NEW AND RECENT AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS

* Official text not yet published.
† Volumes 1 (1999) and 2 (2003) of official text available, remainder not yet published.
‡ Official text for Prudent Investor Rule available (1992) and Volumes 1 and 2 of official text available (2003), remainder not yet published.

Other ALI Publications

A Concise Restatement of Property

A Concise Restatement of Torts

Proceedings of The American Law Institute's 2006 Annual Meeting

Restatement of the Law Third,
Agency

In 2006, the Institute published Volumes 1 and 2 of Restatement of the Law Third, Agency. Volume 1 contains Chapters 1 through 5; Volume 2 contains Chapters 6 through 8. Chapter 1 covers introductory matters, including definitions and terminology. Chapter 2, on principles of attribution, discusses actual authority, apparent authority, respondeat superior, and related doctrines. Chapter 3 deals with the creation and termination of authority and agency relationships, including creating and evidencing actual authority, creating apparent authority, capacity to act as principal or agent, termination of agent’s power, and agents with multiple principals. Chapter 4 explains all aspects of ratification, while Chapter 5 deals with notifications and notice. Chapter 6 discusses contracts and other transactions with third parties, including parties to contracts and rights, liabilities, and defenses. Chapter 7 covers tort liability of agents and principals, while Chapter 8 deals with duties of agent and principal to each other. Excluded from coverage are certain topics concerning the law of employer-employee relationships, which will be dealt with in the Institute’s current Restatement of Employment Law project.

The new Restatement completely replaces the Restatement Second of Agency and addresses the changes that have developed in the field in the half-century since Agency Second was published in 1958. In contrast to the Restatement Second, the new work discusses at length the application of agency doctrines to organizations. It includes many useful illustrations of the application of agency doctrines in organizational contexts, including those defined by statute, and covers applications of agency doctrines to persons who act as representatives of corporations, partnerships, other business organizations, and private not-for-profit entities.

Because agency is a subject that is in substantial part a matter of common law and in other important aspects a matter of statute, Agency Third is a Restatement in the context of relevant statutes. Agency law has retained a structural coherence, despite statutory developments, in part because many statutes make reference to common law or presuppose a background that includes basic common-law doctrines. The relationships between common-law doctrines and the statutory material that shapes the contemporary law of agency are thoughtfully explored in the new work, with numerous references to statutory material.

The new Restatement also deals with some relationships that fall outside the common-law definition of an agency relationship but that are closely linked to agency. One example is a relationship that appears to be one of agency to strangers to the relationship, but is claimed by the parties to be something other than agency. Such appearances of agency are typically governed by the doctrines of apparent authority, ratification, estoppel, and restitution, all of which are dealt with in the Restatement. In addition, the work covers relationships resulting from durable powers of attorney, powers given as security, and irrevocable proxies. Those types of consensual relationships fall outside the common-law definition of an agency relationship but carry the consequence that one person’s acts are ascribed to another. Their function allies them closely to agency as a starting point for legal analysis of the relationship.

In the Restatement tradition, these authoritative volumes combine clear black-letter provisions with extensive explanatory Comments, clarifying Illustrations, and detailed Reporter’s Notes. The Comments thoroughly explain the background, rationale, and applicability of the black-letter provisions, while the Reporter’s Notes document and discuss the sources for the black letter and Comments and provide a convenient basis for further research. The volumes are further enhanced by tables of cases, statutes, parallel tables showing corresponding Restatement Third and Restatement Second section numbers, a table of cross-references to the West Digest System and ALR annotations, and an Index.

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Restatement of the Law Third,
Employment Law

*Discussion Draft: Chapter 3. Employment At-Will and Its Contractual Exceptions; Chapter 4. The Tort of Retaliation in Violation of Public Policy

The Law Governing Lawyers (OFFICIAL TEXT)

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While new in subject matter, this project is essentially a traditional Restatement, clarifying and synthesizing the common law applicable to the legal profession. Although some of its aspects have been broadly covered by the Restatements of Contracts, Torts, and particularly Agency, this Restatement reexamines and develops application of the principles reflected in these traditional topics in the special context of lawyering. The Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers contains Chapters on Regulation of the Legal Profession; The Client-Lawyer Relationship; Client and Lawyer: The Financial and Property Relationship; Lawyer Civil Liability; Confidential Client Information; Representing Clients–In General; Representing Clients in Litigation; and Conflict of Interest.

