ABSTRACT
This essay is part of a forthcoming book about the history of the American Law Institute (ALI), which will be published in 2023, one hundred years after the Institute’s founding. It discusses the ALI’s two Restatements of Conflict of Laws.
The first Restatement, adopted in 1934 and identified with its highly respected but dogmatic reporter, Professor Joseph H Beale, consisted of doctrinally pure but simplistic and inflexible set of rules, which had the propensity to produce arbitrary results. Beginning with the 1960s, courts began evading and then rejecting those rules in a movement known as the choice-of-law revolution and characterized by a strong skepticism against all rules …
Symeonides, Symeon, Conflict of Laws in the ALI’s First Century (August 29, 2022) in RW Gordon and A Gold (eds), The American Law Institute: A Centennial History (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2023).
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