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American Law Institute Executive Office records
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The Executive Office of the American Law Institute (ALI) performs the organization's major administrative functions, including fundraising, negotiating publication of ALI materials, and coordinating ALI projects. With most of the Reporters located at institutions all over the world, the office also serves as the central depository for the collection of records related to ALI projects. The Director and Deputy Director are closely involved in all of ALI's projects and are copied on much of the correspondence created by Reporters. The Director receives comments from outside individuals and organizations that wish to express their opinions on ALI projects.
The Executive Office Record Group, 1923-1999, primarily includes letters written by and received from staff in the ALI's Executive Office, including the Director and Deputy Director. For more detailed information about the scope and content of this collection, please consult the individual series.
- General Correspondence
- Fundraising
- Director's Office
- Deputy Director's Office
- Printing and Publication
- Spanish Translation of First Restatement
First shipment received from the American Law Institute in 1995.
A folder-level container list for parts of this collection is available offline in spreadsheet form. Contact the Archives for more information.
Processed by Melissa Backes, 1995-2005.
Portions reprocessed by Jordon Steele, 2007.
Finding aid created by Jordon Steele, March 2009.
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- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
- Finding Aid Author
- Jordon Steele
- Finding Aid Date
- 2009
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Collection Inventory
Letters and related materials sent received by the American Law Institute. Includes letters from Paul A. Wolkin.
Primarily chronological by subject file.
Correspondence with the ALI's major funders, include the Carnegie Corporation, the Falk Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Mellon Trust Foundation.
51 Linear FeetAbout 6100 items
Letters and related materials compiled by William Draper Lewis as Director of the American Law Institute. Correspondents include Learned Hand, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American Bar Association, George Wharton Pepper, Samuel Williston, Herbert F. Goodrich, William A. Schnader, and ALI Council members. Some of the letters are marked personal.
For a series of Lewis's personal correspondence, please see William Draper Lewis Personal Correspondence, MSS.002.
Container SummaryAbout 3000 items
Letters and related materials collected and created by Goodrich as Director of the American Law Institute. Correspondents include John R. Ellingston, Warren A. Seavey, William A. Schnader, Louis B. Schwartz, Herbert Wechsler, and ALI Council members.
Container SummaryAbout 2800 items
Correspondence with publishers of ALI material, including West Publishing Company.
Correspondence with entities interested in publishing a Spanish Translation of the First Restatement of the Law.
Files sent from the ALI Headquarters with no apparent department or officer of origin.
For files from the office of the Director, see the "Director's Office" series.
Correspondence, reports, drafts, and related materials regarding the Principle of Corporate Governance project and collected by the ALI headquarters.
For additional records related to the Principles of Corporate Governance project, see ALI.00.001 and ALI.04.023.