Mark Hall, '81, and Douglas Laycock, '73: Named as Reporters on the Restatement of the Law Third Torts
Four Restatement Projects Launch
At the January 2019 Council meeting, The American Law Institute Council voted to launch four new projects: Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance, and three Torts projects, which will complete the ongoing Restatement Third, Torts. The three Torts projects are Defamation and Privacy, Remedies, and Concluding Provisions.
Mark Hall is Director of Health Law and Policy Program and the Fred D. & Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the areas of health care law, public policy, and bioethics. He is currently engaged in research in the areas of health care reform, access to care by the uninsured, and insurance regulation. He also teaches in the University’s Graduate Programs for Bioethics and its MBA program, and is on the research faculty at the Medical School. He regularly consults with government officials, foundations and think tanks about health care public policy issues and is a member of National Academy of Medicine.
Douglas Laycock is perhaps the nation’s leading authority on the law of religious liberty and also on the law of remedies. He has taught and written about these topics for four decades at the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia. Professor Laycock has testified frequently before Congress and has argued many cases in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, where he has served as lead counsel in six cases. He is the author of the leading casebook Modern American Remedies, the award-winning monograph The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule, and many articles in the leading law reviews. He co-edited a collection of essays, Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty.
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