Restatement of the Law Third,
This project is part of ALI’s ongoing revision of the Restatement Second of Torts. Portions of the Restatement Second have been superseded by the Restatement Third of Torts: Products Liability, Apportionment of Liability, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, and Liability for Economic Harm.
This Restatement addresses other major avenues of recovery for physical and emotional harm to persons, with a focus on assault, battery, false imprisonment, including chapters on consent, self-defense, and other privileges.
Drafting of this project is completed; preparation of the official text is in progress.
A post on Torts Prof Blog examines Section 104 (now numbered Section 4), Purposeful Infliction of Bodily Harm, with regard to the Kurt Eichenwald seizure incident. Reporter Kenneth Simons is quoted in the piece.
For an in-depth description of this project, please visit the Intentional Torts to Persons page of The ALI Adviser.
Kenneth W. Simons
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
W. Jonathan Cardi
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Marialyn Barnard
Texas Business Court Fourth Division, San Antonio, TX
James M. Beck
Reed Smith LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Mark A. Behrens
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Anita Bernstein
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
Ellen M. Bublick
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Phoenix, AZ
Robert L. Carter
Supreme Court of Illinois (Retired), Rock Island, IL
Martha E. Chamallas
The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law (Retired), Brooklyn, NY
Robert P. Charrow
Global Virus Network, Chevy Chase, MD
Edward L. Chavez
New Mexico Supreme Court (Retired), Albuquerque, NM
Sherman J. Clark
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Mary J. Davis
University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law, Lexington, KY
Anthony E. DiResta
Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, DC
Richard M. Gergel
U.S. District Court, Charleston, SC
John M. Gerrard
U.S. District Court of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
John C.P. Goldberg
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Thomas C. Goldstein
Washington, DC
James Goudkamp
Oxford University, Oxford, England
Susan P. Graber
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Portland, OR
Michael D. Green
Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
Thomas M. Hardiman
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Pittsburgh, PA
Mary K.W. Jones
Deere & Company, Moline, IL
Steven C. Laird
Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey, Fort Worth, TX
Carol F. Lee
Taconic Capital Advisors L.P., New York, NY
Gerald A. McHugh
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
James C. McKay
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Nancy J. Moore
Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA
Olivier Pierre Moréteau
Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Richard L. Neumeier
Morrison Mahoney LLP (Retired), Boston, MA
David F. Partlett
Emory University School of Law (Retired), Atlanta, GA
Ellen S. Pryor
UNT Dallas College of Law, Dallas, TX
Anthony J. Sebok
Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
Shanin Specter
Kline & Specter, PC, Philadelphia, PA
Larry S. Stewart
Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain, P.A. (Retired), West Palm Beach, FL
Ellen Wertheimer
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (Retired), Villanova, PA
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
José F. Anderson
University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Christopher Edward Appel
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Enrique Armijo
Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, NC
Ronald G. Aronovsky
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Michael F. Aylward
Morrison Mahoney LLP (Retired), Boston, MA
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Steven K. Balman
Shook & Johnson, Tulsa, OK
Jennifer S. Bard
University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH
Barry Barnett
Susman Godfrey LLP, Dallas, TX
Shawn J. Bayern
Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL
Steven M. Bradford
HNI Corporation, Muscatine, IA
Harvey G. Brown
The Lanier Law Firm PC, Houston, TX
Arthur H. Bryant
Clarkson Law Firm, Malibu, CA
John P. Burton
Rodey Law Firm, Santa Fe, NM
Patricia A. Cain
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
Stephen Calkins
Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI
Elena A. Cappella
Philadelphia, PA
Vincent P. Cardi
West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, WV
Stephen Yee Chow
Stephen Y. Chow, PC, Boston, MA
George C. Christie
Duke University School of Law (Retired), Durham, NC
Tracy Christopher
Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston, TX
Giovanni Comandé
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
George W. Conk
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
Richard L. Cupp Jr.
