American Legal Institute General Bibliography

The American Law Institute is one of the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

The Institute was founded in 1923 following a study conducted by a group of prominent American judges, lawyers, and teachers. They reported that the two chief defects in American law, its uncertainty and its complexity, had produced a “general dissatisfaction with the administration of justice.”According to the Committee, part of the law’s uncertainty stemmed from the lack of agreement on fundamental principles of the Common law , while the law’s complexity was attributed to the numerous variations within different jurisdictions of the United States.

See Restatements of the Laws and Codifications, studies and other ALI projects .

Abrahamson, Refreshing Institutional Memories: Wisconsin and The American Law Institute,
1995 Wis. L. Rev. 1 (1995).
The ALI at Fifty (Opinion & Comment), 59 A.B.A. J. 761 (1973).
American Law Institute, ALI Audiovisual History Series:
No. 1: Herbert Wechsler (1990)
No. 2: Homer Kripke (1991)
No. 3: A. James Casner (1993)
American Law Institute, ALIABA:
A Half Century of Firsts (1997).
American Law Institute, The American Law Institute 50th Anniversary (1973).
American Law Institute, Minutes in Remembrance (1976).
Arnold, Institute Priests and Yale ObserversA
Reply to Dean Goodrich, 84 U. Pa. L. Rev. 811
(1936).
Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Growth of the Law (1924).
Charles M. Cook, The American Codification Movement: A Study of Antebellum Legal Reform
(1981).
Crystal, Codification and the Rise of the Restatement Movement, 54 Wash. L. Rev. 239 (1979).
Darrell and Wolkin, The American Law Institute, 52 N.Y. St. B.J. 99 (1980).
Farnum, Terminology and The American Law Institute, 13 B.U.L.Rev. 1 (1933)
Fleming, The Restatements and Codification, 2 Jewish L. Ann. 108 (1979).
Franklin, The Historic Function of The American Law Institute: Restatement as Transitional to
Codification, 47 Harv. L. Rev. 1367 (1934).
Grant Gilmore, The Ages of American Law (1977).
Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract (1974).
Goodrich, The American Law Institute: A Short Summary of Pertinent Facts (May 1, 1933).
Goodrich, American Law Institute Adopts Its First Official Draft, 14 A.B.A. J. 245 (1928).
Goodrich, American Law Institute, 26 A.B.A. J. 858 (1940).
Goodrich, Institute Bards and Yale Reviewers, 84 U. Pa. L. Rev. 449 (1936).
Goodrich, New Bottles for Old Wine, 14 Ore. L. Rev. 26 (1934).
Goodrich, Restatement and Codification, 241 Field Centenary Essays (1949).
Goodrich, The Story of The American Law Institute, 1951 Wash. U. L.Q. 283 (1951).
Herbert F. Goodrich and Paul A. Wolkin, The Story of The American Law Institute 19231961
(1961).
Greenwald, American Law Institute (Professional Associations Related to Law Librarianship :
Words from Their Leaders), 79 Law library Journal 297 (1987).
John Honnold, The Life of the Law (1964).
Hull, Restatement and Reform: A New Perspective on the Origins of The American Law Institute,
8 Law & Hist. Rev. 55 (1990).
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Conceptualists vs. Realists: An Institute to Restate the Law, in The
Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1989).
William P. LaPiana, Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education
(1994).
LaPiana, “A Task of No Common Magnitude”: The Founding of The American Law Institute, 11
Nova L. Rev. 1085 (1987).
William Draper Lewis, History of The American Law Institute and the First Restatement of the
Law, “How We Did It”(1945)? also in American Law Institute, Restatement in the Courts,
Permanent Edition 19321944
(1945).
Lewis, American Law Institute Reaches Advanced Stage of Its Great Work, 16 A.B.A. J. 673
(1930).
Lewis, Report on Work of American Law Institute, 15 A.B.A. J. 741 (1929).
Lewis, Statement Concerning American Law Institute, 17 A.B.A. J. 831 (1931).
