THE ALI REPORTER
Summer 2002

The President’s Letter

Institute Approves Restatement Drafts
and Revisions to UCC Articles 3 and 4

UCC Update

Justice O’Connor Predicts Greater Domestic Reliance on Norms of International Law and Praises Institute’s Increasing Transnational Focus

Justice O’Connor on the ALI’s Enhanced International Role

Membership Notes

Annual Meeting Faces (2002)

UNIDROIT To Celebrate 75th Anniversary in September

New Projects Begin

Officers Reelected

The Institute in Legal Literature

158 Become Life Members

Institute Adds 63 Elected Members

In Memoriam

Special Contributions

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

158 Become Life Members

One hundred fifty-eight persons who were elected to the Institute in 1977 became life members at the 2002 Annual Meeting. The following are the newest life members:

Shirley S. Abrahamson, Madison, Wis. Burton Z. Alter, New Haven, Conn. Eleanor B. Alter, New York, N.Y. Irwin M. Alterman, Troy, Mich. Alison Grey Anderson, Los Angeles, Calif. William Dorey Andrews, Cambridge, Mass. Morris S. Arnold, Little Rock, Ark. Martin J. Aronstein, Philadelphia, Pa. George E. Ashley, Columbia, Mo. Allan Ashman, Chicago, Ill. Hugh J. Ault, Boston, Mass. Robert E. Austin, Jr., Leesburg, Fla. Curtis H. Barnette, Bethlehem, Pa. Joseph W. Bartlett, New York, N.Y. R. Neal Batson, Atlanta, Ga. Edward R. Becker, Philadelphia, Pa. G. d’Andelot Belin, Boston, Mass. Marion W. Benfield, Jr., New Braunfels, Tex. Edward A. Benjamin, Santa Fe, N. Mex. Daniel L. Berman, Salt Lake City, Utah Scott H. Bice, Los Angeles, Calif. Hugo L. Black, Jr., Miami, Fla. Aubrey R. Bowles, III, Richmond, Va. Harvie Branscomb, Jr., Corpus Christi, Tex. Louis E. Braswell, Mobile, Ala. Stephen Breyer, Washington, D.C. Victor Brudney, Cambridge, Mass. Thomas Buergenthal, The Hague, Netherlands Stephen B. Burbank, Philadelphia, Pa. Susan A. Cahoon, Atlanta, Ga. William A. Carroll, Berkeley, Calif. Truman S. Casner, Boston, Mass. Gerhard Casper, Stanford, Calif. John E. Chapoton, Washington, D.C. James H. Cheek, III, Nashville, Tenn. Betty Jo Christian, Washington, D.C. Ernest S. Christian, Jr., Washington, D.C. John C. Christie, Jr., Washington, D.C. Bruce A. Coggeshall, Portland, Maine James E. Coleman, Jr., Dallas, Tex. Lawrence H. Cooke, Monticello, N.Y. George W. Coombe, Jr., San Francisco, Calif. Charles Bradford Craver, Washington, D.C. Mary Lou Crowley, Syracuse, N.Y. John J. Curtin, Jr., Boston, Mass. Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., Boston, Mass. Charles Donahue, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. Raya S. Dreben, Boston, Mass. Michael J. Egan, Atlanta, Ga. Michael B. Elefante, Boston, Mass. C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, Ga. Alan L. Feld, Boston, Mass. Barton E. Ferst, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry L. Feuerzeig, St. Thomas, V.I. Henry F. Field, Framingham, Mass. Ben C. Fisher, Washington, D.C. Jack W. Floyd, Greensboro, N.C. Eleanor M. Fox, New York, N.Y. Steven P. Frankino, Villanova, Pa. Richard A. Freling, Dallas, Tex. Marion R. Fremont-Smith, Boston, Mass. Ronald L. Gainer, Washington, D.C. Dorothy J. Glancy, Santa Clara, Calif. Frank Goodman, Philadelphia, Pa. Stephen J. Greenberg, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry M. Grether, Jr., Sandy, Utah Egon Guttman, Silver Spring, Md. Charles