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OFFICERS
President David F. Levi   Duke University School of Law
Oct. 2025 Participatory Democracy in Action
President Elect Wallace B. Jefferson   Wallace B. Jefferson - ADJ
Director Diane P. Wood   University of Chicago Law School
Deputy Director Eleanor Barrett

COUNCIL MEMBERS
Director Emeritus & Council Member Richard Revesz   NYU School of Law
Council Member Samuel Issacharoff   NYU School of Law
Pamela S. Karlan    Robert H. Klonoff   Nathan L. Hecht

VIDEO: The Power of Commitment
Klonoff on ALI’s Mission and Leadership

2020 VIDEO -- Hecht on "Common law"
if judges who are trying to be consistent decide case after case...principle and rules will emerge that should become the law. The other lawmaking process-- legislators typically -- so the common law is to draw from the experience of the citizens what the law should be and how it should develop, because we change and the common law changes. It's not static" -- ground up development of the law as opposed from down from on high... The law is developing in different ways throughout the states. Its very important for the members to come and express their views about the law and how it is developing...

March 2023 VIDEO -- Professor Lidsky:
"Can the Third Restatement Help Untangle Defamation’s Gordian Knot?”
Missouri Law School Symposium

ALI PODCAST: 2021? Completing an ALI Project: Lessons from Reporters

Kenneth W. Simons -- Univ of California/Irvine
in an area of tort law where there are few reported cases...,
relatively neglected by judges and scholars as opposed to other areas...defenses...

Geoffrey Miller, NYU Law School
Best Practices -- Compliance & Enforcement for Organizations
-- Professional Compliance; Internal Control & Audit; Risk Management;
-- exposure to civil and criminal liability
response to enormous growth of administrative state
& obligations of organizations have and exposure they have to civil liability &
"sufficient threat of going to prison if they engage in misconduct. It's a new field...it ressembles the growth of administrative law in 19th century...whether there should be an affirmative defense to have compliance program. ...good faith and common ground...fair degree of consensus...

PROFESSORS LAYCOCK & HASAN

2024 VIDEO: "Remedies" in ALI's Remedies in Tort Law
Laycock: Chapter 13 -- now in 3rd Restatement divided into 10 separate projects,
Remedies gets its own project. More extensively and more depth
Hasan: "remedies is about the bottom line. Its the thing that nonlawyers care about the most.
Rather than an afterthought, it's the main event. Bottom line"

2024 VIDEO: "Remedies"
damages; unclean hands

VIDEO: "Remedies"
3rd, 8 separate parts -- substantial continuities & substantial evolution from 2nd Restatement
more fulsome discussion of remedies -- expanding with new developments in the evolution of the field.
different remedies available in tort: damages, restitution, declaratory judgments
initial & consequential damages; avoidable damages

VIDEO: Professors Green & Engstrom:
Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Concluding Provisions
filling in the gaps, eclectic mix of tort law -- newly emergent areas in the law...causes of action
Medical malpractice...

3rd Restatement of the Law
Law Governing Attorneys -- 2000
Charles W. Wolfram - Cornell Law School
charlesw.wolfram@yahoo.com

John Leubsdorf, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, NJ
Thomas D. Morgan, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Linda S. Mullenix, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX [from 1989 to 1993]

A Concise Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers -- 2007

Principles of the Law

Government Ethics

COUNCIL MEMBERS Director Emeritus & Council Member Richard Revesz NYU School of Law Council Member Samuel Issacharoff NYU School of Law Pamela S. Karlan Robert H. Klonoff Nathan L. Hecht

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COUNCIL MEMBERS
Director Emeritus & Council Member Richard Revesz NYU School of Law
Council Member Samuel Issacharoff NYU School of Law
Pamela S. Karlan Robert H. Klonoff Nathan L. Hecht

Post Office Box 8101
White Plains, New York 10602
Tel: (914) 421-1200
e-mail: mail@judgewatch.org