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30 A.L.I. Rep. 1 (2007-2008)

handle is hein.ali/alireporter0030 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME 30 Re4 NUMBER I PUBLIH B rTEAERFALL 2007 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE The President's Letter THAT'S DEBATABLE: THE ALI AS A PUBLIC POLICY FORUM Eleventh in an occasional series The Restatement of Conflicts- arlier this year, the Association of American Law Schools held a program on the question: Did the First Restatement Adopt a Reform Agenda? Organized skillfully and effectively by Professor Patrick Kelley of Southern Illinois University School of Law, the three-hour program included scholarly presentations on five of the original Restatements and the Restatement process, after which I made some comments. The formal talks and ensu- ing discussions led to law-review articles soon to be pub- lished in a Symposium issue of the Southern Illinois University Law Journal. Professor Kelley writes an introduc- tory essay as well as an article on torts, Professor Mark Movsesian writes on contracts, Dean Symeon Symeonides on the conflict of laws, Professor and ALI Reporter Deborah DeMott on agency, Professor and ALI Reporter Andrew Kull on restitution, and Professors Kristen Adams and -Time for Another Look? Natalie Hull on the Restatement process. I write on the vision of the Institute, then and now, and address the pres- ent status of the five Restatement subjects discussed (with extended consideration of the conflict of laws), the selection of Restatement topics and Reporters, the implications of the Symposium articles for our future projects, the question whether the Institute can continue to match the vision of its founders (which, unsurprisingly, I answer Yes), and a few ideas for future projects. This letter will examine briefly just one subject, the conflict of laws. For the history of ALI's work on that topic, I draw substantially from Dean Symeonides's arti- cle, The First Conflicts Restatement Through the Eyes of Old: As Bad as Its Reputation? In that careful review, he makes the following points: that all the available evidence sug- gests that whatever changes the Advisers were able to make did not involve any of the Restatement's funda- continued on page 2 U.S. District Judge Lee H and litigation attorney Ki who were recently elected addressed their colleagues New York on October 18. Council Approves Employment Law Draft for 2008 Annual Meeting At its meeting in New York City on October 18-19, the Council unani- mously approved a draft of Restatement Third, Employment Law, subject to changes the Reporters will make in response to discussion at the meet- ing and to editorial and other minor improvements. Chief Reporter Samuel Estreicher and Reporters Michael C. Harper and Stewart J. Schwab presented Council Draft No. 2 containing revised Chapters 1, 2, and 4 on the existence of an employment relationship, contractual law dealing with the termination of the employment relationship, and the tort of retaliation in violation of public policy. A Tentative Draft of the mate- rial will be submitted to the membership at the 2008 Annual Meeting. Rosenthal of Houston Also at the October meeting, the Council productively discussed but took im J. Askew of Dallas, no formal action on drafts in the Institute's projects on Nonprofit to the ALI's Council, Organizations and Economic Torts. At its next meeting on December 6-7 in at the Council dinner in continued on page 10 The

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