The 75th Annual Meeting of The American Law Institute will be held
in Washington, District of Columbia, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, May 11, 12, 13, and 14, 1998.
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RULES OF THE COUNCIL PERTAINING TO ANNUAL MEETINGS
9.03 Annual Meetings
A. The President, in consultation with the Director and Reporters, sets the agenda for the annual meeting. The agenda should be communicated to the membership. The President may set time limits for each general subject, each issue, and each speaker, either in the agenda or before the session commences. Members may presubmit, in writing, any motions they intend to make as well as comments on all issues they wish to raise, especially with respect to items not scheduled for plenary consideration.
B. During plenary deliberations, members should not make stylistic suggestions from the floor. Such suggestions should be made in writing, before or after a session. A maker of a main motion may speak for not more than five minutes and the Reporters may respond for not more than five minutes. All other members who are recognized to speak from the floor may speak for not more than three minutes. The Reporters and the maker of a main motion may each speak for one minute in closing. Notwithstanding the time limits specified in this rule, the presiding officer may allow more or less time than the rule otherwise provides.
9.04 Members' Obligation to Exercise Independent Judgment
To maintain the Institute's reputation for thoughtful, disinterested analysis of legal issues, members are expected to leave client interests at the door. Members should speak and vote on the basis of their personal and professional convictions and experience without regard to client interests or self-interest. It is improper under Institute principles for a member to represent a client in Institute proceedings. If, in the consideration of Institute work, a member's statements can be properly assessed only if the client interests of the member or the member's firm are known, the member should make appropriate disclosure, but need not identify clients.
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HEADQUARTERS
The Mayflower (1127 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036) will be the headquarters for the Meeting. Telephone number: (202) 347-3000, ALI Registration desk: extension 2955 (during registration hours listed below); fax number for guests: (202) 776-9182. Faxes sent during registration hours listed below may be sent c/o ALI Registration Desk.
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REGISTRATION
The Cabinet Room, Lobby Level, will be open for registration of members and guests on Sunday, May 10, 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; on Monday, May 11, Tuesday, May 12, and Wednesday, May 13, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and on Thursday, May 14, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Members and guests are requested to register upon their arrival and to wear their name badges at the general sessions. The only official record of attendance is the registration list. Please note that there is no registration fee for attendance at the Meeting.
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HOSPITALITY
Coffee, tea, and soft drinks will be served in the Cabinet Room, Lobby Level, during registration hours.
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OPENING SESSION
President Charles Alan Wright will call the 75th Annual Meeting of The American Law Institute to order at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, May 11, 1998, in the Grand Ballroom, Lobby Level. The opening session will include remarks by Jerome J. Shestack, President of the American Bar Association.
Partner and head of the Litigation Department of the Philadelphia law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Mr. Shestack is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and of Harvard Law School. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk with the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and taught at both Northwestern University Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Prior to becoming President in August of 1997, Mr. Shestack held numerous leadership positions in the ABA. He was a member of its Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, served on its Board of Governors, and chaired its Program and Planning Committee. He was also a founding member and Chair of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Chair of the Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, Chair of the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, and a founder of the ABA's Pro Bono Center. He initiated the first ABA committee to support the federal legal services program and helped to start the Legal Services Corporation.
Under President Carter, Mr. Shestack was the United States Ambassador for Human Rights to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. During the Bush Administration, he served on the Presidential-Congressional Commission to Improve the Effectiveness of the United Nations. Mr. Shestack also served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, has chaired the International League for Human Rights since 1981, and is on the board of the International Commission of Jurists. He has written some 40 articles for law reviews and law journals and about 100 op-ed articles. A life member of The American Law Institute, he also is presently serving as Chair of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education.
REMARKS OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
The Chief Justice of the United States, the Honorable William H. Rehnquist, will address the Institute at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, May 11, in the Grand Ballroom, Lobby Level.
A graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School and a former law clerk to Justice Robert H. Jackson of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Rehnquist practiced law in Phoenix from 1953 to 1969, when he became a United States Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. In 1973 he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon, and in 1986 he was chosen by President Reagan to succeed Warren E. Burger as Chief Justice. He is the author of The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is (1987) and Grand Inquests: The Historical Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson (1992). Chief Justice Rehnquist will be addressing an ALI Annual Meeting for the sixth time, having previously done so in 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1996.
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TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
The Meeting will consider, in the following order, Drafts on: Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers; Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers); Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Servitudes); Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Apportionment of Liability; Uniform Commercial Code, Revised Article 9 (Secured Transactions; Sales of Accounts and Chattel Paper); the Transnational Insolvency Project (Mexican Statement); Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations; the Federal Judicial Code Revision Project; and Uniform Commercial Code, Article 2B (Licenses).
