THE ALI REPORTER
Winter 2005

The President's Letter

ALI-ABA Executive Director Richard E. Carter to Retire in 2005; Special Committee Seeks Successor

Institute Launches New Projects on Aggregate Litigation, Software Contracts, and Economic Torts

Council Approves Additional Restatement Projects for Submission to Annual Meeting

Jane Stapleton Is First Foreign National Elected to Council

Membership Notes

2005 Annual Meeting Schedule

In Memoriam

Larry Stewart Tells Council "Trial Lawyers Care"

Institute Adds 39 Elected Members

Contracts Reporter Allan Farnsworth Is Dead at 76

Special Contributions

Handbook for Institute Reporters to Be Available in March

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

2005 Annual Meeting Schedule

Sheraton Society Hill
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pre-meeting events (at the hotel):

Sunday, May 15

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Members Consultative Group meeting on: Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation

Attendance at this meeting requires membership in the Members Consultative Group. All ALI members are invited to sign up for the Group. If you are not already a member, please join by April 15 to insure receipt of the draft and relevant meeting information. (You can join online at www.ali.org or call 215-243-1665.)

4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ALI-ABA CLE Program: Developments in Legal Ethics (The course requires registration and payment; full details will appear in the Annual Meeting Program.)

Annual Meeting events (at the hotel, unless otherwise noted):

Monday, May 16

9:30 a.m. Opening Session

10:45 a.m Torts: Liability for Physical Harm

12:30 p.m. Lunch — New Members Colloquium

1:30 p.m. Torts: Liability for Physical Harm

4:00 p.m. Adjournment

5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Justice Talking Program (taping of live debate at National Constitution Center) (topic to be announced later)

6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Officers’ Reception (National Constitution Center)

Tuesday, May 17 [A spouse and guest tour of Winterthur, a country estate located in the heart of Delaware’s Brandywine Valley, followed by a luncheon, will be arranged on this day.]

8:30 a.m. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute (formerly, the International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project)

12:30 p.m. Lunch honoring new life members, 50-year members, and recently elected members (Independence Seaport Museum)

2:00 p.m. Agency

5:00 p.m. Adjournment

7:30 p.m. Annual Dinner

Wednesday, May 18

9:00 a.m. Restitution and Unjust Enrichment

12:45 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Trusts

5:00 p.m. Adjournment

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS

Monday Morning Opening Session — Opening Remarks: Anthony J. Scirica, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Remarks: Robert J. Grey, Jr., President, American Bar Association

Tuesday Lunch — Bevis Longstreth, Esquire, retired partner, Debevoise & Plimpton

Tuesday Dinner — Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund

Wednesday Lunch — Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University