THE ALI REPORTER
Fall 2006

The President's Letter

ALI Council Reviews Recommendations on Institute Governance, Approves Drafts for Annual Meeting

Council Member John Subak Honored with ALI’s Inaugural Distinguished Service Award

Jack B. Weinstein Receives ALI’s John Minor Wisdom Award

ALI and Georgetown Law Center Cosponsor Conference on Judicial Independence

Fair and Independent Courts: Scenes from the ALI-Georgetown Conference

Memorial Minute

Notes from the ALI Archives

ALI-ABA Goes Global, Offers Programs for Chinese Law Students

Notes About Members and Colleagues

In-Depth Article on Actions Taken at 2006 Annual Meeting Is Now on ALI Website

In Memoriam

Institute Elects 53 New Members

Seventh-Inning Stretch

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

In-Depth Article on Actions Taken at 2006 Annual Meeting Is Now on ALI Website

A detailed discussion of actions taken at the 2006 Annual Meeting has been posted on the ALI website (www.ali.org). Included are summaries of the actions taken on Tentative Draft No. 5 of Restatement Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), which was approved for final publication, and of the extensive deliberations on the five Discussion Drafts, on which, as planned, no votes were taken: Model Penal Code: Sentencing; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; Restatement Third, Employment Law; and Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.