Property (Servitudes) (OFFICIAL TEXT)

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This authoritative new Restatement, which completely supersedes the original Restatement of this subject published in 1944, replaces one of the most complex and archaic bodies of 20th century American law with a clear, comprehensive, rational body of law ideally suited for land use and development in the 21st Century. Simplifying, clarifying, and modernizing the law of covenants, easements, and profits, this long-awaited work provides that servitudes should be interpreted to carry out the intent of the parties and to allow flexibility for adapting to changes over time; removes obstacles to innovative development practices; allows modification and termination of obsolete servitudes; protects conservation and historic-preservation servitudes; and devotes an entire chapter to the law governing residential common-interest communities and associations.

Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), Volume 2 (OFFICIAL TEXT)

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Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers) Volumes 1 (1999) and 2 (2003) (combined in one volume) and Restatement of the Law Third, Trusts, Volumes 1 and 2 (2003) (combined in one volume):

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This new Restatement that will eventually completely replace Restatement Second, Property (Donative Transfers), offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and thoroughly contemporary treatment of the law of gifts and wills, and especially of the transfer of real and personal property to succeeding generations. Volume 2 contains the complete text of Divisions II, III, and IV of the new Restatement. Drawing, like its predecessor, significantly and substantially on contemporary statutory developments and recognizing the close relationship between statute and decisional law in this field, this volume begins by restating the law of nonprobate transfers, including both gifts of personal property and will substitutes such as life insurance, pensions, and employee-benefit accounts. It continues with a consideration of protective doctrines such as undue influence, mental incapacity, and minority, as well as of rules for protecting surviving spouses and of the effect of premarital and marital agreements. The final division collects in one helpful place the vitally important rules and principles for ascertaining a donor’s intent within the terms of the relevant donative document, and for determining whether it is possible to reform or modify the document to clearly reflect that intent. Topics here include the type of evidence that can be considered in determining intent, techniques for resolving ambiguities, and doctrines aimed at correcting evident mistakes and achieving the donor’s tax objectives.

*Tentative Draft No. 4: Division V. Class Gifts: Chapter 13. General Characteristics of a Class Gift; Chapter 14. Presumptive Meaning of Class-Gift Terms; Chapter 15. Increase and Decrease in Class Membership; Chapter 16. Class Gifts to Heirs

*Tentative Draft No. 5: Division VI. Powers of Appointment: Chapter 17. Introduction to Powers of Appointment: Terminology and Definitions; Chapter 18. Creation of a Power of Appointment; Chapter 19. Exercise of a Power of Appointment; Chapter 20. Release and Disclaimer of a Power of Appointment; Chapter 21. Contracts to Appoint; Chapter 22. Rights of the Donee's Creditors in Appointive Assets; Chapter 23. Elective-Share Rights of the Donee's Surviving Spouse in Appointive Assets

Restitution and Unjust Enrichment

*Tentative Draft No. 4: Part II. Liability in Restitution: Chapter 4. Restitution and Contract; Topic 3. Restitution in Cases of Profitable Breach (§ 39); Chapter 5. Restitution for Wrongs; Topic 1. Benefits Acquired by Tort or Other Breach of Duty (§§ 40-44)

Restatement of the Law Second,
Torts

This volume contains all case citations to §§ 708-840E of the original Restatement of Torts and the Restatement Second of Torts that have been reported to the Institute from July 1987 to June 2005.

Torts: Apportionment of Liability (OFFICIAL TEXT)

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Responding to the nearly universal adoption of comparative liability and completely superseding the comparable provisions in the Restatement Second of Torts, this landmark work formulates clear principles of law governing apportionment of liability in cases when account must be taken of:

The new text deals with many issues that have yet not been fully analyzed in judicial decisions or in academic literature and for which there is no commonly accepted doctrine and explores alternative bases for appropriate resolution. The new Restatement presents a complicated and challenging subject in lucid terms and provides thoughtful and coherent guidance to all who practice in this increasingly complex and evolving area of tort law.

Torts: Liability for Physical Harm

*Proposed Final Draft No. 1: Chapter 1. Intent, Recklessness, and Negligence: Definitions; Chapter 2. Liability for Physical Harm; Chapter 3: The Negligence Doctrine and Negligence Liability; Chapter 4. Strict Liability; Chapter 5. Factual Cause; Chapter 6. Scope of Liability (Proximate Cause); Chapter 7. Affirmative Duties

Trusts, Volumes 1 and 2 (OFFICIAL TEXT)

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The Restatement Third of Trusts began with a revision of the Prudent Investor portions of the Second Restatement of Trusts (1959), which was completed and published in a single volume in 1992. In 2003, the Institute published Volumes 1 and 2 of Restatement Third, Trusts, which cover the Nature, Creation, and Elements of Trusts; Interests and Rights of Beneficiaries; and Trust Modification and Termination.

