The American Law Institute Elects Eight New Council Members
PHILADELPHIA—The American Law Institute has elected eight new members to its Council, a group of prominent judges, lawyers, and legal scholars who serve as the governing body of the ALI. Also, the election of a new treasurer was announced, and one member of Council took emeritus status.
"The American Law Institute was founded by the major figures of the bench, bar and legal scholars in 1923. Each of these new members of our Council bring their distinguished reputations and their great skills to our Council and our work. We are all also appreciative that we will retain the scholarship and knowledge of the ALI that our former Director Lance Liebman brings to our discussions," ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo said.
The new members, who join 57 others on the Council, are:
SCOTT BALES
Scott Bales is a Vice Chief Justice on the five-member Arizona Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2005 by Governor Janet Napolitano and was retained for a six-year term in 2008. He was elected by his peers as chief justice of the court, replacing Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch effective July 1, 2014.
EVAN R. CHESLER
Evan R. Chesler is the Chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He served as the Presiding Partner at Cravath for many years and became the first ever Chair of the firm in 2013. He is the President of the Dwight Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration and an adjunct professor of law at NYU Law School. In his practice, he handles a wide variety of litigation, including securities, shareholder derivative, intellectual property, general commercial, environmental, ERISA, contractual disputes, and antitrust.
MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is the Director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, as well as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching focus is on administrative law and governance, public organizations, and transnational security. He has been a member of Stanford's faculty since 2001 and has served as Co-Director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
ELIZABETH GARRETT
Elizabeth Garrett is the University of Southern California's Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, as well as Professor of Political Science, Finance and Business Economics, and Public Policy. She was also appointed Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs in October 2010. She specializes in the legislative process, direct democracy, the federal budget process, the study of democratic institutions, statutory interpretation, and tax policy.
TERESA WILTON HARMON
Teresa Harmon is a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin, working in the Global Finance Group. Her practice is centered on financial transactions and commercial law, with a particular emphasis on financial transactions involving regulated industries, student loan companies, and electric utilities. Her commercial law practice includes all articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, with a special emphasis on Article 9.
LANCE LIEBMAN
Lance Liebman served as the Director of the American Law Institute from 1999 to May 2014. He is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. Before joining Columbia in 1991 as Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Professor Liebman was on the faculty of Harvard Law School for 21 years, becoming a full professor in 1976 and serving as Associate Dean from 1981 to 1984.
RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR.
Raymond Lohier, Jr., is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in March 2010 and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2010. Prior to that, Judge Lohier was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Attorney, Deputy Chief and Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, and Deputy Chief and Chief of the Narcotics Unit.
SETH P. WAXMAN
Seth Waxman is a partner at WilmerHale and Chair of the firm's Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation group. He served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 through January 2001. After law school, he clerked for Judge Gerhard A. Gesell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
New Treasurer Takes Office
At its May meeting in Washington, DC, the ALI Council elected Wallace B. Jefferson, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, to serve as the Institute's Treasurer. In October 2013, he joined Alexander Dubose Jefferson Townsend as a name partner. He had served on the Supreme Court of Texas since 2001 and as its chief since 2004.
Emeritus Council
ALI Council members are eligible to serve up to three five-year terms, and transition rules govern those who were on the Council in May 2007 when the term limits became effective. Taking emeritus status this year is: Christine Durham, a Justice on the Utah Supreme Court since 1982 who served as Chief Justice from 2002 to 2012. Prior to her service on the Supreme Court, she had served as a Trial Judge for four years, one of them as presiding judge of the Third Judicial District Court. Justice Durham was elected to the ALI in February 1984 and was elected to the Council in 1989.
