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The Ali's Response To The Center For Tobacco Control Research & Education, Rebecca Cooper Ramo, Lance Liebman
The Ali's Response To The Center For Tobacco Control Research & Education, Rebecca Cooper Ramo, Lance Liebman
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We write in response to the recent Iowa Law Review article about tobacco industry input on several of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Torts. The article errs in its assumption that finding correct legal rules is the same as assessing the results of medical research. It does not recognize that ALI's process for considering improvements in law must be open to input from all sides of the relevant issues. The process which produces Restatements would not be credible or of practical use without participation by lawyers who represent clients on all sides.
The Restatement Of The U.S. Law Of International Commercial Arbitration: An Interim Report, George A. Bermann
The Restatement Of The U.S. Law Of International Commercial Arbitration: An Interim Report, George A. Bermann
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Despite its title, the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Arbitration is the ALI's first Restatement ever on the subject of international commercial arbitration. The ALI commissioned this Restatement not merely because the subject has become so important in international commerce, but because the American law on the subject is deeply unsettled. After all, the purpose of Restatements is to bring clarity and coherence and, where necessary, improvement to the law. Historically, Restatements have concentrated on state rather than federal law subjects precisely because of the discrepancies among the laws of the several states on …