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Model Penal Code: Sentencing Approved

ALI members voted at The American Law Institute’s 2017 Annual Meeting to approve the Proposed Final Draft of Model Penal Code: Sentencing.

Launched in 2001, under Reporter Kevin R. Reitz of the University of Minnesota Law School who was joined in 2012 by Associate Reporter Cecelia M ...

The American Law Institute Elects Four Council Members

PHILADELPHIA – At this week's 94th 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 American Law Institute Announces Early Career Scholars Medal Winners

PHILADELPHIA—The American Law Institute announced today that it will award its Early Career Scholars Medal to two exceptional law professors—Colleen V. Chien of Santa Clara University School of Law and Daniel Schwarcz of University of Minnesota Law School. The award is presented every other year at ...

The American Law Institute Announces 100th Anniversary Committee

PHILADELPHIA – The American Law Institute today announced the formation of the Special Committee on ALI’s 100th Anniversary. The Institute will celebrate this milestone anniversary in 2023. 

The newly assembled committee, chaired by ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo and ALI President Designate David F. Levi, will determine how ...

ALI Elects 61 New Members

The American Law Institute has elected 60 new members. These highly regarded judges, lawyers, and law professors will bring a wide range of perspectives and areas of expertise to ALI’s work of clarifying the law through Restatements, Principles, and Model Codes.

“I have the great luck of ...