The American Law Institute is the preeminent legal reform organisation in the United States and its centennial is a landmark event. This book brings together an outstanding group of expert scholars to provide an in-depth scholarly history of the ALI, its role in legal reform, and the various ways it has impacted law in the United States.
Andrew S. Gold is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and his primary research interests address private law theory, fiduciary law, and the law of corporations. He was previously the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School; an HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University. Professor Gold is also co-founder of the North American Workshop on Private Law Theory and a member of the American Law Institute.
Robert W. Gordon is Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford law School. He is a legal historian specializing in the history of the legal profession, contract law, and the uses of history in legal argument. He began his teaching career at SUNY/Buffalo, Wisconsin and Stanford Law Schools, and has returned to Stanford after 16 years at Yale, where he was Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History. He is a past president of the American Society for Legal History and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Selden Society.