These thoroughly reconsidered and reformulated volumes draw both on court decisions and on statutes to provide a contemporary treatment of trust law offering authoritative guidance to legislators, judges, and especially to those who counsel trustees and beneficiaries and who endeavor to draft instruments that will accurately reflect the lawful intentions of donors. The new Restatement’s extensive treatment of charitable trusts provides valuable guidance and rationale — with Illustrations drawn from timely contemporary fact patterns and issues — as to what courts may or may not regard as legitimate charitable purposes and what are appropriate applications of the cy pres doctrine. Additional volumes not yet published will deal with the administration of trusts and incorporate an updated version of the earlier Prudent Investor volume.

*Tentative Draft No. 4: Part 6. Trust Administration: Chapter 14. Trustee Powers and Duties: General Principles; Chapter 15. Specific Duties of Trusteeship; Chapter 16. Extent and Exercise of Trustees' Powers

Codifications and Studies

†ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure

The ALI (American Law Institute) and UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) are preeminent organizations working together toward the clarification and advancement of the procedural rules of law. Recognizing the need for a “universal” set of procedures that would transcend national jurisdictional rules and facilitate the resolution of disputes arising from transnational commercial transactions, Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure was launched to create a set of procedural rules and principles that would be adopted globally. This work strives to reduce uncertainty for parties that must litigate in unfamiliar surroundings and to promote fairness in judicial proceedings. As recognized standards of civil justice, Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure can be used in judicial proceedings as well as in arbitration. The result is a work that significantly contributes to the promotion of a universal rule of procedural law.

In the ALI process, the Reporters benefited from the constructive criticism of Advisers from many countries, a Consultative Group consisting of ALI members, and a group of International Consultants, as well as from annual discussion and consideration by the ALI’s Council and membership. In the UNIDROIT process, a distinguished Working Group devoted four week-long meetings at the UNIDROIT headquarters in Rome to vigorous analysis of the Reporters’ drafts. In addition to the formal procedures of the two sponsoring organizations, the drafts were subjected to close critical review at numerous professional meetings and conferences held around the world. The great number of countries visited and of national systems taken into account and compared was crucial not only in demonstrating that the project and its goals were feasible on a broader scale than originally envisioned, but also in providing access to practitioners and scholars from many different jurisdictions, whose comments and criticisms enabled the Reporters both to refine their work and to make it more practicable.

Included in the official text are the Principles, with commentary, in both English and French, an appendix Reporters’ Study containing the Rules, with commentary, which are the Reporters’ model implementation of the Principles, a bibliography of writings about the project, and a comprehensive index.

† Formerly called “Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure” and “Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure”

Federal Judicial Code Revision Project

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The Institute in 1969 published its Study of the Division of Jurisdiction Between State and Federal Courts. In 1994 it finished work on the Complex Litigation Project and published Complex Litigation: Statutory Recommendations and Analysis. The Federal Judicial Code Revision Project is the Institute’s third major work on the jurisdiction of the federal courts.

This work reconsiders three subjects within Title 28 of the United States Code: supplemental jurisdiction, venue, and removal. As to each, the goals are clarity, simplification, and intelligent public policy. It is hoped that these proposed statutory improvements will be considered by Congress, but even if Congress takes no action, the proposals should provide valuable guidance to judges and lawyers dealing with the statutory law of jurisdiction as it now stands.

Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes

*Discussion Draft: Part I. Scope of the Principles and Definitions; Part II. Jurisdiction: Chapter 1. Personal Jursdiction over the Defendant; Chapter 2. Jurisdiction over the Subject Matter; Chapter 3. Jurisdiction over Supervision: Simplification of Multiterritorial Actions; Part III. Applicable Law: Chapter 1. In General; Chapter 2. Title to and Transfer of Rights; Chapter 3. Residual Principles Regarding Choice of Law; Part IV. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Transnational Cases: Chapter 1. In General; Chapter 2. Remedies; Glossary

Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation

*Discussion Draft: Chapter 1. General Principles of Aggregation; Chapter 2. Aggregate Treatment of Common Issues; Chapter 3. Aggregate Settlements

Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute
(previously titled International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project)

*Proposed Final Draft: Proposed Foreign Judgments Recognition and Enforcement Act (Revised)

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Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization

The WTO Case Law of 2001: The American Law Institute Reporters’ Studies

For three years Cambridge University Press will be publishing annual analyses, produced by the Reporters for the ALI’s new project on World Trade Law, of decisions by the World Trade Organization. Each Reporters’ Study, the joint product of a lawyer and an economist, will examine and critique a particular WTO decision from both legal and economic perspectives. Each represents the work of the individual Reporters rather than that of the Institute. The first of the three volumes, The WTO Case Law of 2001: The American Law Institute Reporters’ Studies, is available now and can be ordered from the CUP websites in Cambridge, New York, and Australia set forth above. The Editors are the Chief Reporters for the Institute’s project, Henrik Horn of Stockholm University and Petros C. Mavroidis of Columbia University and the University of NeuchÃ¢tel. Studies of the 2002 and 2003 cases will appear subsequently.

