American Law Institute

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learned society legal organization nonprofit organization

The American Law Institute is an independent U.S. organization of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars that drafts and publishes influential restatements of the law, model statutes, and legal principles to clarify and improve the law.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	learned society → legal organization → nonprofit organization →
country	United States →
field	law → law reform → legal scholarship →
foundedBy	George Wickersham → Samuel Williston → William Draper Lewis NERFINISHED →
hasMember	judges → law professors → lawyers →
hasOrgan	Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute → Council of the American Law Institute →
headquarters	The American Law Institute, 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania →
inception	1923 →
influences	courts in the United States → federal courts → legal scholarship → state legislatures →
language	English →
legalStatus	independent →
location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania →
membershipType	elective membership →
nonprofitStatus	501(c)(3) organization →
notableWork	Model Penal Code → Principles of Corporate Governance → Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation → Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution → Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws → Restatement (Second) of Contracts → Restatement (Second) of Torts → Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Law of the United States → Restatement (Third) of Torts →
produces	Restatements of the Law → model statutes → principles of law →
purpose	clarification of the law → improvement of the administration of justice → modernization of the law → simplification of the law →
regionServed	United States →
sector	private nonprofit sector →
website	https://www.ali.org/ →
workFocus	administrative law → common law → statutory law →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cass Sunstein → Charles Alan Wright → Jane C. Ginsburg →	memberOf
American Law Institute ("Council of the American Law Institute") →	hasOrgan
American Law Institute ("The American Law Institute, 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania") →	headquarters