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American Law Institute Future of the Institute records

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
ALI.04.020
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Extent:
1.5 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Future of the Institute Records, American Law Institute Archives Collection #20, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Date:
1929-1968 (inclusive) and 1929-1948 (bulk)
Creator:
American Law Institute
Abstract:
Following the publication of the First Restatement of the Law, in 1936 the American Law Institute (ALI) held a series of meetings and published a series of reports that considered what additional areas of the law might be selected for future restatement projects. Work on the project continued into the mid-1940s. Many fields were considered, but only a few were actually selected for inclusion in future restatement projects. The collection, 1929-1968 and undated (bulk: 1929-1948), includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other records related to areas of the law up for consideration for future restatement projects, including business associations, industrial relations, and monopolies.

Following the publication of the First Restatement of the Law, in 1936 the American Law Institute (ALI) held a series of meetings and published a series of reports that considered what additional areas of the law might be selected for future restatement projects. Work on the project continued into the mid-1940s. Many fields were considered, but only a few were actually selected for inclusion in future restatement projects.

The Future of the Institute Records, 1929-1968 and undated (bulk: 1929-1948), include correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other records related to areas of the law up for consideration for future restatement projects, including business associations, industrial relations, and monopolies.

    Arrangment
  1. Correspondence
  2. Reports and Related Records
  3. Potential Future Projects
  4. Master Sheets
  5. Anniversary Photocopies

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.

Subject

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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Collection Inventory

Correspondence, 1928-1948.
Box 1 Folder 1-23
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with the Carnegie Corporation (which funded ALI projects), William Draper Lewis, Warren A. Seavey, and the committee for the Future of the Institute project.

Reports and Related Records, 1924-1947.
Box 1 Folder 24-45
Scope and Contents note

Reports, correspondence, and other records related to future projects under consideration by the ALI, and submitted to the Carnegie Corporation (which funded ALI projects), the ALI Council, and the ALI Executive Committee.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other records related to the areas of the law considered by the ALI for future restatement projects.

Administrative Law, 1938-1941. About 50 items.
Box 1 Folder 46
General Physical Description note

About 50 items

Agency, 1929.
Box 1 Folder 47
Business Associations, 1929-1941 and undated. About 25 items.
Box 2 Folder 1-6
General Physical Description note

About 25 items

Comparative Law, 1941. About 5 items.
Box 2 Folder 7
General Physical Description note

About 5 items

"The Completion of the Restatement", 1929.
Box 2 Folder 8
Criminal Justice, 1941. About 10 items.
Box 2 Folder 9
General Physical Description note

About 10 items

Declaratory Judgments, 1942. 1 item.
Box 2 Folder 10
Physical Description

1 item

Domestic Relations, 1942. 1 item.
Box 2 Folder 11
Physical Description

1 item

Equity, undated. 1 item.
Box 2 Folder 12
Physical Description

1 item

Industrial Relations, 1938-1944. About 125 items.
Box 2 Folder 13-20
General Physical Description note

About 125 items

Interstate and International Trade Law, 1941-1942. About 10 items.
Box 2 Folder 21
General Physical Description note

About 10 items

Model National Laws, 1941. 5 items.
Box 2 Folder 22
Physical Description

5 items

Monopoly, 1939-1944. About 250 items.
Box 2 Folder 23-30
General Physical Description note

About 250 items

Partnership Act, 1942. About 3 items.
Box 2 Folder 31
General Physical Description note

About 3 items

Persons, 1929.
Box 2 Folder 32
Property, 1939-1940. About 10 items.
Box 2 Folder 33-35
General Physical Description note

About 10 items

Security and Cooperative Effort, 1935. About 5 items.
Box 2 Folder 36
General Physical Description note

About 5 items

Taxation, 1936-1941. About 20 items.
Box 2 Folder 37
General Physical Description note

About 20 items

Torts, 1929.
Box 2 Folder 38
Translation into Spanish and Portuguese, 1942. 1 item.
Box 2 Folder 39
Physical Description

1 item

Trusts, 1940-1941. About 20 items.
Box 2 Folder 40
General Physical Description note

About 20 items

Master Sheets, 1936-1938. 5 items.
Box 2 Folder 42
Scope and Contents note

The documents in this series provide contextual information about the Future of the Institute project.

Physical Description

5 items

Anniversary Photocopies, 1968.
Box 2 Folder 41
Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of documents from the Future of the Institute project, made in 1968 for the ALI's 50th Anniversary publication.

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