American Law Institute

What American Law Institute does

The American Law Institute is an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1923 and headquartered at 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It produces authoritative scholarly legal publications — Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and Model Codes — that synthesize and clarify common law across U.S. practice areas and are routinely cited by courts, regulators, and legislatures. The organization operates as an elected membership body of distinguished lawyers, judges, and law professors, who govern the institution and contribute to its multi-year project workflow through reporters, advisers, and council review.

Name

American Law Institute

Legal name

The American Law Institute

Website

https://ali.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1923

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The American Law Institute is a 1923-founded independent nonprofit in Philadelphia that publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and Model Codes, serving lawyers, judges, law professors, and regulators across the U.S. legal system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Scholarly Publications

NAICS

Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Legal & Regulatory Publishing (Case Law, Statutes, Treatises) (MPAJACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Legal Reference (Statutes, Case Law, Practice Guides) (EDAGAGAB), Law & Legal Studies (EDAGABAH), Law & Legal Studies Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAG)

Keywords

• Legal scholarly publications
• Restatements of law
• Legal principles frameworks
• Model legal codes
• Continuing legal education

Headquarters

HQ city

Philadelphia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Publications Sales: ALI sells legal publications including Restatements, Principles of the Law, Model Codes, trial manuals, and style manuals to legal professionals, law schools, and libraries.
2. Membership Dues: ALI operates as a membership organization with elected members from the legal profession including lawyers, judges, and law professors.
3. CLE Programs: American Law Institute CLE (ALI CLE) provides continuing legal education programs and conferences, including specialized events like the Accountants' Liability Annual Conference.
4. Donations and Gifts: ALI accepts donations through its giving programs including Annual Fund, 100 for 100, Member Giving Circles, Life Member Class Gift, and Planned Giving.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The American Law Institute produces authoritative scholarly legal publications—Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and Model Codes—that synthesize case law and propose principled legal frameworks for courts, legislatures, and legal practitioners. It also operates a membership organization for elected lawyers, judges, and academics, and delivers Continuing Legal Education (ALI CLE) programs, a podcast series, and an online video library for the U.S. legal profession.

Product overview

The American Law Institute (ALI) publishes authoritative legal reference works including Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and Model Codes. These publications are organized into distinct product lines: Restatements summarize and clarify the common law with editorial authority; Principles of the Law provide policy-oriented frameworks for legal reform; and Model Codes offer template legislative language. ALI also delivers CLE programs, a podcast series called Reasonably Speaking, and maintains a Video Library for educational content. The organization is currently working on projects addressing AI liability, election litigation, property law, and high-volume civil adjudication.

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Functional benefit

Brands

• Reasonably Speaking: ALI's podcast featuring discussions on legal topics with judges, scholars, and practitioners

Products and services

• Restatements of the Law Comprehensive legal treatises that summarize and clarify the common law, providing authoritative guidance on legal principles across various practice areas. Used by courts, practitioners, and law schools as persuasive authority.
• Principles of the Law Policy-oriented restatements that address complex legal topics and propose reformed legal frameworks for consideration by courts and legislatures.
• Model Codes Model legislative texts developed by ALI to provide template statutory language for adoption by legislatures.
• ALI CLE (Continuing Legal Education) Professional development programs and conferences for legal practitioners, including the annual Accountants' Liability Annual Conference, delivered in-person and virtually.
• Reasonably Speaking Podcast Podcast series featuring discussions on legal topics, judicial independence, and rule of law issues, co-produced with the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School.
• ALI Video Library Online repository at media.ali.org of video recordings of ALI meetings, events, and educational content.
• Trial Manual for Defense of Criminal Cases Trial manual publication available in electronic form for criminal defense practitioners.
• ALI Style Manual Style manual for ALI publications.
• ALI Membership Elected membership in the American Law Institute for lawyers, judges, and law professors, providing governance participation, member directory access, and engagement in ALI projects.

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Ideal customer profiles4 records

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint podcast production partnership for 'Reasonably Speaking' and 'Judgment Calls' podcasts. The Bolch Judicial Institute, led by David F. Levi (ALI President), co-produces these podcast series with ALI, bringing together judicial perspectives on rule of law and constitutional issues.
• Uniform Law CommissioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBoth organizations have launched major reform projects to rewrite the rules governing conflict-of-trust laws, which are widely regarded as inadequate under the existing 1971 Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws. This collaboration addresses cross-border trust litigation issues affecting billions of dollars in trust assets.
• Cornerstone ResearchminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCornerstone Research is a sponsoring partner for the ALI-CLE Accountants' Liability Annual Conference 2026 in Washington, DC. The conference brings together industry leaders, legal practitioners, and U.S. agency regulators to examine emerging trends and enforcement activity.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cengage Group: Cengage Group is a large educational publisher serving higher education markets including law-related courseware. As a broader incumbent, it competes with ALI for institutional buyer share in legal education publishing.
• LexisNexis (RELX): LexisNexis is a leading legal research and publishing platform with case law, statutes, treatises, and Matthew Bender treatises. It competes with ALI's scholarly publications through its own treatise catalog and legal research tools.
• Westlaw (Thomson Reuters): Westlaw is a dominant legal research platform offering case law, statutes, and secondary sources including treatises. It is a broad incumbent in the same legal information ecosystem where ALI's Restatements are used and cited.
• Bloomberg Law: Bloomberg Law provides legal research, analysis, and practice tools. As a broader legal information incumbent with a wider product portfolio, it competes indirectly with ALI for institutional buyer spend on legal research and reference.
• Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory: A division of Wolters Kluwer producing legal reference, compliance, and regulatory information products (including Aspen Publishing). It overlaps with ALI's Restatement-style reference works and law school casebooks but operates as a commercial publisher at much greater scale.

Emerging players

• HeinOnline: HeinOnline is a digital legal research database specializing in legal history, law journals, and government documents. It serves overlapping customer segments (law schools, law libraries) with a complementary rather than directly competing product set.

Direct peers

• Uniform Law Commission: The Uniform Law Commission drafts model state legislation and is ALI's collaboration partner on conflict-of-laws reform. Both organizations convene leading legal minds to produce authoritative legal frameworks, making them directly comparable in mission.
• Practising Law Institute (PLI): PLI is a nonprofit that delivers continuing legal education programs and publishes legal treatises, handbooks, and course materials. It is the closest direct peer to ALI in combining CLE programming with authoritative legal publishing for practicing attorneys.
• Aspen Publishing (Wolters Kluwer): Aspen Publishing produces law school casebooks, study aids, and legal reference works used in legal education. It is directly comparable to ALI's scholarly publishing mission for law students and academics.
• Foundation Press: Foundation Press is a leading publisher of law school casebooks and treatises. It competes with ALI for legal education budgets and shares ALI's focus on authoritative legal scholarship for the academic market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles3 records

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