Lewis, Work of The American Law Institute in Relation to Business Law, 9 Am. L.S. Rev. 724
(1940).
Lewis, The Work of The American Law Institute, stenographer’s notes of an address delivered
before the Maryland State Bar Association at Atlantic City, N.J., June 30, 1923.
Linde, Courts and Torts: “Public Policy” Without Public Politics?, 28 Val. U.L. Rev. 821 (1994).
Macey, The Transformation of The American Law Institute, 61 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1212 (1993).
Madden, The Vital Common law : Its Role in a Statutory Age, 18 U. Ark. Little Rock L.J. 555
(1996).
Radzinowicz, Herbert Wechsler’s Role in the Development of American Criminal Law and Penal
Policy, 69 Va. L. Rev. 1 (1983).
Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement
of the Law Proposing the Establishment of an American Law Institute, submitted to a Meeting of
Representative Judges, Lawyers, and Law Teachers Held on February 12, 1923, at Washington,
D.C. (1923)? reproduced in American Law Institute, The American Law Institute 50th
Anniversary (1973).
Rheinstein, Leader Groups in American Law, 38 U. Chi. L. Rev. 687 (1971).
Schwartz, The Wechslerian Revolution in Criminal Law and Administration, 78 Colum. L. Rev.
1159 (1978).
Schwartz and Scott, The Political Economy of Private Legislatures, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 595 (1995).
Silber and Miller, Toward “Neutral Principles”in the Law: Selections from the Oral History of
Herbert Wechsler, 93 Colum. L. Rev. 854 (1993).
Simmons, Government by an Unaccountable Private Non Profit Corporation, 10 N.Y.L. Sch. J.
Hum. Rts. 67 (1992).
Sloane, American Law Institute at 60, 113 N.Y.L.J. 4 (April 17, 1984).
Special Issue: In Honor of Professor Herbert Wechsler, 78 Colum. L. Rev. 947 (1978).
Agnes Lynch Starrett, The American Law Institute, in The Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation: A
Private FortuneA
Public Trust (1966).
Stone, Some Aspects of the Problem of Law Simplification, 23 Colum. L. Rev. 319 (1923).
Symposium on The American Law Institute: 26 Hofstra L. Rev. 567 (forthcoming 1998). Wilkins,
Foreword? Barker, Lobbying and The American Law Institute: The Example of Insurance Defense?
Fox, Leave Your Clients at the Door? Frank, The American Law Institute, 19231998?
Freedman,
Caveat Lector: Conflicts of Interest of ALI Members in Drafting the Restatements? Hazard, The
American Law Institute Is Alive and Well? Latto, The Restatement of The Law Governing
Lawyers-A View from the Trenches? Schneyer, Distinguishing Clients From NonClients
Under
the Restatement of The Law Governing Lawyers: A Legal Realist’s Critique? Schwartz, The
Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability -The American Law Institute’s Process of
Democracy and Deliberation? Shapo, Products Liability: The Next Act? Silver, The Lost World?
Twerski and Henderson, The Politics of the Products Liability Restatement? Vandall, The American
Law Institute Is Dead in the Water? Wolfram, Bismarck’s Sausages and the ALI’s Restatements.
Symposium: What Would Law Teachers Like To See the Institute Do?, 8 Am. L. Sch. Rev. 502
(1936).
White, The American Law Institute and the Triumph of Modernist Jurisprudence, 15 L. & Hist.
Rev. 1 (1997).
White, Tribute to Roger Traynor, 69 Va. L. Rev. 1381 (1983).
Wickersham, The American Law Institute, 43 L. Q. Rev. 449 (1927).
William S. Hein & Co., A Guide to The American Law Institute Publications (1994? updated
periodically).
Williston, Written and Unwritten Law, 17 A.B.A. J. 39 (1931).
Paul A. Wolkin, ALIABA…
XL! (1988).
Wolkin, Legal Lore: ALIABA
at Forty, N.Y. St. B.J., Feb. 1989, at 50.
Yntema, American Law Institute, in Legal Essays in Tribute to Orin Kip McMurray (Max Radin ed.,
1965).
Yntema, The American Law Institute, 12 Can. B. Rev. 319 (1934).
Yntema, What Should The American Law Institute Do Next?, 34 Mich. L. Rev. 461 (1936).

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