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American Law Institute
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| Abbreviation | ALI |
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| Formation | 1923 |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Director | Diane Wood |
President | David F. Levi |
| Website | ali |
The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of United States common law and its adaptation to changing social needs.[1] Members of ALI include law professors, practicing attorneys, judges and other professionals in the legal industry. ALI writes documents known as "treatises", which are summaries of generally state court common law (legal principles that come out of U.S. state court decisions, compare federal common law -- most common law in the U.S. is developed at the state level). Many courts and legislatures look to ALI's treatises as authoritative reference material concerning many legal issues. However, some legal experts and the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, along with some conservative commentators,[2] have voiced concern about ALI rewriting the law.[3]
The ALI drafts, approves, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, model acts, and other proposals for law reform. The ALI is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At any time, ALI is engaged in up to 20 projects examining the law. Some current projects have been watched closely by the media, particularly the revision of the Model Penal Code Sexual Assault provisions.[4][5][6]
- ^ "About ALI". American Law Institute. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
- ^ Fund, John (May 13, 2018). "A Powerful Legal Group Changes the Law While Nobody's Looking". National Review. Archived from the original on December 3, 2021.
- ^ Lammi, Glenn G. (April 28, 2015). "Will The American Law Institute 'Restate' Or Try To Rewrite U.S. Copyright Law?". Forbes. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
- ^ Bazelon, Emily (August 26, 2015). "The St. Paul's Rape Case Shows Why Sexual-Assault Laws Must Change". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ "Behind the Scenes of the Legal Group That Could Change America's Definition of Sexual Consent | VICE | Canada". VICE. October 22, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ "American Law Institute rejects affirmative consent standard in defining sexual assault". The Washington Times. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
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