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American Law Institute Council records
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The American Law Institute (ALI) was founded in 1923 in response to a perceived uncertainty and complexity in American law. Former Penn Law Dean William Draper Lewis was the Institute's first director, running the organization's operations out of his campus office. The ALI was conceived as a representative gathering of the American Bar (including Judges, Lawyers, and Law Professors) for the stated mission "to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work."
The American Law Institute Council Records, 1924-2003, include minutes, correspondence, reports, and related records regarding the activity of the American Law Institute Council.
- Minutes and Related Records
- Reports
First shipment received from the American Law Institute in 1995.
An item-level container list is available offline in spreadsheet form.
Preliminary container list prepared by Melissa Backes, 1995-2005.
Processed and encoded by Jordon Steele, May 2008.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
- Finding Aid Author
- Jordon Steele
- Finding Aid Date
- 2011
- Access Restrictions
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None.
- Use Restrictions
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The archives reserves the right to restrict access to material of sensitive nature. Please contact the department for further information.
Collection Inventory
Chiefly minutes that record the activity of council meetings. This series also includes correspondence and related records that reflect the planning and activity of council members.
Container SummaryAbout 7000 items
55 items