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American Law Institute Committee 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 Committee Records, 1922-2004, include minutes, correspondence, reports, and related records regarding the activity of the American Law Institute's Executive Committee, Finance and Development Committee, Investment Committee, and Membership Committee.
1. Executive Committee Records 2. Finance and Development Committee Records 3. Investment Committee Records 4. Membership Committee Records
Executive committee minutes are available as part of a digital collection. Visit the American Law Institute Archives homepage for more information.
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
- 2008
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None.
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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, reports, correspondence and other records related to Executive Committee meetings.
Correspondence, minutes, and related records.
Container SummaryAbout 50 items
Correspondence, meeting records, and related records.
Reports, correspondence, and related records.