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VOLUME 34 NUMBER 1
FALL 2011

• The President's Letter
• Sandra Day O’Connor Receives Henry J. Friendly Medal at ALI Council Dinner
• California Justice Goodwin Liu Addresses Bay Area Members
• New Member Spotlight: A Q&A with One of ALI's Recently Elected Members
• Who Was Henry Friendly?
• New Members Elected
• Notes About Members and Colleagues
• New Report Released on UCC’s Application to Mortgage Notes
• ALI Publishes Final Volume of Property Restatement
• In Memoriam
• The Institute in the Courts
• Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

Notes About Members and Colleagues

• Peter C. Alexander, a professor and former dean of Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, has been selected as the founding dean of Indiana Tech’s new law school, scheduled to open in Fort Wayne in the fall of 2013.
• In October, James M. Beck of Philadelphia received the Product Liability Advisory Council’s John P. Raleigh Award. The highest honor given by the organization to one of its members, the award is granted only when the prior recipients deem someone worthy of receiving it. Mr. Beck’s involvement in ALI’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation project was one of the reasons cited for his receiving the award.
• In September, Maryland Legal Aid celebrated its centenary by recognizing 100 Champions of Human Rights and Justice. Three Baltimore ALI members—Robert M. Bell, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, Benjamin R. Civiletti, and Albert J. Matricciani, Jr., Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals—were among the top 25, selected for their outstanding achievements. Other ALI members included among the 100 champions were Karen Czapanskiy, a professor at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, in Baltimore; Karen J. Sarjeant, of Silver Spring, Maryland; and Shale D. Stiller of Baltimore.
• Dennis Jeffrey Block has joined the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, in its New York City office, as senior chairman of its global mergers and acquisitions practice. He previously was a senior partner in the corporate practice group of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.
• Stephen Calkins, associate vice president for academic personnel at Wayne State University in Detroit and a professor at the university’s law school, has been appointed a member of the Competition Authority of Ireland, Ireland’s chief trade-regulation agency, and head of its Mergers Division. When the Competition Authority merges with Ireland’s National Consumer Agency in 2012, Professor Calkins, who is taking a leave of absence from the university, will have responsibility for both competition and consumer-protection regulation.
• Sheila Carmody of Phoenix, Arizona, was recognized in September as Outstanding Alumna for the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, class of 1981.
• In November, the following ALI members participated, as chairs or panelists, in a conference in Chicago discussing the Institute’s work on the Restatement Third, Employment Law: Kenneth Glenn Dau-Schmidt, a professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington; Matthew W. Finkin, a professor and the director of the program in comparative labor and employment law and policy at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign; Catherine L. Fisk, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law; Alan Hyde, a professor and scholar at Rutgers University School of Law–Newark; Orly Lobel, a scholar and professor at the University of San Diego School of Law; Robert L. Nelson, director and research chair in the legal profession for the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, and professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University; Charles A. Sullivan, a professor and director of the Rodino Law Library at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark; and Lea S. VanderVelde, a professor at University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City. The meeting was sponsored by the Labor Law Group, the American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University School of Law, and Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
• Anne S. Emanuel, a professor at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, has published a new biography entitled Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution (University of Georgia Press 2011). Professor Emanuel served as a law clerk for Judge Tuttle from 1975 to 1976.
• Richard O. Faulk of Houston is the author of the core chapter, “Writing Appellate Briefs,” of Appellate Practice in Federal and State Courts (Law Journal Press 2011). He was the only environmental attorney included in the Texas Super Lawyers 2011 Top 100 Lawyers in Houston listing.
• ALI Council member Kenneth C. Frazier of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, was named chair of Penn State’s committee to investigate allegations of child sexual abuse at the university. Mr. Frazier has served as president, CEO, and a member of the board of directors for Merck & Co., Inc., since January 2011.
• In September, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was interviewed before a live audience at the University of California Hastings College of the Law for a segment of Legally Speaking, a series of probing interviews with prominent lawyers, judges, and academics, co-produced by UC Hastings and California Lawyer.
• Former U.S. Attorney General Judge Alberto R. Gonzales has joined the Nashville firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis as Of Counsel. In addition, he will fill the newly established Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law at the new Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, effective January 2, 2012.
