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The American Law Institute Elects Four Council Members

PHILADELPHIA – At this week’s 2022 Annual Meeting, The American Law Institute’s membership elected four new members to its Council, which determines projects and activities to be undertaken by the ALI and approves the work as representing the position of the Institute.

The new Council members are ...

The Annual Meeting Is Underway

The 2022 Annual Meeting opened this morning with a welcome from ALI President David F. Levi. Twelve projects appear on this year’s agenda, each with Sections that may be voted on for approval.

The Annual Meeting website will include a complete daily update after each day’s ...

More on the Proposals for Electoral Count Act Reform

There is wide agreement that the Electoral Count Act (ECA), the 1887 law governing the final tally of electoral votes for President, is badly outmoded and in need of reform. But many difficult choices will lie along the path from this general consensus to concrete legislation. At the ...

ALI’s Second Century Campaign Receives Major Gift from Ann and Daniel C. Girard

The American Law Institute is excited to announce the receipt of a $500,000 gift from Ann and Dan Girard. This gift will help ensure that ALI has the resources necessary for its next century of clarifying, modernizing, and otherwise improving the law.

“The American Law Institute is ...

ALI Designates Two Reporter’s Chairs

The American Law Institute has designated Nora Freeman Engstrom of Stanford Law School, Reporter for the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Concluding Provisions, as the R. Ammi Cutter Reporter’s Chair, and Henry E. Smith of Harvard Law School, Reporter for the Restatement of the Law Fourth ...