Restatement of the law
In United States law , restatements of the law are the treatises published by the American Law Institute , which systematically present the case law of the individual states. They do not have the rank of a real source of law and their rank in the courts roughly corresponds to the more important textbooks. The restatements have been published since 1923 and each refer to an important sub-area, for example in the early years agency , conflict of laws , contract law , judgments , property , restitution , security , torts and trusts . From the beginning of the 1950s, this was mostly brought up to date and published in an expanded form as restatement (second) or restatement (third) .
Restatements of the law (as of 2015):
- Agency (3rd 2006, 2nd 1958, 1st 1933) - representation / assignment
- Conflict of Laws (2nd 1971, 1st 1934) - International Private Law
- Contracts (2nd 1981, 1st 1932) - Contract Law
- Employment Law (2015) - Labor Law
- Foreign Relations Law of the United States (4th 2018, 3rd 1987, 2nd 1965) - International Law
- Judgments (2nd 1982, 1st 1942) - Court decisions
- Law Governing Lawyers (3rd 2000) - Legal law
- Property (3rd 2000/1999/1997, 2nd 1983/1977, 1st 1936) - property law (including wills )
- Restitution (3rd 2011, 1st 1937) - right of enrichment
- Suretyship & Guaranty (3rd in 1996), Security (1st 1941) - guarantee / credit protection
- Torts (3rd 2011/2000/1998, 2nd 1965, 1st 1934) - Tort law
- Trusts (3rd 2003, 2nd 1959, 1st 1935) - Trust
- Unfair Competition (3rd 1995) - Unfair competition
- US Law of International Commercial Arbitration (draft) - Commercial Arbitration
The Principles of the law , which have also been published by the ALI since 1994, are functionally similar, but they are more politically motivated and therefore also address the legislature.
Principles of the law (as of 2015):
- Aggregate Litigation (2010) - Class Actions
- Corporate Governance (1994) - Company Law
- Election Law (2012) - Suffrage
- Family Dissolution (2002) - Divorce Law
- Intellectual Property (in transnational disputes; 2008) - commercial legal protection (international)
- Software Contracts (2010) - Software Contract Law
- Transnational Insolvency (2003/2012) - Insolvency Law (international)
- World Trade Law (2012) - World Trade Law
- Charitable Nonprofit Organizations (draft) - non-profit organizations
- Liability Insurance (draft) - liability insurance