Lynn Fitch is the attorney general of Mississippi. The American Law Institute last month chose to unravel decades of progress that prosecutors, law enforcement, and victims’ advocates have made in the ...

The Model Penal Code is one of the most important developments in American law, and perhaps the most important influence on American criminal law. Conceived as a way to standardize and organize the ...

Mr. Rubin examines critically many of the features of the American Law Institute's treatment of sentencing and correctional measures in the drafts of its Model Penal Code. The A.L.I.'s proposals, he ...

At the American Law Institute’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The Model Penal Code: Sentencing Project—a 15-year project to revise the Model Penal Code, first ...