kripke
An interview with the late Homer Kripke, former emeritus member of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code and a participant in the drafting of the Code almost from its inception, constitutes the second installment in The American Law Institute’s ongoing Audiovisual History Series. In this September 1989 interview conducted by Paul A. Wolkin, Professor Kripke reflects candidly upon the personalities and events surrounding the development of both the UCC and the Institute’s Federal Securities Code, for which he served as an Adviser. A pamphlet containing the edited transcript and a videotape of the interview are available.
Pamphlet v, 32 pp., 1991, Order Code 5320, $10; -- Order this item 1 videotape, approx. 1-1/2 hrs., 1989, Order Code 7002, $50 -- Order this item
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ALI Audiovisual History No. 3 — A. James Casner
An interview with the late A. James Casner, the legendary law teacher, continuing legal educator, and estate law practitioner who devoted a significant portion of his professional career to serving as Reporter or Adviser to various American Law Institute projects, constitutes the third installment in ALI’s ongoing Audiovisual History Series. In this May 1990 interview conducted by Paul A. Wolkin, Professor Casner recalls his work for the Institute, as intertwined with his professional life, with particular emphasis on his service as Reporter for the Restatement of Property and for several of the Institute’s projects on federal income taxation. A pamphlet containing the edited transcript and a videotape are available.
Pamphlet v, 31 pp., 1993, Order Code 5321, $10; -- Order this item 1 videotape, approx. 1-1/3 hrs., 1990, Order Code 7003, $50 -- Order this item
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