In a major attack on the concept of federalism, William D. Lewis, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, founds the American Law Institute “to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work” (i.e. to break down the unique diversity of state legal codes across the nation).

       Postscript: A half-century later the supreme court, of the corporate United states, praised the ALI for having “served as the model for … legislation in approximately one-fourth of our [s]tates.”

       [restored 6/25/2022]