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ADVANCE SUBMISSION OF MOTIONS
Presubmitted motions will ordinarily be given priority at the Meeting over motions submitted from the floor. A member who contemplates proposing an advance amendment to a draft should send the exact text, together with supporting comment, to the Institute's Philadelphia office, to arrive there no later than Tuesday, May 5.
Motions submitted electronically by May 5 will be posted before the Meeting on the Institute's Web site (http://www.ali.org). Text should be transmitted to the Institute's Director of Administrative Services, Joseph A. Mendicino, Jr., either by an e-mail file transfer to JMendicino@ali-aba.org or on an MS Word or WordPerfect disk sent to 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3099.
Submission by Tuesday, May 5, will also assure availability of printed copies at registration to all who attend the Meeting. The Institute's fax number, if needed, is 215-243-1664.
Members who submit written motions after May 5, including at the Meeting itself, are requested to supply copies for distribution in the registration area and meeting room.
AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCE MOTIONS
Motions received in electronic form at the Institute's headquarters on or before May 5 will be available on the ALI Web site (http://www.ali.org) soon after receipt.
Printed copies of presubmitted motions will be available in the registration area at the Meeting.
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MCLE CREDIT
Some states will give mandatory continuing legal education credit for attendance at the Annual Meeting of the Institute. Further information will be available at the registration desk.
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SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
Monday Membership Luncheon and Colloquium
A luncheon and colloquium for the particular benefit of new members, involving an informal discussion with officers of the Institute, will be held on Monday, May 11, in the State Room, Lobby Level, at 12:45 p.m. The colloquium is designed for recently elected members, but all members are welcome to attend. Tickets for the luncheon are $25.
Reception Sponsored by the American Judicature Society
The annual reception for members and guests of The American Law Institute sponsored by the American Judicature Society will be held in the State Room, Lobby Level, on Monday, May 11, from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are not required for this event.
Tour and Luncheon for Spouses and Guests
A special tour of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, followed by a luncheon at The Congressional Club, has been arranged for spouses and guests of members on Tuesday, May 12.
The National Portrait Gallery was established by an act of Congress in 1962 for the display and study of portraits of men and women who contributed substantially to the political, intellectual, social, and cultural history of the United States of America, and for the study of the art of portraiture. The Permanent Collection includes likenesses of heroes and villains, thinkers and doers, conservatives and radicals, gathered together by historical theme and period. Special exhibitions available at the time of the Annual Meeting will include George C. Marshall: "A Soldier of Peace," commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan; "Faces of Time," marking the 75th anniversary of Time magazine; and "Celebrity Caricatures of America."
Luncheon for the group will be held at The Congressional Club, established in 1908 as the official organization of Congressional wives. Now included in the membership as well are female members of Congress and wives of Supreme Court Justices and Cabinet members. The group will be able to visit the First Ladies' Museum Room, which contains copies of inaugural gowns worn by each First Lady beginning with Mrs. Lincoln; the Reception Room, which includes autographed pictures of each First Lady beginning with Mrs. Harding; and the International Doll Museum Room, which houses dolls contributed by the wives of Ambassadors to the United States from over 60 countries.
Those participating in the tour are requested to assemble at 9:00 a.m. in the Cabinet Room, Lobby Level, of The Mayflower. The bus will depart at 9:30 a.m. from the 17th Street exit of the hotel and will return at approximately 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $60 and include round-trip transportation, the National Portrait Gallery tour, and the luncheon.
Please Note: Spaces for the tour and luncheon are limited and early reservations are recommended.
Tuesday Luncheon Honoring New Life Members, 50-Year Members, and Recently Elected Members
A luncheon on Tuesday, May 12, at 12:45 p.m. in the East and State Rooms, Lobby Level, will honor new life members, 50-year members, and members who were elected within the last five years; all members are welcome to attend. Tickets for the luncheon are $25. The speaker will be Judge Dorothy Toth Beasley of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Judge Beasley will represent the Institute's membership class of 1973, which attains life membership at the 1998 Annual Meeting.
A native of New Jersey, Judge Beasley is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and of American University's Washington College of Law, and she also holds a Master of Laws in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia. Following two years as a law clerk to the Virginia Circuit Court and periods of private practice in both Arlington, Virginia, and Atlanta, she was appointed an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia in 1969. After four years in that position, she joined the Justice Department as Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division. She was elected to the Georgia State Court for Fulton County in 1977 and in 1984 was elevated to a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. In 1996 she completed a two-year term as Chief Judge of that court.
