New Deputy Director Selected
Following a nationwide search, ALI Director Lance Liebman has announced that Stephanie Middleton of Philadelphia will join the Institute’s staff as Deputy Director this spring. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ms. Middleton served until recently as staff director and general counsel for Senator Arlen Specter, Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary. For 20 years she held a number of top jobs, including chief counsel for litigation, at CIGNA Corporation, a global health-services firm headquartered in Philadelphia. She worked for more than two years as deputy general counsel for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. Ms. Middleton began her legal career as an associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia.
The ALI Executive Committee unanimously approved Director Liebman’s recommendation that Ms. Middleton be appointed. She will succeed current Deputy Director Elena A. Cappella, who announced her departure in September and who will be honored for almost two decades of service to the Institute at the Annual Meeting in May.
Agenda and Speakers Set for Annual Meeting
A diverse and fascinating slate of projects will reward members who attend the Institute’s 2010 Annual Meeting, to be held May 17-19 at The Mayflower in Washington, DC.
 The Annual Meeting’s tentative substantive agenda features something for almost everyone. Members will have the opportunity to cast their votes regarding what are expected to be the final segments of two monumental Restatements, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers) and Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, clearing the way for publication of new official texts. In the emerging Restatement of Employment Law, a new chapter on the employee duty of loyalty and restrictive covenants will be offered for approval. The global aspect of ALI's current work will not be neglected, as the Reporters for the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration will present their first-ever Tentative Draft, a chapter on recognition and enforcement of awards. Members will also be asked to consider proposed revisions to the UCC’s important Article 9 on secured transactions and serious questions raised in a Discussion Draft on the Sentencing portion of the Model Penal Code.
The Meeting will feature a stellar lineup of speakers, starting with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and ABA President Carolyn Lamm at the opening session on Monday, May 17. Longtime ALI Treasurer Bennett Boskey will speak at the lunch honoring new life members and 50-year members on Tuesday, May 18, while U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan will address the membership at the Annual Dinner on May 18. Finally, Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, will speak at lunch on Wednesday, May 19. Check the Annual Meeting page frequently for updated Meeting information, including information about hotel reservations. Make plans now to join your colleagues in Washington this May!
New Restatement of Torts Volume Is Published
 The long-awaited Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, Volume 1, comprising Chapters 1 through 6, is now available. Volume 1, the culmination of more than a decade of legal scholarship, covers the most basic topics of the law of torts: liability for intentional physical harm and for negligence causing physical harm, duty, strict liability, factual cause, and scope of liability (traditionally called proximate cause). The Reporters for this volume are Michael D. Green, of Wake Forest University School of Law, and William C. Powers, Jr., president of the University of Texas.
Volume 1 supersedes comparable provisions in the Restatement Second of Torts. It has drawn the attention of courts even before publication: e.g., the Iowa Supreme Court recently adopted sections of the new Restatement governing key principles of duty and causation (Thompson v. Kaczinski, 2009 WL 3786631). A second volume, dealing with affirmative duties, emotional harm, landowner liability, and liability of actors who retain independent contractors, will complete this work and is expected to be published in 2011. Order the Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, Volume 1 ($119 plus shipping and handling / hardbound / 686 pages / product code 1R3LPEHOT1).
Special offer for ALI members: Order by March 31 and get 20% off the list price of $119!
Order now online or by calling the ALI Customer Service Department at 800-253-6397. To receive the member discount when ordering online, you must log in during checkout using the email address on file in your ALI membership records. This offer is good only for new purchases of the Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, Volume 1, and is nontransferable.
Awards Committee Seeks Member Input
The ALI Awards Committee, a new standing committee charged with recommending to the ALI Council candidates for the Institute’s Henry J. Friendly Medal, John Minor Wisdom Award, and Distinguished Service Award, invites ALI members to suggest candidates for any of these three awards. Members who wish to propose a candidate are asked to submit a letter detailing the candidate’s law-related activities and qualifications for the award to the Committee’s attention by March 15. Letters may be mailed to The American Law Institute, Attn: Awards Committee, 4025 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, or emailed to awardnominations@ali.org. View award criteria and list of previous award recipients.
The Committee’s members are: Chair Mary M. Schroeder, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Phoenix, AZ; Conrad K. Harper, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY; D. Brock Hornby, U.S. District Court, District of Maine, Portland, ME; Herma Hill Kay, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA; Pierre N. Leval, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York, NY; Roberta Cooper Ramo, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, PA, Albuquerque, NM; and William H. Webster, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington, DC.
2009 Proceedings Available
The 2009 Proceedings, containing the complete transcript of the Institute’s 86th Annual Meeting, are now available. The 454-page volume (Order Code 1PROC09) may be obtained from the Institute’s Customer Service department at 800-253-6397 or it can be ordered online for $85 (ALI members) or $85 plus shipping and handling (nonmembers).
Included in the volume are discussions of seven projects—Model Penal Code: Sentencing; Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm; Restatement of the Law Third, Trusts; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; and Principles of the Law of Software Contracts—as well as discussion of the ALI Council’s recommendation that § 210.6 of the Model Penal Code, dealing with the death penalty, be withdrawn. The Proceedings for many previous years also remain available. |
