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Centennial Moments

1923

Clarifying, Simplifying the Law

Following a study conducted by a group of prominent teachers, judges and lawyers—including Nobel Prize-winner Elihu Root, the second president of Carnegie Corporation—the American Law Institute was founded to promote the clarification and simplification of the law, to secure the better administration of justice and to encourage legal scholarship.

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