Active in numerous legal and community organizations, Judge Beasley has served on the board of directors of the National Center for State Courts, as a member of the Judicial Article Subcommittee for the 1983 Constitution of Georgia, and as a Charter Member of the Georgia Bar Foundation and a Charter Trustee of the Georgia History Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was a director of the American Judicature Society. She is a co-founder of Atlanta's Table, an organization that collects commercially prepared and unserved food to distribute to the poor and homeless throughout the city. A member in the early 1980's of the Institute's Special Committee on Membership Participation, Judge Beasley was instrumental in the establishment and continuation of the annual American Law Institute-Georgia State Bar Breakfasts. At these gatherings, now in their 16th year, members of the Georgia Bar's Committee on Judicial Procedure and Administration are given the opportunity to confer and advise with members of the Institute and familiarize themselves with the Institute's work.
Officers' Reception and Buffet Supper
Members and guests are invited to attend a reception on Tuesday, May 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the National Building Museum (The Pension Building), 401 F Street, N.W. A buffet supper will be served. Buses will depart from the DeSales Street exit of The Mayflower between 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. and return from the Museum between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. The cost per person is $65.
Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum is dedicated to exploring the art of American building. Since its founding in 1985, the Museum has become a focal point for anyone wishing to learn about the connection between the way Americans build and the way they live.
The Museum occupies the Pension Building, one of Washington's most spectacular structures, designed in 1881 by civil engineer and U.S. Army General Montgomery C. Meigs and completed in 1887. The Building, which originally housed the Pension Bureau and was later occupied by many government agencies, is widely recognized as a marvel of engineering. An ingenious system of windows, vents, and open archways allows its Great Hall to function as a reservoir of light and air. The impressive Italian Renaissance design, with its central fountain and eight colossal Corinthian columns -- among the tallest interior columns in the world -- has also made the Great Hall a sought-after setting for gala events, including President Grover Cleveland's Inaugural Ball in 1885 and 13 subsequent Inaugural Balls. It was previously the site of an Institute Reception in 1987.
Wednesday Membership Luncheon and Special 75th Anniversary Program
A luncheon for members and guests will be held in the East and State Rooms, Lobby Level, on Wednesday, May 13, at 12:30 p.m. Tickets for the luncheon are $25. The luncheon will be followed at 1:15 p.m. by the first of two special programs celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Institute. All members and guests are welcome to attend this special program without charge. Those not partaking of the luncheon are requested to take their seats between 1:00 and 1:10 p.m.
Wednesday's program will reflect on the Institute's past and will feature presentations by Harry N. Scheiber, Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at the University of California Law School (Boalt Hall), and by Hugh Calkins of Cleveland, a member of the Institute's Council. Professor Scheiber will review significant developments in the nation's history during the past 75 years, which Mr. Calkins will then relate to the Institute's activities during that period.
Born in New York City, Professor Scheiber is a graduate of Columbia University and received a doctorate in history from Cornell University. He began his academic career as a professor of history, first at Dartmouth College and subsequently at the University of California at San Diego. While a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in the late sixties, Professor Scheiber did postdoctoral work in law, and in 1980 he joined the faculty of Boalt Hall. He has served at Boalt Hall as Chairman of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, the School's doctoral program, and currently is Associate Dean. A distinguished legal historian and authority on American federalism and constitutional law, he is the author of The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties (1961) and Ohio Canal Era (1969, 2d ed. 1987).
Professor Scheiber is co-author of American Economic History (1976), American Law and the Constitutional Order (1978, expanded 1987), Essays in the History of Liberty (1988), Legal Culture and the Legal Profession (1997), and The State and Freedom of Contract (now in press). Since 1960 he has also contributed more than 100 articles to law reviews and social science journals. He is editor of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook and serves as vice-president of the Society.
Professor Scheiber has held Guggenheim, Rockefeller, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Social Science Research Council fellowships. He was a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer in Australia, and he has been President of the Agricultural History Society, the Council for Research in Economic History, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire. In 1994-1995 he served as Chair of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate. In May of 1998 he will receive an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
A native of Newton, Massachusetts, Mr. Calkins is a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Law Review. A former law clerk to both Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Felix Frankfurter of the United States Supreme Court, he was a partner for 38 years in the Cleveland office of the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, and he chaired the American Bar Association's Section on Taxation in 1985-1986. Mr. Calkins served as Deputy Staff Director of President Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals in 1960 and was later appointed Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education by President Johnson. He has been a member of the ALI Council since 1975 and has served on both the Institute's Executive Committee and the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education.