W. Hall, Houston, Tex. Daniel I. Halperin, Cambridge, Mass. Conrad K. Harper, New York, N.Y. Douglas W. Hawes, New York, N.Y. Stanley D. Henderson, Charlottesville, Va. Joel F. Henning, Chicago, Ill. James Clinkscales Hill, Amelia Island, Fla. Joseph Hinsey, IV, Boston, Mass. Stephen K. Huber, Houston, Tex. Arnold C. Johnson, Washington, D.C. Lewis B. Kaden, New York, N.Y. Howard I. Kalodner, Springfield, Mass. Sherwin Kamin, New York, N.Y. Amalya L. Kearse, New York, N.Y. Joseph M. Kerrigan, Nashua, N.H. George H. Kidder, Boston, Mass. Spencer L. Kimball, Salt Lake City, Utah Howard C. Klemme, Boulder, Colo. Harry D. Krause, Champaign, Ill. Stephen Kurzman, Washington, D.C. Walter Loeber Landau, New York, N.Y. Kenneth A. Lazarus, Washington, D.C. Charles F. Leahy, Concord, N.H. Peter K. Leisure, New York, N.Y. Lance Liebman, New York, N.Y. William T. Lifland, New York, N.Y. Carl D. Liggio, Chicago, Ill. Hans A. Linde, Salem, Ore. Philip H. Magner, Jr., Buffalo, N.Y. Michael M. Maney, New York, N.Y. Paul J. Mason, Washington, D.C. William B. Matteson, New York, N.Y. James B. May, Vero Beach, Fla. James J. McClure, Jr., Chicago, Ill. James F. McHugh, III, Lincoln, Mass. J. Michael McWilliams, Baltimore, Md. Albert Mintz, New Orleans, La. Arthur W. Murphy, New York, N.Y. Phil C. Neal, Chicago, Ill. William D. Neighbors, Boulder, Colo. B. W. Nimkin, New York, N.Y. Arthur L. Nims, III, Washington, D.C. Albert G. Norman, Jr., Atlanta, Ga. Albert Clarence O’Neill, Jr., Tampa, Fla. Louis F. Oberdorfer, Washington, D.C. Alfred J. Olsen, Phoenix, Ariz. Eldon Olson, New York, N.Y. L. Ray Patterson, Athens, Ga. William R. Patterson, Atlanta, Ga. John S. Pennell, Chicago, Ill. John A. Perkins, Boston, Mass. Jerry J. Phillips, Knoxville, Tenn. Harvey L. Pitt, Washington, D.C. Richard A. Posner, Chicago, Ill. Eve M. Preminger, New York, N.Y. Bruce Rabb, New York, N.Y. A. Raymond Randolph, Washington, D.C. Curtis R. Reitz, Philadelphia, Pa. Charles B. Renfrew, San Francisco, Calif. William A. Reppy, Jr., Durham, N.C. David W. Robertson, Austin, Tex. Evans Rose, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Douglas E. Rosenthal, Washington, D.C. Howard M. Rossen, Cleveland, Ohio Ronald D. Rotunda, Champaign, Ill. Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Durham, N.C. David S. Ruder, Chicago, Ill. Edward C. Rustigan, Winnetka, Ill. Herman Schwartz, Washington, D.C. L. P. Scriggins, Baltimore, Md. Marshall S. Shapo, Evanston, Ill. Robert E. Shields, Southfield, Mich. Joel N. Simon, Washington, D.C. Gary Randall Smith, Atlanta, Ga. L. Vastine Stabler, Jr., Birmingham, Ala. Bruce M. Stargatt, Wilmington, Del. Robert A. Stein, Chicago, Ill. Richard Burleson Stewart, New York, N.Y. Kristine Strachan, Salt Lake City, Utah Harold R. Tyler, Jr., New York, N.Y. James A. Urdan, Milwaukee, Wis. Paul R. Verkuil, New York, N.Y. Walter J. Wadlington, Charlottesville, Va. John L. Warden, New York, N.Y. George Marvin Warren, Jr., Bristol, Va. Julian Webb, Donalsonville, Ga. Edward L. Weidenfeld, Washington, D.C. James B. White, Ann Arbor, Mich. James W. Wilson, Austin, Tex. Dom H. Wyant, Atlanta, Ga. William F. Young, Larchmont, N.Y.

Note: David S. Nelson of Boston, Mass., was included in the list of those approved as life members by the Council, but the Institute subsequently learned that he had previously died.

The life membership currently stands at 920.