Description

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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.

About the Author

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Andrew S. Gold is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and his primary research interests address private law theory, fiduciary law, and the law of corporations. He was previously the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School; an HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University. Professor Gold is also co-founder of the North American Workshop on Private Law Theory and a member of the American Law Institute. Robert W. Gordon is Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford law School. He is a legal historian specializing in the history of the legal profession, contract law, and the uses of history in legal argument. He began his teaching career at SUNY/Buffalo, Wisconsin and Stanford Law Schools, and has returned to Stanford after 16 years at Yale, where he was Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History. He is a past president of the American Society for Legal History and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Selden Society.