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VOLUME 31 NUMBER 3 SPRING 2009

• Election of Council Members Set for Monday, May 18
• The President's Letter
• Annual Meeting Agenda
• Notice Our New Look?
• NYU Honors Andreas Lowenfeld with Symposium on International Law
• Judge Lauds Birnbaum's Work as Mediator in 9/11 Lawsuits
• New Members
• Spotlight on the Struves: Membership is a Family Affair
• Indian Law Institute Officials
  Visit ALI
• New WTO Publications Available
• Notes About Members
• In Memoriam
• Calendar
• Future ALI Annual Meeting Dates

Notes About Members and Colleagues

• Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of Madison, Wisconsin’s first female justice and a member of the Institute’s Council, won reelection to a fourth 10-year term on April 7.
• In March, Jeffrey L. Bleich of San Francisco joined President Barack Obama’s administration as the President’s special counsel. He will serve on an interim basis for three or four months.
• David A. Brennen, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and an Adviser to the Institute’s Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law in Lexington.
• William M. Burke of Costa Mesa, California, a member of the Institute’s Council, has received the Homer Kripke Achievement Award of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. The award is given for outstanding contributions to the law as it relates to commercial finance. At press time, Mr. Burke was again undertaking to climb Mt. Everest, thereby fulfilling his lifetime dream of scaling the eight highest summits on the major continents, Australasia, and Antarctica.
• Professor Patricia A. Cain of Santa Clara University contributed an article on tax and estate planning for same-sex couples to Estate, Tax, and Benefits Planning for Unmarried Couples (ALI-ABA 2009). The softbound volume may be ordered at www.ali-aba.org/BK42/ or by calling 1-800-253-6397.
• Appointed to an advisory committee to vet potential presidential nominees for U.S. Attorneys and federal-district judgeships in Alabama are former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Ralph D. Cook, Dean John L. Carroll of Samford University, Cumberland School of Law,  and Dean Kenneth C. Randall, of the University of Alabama School of Law.
• In March, Ronald DeKoven of London, England, who served as the Reporter for Article 2A (Leases) of the Uniform Commercial Code, was called to the Bar of England and Wales by The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, the oldest of the four inns of court. He now is entitled to practice as a barrister with rights of audience in the courts of England and Wales.
• Ivan K. Fong of Dublin, Ohio, James R. Jenkins of Moline, Illinois, and Laura Stein of Oakland, California, were recently listed among the 20 most influential general counsel in America by The National Law Journal.
• Lawrence J. Fox of Philadelphia and Professor Susan R. Martyn­ of the University of Toledo College of Law are coauthors of the 2009 Supplement for Red Flags: A Lawyer’s Handbook on Legal Ethics (ALI-ABA 2005). Both the hardbound volume and the softbound cumulative supplement may be ordered at www.ali-aba.org/BK35/ or by calling 1-800-253-6397.
• Victor James Gold, a professor and fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, who served as the school’s acting dean and senior vice president since January 2008, has been named the school’s 16th dean.
• Phoebe A. Haddon of Temple University in Philadelphia has been appointed dean of the University of Maryland School of Law. She will be the first African American dean in the law school’s 185-year history, replacing Dean Karen H. Rothenberg, who is stepping down after 10 years to return to the faculty.
• The late Charles A. Harvey, Jr., of Portland, Maine, who died of pancreatic cancer on February 18, was the recipient of the 2009 McKusick Award, named in honor of former Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Vincent L. McKusick, an ALI Council emeritus. The award recognizes a person who has contributed substantially to the administration of justice and the delivery of judicial services to the people of Maine.
• In April, the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, is sponsoring Peru’s first International Congress on Contract Law in honor of Boris Kozolchyk, founder and president of the Tucson-based National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade and a law professor at the University of Arizona. Professor Kozolchyk is being recognized for his work in international contracts.
• Paul M. Kurtz, associate dean and professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, has received the National Child Support Enforcement Association’s Child Support Community Service Award at the association’s 2009 Policy Forum & Training Conference in Washington, D.C. The award honors an individual who, though not directly part of the child-support world, has made significant contributions to the child-support community.
• Professor Douglas Laycock of Michigan Law School, ALI’s 2nd Vice President, is a 2009 recipient of the National First Freedom Award, bestowed by the Council for America’s First Freedom to individuals who are extraordinary advocates of religious freedom.
• George W. Liebmann of Baltimore, Maryland, is the author of Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).
• Kathryn A. Oberly, a member of the Institute’s Council, was confirmed by the Senate as Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for a 15-year term. She previously was Vice Chair and General Counsel to the accounting firm of Ernst & Young in New York City.
• Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former prime minister of New Zealand and current President of the New Zealand Law Commission, visited the Institute’s Philadelphia offices in March.
• Polly J. Price, associate dean of faculty and a professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, has published a biography entitled, Judge Richard S. Arnold: A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench (Prometheus Books 2009), which features a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Judge Arnold, a member of the Institute’s Council for 19 years until his death in 2004, was a well-known figure who sat in the Eighth Circuit.
• On April 17, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno of Miami received the Justice Award, the American Judicature Society’s highest honor. The award, which recognizes significant contributions to improving the administration of justice in the United States, was given to her for a lifetime of work to ensure fairness and accuracy in the justice system.
• Jonathan Rose, a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State has joined the university’s Department of History as an affiliate and as a member of the graduate faculty for the Ph.D. program in history.
• Marshall S. Shapo, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law, has published Experimenting with the Consumer: The Mass Testing of Risky Products on the American Public (Greenwood/Praeger 2008).
• Jane Stapleton, a member of the Institute’s Council, will be the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at Cambridge University in 2012.
• The U.S. Federal Election Commission unanimously elected Steven T. Walther as Chairman for 2009. The FEC is an independent regulatory agency that administers and enforces federal campaign-finance laws.
• Professor Kevin K. Washburn of the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, will become dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law on June 30.

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