THE ALI REPORTER
Summer 2003

The President’s Letter

Institute Approves UCC Drafts

Three Newly Elected to Council; Officers Reelected

Robinson Deplores U.S. Absence from International Criminal Court; Wood, Trooboff, Abrahamson, and Carlton Also Speak at Annual Meeting

From the Archives

Membership Notes

84 Become Life Members

Institute Adds 44 Elected Members

Special Contributions

In Memoriam

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

Membership Notes

  • Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Joanne M. Garvey of the San Francisco bar, and Dean Colleen A. Khoury of the University of Maine School of Law have all been chosen by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession to receive Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards for 2003.
  • Robert L. Haig of the New York City Bar has been elected President of The New York Bar Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic arm of the New York State Bar Association.
  • Senior District Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has been selected as the 2003 recipient of the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit.
  • Jerold I. Horn of Peoria, Illinois, has just published a major new work for ALI-ABA, Flexible Trusts and Estates for Uncertain Times.
  • Wayne S. Hyatt of the Atlanta bar has published the 2003 supplement to the third edition of his bestselling ALI-ABA book, Condominium and Homeowner Association Practice: Community Association Law.
  • Professor Peter B Kutner of the University of Oklahoma has received a second Fulbright Award in Japan. During the 2003-2004 academic year he will be in Tokyo, teaching at Waseda University and Japan Women’s University.
  • William Parker Lightfoot of the District of Columbia bar is the 2003 recipient of the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award of the Trial Lawyers Association of Washington, D.C.
  • Professor Myles V. Lynk, who is the Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession at the Arizona State University College of Law and is a member of the Institute’s Council, has received an Award of Appreciation from the State Bar of Arizona for his service as Co-Chair of the State Bar’s Task Force on Multijurisdictional Practice.
  • Another Council member, Robert MacCrate of the New York City bar, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and delivered the commencement address this year at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
  • Professor Jonathan Rose of the Arizona State University College of Law has been invested with the title of Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at Arizona State. Professor Rose delivered his investiture lecture on “Judges, Lawyers and Litigation in 15th Century England: Exploring the Professional Norms and Legal Issues in John Fastolf’s Litigation and Will.”
  • Former United States Attorney General and Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh and his wife Ginny, who recently received the Henry B. Betts Award from the American Association of People with Disabilities, have donated the $50,000 Betts Award funds to the University of Pittsburgh to establish The Thornburgh Family Lecture Series in Disability Law and Policy through the University’s School of Law and School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, in conjunction with the Dick Thornburgh Archival Collection in the University of Pittsburgh Library System.