Notes About Members and Colleagues
• Dr. George Paterson Barton, Q.C., of Wellington, New Zealand, recently celebrated six decades at the bar at a Government House dinner where former Minister of Justice Bill Jeffries described him as “the leader of the New Zealand bar.”
• ALI Treasurer and Council member Bennett Boskey of Washington, D.C., is the author of Some Joys of Lawyering: Selected Writings, 1946-2007 (Green Bag Press 2008).
• In June, ALI Council member Amelia H. Boss of Philadelphia, formerly a professor at Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law, became Trustee Professor at the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. Professor Boss is the chair-elect of the Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law of the Association of American Law Schools.
• Douglas M. Branson, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published his eleventh book, No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (NYU Press 2007). His casebook, Business Organizations: Legal Structures, Governance and Policy (with Joan M. Heminway, et al.), will be published this summer by Lexis Nexis.
• Lawrence J. Bugge of Madison, Wisconsin, a former president of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, also known as the Uniform Law Commission, was named the 2007 recipient of the Warren H. Stolper Award. The award recognizes excellence in teaching and a commitment to the University of Wisconsin Law School.
• In December, ALI Council member Roger C. Cramton, among others, was honored at a celebratory dinner in New York City of the New York State Bar Association for his four years of work as a Reporter for the now-completed revision of New York’s Rules of Conduct for Attorneys.
• Vincent Del Buono of Toronto, the founding president of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, was invested into the Order of the Federal Republic, a Nigerian national honor, for promoting justice-sector reform and human rights, especially for the poor in Nigeria.
• David M. English, a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law who was the Reporter for the Uniform Trust Code, and Robert Whitman of Hartford, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law who was the Reporter for the National Fiduciary Accounting Standards Project, are the authors of the second edition of the Fiduciary Accounting and Trust Administration Guide (ALI-ABA 2008). The softbound volume may be ordered at www.ali-aba.org/BK55/ or at 1-800-253-6397 ext. 1700.
• Barry H. Garfinkel of New York City last year received the Townsend Harris Medal for outstanding postgraduate achievement from the Alumni Association of the College of City of New York. He also was elected President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators.
• Mark I. Harrison of Phoenix, a former president of the Arizona State Bar, is the coauthor of “On the Validity and Vitality of Arizona’s Judicial Merit Selection System: Past, Present, and Future,” 34 Fordham Urb. L.J. 239 (2007), and the author of “The 2007 ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct: Blueprint for a Generation of Judges,” Vol. 28 Just. Sys. J. 257 (2007). He also completed a term as Chair of the ABA Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, which produced a new model code that was adopted by the ABA House of Delegates at its Mid-Year Meeting in 2007.
• Kevin R. Johnson, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of public-interest law and Chicana/o studies at the University of California at Davis School of Law, has been confirmed as dean of the law school by the UC Board of Regents. The first Latino to lead a law school in the University of California system, he assumed his new responsibilities on July 1, replacing Rex R. Perschbacher, who had led the school since 1998 and will return to the faculty.
• Judith S. Kaye of New York City, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, has been selected to receive the Fifth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. The award was created by the American Judicature Society to honor a sitting state judge of a trial or appellate court who has had a career of distinguished judicial service.
• Andrew Kull, a professor at Boston University School of Law and the Reporter for Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, has received a Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence from the university.
• Stewart G. Pollock of Morristown, a former New Jersey Supreme Court justice, and William A. Dreier of Bridgewater, a former New Jersey appellate-court judge, have received the Medal of Honor, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s highest award, for their longtime commitment to New Jersey’s justice system.
• Anthony J. Scirica of Philadelphia, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was named chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, effective May 1, by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Deanell Reece Tacha of Lawrence, Kansas, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, has been selected to receive the 26th Annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award, the federal judiciary’s highest award. The award, to be presented at a ceremony this fall, honors Article III judges whose careers have been exemplary, measured by their contributions to the administration of justice, the advancement of the rule of law, and the improvement of society.
• Samuel A. Thumma of Phoenix, a Superior Court judge in Maricopa County, has received the Leadership Award of the American Red Cross, its highest honor. The award recognizes distinguished volunteer service performed at the local or regional level, for several years, with or on behalf of the American Red Cross.
• ALI Council member Patricia M. Wald of Washington, D.C., who was the former chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and who represented the United States on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, will receive the American Bar Association Medal for 2008, the ABA’s highest honor. The award, to be presented to Judge Wald on August 12 at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in New York City, is given only in years in which a single individual has “rendered exceptionally distinguished service to the cause of American jurisprudence.”
• Elizabeth Dean Whitaker of Dallas, a past president of the State Bar of Texas, has been named chair of the Judicial Compensation Commission, which was created by the Texas Legislature in 2007 to regulate the salaries of state judges.
• Bernard Wolfman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, is president of the Federal Tax Institute of New England, the nation’s oldest CLE organization. He was also the Twelfth Annual Erwin N. Griswold Distinguished Lecturer at the American College of Tax Counsel.