Description
The centennial of the American Law Institute is a landmark event. A lifespan of one hundred years is significant for a law reform project. Most such initiatives terminate when they achieve their limited goals, they fail, or members lose interest when their funding runs out. Instead, the American Law Institute is the preeminent legal reform organisation in the United States and remains an enterprise in full vigour, with an enormous number of projects completed and an impressive array of projects in forward motion.The American Law Institute: A Centennial History brings together an outstanding group of expert scholars, several of them current or former Reporters for the ALI Restatements of Law, to provide an in-depth scholarly history of the ALI, its role in legal reform, and the various ways it has impacted law in the United States. The resulting collection of essays provides original and important perspectives on both the ALI and its relevance for American Law.This book offers a window into the course of legal thought over the past century and is a must-read for academics, practitioners, and all those interested in the way laws are shaped within the United States.
Table of Contents
Part I: Founding and Development of the American Law InstituteChapter 1: The American Law Institute at 100: A Three Decade Personal Reflection, Roberta RamoChapter 2: The Need for Restatement of the Common Law: A Long Look Back, David SeippChapter 3: The Work of The American Law Institute in Historical Context, Kenneth S. Abraham & G. Edward WhiteChapter 4: Restating the Law in the Shadow of Codes: The ALI in Its Formative Era, Deborah A. DeMottPart II: RestatementsChapter 5: Canon and Fireworks: Reliance in the Restatements of Contracts and Reliance on Them, Richard BrooksChapter 6: Conflict of Laws in the ALI's First Century, Symeon C. SymeonidesChapter 7: The Restatements of Trusts - Revisited, Naomi Cahn, Deborah Gordon, Allison TaitChapter 8: Torts in the American Law Institute, John C. P. GoldbergChapter 9: The Restatement of Property: The Curse of Incompleteness, Thomas W. MerrillChapter 10: The International Law Profile of the ALI, George A. BermannChapter 11: Constructing a Legal Field: The Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, W. Bradley WendelChapter 12: A Short History of the Restatement of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Emily SherwinPart III: CodesChapter 13: The Uniform Commercial Code and the Ongoing Quest for an Efficient and Fair Commercial Law, Robert E. ScottChapter 14: From Restatement to Model Penal Code: The Progress and Perils of Criminal Law Reform, Kimberly Kessler FerzanPart IV: PrinciplesChapter 15: Special Interests at the Gate: The ALI Corporate Governance Project, 1978-1992, William W. BrattonChapter 16: The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Addressing Family Inequality Through Functional Regulation, Linda C. McClain & Douglas NeJaimeChapter 17: Aggregationists at the Barricades: Assessing the Impact of the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, Linda S. MullenixPart V: Restatements and Legal TheoryChapter 18: Restatements and Realists, Robert W. GordonChapter 19: The Restatements as Law, Frederick SchauerChapter 20: Restatements and the Common Law, Andrew A. Gold and Henry E. Smith
