Membership Notes

• Professor Kenneth S. Abraham of the University of Virginia School of Law, a member of the Institute’s Council, has received the 2000 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award of the American Bar Association’s Tort and Insurance Practice Section. The Award recognizes commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship, and the legal profession, demonstrated by outstanding contributions to the fields of tort or insurance law.

• William T. Barker of Chicago has become Editor of Bad Faith Law Report.

• Myron J. Bromberg, a founding principal of the Morristown and Brick, New Jersey and New York City law firm of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., has been elected President of The International Society of Barristers. He is the first New Jersey lawyer to serve as President of the organization.

• Thomas Buergenthal, Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence and Presiding Director of the Center for the International Rule of Law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., has been elected a Judge of the World Court in The Hague.

• Professor Roger C. Cramton of Cornell Law School, a member of the Council, is this year’s recipient of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Research Award. The Award recognizes outstanding research in law and government.

• Ivan K. Fong of Fairfield, Connecticut, formerly Deputy Associate Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, has been named Senior Counsel for E-Commerce and Information Technology at the General Electric Company.

• The Justice Studies Institute at Arizona State University has created an endowed lecture series in the name of Council member John P. Frank of Phoenix.

• Second Vice President Conrad K. Harper has been named a Fellow of Harvard College and a member of the Harvard Corporation, the governing body of the University.

• Former ALI Council member Shirley M. Hufstedler of Los Angeles and United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor have both received Margaret Brent Awards at the American Bar Association meeting in New York. The Award was established in 1991 to celebrate the achievements of women lawyers, to draw attention to role models for young women, and to increase opportunities and career alternatives for women lawyers.

• Robert M. Kaufman, a partner in the New York City firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, will receive the American Judicature Society’s 2000 Justice Award in a ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York onSeptember 18. The Justice Award recognizes a lifetime of dedication and devotion to the improvement of the administration of justice at the national level.

• Council members Herma Hill Kay, Dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Louis H. Pollak, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Patricia M. Wald, Judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, have all been elected to the American Philosophical Society. Judge Wald, former ALI Vice President, is also scheduled to receive an award from the Environmental Law Institute at its annual dinner on November 13 in Washington, D.C.

• ALI Director Lance Liebman has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• George W. Liebmann of Baltimore is the author of Solving Problems Without Large Government (Praeger, 1999).

• Ramón Mullerat-Balmaña of Barcelona has been elected an Honorary Member of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales (Gray’s Inn).

• Professor William C. Powers, Jr., of The University of Texas School of Law, Co-Reporter for Restatement Third, Torts: Apportionment of Liability, has been named the 12th Dean in the 117-year history of the law school, effective September 1.

• The W. Edward Sell Chair (formerly the W. Edward Sell Professorship) has been established at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in honor of W. Edward Sell, Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus, who is a life member of the Institute. The W. Edward Sell Professor at Pittsburgh is Douglas M. Branson.

• ALI President Michael Traynor is the author of "An Introductory Framework for Analyzing the Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: U.S. and European Perspectives," published in Golden Gate University School of Law’s Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law (Volume VI, Spring 2000).