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American Law Institute Third Restatement of the Law records

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Call Number:
ALI.04.003
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Extent:
16 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Restatement of the Law: Third Records, American Law Institute Archives, ALI.04.003, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA.
Date:
1973-2003 (inclusive)
Creator:
American Law Institute
Abstract:
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 Third Restatement of the Law covered subjects including Foreign Relations Law and the Law Governing Lawyers. The collection, 1973-2003, includes drafts, comments, correspondence, and other materials related to the Third Restatement of the Law, which sought to improve and expand upon the first and second codification projects by the American Law Institute.

The Third Restatement of the Law includes a revision of the Second Restatement of Foreign Relations Law and a new restatement concerning the Law Governing Lawyers.

As of December 2007, the Third Restatement of the Law is an ongoing project. Records will be processed as they become available.

The Third Restatement of the Law Records, 1973-2003, include drafts, comments, correspondence, and other records related to Agency, Employment Law, Foreign Relations Law, the Law Governing Lawyers, Property, Restitution, Suretyship, Torts, Trusts, and Unfair Competition.

    Arrangement
  1. Agency
  2. Employment Law
  3. Foreign Relations Law
  4. The Law Governing Lawyers
  5. Property--Joint Ownership
  6. Property--Security
  7. Property--Servitudes
  8. Property--Wills and Other Donative Transfers
  9. Suretyship
  10. Restitution
  11. Torts--Apportionment of Liability
  12. Torts--Liability for Emotional and Physical Harm
  13. Torts--Products Liability
  14. Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule)
  15. Trusts
  16. Unfair Competition

First shipment received from the American Law Institute in 1995.

Processed by Melissa Backes, 1995-2005.

Reprocessed by Jordon Steele, with assistance from Ryan Gebhardt, May 2007.

Encoded by Jordon Steele, May 2007.

Finding aid updated by Jordon Steele, December 2007.

As of December 2007, the Third Restatement of the Law is an ongoing project. Records will be processed as they become available.

For earlier Restatement projects, see ALI.004.001 and ALI.004.002.

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Place
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Finding Aid Author
Jordon Steele
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

None.

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Collection Inventory

Agency, 1997-2001. 4 items.
Box 7 Folder 6-9
Scope and Contents

Preliminary Drafts No. 1, No. 2, No. 5, and Council Draft No. 3.

Physical Description

4 items

Employment Law (Preliminary Draft No. 1), 2002 May 29. 1 item.
Box 7 Folder 10
Physical Description

1 item

Foreign Relations Law, 1973-1990.
Box 16 Folder 1-29 Box 3 Folder 1-7 Box 2 Folder 1-19 Box 1 Folder 1-23

Correspondence and Comments, 1988-1999.
Box 4 Folder 1-16 Box 3 Folder 8-20
Preliminary Drafts, 1986-1997.
Box 5 Folder 1-8 Box 4 Folder 17-22
Council Drafts, 1987-1997.
Box 5 Folder 9-14 Box 6 Folder 1-11
Tentative Drafts, 1988-1997.
Box 7 Folder 1 Box 6 Folder 12-18
Preliminary Revisions, 1995.
Box 7 Folder 2
Proposed Final Drafts, 1996-1998.
Box 7 Folder 3-4
Cumulative Changes, 1999.
Box 7 Folder 5
Property -- Joint Ownership, 1997-1998. 2 items.
Box 7 Folder 11-12
Scope and Contents

Preliminary Draft Nos. 1-2.

Physical Description

2 items

Preliminary Drafts, 1990-1995.
Box 7 Folder 13-16 Box 8 Folder 1
Council Drafts, 1990-1995.
Box 8 Folder 2-6
Tentative Drafts, 1991-1996.
Box 8 Folder 7-11

Memorandums, 1993.
Preliminary Drafts, 1986-1997.
Box 8 Folder 13-22 Box 9 Folder 1-4
Council Drafts, 1988-1997.
Box 9 Folder 5-12
Tentative Drafts, 1989-1998.
Box 9 Folder 13-19

Preliminary Drafts, 1991-1997.
Box 10 Folder 1-6
Council Drafts, 1994-1997.
Box 10 Folder 7-8
Tentative Drafts, 1995-1998.
Box 10 Folder 9-10
Restitution, 1999-2002. 4 items.
Box 10 Folder 11-14
Scope and Contents

Council Drafts and a Preliminary Draft.

Physical Description

4 items

Preliminary Materials, 1990.
Box 10 Folder 15
Preliminary Drafts, 1991-1994.
Box 11 Folder 1-4
Council Drafts, 1991-1994.
Box 11 Folder 5-8
Tentative Drafts, 1992-1995.
Box 11 Folder 9-12
Reporter's Interim Draft, 1994 November 17.
Box 11 Folder 13

Preliminary Materials, 1994 June 2.
Box 11 Folder 16
Preliminary Drafts, 1995-1997.
Box 11 Folder 17-20
Council Drafts, 1996-1997.
Box 11 Folder 21 Box 12 Folder 1
Proposed Final Draft Versions, 1998-1999.
Box 12 Folder 2-5
Torts -- Liability for Emotional and Physical Harm, 1998-2002. 3 items.
Box 12 Folder 6-8
Scope and Contents

Preliminary Draft No. 1, Council Draft No. 1, and Revisions to Tentative Draft No. 2.

This project was formerly known as "General Principles" and "Basic Principles."

Physical Description

3 items

Correspondence, 1991-1997.
Box 12 Folder 9-13
Preliminary Materials, 1992 August 21.
Box 12 Folder 14
Preliminary Drafts, 1993-1995.
Box 12 Folder 15-17
Council Drafts, 1993-1995.
Box 12 Folder 18 Box 13 Folder 1-4
Tentative Drafts, 1994-1996.
Box 15 Folder 7-9
Proposed Final Drafts, 1996-1997.
Box 13 Folder 5-6 Box 15 Folder 10
Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule), 1987-1990.
Box 13 Folder 7-12

Preliminary Drafts, 1994-2003.
Box 14 Folder 1-2 Box 13 Folder 13-17
Council Drafts, 1995-1998.
Box 14 Folder 3-6
Tentative Drafts, 1996-1999.
Box 14 Folder 7-8

Preliminary Drafts, 1987-1992.
Box 14 Folder 9-13 Box 15 Folder 1
Council Drafts, 1987-1992.
Box 15 Folder 2-5
Tentative Drafts, 1992.
Box 15 Folder 6

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