THE ALI REPORTER
Fall 2002

The President’s Letter

Council Approves Article 2 Amendments

Council Member John P. Frank, 84, Is Dead

Anthony Lewis and Linda Greenhouse Become First Nonlawyers to Receive Institute’s Henry Friendly Medal

Correction

Actions Taken with Respect to Drafts Submitted at 2002 Annual Meeting

Reporters for World Trade Law Meet in Philadelphia

Membership Notes

Institute Adds 39 Elected Members

Special Contributions

In Memoriam

Institute’s Guidelines for Court-to-Court Communications Gain International Approval

2002 Campaign Report

Future ALI Annual Meeting Dates

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

News Alert

Membership Notes

• Edward R. Becker, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a member of the ALI-ABA Committee, in September received the 20th annual Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. The award honors an Article III judge of national stature whose career has been exemplary and who has made significant contributions to the administration of justice, the advancement of the rule of law, and the improvement of society as a whole.

• Emmet J. Bondurant, II, of Atlanta has been elected to a four-year term as Trustee of the American Inns of Court Foundation.

• Ernest Calderón of Phoenix has become the first person of Hispanic descent to be elected President of the State Bar of Arizona.

• C. Wilson DuBose of Madison, Georgia, has received three awards: (1) the Charles Watkins Award from the Atlanta Bar Association, which is bestowed annually for "sustained and distinguished service" to the association; (2) the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Indigent Defense Award, which was given for his bringing "the State Bar (of Georgia) Indigent Defense Committee to consensus on indigent defense principles" and successfully convincing the State Bar "to take a proactive stance for quality indigent defense"; and (3) the Georgia Indigent Defense Council’s Commitment to Excellence Award, presented in recognition of his role in helping to lead efforts to reform Georgia’s indigent-defense system.

• Associate Dean J. Clifton Fleming, Jr., of the Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, has been the James J. Freeland Eminent Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, during the fall 2002 semester.

• Michael G. Goldstein, co-author of the ABA Life Insurance Counselor book, Taxation and Funding of Nonqualified Deferred Compensation: A Complete Guide to Design and Implementation, has been named Senior Vice-President and General Counsel of Benefits Group WorldWide, Inc., a Los Angeles based international organization providing executive compensation planning, funding, and administration services.

• Professor Donald B. King of Saint Louis University School of Law gave one of the opening addresses for the meeting of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law held at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany, in August. His topic was, "Does an Unknown World Government Exist: Role of Commercial and Consumer Law."

• John B. Lewis of Cleveland has co-authored an article entitled, "Opinion and Rhetorical Hyperbole in Workplace Defamation Actions: The Continuing Quest for Meaningful Standards" (52 DePaul Law Review 19 (Fall 2002)).

• E. Nobles Lowe of Carmel, New York, received the American Arbitration Association’s Whitney North Seymour Medal, in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the responsible use of arbitration."

• Houston Putnam Lowry of Meriden, Connecticut, has been elected a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators in London.

• Edward W. Madeira, Jr., of Philadelphia has been appointed Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary by ABA President Alfred P. Carlton, Jr. The Commission is charged with identifying methods to diffuse the increasingly partisan efforts to control state court judiciaries.

• Judge Linda M. McGee of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has been appointed to the ABA’s Standing Committee on Public Education.

• Pat E. Morgenstern-Clarren, Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio, has been named President of the Executive Committee for 2002-2003 of the William K. Thomas Inn of Court, a Cleveland chapter of the American Inns of Court.

• John H. Morrison of Evanston, Illinois, was elected an honorary life member of the International Bar Association at its biennial conference in Durban, South Africa, in October. He chairs the IBA committee that works with leaders of the organized bar worldwide, particularly in developing countries.

• Wm. T. Robinson III, of Covington, Kentucky, has been appointed Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the ABA.

• Council member William H. Webster in August received the ABA Medal for 2002 in recognition of his outstanding and distinguished leadership in all areas of the legal profession, the administration of justice, government service, and the rule of law. The Medal, which is the highest award given by the Association, was presented at a special ceremony held during the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

• Jane Kaufman Winn, who previously taught at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, has become the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology Professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle.