On the evening before he retires as ALI Director, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., will deliver his farewell address in that capacity at the Institute’s Annual Dinner on Wednesday, May 19. Other speakers at the 76th Annual Meeting at The Fairmont in San Francisco on May 17-20 will include Procter Hug, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; American Bar Association President Philip S. Anderson; Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl of the University of California at Berkeley; and Justice Bryan Beaumont of the Federal Court of Australia.

Trustee Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., will step down at the close of the Annual Meeting on May 20 after 15 years of responsibility for organizing and overseeing the work of the Institute and will be succeeded by Professor and former Dean of the Columbia Law School Lance Liebman. Professor Hazard became the fourth Director in the Institute’s history in 1984 after having previously served as the Reporter for Restatement of the Law Second, Judgments. An authority on civil procedure, trial practice, and legal ethics, he has written prolifically on these subjects and was the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

Born in Cleveland, Professor Hazard is a graduate of Swarthmore College and of Columbia Law School, where he was Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He began his career in private practice in Oregon, serving also as Deputy Legislative Counsel for the State of Oregon and Executive Secretary of the Oregon Interim Committee on Judicial Administration. He became a member of the law faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1958, moved to the University of Chicago in 1964, and in 1971 joined the faculty of Yale Law School. While at Chicago he was also Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation, and during his tenure at Yale he served variously as Associate, Acting, and Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management. He became the first Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.

Professor Hazard will continue to be active with the Institute as Co-Reporter for the ALI’s project to develop Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure.

A native of Reno, Nevada, Chief Judge Hug, who will deliver remarks at the opening session on May 17, is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, and Stanford University Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review. Following his admission to the bar in 1958, he practiced law in Reno until his 1977 appointment, by President Jimmy Carter, to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He had previously served from 1972 to 1976 as Deputy Attorney General of the State of Nevada and as General Counsel of the University of Nevada System. He became Chief of the Ninth Circuit in 1996.

Chief Judge Hug has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, of the American Judicature Society, and of the National Judicial College, and he has chaired the Ninth Circuit’s Judicial Education Committee. He authored The Nevada Pattern Jury Instructions for the State Bar, was a State Delegate to the American Bar Association, and served on the ABA’s Board of Governors. Elected to the Institute in 1973, Chief Judge Hug became a life member in 1998.

Philip S. Anderson, who will also speak at the opening session, is a partner in the Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm of Williams & Anderson. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Arkansas, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Arkansas Law Review. Shortly after his law-school graduation in 1959, Mr. Anderson began his career in private practice in Little Rock with the predecessor firm of Wright, Lindsey & Jennings. In 1988 he established his current firm.

A former Co-Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Mr. Anderson has also served on the United States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission’s Panel for the Eighth Circuit. Prior to becoming its President in August of 1998, Mr. Anderson held various leadership positions in the ABA, including Chair of the House of Delegates from 1992 to 1994 and service on the Board of Governors. He is also a former Chair of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

An elected member of the Institute since 1975, Mr. Anderson has served on the ALI’s Council since 1981 and on its Executive Committee since 1986. He has also been a member of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education and is presently its Vice Chair. He chaired the ALI Committee on Membership from 1984 until 1997 and has been an Adviser for the Restatements of both Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule) and The Law Governing Lawyers.

Judge Williams, who will speak on Tuesday, May 18, at a luncheon honoring new life members, members elected 50 years ago, and members who were elected within the last five years, will represent the Institute’s membership class of 1974, which attains life membership at the 1999 Annual Meeting. Born in New York City, Judge Williams is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University in 1958 and Harvard Law School in 1961; at Harvard he was on the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. After four years of private practice with the New York firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, he served from 1966 to 1969 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1969 he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado, where he continued as Professor of Law until 1986, with stints as Visiting Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, and Southern Methodist University. In 1986 he was appointed by President Reagan to his present seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge Williams is an Adviser for the Institute’s Restatement Third, Torts: General Principles, and is co-author of Cases on Oil and Gas Law (2nd ed. 1992).

Robert Berdahl will speak at a luncheon on Wednesday, May 19. He became the University of California at Berkeley’s eighth Chancellor in 1997. A native of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, he received a B.A. from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, an M.A. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in 1965 from the University of Minnesota. Prior to his appointment at Berkeley, Dr. Berdahl had served since 1993 as President of the University of Texas at Austin, where he also held the Regents Chair in Higher Education Leadership and the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History. Earlier he was Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1986 to 1993 and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon from 1981 to 1986.

Dr. Berdahl currently holds a joint academic appointment at Berkeley in history and public policy, and he has received numerous honors and awards including a 1993 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Augustana College; an American Philosophical Society Fellowship; a Fulbright Research Fellowship for Germany; and a National Endowment for the Humanities Independent Study and Research Fellowship. He has also been a Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Max-Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, Germany. In 1998, President Clinton appointed Dr. Berdahl to the Advisory Committee of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. Author of one book and co-editor of another, Dr. Berdahl has written numerous articles on aspects of German history.

Justice Beaumont will speak at a luncheon on Thursday, May 20. He was born in Brisbane, Australia, and received an LL.B with honors in 1961 from Sydney University. He practiced as a barrister in most Australian jurisdictions as well as in the English Privy Council, and he was created Queen’s Counsel in 1978. He advised the administration of Papua New Guinea on major infrastructure projects and provided advice as well on constitutional aspects of the grant of independence to that territory in 1975. In 1981 he chaired a Royal Commission on the Tasmanian Constitution.

A Judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 1983, Justice Beaumont chaired the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration from 1990 to 1992. He currently serves as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island and as a Judge on the Tonga Court of Appeal, and he represents Australia and New Zealand on a subcommittee of the South Pacific judiciary charged with establishing a South Pacific Center for Judicial Training.

Before his elevation to the bench, Justice Beaumont was a part-time Lecturer in constitutional and commercial law at the Sydney Law School, and more recently, in both 1990 and 1998, he was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge. In the summer of 1992 he undertook a study tour of American ADR processes and participated in mediation and negotiation courses at Harvard Law School. In 1995 he was elected to the Institute in the special category of Members of the Legal Profession from Foreign Countries, and he is presently an International Adviser for the ALI’s Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure.

The opening session on Monday, May 17, will also include reports by Director Hazard, ALI-ABA Executive Director Richard E. Carter, and Treasurer Bennett Boskey, and by the Chairs of the Committee on Membership and the Nominating Committee. Other highlights of the Annual Meeting will include a Monday luncheon and colloquium for the particular benefit of new members and a Tuesday evening reception and buffet supper for members and guests at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Building. Also on Tuesday will be a special tour of the San Francisco neighborhoods for spouses and guests of members followed by a luncheon at the St. Francis Yacht Club.