The Law Student's Secret Weapon: Understanding How the ALI's Restatements Can Streamline Your Legal Research

Common law can feel like a chaotic patchwork of 50 different jurisdictions. But for the last century, the American Law Institute (ALI) has worked to distill that chaos into clear, persuasive principles. We sit down with Mark Hall , the lead reporter for the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Medical Malpractice , to discuss how these influential texts are written and why they often carry more…