Pepperdine University, Caruso School of Law, Malibu, CA
Edward J. Currie
Currie Johnson & Myers, PA (Retired), Jackson, MS
Christopher Scott D'Angelo
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Mary J. Davis
University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law, Lexington, KY
Deborah A. DeMott
Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
John L. Diamond
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
James B. Dolan
Badger, Dolan, Parker & Cohen, Boston, MA
Grant Dorfman
Texas 334th District Court (Retired), Houston, TX
Holly A. Dyer
Foulston Siefkin LLP, Wichita, KS
Joseph P. Esposito
Esposito Mediation LLC, Bethesda, MD
Jay M. Feinman
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
Heidi Li Feldman
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
John F. Fischer
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, Tulsa, OK
Victor B. Flatt
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH
Vernon L. Francis
Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Steven F. Friedell
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
Joseph D. Garrison
Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti PC, New Haven, CT
Mark P. Gergen
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Michael Greenwald
Philadelphia, PA
Betsy J. Grey
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Phoenix, AZ
Charles E. Griffin
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS
John J. Grogan
Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C., Philadelphia, PA
Tracy Raffles Gunn
Gunn Appellate Practice P.A., Tampa, FL
Mark A. Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Valerie P. Hans
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Robert M. Hart
Bronxville, NY
Paul T. Hayden
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Conrad Henke
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI
Ronald K. Henry
Arnold & Porter (Retired), Washington, DC
Ernest R. Higginbotham
UNT Dallas College of Law (Retired), Dallas, TX
Roger F. Holmes
Biss & Holmes, Anchorage, AK
Edwin E. Huddleson
Washington, DC
Richard H. Hunter
Richard H. Hunter PC, St. Thomas, VI
Ralph A. Jacobs
Westport Island, ME
Edward J. Janger
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
Kirk C. Jenkins
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (Retired), Half Moon Bay, CA
Vincent R. Johnson
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
Paul F. Jones
Phillips Lytle LLP (Retired), Buffalo, NY
Allan Kanner
Kanner & Whiteley, LLC, New Orleans, LA
Robert R. Keatinge
Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, CO
Evelyn V. Keyes
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Retired), Houston, TX
Jeff Kichaven
Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
Lewis N. Klar
Tucson, AZ
Andrew R. Klein
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Nina A. Kohn
Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
Peter B Kutner
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK
Sybil H. Landau
New York, NY
Paul A. LeBel
University of North Dakota School of Law (Retired), Williamsburg, VA
Thomas S. Leatherbury
Thomas S. Leatherbury Law, PLLC, Dallas, TX
John Elliott Leighton
Leighton Panoff Law, P.A., Coral Gables, FL
Lawrence C. Levine
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA
Jessica D. Litman
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
David A. Logan
Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, RI
Kyle D. Logue
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Jean C. Love
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
Timothy D. Lytton
Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA
William Cullen MacDonald
Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP, Bethesda, MD
Gerard N. Magliocca
Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN
Lorelie S. Masters
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Washington, DC
Richard J. McNeil
Crowell & Moring LLP, Irvine, CA
William J. McNichols
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK
Chad C. Messier
Dudley Newman Feuerzeig LLP, St. Thomas, VI
Douglas K. Moll
University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX
Charles R. A. Morse
Jones Day, New York, NY
Donal Nolan
University of Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford, England
Virginia E. Nolan
del Mar, CA
Ken Oliphant
University of Bristol Law School, Bristol, England
Brian J. Paul
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Indianapolis, IN
Philip G. Peters
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Thomas R. Phillips
Baker Botts L.L.P., Austin, TX
Jeffrey M. Pollock
Pollock Law, LLC, Princeton, NJ
J. David Prince
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MN
Robert L. Rabin
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Michigan Law School (Retired), Ann Arbor, MI
Christopher John Robinette
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Reginald L. Robinson
Howard University School of Law, Washington, DC
Jacob H. Rooksby
Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA
Jennifer E. Rothman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Michael L. Rustad
Suffolk University Law School, South Burlington, VT
Joseph Sanders
University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX
Leticia M. Saucedo
University of California, Davis School of Law, Davis, CA
Nadia N. Sawicki
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL
Lynn Hecht Schafran
Legal Momentum, New York, NY
Victor E. Schwartz
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Elizabeth S. Scott
Columbia Law School, New York, NY
Marc M. Seltzer
Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Reagan W. Simpson
Yetter Coleman LLP, Houston, TX
Paul A. Slager
Slager Madry LLC, Stamford, CT
George Prescott Slover
Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC
Douglas G. Smith
Alpheus LLC, Chicago, IL
Craig Smyser
Steptoe LLP, Houston, TX
Carl A. Solano
Superior Court of Pennsylvania (Retired), Philadelphia, PA
Jane Stapleton
The University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia
Michael K. Steenson
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MN
H. Mark Stichel
RKW Law Group, Baltimore, MD
Laura Denvir Stith
Supreme Court of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
David J. Stout
University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, NM
Guy Miller Struve
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired), New York, NY
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Mary-Christine Sungaila
Complex Appellate Litigation Group, Newport Beach, CA
Jeffrey E. Thomas
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, MO
Jay Tidmarsh
Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN
Daniel Mack Traynor
U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND
R. Patrick Vance
Jones Walker LLP, New Orleans, LA
Bea Verschraegen
University of Vienna, Faculty of Law, Vienna, Austria
Dominick Vetri
University of Oregon School of Law (Retired), Eugene, OR
Eugene Volokh
The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Frederick William (Bill) Wagner
Wagner McLaughlin, P.A. (Retired), Tampa, FL
Lu-in Wang
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
David N. Wecht
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA
Merle Weiner
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Steven O. Weise
Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Joseph A. Wetch
Lommen Abdo, P.A., Minneapolis, MN
John Shepard Wiley
California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, Los Angeles, CA
William A. Worthington
Taylor Book Allen & Morris, LLP (Retired), Houston, TX
Richard W. Wright
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Evanston, IL
Thomas C. Wright
Wright Close & Barger, LLP, Houston, TX