The Reporters’ Studies for 2001 cover a wide range of WTO law from classic trade-in-goods issues to intellectual-property protection. The Reporters critically review the jurisprudence of WTO adjudicating bodies and evaluate whether the ruling “makes sense” from an economic as well as legal point of view, and if not, whether the problem lies in the interpretation of the law or in the law itself. The Studies do not necessarily cover all issues discussed in a case, but they seek to discuss both the procedural and the substantive issues that form the “core” of the dispute.

After three years of producing such Studies, the expectation is that the Reporters will have developed a sufficient theoretical and jurisprudential basis for moving to the second phase of the project, one in which principles of trade law will be developed and presented to the Institute for its approval by means of the traditional ALI drafting and reviewing process.

Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries

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This volume provides an introduction and overview of the Project as a whole and discusses key concepts in international bankruptcy. The volume then sets forth its specific Recommendations, which are divided into three categories. The first and broadest of these consists of General Principles that reflect the common values of the bankruptcy laws of the three countries as applied to multinational cases. The second category consists of Procedural Principles, which embody practical approaches to cooperation within the existing legal competence of the courts without requiring new legislation or treaties. The third offers Recommendations for Legislation or International Agreement that go beyond current law to permit a substantially higher level of cooperation. Utilizing the familiar ALI format, each black-letter principle or recommendation is explained by means of accompanying Comments and Illustrations.

Detailed Reporters’ Notes, Appendices, and an Index add to the usefulness of the text. The innovative Guidelines for Court-to-Court Communications in Cross-Border Cases, set forth in Appendix B, are potentially applicable to cases other than those dealing with insolvency. They have already been approved not only by the ALI but also by both the International Insolvency Institute and the Insolvency Institute of Canada and applied in a number of major cross-border cases. Also included for convenient reference is the complete text of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency.

International Statements of United States, Canadian, and Mexican Bankruptcy Law

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The summary of United States, Canadian, and Mexican Bankruptcy law contained in these volumes—the product of leading American, Canadian, and Mexican scholars, practitioners, and judges—has been “internationalized” as a result of extensive comment and inquiry by experts from all three countries. Each work uses analogies and contrasts with the law and practices in the other NAFTA countries as frequently as possible, while describing the concrete reality of the treatment of financially troubled companies in each country.

The purpose of these International Statements is to facilitate cooperation among the judicial systems of the three NAFTA countries, and to aid private parties in structuring transactions in light of the risk of insolvency proceedings across international borders among the NAFTA countries. Beyond providing a general introduction to United States, Canadian, and Mexican Bankruptcy Law, the works are designed to perform the following specific functions:

• To provide the courts in each NAFTA country with an internationalized text that may be regarded as definitive within the limitations inherent in any summary.

• To provide parties to cross-border insolvencies within the NAFTA countries with a common ground of legal understanding as a basis for negotiation of both procedural and substantive accommodations and settlements after an insolvency proceeding (or pre-insolvency Workout negotiation) has begun.

• To provide private parties with a common understanding of the risks of an insolvency proceeding in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, so as to permit them to formulate reasonable and effective structures to allocate and contain those risks as part of international sales and financing transactions.

• To assist parties in negotiating out-of-court Workout agreements in cases of cross-border default.

• To give scholars basic texts that serve as a starting place and common ground for comparative and international researches that include United States, Canadian, and Mexican Bankruptcy Law with an emphasis on fundamental concepts and the interaction of law with the society it regulates.

• To provide the legal and factual basis for the Principles of Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries developed in Phase II of the project.

Detailed Reporter’s Notes, Appendices, and an Index add to the usefulness of each text. The Mexican Statement is responsive to the new Mexican Insolvency Law enacted in 2000, a complete English translation of which appears in Appendix G, and it also contains an extensive Appendix (E) discussing secured and guaranty financing in Mexico.

