...law from the uncertainty which characterizes American law in many other departments. In the report of the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law, proposing the Establishment of an American Law Institute, which was delivered in 1923 to the gathering...

...at one of the most notable meetings in the history of the profession. Invitations had been sent by the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law to a list of outstanding figures of bench and bar and law schools to meet and adopt a plan for dealing...

...to receive the consideration of the American Bar Association, and largely .through the agency of its Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the improvement of the law, a conference was held in Washington, DC, in February, 1923, out of which grew the American Law Institute,...

...its committee on the establishment of a Juristic Center, who met on May loth, 1922, and appointed a Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law. This committee was composed of thirty-nine distinguished members of the bar, with Mr. Elihu Root, Chairman,...

...organized to do is to make a restatement of the law, in accordance with the plan set forth in the Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law, to the Washington meeting. I am quite sure that many here have read that Report, but if they have not...

...complex, and that its administration often results not in •This article Is an analysis of the "Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law Proposing the Establishment of an American Law Institute." All quotations, unless otherwise stated,...

...Law Schools at which about 20 of the leading jurists of the United States constituted themselves a committee on the establishment of a permanent organization for the improvement of the law. The completion of that permanent organization has recently been announced. A generous benefactor has been...

...desirable to recount exactly what has been done and what is proposed. On May 10, 1922, there was formed a Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law. Of this committee Elihu Root was chairman, while the other members consisted of prominent judges, lawyers...

...Law Schools at which about 20 of the leading jurists of the United States constituted themselves a committee on the establishment of a permanent organization for the improvement of the law. The completion of that permanent organization has recently been announced. A generous benefactor has been...

...THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE AND ITS WORK 623 Two things ought next to be explained : first, what led the Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law to recommend the establishment of the Institute to restate the law; and, second, exactly what the restatement...