Ticketed Events
The following are special events taking place at the Annual Meeting. Advance registration is strongly recommended for each event, as limited space is available.
Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will join Judge Allison H. Eid of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Judge Joan L. Larsen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Justice Goodwin Liu of the Supreme Court of California to discuss topics from his book, 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law. ALI President David F. Levi will moderate the discussion.
In his book, Judge Sutton argues that American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state courts and state constitutions, together with the federal courts and the federal constitution, in protecting individual liberties. The book explores this theme by telling four stories about four constitutional debates that confirm the complex interaction between the states and federal government in protecting individual rights.
This program is free to attend, but registration is required.
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar began serving on the Supreme Court of California in January 2015. He was nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, confirmed unanimously by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, and retained by the voters for a full term in November 2014. His previous career was in public service, university administration, and legal academia, with a focus on administrative, criminal, and international law.
A full-time member of the Stanford University faculty from 2001 to 2015, Justice Cuéllar was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science. His books, articles, and chapters focus on administrative agencies, criminal justice, executive power, and legislation, among other subjects, and he is co-author of one of the nation’s leading administrative law casebooks. From 2004 to 2015, he held leadership positions at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. As Institute Director, he supervised 12 research centers and programs, including the Stanford Center at Peking University. He led university-wide initiatives on global poverty alleviation and cybersecurity, and earlier, co-directed the Institute’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Justice Cuéllar also served in the federal executive branch. In 2009 and 2010, while on leave from Stanford, he worked at the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy. He negotiated provisions in food safety, tobacco, and crack-powder cocaine sentencing reform legislation; convened the White House’s food safety working group and coordinated its response to the BP oil spill; set up the President’s Equal Pay Task Force; worked on the bipartisan repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell policy; and led efforts to support community-based crime prevention and immigrant integration. He was a presidential appointee, between 2010 and 2015, to the governing council of the U.S. Administrative Conference, an agency designed to improve fairness and efficiency in federal administrative procedures. He co-chaired the U.S. Department of Education’s National Equity and Excellence Commission from 2011 to 2013. Before that, in 2008 and early 2009, he co-chaired the presidential transition team on immigration, borders, and refugees.
Justice Cuéllar is on the boards of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The American Law Institute, and the American Bar Foundation, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Within the California Judiciary, he leads the Language Access Implementation Task Force. He was the Barbara Herrell Bond Distinguished Lecturer at Oxford University in 2012, and earlier was a member of the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security and Technology.
Justice Cuéllar serves as an Adviser for the ALI projects on Principles of Law: Policing, and Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus: Procedural Frameworks and Analysis; and on the Members Consultative Groups for the Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Principles of Government Ethics, and Model Penal Code: Sentencing.
A naturalized U.S. citizen born in northern Mexico, he graduated from Calexico High School in California’s Imperial Valley. He received a B.A. from Harvard, magna cum laude, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. After law school, he began his career at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Enforcement working on disrupting financial and cross-border crime, and clerked for Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is married to Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They have two children.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming embedded in American life, and its presence and impact are growing at an increasing rate as technology develops. Along with AI’s myriad opportunities come legal challenges associated with harnessing the power of these technological tools. Thoughtful development of new and existing legal frameworks is needed to ensure that AI fulfills its potential for improving human life.
This panel will address some of these exciting and difficult legal issues. The discussion will be moderated by Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who has written and taught about the legal challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence. Joining Justice Cuéllar as panelists will be Kristin Johnson, the McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, a leading scholar of financial risk management and corporate law who has studied the role of emerging technology in financial markets; Cary Coglianese, the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he directs the Penn Program on Regulation; and Tom Lue, General Counsel at DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research firm that is part of the Alphabet group of companies.
This program is free to attend, but registration is required.
Government lawyers are bound by the same rules of professional conduct as other lawyers. However, their unique role raises issues not normally encountered in the private sector. For example, traditional model rules of conduct state that a lawyer must zealously represent the client, but the obligations of a government lawyer lead to the question, “Who is the client?”
