Plans Underway for 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco
The beautiful City by the Bay is the site of The American Law Institute's 88th Annual Meeting, taking place at the Westin St. Francis from Monday, May 16, through Wednesday, May 18. Projects on the Meeting's substantive agenda include:
- Model Penal Code: Sentencing
- Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations
- 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
There is no registration fee for the Annual Meeting. Online registration will open by late February; members for whom ALI has a working email address will receive an email notice at that time. Additional information about the agenda, special events, and speakers will be posted on the meeting website as it becomes available.
Struve, Traynor to Receive Honors at Annual Meeting
The ALI Council has designated Guy Miller Struve of New York City to receive the Institute's John Minor Wisdom Award, while ALI Council Chair and President Emeritus Michael Traynor of Berkeley, CA, has been chosen to receive ALI's Distinguished Service Award. Both awards will be presented when the Institute convenes for its Annual Meeting in San Francisco on May 16.
 The Wisdom Award, given from time to time, recognizes a member's outstanding contributions to the work of the Institute. ALI Reporters, officers, and Council members are not eligible for the Award. Mr. Struve, a partner in the litigation department at Davis Polk & Wardwell, has been an ALI member for 37 years. He serves as an Adviser for the Restatement Third, Torts: Economic Torts and Related Wrongs, and was also an Adviser for the ALI's project on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. He has been an active participant in more than a dozen Members Consultative Groups and rarely misses an Annual Meeting.
 The Distinguished Service Award is given from time to time to a member who over many years has played a major role in the Institute as an institution, accepting significant burdens as an officer or committee chair. Mr. Traynor, now senior counsel with Cobalt LLP, joined ALI in 1972 and became a member of its Council in 1985. He has served continuously and with dedication as an ALI officer since 1993, most significantly as President from 2000 to 2008. His three-year term as Chair of the Council will expire at the conclusion of the 2011 Annual Meeting. Mr. Traynor has also been involved in numerous ALI projects as an Adviser or on the Members Consultative Group.
Spring Meetings Offer Opportunities for Members to Get Involved in New Projects
The Advisers and Members Consultative Groups for two new ALI projects will meet for the first time next month. For Principles of Government Ethics, whose Reporter is Richard Briffault of Columbia University School of Law, the MCG will meet at the Hay-Adams in Washington, DC, on March 4, while the Advisers will meet there on March 5. The initial meeting of Advisers for Principles of the Law of Liability Insurance will take place at ALI Headquarters in Philadelphia on March 10; the MCG will meet in Philadelphia on March 11. Professor Tom Baker of the University of Pennsylvania Law School serves as Reporter for this project and Professor Kyle D. Logue of the University of Michigan Law School is the Associate Reporter.
All interested members are invited to join the Members Consultative Groups for these and other ALI projects.
ALI Cosponsors Symposium on New Restitution Restatement
The American Law Institute, the Frances Lewis Law Center, and the Washington and Lee Law Review are cosponsoring a conference, entitled Restitution Rollout: Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, on February 25 at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, VA. At the conference, Restitution Reporter Andrew Kull and ALI Director Lance Liebman will introduce the Restatement Third of Restitution, which was approved by the Institute in 2010 and will be published this spring. They will be joined by leading Restitution and Contracts scholars including Joe Perillo, Lionel Smith, Emily Sherwin, John McCamus, Peter Linzer, Caprice Roberts, Douglas Laycock, and Michael Traynor, among others. For more information visit the conference website.
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