• On November 15, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland, an Alameda County Superior Court judge and a member of the Institute’s Council, was confirmed by the Senate for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where she will become the first Latina federal judge in the Bay Area. She fills the vacancy created by U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s retirement in February.
• Linda Greenhouse, a senior research scholar in law, a distinguished journalist in residence, and a lecturer in law at Yale Law School, participated in November in a panel discussion at Princeton University entitled “Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Perspectives on Backlash.” Ms. Greenhouse’s new book, The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, will be published by Oxford University Press early in 2012.
• In November, Antonia Hernández of Los Angeles, president and chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation, received the Valerie Kantor Award for Extraordinary Achievement, the highest honor bestowed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• In October, Jennifer J. Johnson of Portland, Oregon, became the new Erskine Wood, Sr., Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. A member of the faculty since 1980, she was installed in the Wood Chair at a public ceremony that included her lecture entitled, “Fleecing Grandma: A Regulatory Ponzi Scheme?”
• Gregory A. Kalscheur, S.J., a professor at Boston College Law School, took his profession of final vows as a Jesuit priest in September. Father Kalscheur, who received a master of divinity degree and licentiate of sacred theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, teaches courses on church and state and civil procedure.
• In October, Paul M. Kurtz, associate dean for academic and student affairs and a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, received the Athens Justice Project’s Milner S. Ball Social Justice Award. He was honored for his outstanding and continued support of the Project, as well as for his work on behalf of indigent criminal defense in Georgia, on reform of family law nationally, and for countless community organizations and causes.
• Stephen H. Legomsky, a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, has taken a leave of absence from the law school to assume the position of chief counsel for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Washington, D.C. He will manage a staff of 160 attorneys, advise the agency’s director on legal and policy issues, and serve as a member of the Department of Homeland Security and USCIS leadership teams.
• William H. Levit, Jr., of Godfrey & Kahn in Milwaukee lectured during October 2011 on international commercial arbitration at the Law and Management Institute of Vladivostok State University of Economics & Service in Vladivostok, Russia.
• Douglas R. Marvin of Washington, D.C., an alumnus of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, was elected to its board of trustees and began a five-year term on July 1.
• James R. Maxeiner, a professor and the associate director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, is the author (with Gyooho Lee and Armin Weber) of Failures of American Civil Justice in International Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2011). The book provides a comparative critical introduction to civil-justice systems in the United States, Germany, and Korea.
• At the spring meeting of the ABA’s Business Law Section, Elizabeth S. Miller, a professor at Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas, received the section’s Jean Allard Glass Cutter Award, which recognizes an exceptional woman business lawyer who has made significant contributions to the profession and the Business Law Section.
• Jacob M. Monty of Houston, Texas, is the author of The Gringo’s Guide to Hispanics in the Workplace (Antaeus Books, Inc. 2011). The book targets employers, business owners, and human-resources professionals, and educates them about employment, labor and immigration law, and Hispanic cultural issues.
• R. Patrick Vance of New Orleans has been admitted to the American College of Trial Lawyers. In November he also was elected to a one-year term as president of the New Orleans Bar Association.
• Bob Wessels, a professor of international insolvency law at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a co-Reporter of the Institute’s Transnational Insolvency project, has been elected a fellow of the European Law Institute. In addition, he was elected an honorary member of INSOL Europe, a European organization of professionals who specialize in insolvency, bankruptcy, and business reconstruction and recovery.
• In November, Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a member of the Institute’s Council, was named to the Legal Services Corporation Board’s Pro Bono Task Force, formed to identify best practices for enhancing pro bono services to low-income Americans.
• The University of Florida Levin College of Law honored alumnus Stephen N. Zack of Miami, Florida, the American Bar Association’s immediate past president and a speaker at ALI’s 2011 Annual Meeting, with the naming of Stephen N. Zack Hall on the university campus in September. The ceremony also established the Stephen N. Zack Endowment, which will provide funds for academic programs that advance student knowledge of legal ethics and professionalism and increase diversity.
• In September, Michael J. Zimmer of Evanston, Illinois, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, was awarded the Paul Steven Miller Memorial Award for scholarly contributions to the field of labor and employment law.

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