This panel will discuss some common ethical issues confronted in the public sector, including:
- Who is the client? Does the government lawyer represent an office, public official, or the public-at-large? Does the identity of the client shift depending on the matter that confronts the government lawyer?
- What can and should a government lawyer do when client interests diverge from the public interest?
- How does the disparity in resources among federal, state, and local government offices shape a government lawyer’s decision-making?
- What concrete actions should government lawyers take if they find themselves in a potentially unethical or unlawful situation?
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.0 ethics; total 50-minute hours, 2.4 ethics.
Tuition for this program is $150 for ALI members and ALI project Advisers, $195 for all others. To register, use the ALI Annual Meeting registration form (online or in print). Registrations will be accepted at the door if space permits.
Planning Chair: Troy A. McKenzie, New York University School of Law
Panelists:
John B. Bellinger, III, Arnold & Porter
Meredith Fuchs, Capital One
Derek P. Langhauser, Office of the Governor, Maine
Thomas D. Morgan, The George Washington University Law School
Richard W. Painter, University of Minnesota Law School
This year's reception will take place at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. We encourage all attendees to arrive early in order to tour the museum's exhibitions.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans.
Buses will depart The Ritz-Carlton at 6:00 p.m. and drop off attendees at the 14th & Madison Street entrance. Distance to the reception at the African American Museum is 2.2 miles (approximately 20-30 minute drive; 30 minute walk).
Tickets are $75 per person.
Lee H. Rosenthal was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in 1992. She has been Chief Judge since 2016. Prior to her appointment, she was a partner at Baker Botts in Houston, Texas, where she tried civil cases and handled appeals in the state and federal courts. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and served as law clerk to Chief Judge John R. Brown, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
In 1996, Judge Rosenthal was appointed to serve as a member of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and appointed chair in 2003. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. She served as president of the District Judges’ Association of the Fifth Circuit. She is the 2012 recipient of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award for Professionalism and Ethics given by the American Inns of Court and is a 3-time recipient of the Trial Judge of the Year Award from the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists. In 2014, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Judge Rosenthal is the 2nd Vice President of The American Law Institute, where she also serves as an Adviser on the project to revise the Model Penal Code sections on sexual assault and on the Conflict of Laws Restatement. In 2007, she was elected to the ALI Council and from 2011 to 2016 was Chair of the Program Committee.
Judge Rosenthal teaches, writes, and speaks frequently, primarily in the areas of federal courts, complex litigation, discovery, and case management.
All members and guests are welcome to attend this event.
Speaker: Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ALI Council member, and Life Member from the Class of 1994
Speech title: Aspiration, Ambition, and my 25 years with the ALI
The 1994 and 1969 Class Gifts will be presented to the Institute by class representatives.
Tickets are $65 per person.
Speaker: William P. Barr, 85th Attorney General of the United States
All members and guests are welcome to attend this event. A cocktail reception will begin at 7:00 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:45 p.m. This event is business attire or semi-formal (black tie optional) with reserved seating.
Tickets are $125 per person.
Alberto Ibargüen is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The foundation promotes informed and engaged communities. Its work focuses on journalism and media innovation, arts and the use of technology to promote transformational community engagement.
He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in Spanish language journalism.
He graduated from Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela and Colombia, practiced law in Hartford, Connecticut and joined the Hartford Courant, then Newsday in New York, before moving to Miami.
Over time, Alberto has chaired the boards of PBS, the Newseum and the World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is a member of MIT’s Visiting Committee for the Media Lab and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. For his work to protect journalists in Latin America, he received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University. He holds honorary degrees from several schools, including Wesleyan and George Washington universities.
He is currently a member of the board of American Airlines and previously served on the boards of PepsiCo, AOL and Norwegian Cruise Lines.
All members and guests are welcome to attend this event.
Our Wednesday lunch speaker is Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in Spanish language journalism. His speech title is Trust, Media, and Democracy.
Tickets are $65 per person.