The ALI Reporter: Published by The American Law Institute

Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 4
Summer 2008

The President's Letter

Justice Ginsburg Discusses the Court’s “Most Watched” Cases; Other Annual Meeting Speakers Stress Themes of Liberty, Equality, Federalism, and Judicial Independence

Ad Hoc Review Committee Named for Capital Punishment Paper

Executive Committee Changes Draft-Distribution System for 2009 Annual Meeting

Bodie and Morriss Added as Reporters for Employment Law

Three ALI Projects Are Focus of Important Meetings in Europe

Reminder: Membership-Proposal Deadline Approaching

New International Publications Coming This Summer

What Happened in Washington

The 2008 Annual Meeting

Minute in Remembrance

Notes About Members and Colleagues

Special Contributions

57 Become Life Members

In Memoriam

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

Special Contributions

The Institute acknowledges with appreciation the following special contributions:

The American Law Institute

Arlin M. Adams, Philadelphia, PA

Dorothy Toth Beasley, Atlanta, GA

In memory of Judge Stephen Toth of New Jersey

Lorence L. Bravenec, College Station, TX

In honor of Hugh Calkins

George W. Coombe, Jr., San Francisco, CA

R. Terrence Ney, Fairfax, VA

In memory of Charles Alan Wright

Owen Olpin, Teasdale, UT

In honor of Michael Traynor’s Retirement

Marian P. Opala, Oklahoma City, OK

Charles J. Queenan, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA

James Malcolm Sibley, Atlanta, GA

Alicemarie H. Stotler, Santa Ana, CA

In memory of Charles Alan Wright

Guy Miller Struve, New York, NY

Ben F. Vaughan, III, Austin, TX

Erwin Nathaniel Griswold Fund to Facilitate
International Aspects of the Institute’s Work

Phillip I. Blumberg, Hartford, CT

Norris Darrell, Jr., New York, NY

John P. Davis, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA

Fred N. Fishman, New York, NY

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., San Francisco, CA

Contributions commemorating or honoring Institute members may be sent to the attention of Beth Goldstein at the offices of the Institute, 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA  19104-3099.