The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute--made up of approximately 3,000 lawyers, judges, and law professors of the highest qualifications--drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. ALI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in the District of Columbia.