Uniform Commercial Code

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*Proposed Final Draft: Proposed Amendments to Article 2. Sales xvi, 288 pp. (included in one volume with Proposed Final Draft: Proposed Amendments to Article 2A. Leases xv, 118 pp., and Proposed Final Draft: Amendments to Article 7. Documents of Title (with conforming amendments to Articles 1, 2, 2A, 4, 5, 8, and 9) xv, 122 pp.)
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Uniform Commercial Code 2005 Edition. (2005 OFFICIAL TEXT WITH COMMENTS)

Including Article 1 (General Provisions); Article 2 (Sales); Article 2A (Leases); Article 3 (Negotiable Instruments); Article 4 (Bank Deposits and Collections); Article 4A (Funds Transfers); Article 5 (Letters of Credit); Article 6 (Bulk Sales); Article 7 (Documents of Title); Article 8 (Investment Securities); Article 9 (Secured Transactions); Appendices; Index

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This volume contains the text of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) prepared under the joint sponsorship of The American Law Institute (ALI) and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), current through March 2005.

The Code is a comprehensive modernization of various statutes relating to commercial transactions including sales, leases, negotiable instruments, bank deposits and collections, funds transfers, letters of credit, bulk sales, documents of title, investment securities, and secured transactions. It replaces the former Uniform Laws relating to sales, conditional sales, negotiable instruments, warehouse receipts, bills of lading, stock transfers, and trust receipts.

An indispensable feature is the Official Comments, prepared by NCCUSL and ALI, which appear under each section. These Comments explain the purpose and intent of the sections and the changes in the prior law that were effected by the Code.

The text covers: Article 1—General Provisions; Article 2—Sales; Article 2A—Leases; Article 3—Negotiable Instruments; Article 4—Bank Deposits and Collections; Article 4A—Funds Transfers; Article 5—Letters of Credit; Article 6—Repealer of Article 6—Bulk Transfers and [Revised] Article 6—Bulk Sales; Article 7—Documents of Title; Article 8—Investment Securities; Article 9—Secured Transactions; Article 10—Effective Date and Repealer; Article 11—Effective Date and Transition Provisions; Appendix I—PEB Commentaries; Appendix II—1972 Amendments; Appendix III—1977 Amendments; Appendix IV—1987 Amendments to Articles 1 and 9 Conforming to Article 2A; Appendix V—Pre-Revision Article 6; Appendix VI—1990 Amendments to Article 2A; Appendix VII—Pre-Revision Article 3; Appendix VIII—1990 Amendments to Article 1 Conforming to Revised Article 3; Appendix IX—1990 Amendments to Article 4; Appendix X—[Reserved]; Appendix XI—1994 Amendments; Appendix XII—1994 and 1995 Amendments Conforming to Revised Article 8; Appendix XIII—Pre-Revision Article 8; Appendix XIV—1995 Amendments to Articles 1, 2, and 9 Conforming to Revised Article 5; Appendix XV—Pre-Revision Article 5; Appendix XVI—Pre-Revision Article 9; Appendix XVII—Pre-Revision Article 1; Appendix XVIII—2002 Amendments to Articles 3 and 4; Appendix XIX—Pre-Revision Article 7; Appendix XX—2003 Amendments to Article 2; Appendix XXI—2003 Amendments to Article 2A; Appendix XXII—2005 Amendments; Index.

Model Penal Code: Sentencing

*Discussion Draft: Part I. General Provisions; Article 1. Preliminary; Article 6A. Authority of the Sentencing Commission; Article 6B. Sentencing Guidelines; Article 7. Authority of the Court in Sentencing; Appendix A. Black-Letter Provisions Amended to Establish a System of Advisory Sentencing Guidelines

Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations

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This is the Institute's first comprehensive work in the field of family law. The project as a whole comprises six principal parts: Child Custody; Child Support; Division of Property at Dissolution; Compensatory Payments (formerly known as alimony); Domestic Partners; and Agreements.

The Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution volume is now available online via Lexis (FAMDIS file within the 2NDARY and FAMILY libraries) and via Westlaw in the ALI-FAMDISS database.

While assembly of a manageable study aid entailed the cutting of many relevant sections, as well as the omission or paring of commentary to many sections whose black-letter provisions have been included, the material ultimately retained has not been rewritten or changed in substance; its language is precisely that which has been relied upon (and quoted extensively) by the courts throughout the past several decades of tort-law development. To facilitate additional research, cross-references to sections that are not included in this volume, as well as to those that are, have been retained.

Proceedings of The American Law Institute’s 2006 Annual Meeting

This volume contains an edited transcript of the Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting of The American Law Institute, held at The Mayflower in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 16, and 17, 2006. Six drafts were submitted to the 2006 Annual Meeting. These included a Discussion Draft of Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Tentative Draft No. 5 of Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), and Discussion Drafts of Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law, and Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.

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Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law