After his retirement from law practice in 1990, Mr. Calkins continued his longstanding interest in education by obtaining a teaching certificate and teaching sixth grade classes in the Cleveland public schools. He presently manages a foundation that takes initiatives designed to improve the education of children from birth through the age of 18.
Annual Dinner and Reception
The Annual Dinner will be held in the Grand Ballroom, Lobby Level, on Wednesday, May 13, at 8:00 p.m. The dinner will be preceded by a reception at 7:00 p.m. in the East and State Rooms, Lobby Level. The total cost for the evening is $85. Dress is black tie. Detailed information about reservations and seating arrangements for the dinner appears in the leaflet accompanying this Program.
This year's Annual Dinner speaker will be Council member, legal educator, and Stanford University President Gerhard Casper. A native of Hamburg, Germany, President Casper received both a law degree and a doctorate from the University of Freiburg, where he wrote a dissertation on the realist movement in American Law; he also holds a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School. After two years as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, where he wrote and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law and history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. He served as Dean of the Law School from 1979 to 1987, and was Provost of the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1992, when he was named President of Stanford.
President Casper is author of Realism and Political Theory in American Political Thought (1967) and co-author (with Richard A. Posner) of The Workload of the Supreme Court (1976). His most recent book is Separating Powers: Essays on the Founding Period (1996). He was co-editor of The Supreme Court Review from 1977 to 1991, and between 1985 and 1993 he served on the permanent commission that oversees the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and the Council on Foreign Relations, he has also served for eight years on the board of directors of the American Bar Foundation. Elected to the ALI Council in 1980, President Casper chaired the Special Committee on Institute Procedures from 1982 to 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society in 1996.
Meeting on International Jurisdiction and Judgments
Director Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., will preside at an informal briefing and discussion for interested members and guests on the proposed General Convention on International Jurisdiction and the Effects of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. The meeting will be held on Thursday, May 14, from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. in the State Room, Lobby Level.
The proposed General Convention is currently on the agenda of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and under study by a Special Commission. This international convention would have a potential impact on federal and state law relating to bases of personal jurisdiction, as well as on the grounds and procedures for recognition and enforcement of foreign country judgments. The Hague Conference negotiations are in their early stages, and the questions and comments of ALI members will be valuable to the State Department and the United States delegation in formulating the United States position on a number of important issues. Participants are expected to include Jeffrey Kovar, State Department Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law; Peter H. Pfund, former Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law and currently Adviser to the State Department; Professor Andreas F. Lowenfeld of New York University Law School, a member of the State Department Study Group on the proposed General Convention; and Peter D. Trooboff, a partner in the Washington, D.C. firm of Covington & Burling and a member of the United States Delegation to the Hague Conference.
Thursday Membership Luncheon and Special 75th Anniversary Program
A luncheon for members and guests is scheduled in the East and State Rooms, Lobby Level, on Thursday, May 14, at 12:30 p.m. Tickets for the luncheon are $25. The luncheon will be followed at 1:15 by the second of two special programs celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Institute. All members and guests are welcome to attend this special program without charge. Those not partaking of the luncheon are requested to take their seats between 1:00 and 1:10 p.m.
Thursday's program will focus on the Institute's future and will feature presentations by Jay H. Tidmarsh, Associate Professor at Notre Dame Law School, and by Janet Napolitano of Phoenix, former United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. Professor Tidmarsh will discuss possible future work for the Institute in the civil area, while Ms. Napolitano will consider what might be undertaken in the field of criminal law.
Professor Tidmarsh graduated with highest honors from the University of Notre Dame in 1979 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1982. In the same year, he went to work as a trial attorney for the Torts Branch of the United States Department of Justice, where he specialized in toxic and other environmental torts. During this period he was lead trial counsel in the Agent Orange litigation and of counsel in the Love Canal litigation. In 1989 he joined the faculty of Notre Dame Law School, where he has taught courses in complex civil litigation, federal courts, torts, contracts, and international environmental law. He has served as Reporter for the Northern District of Indiana's Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group and for its Local Rules Advisory Committee. He is co-author of Complex Litigation and the Adversary System (1998) and author of numerous scholarly and professional articles and monographs.
Ms. Napolitano graduated summa cum laude from the University of Santa Clara and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia. After serving as a law clerk to Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a member of the Institute's Council, she joined the Phoenix law firm of Lewis and Roca and became a partner in 1989, specializing in commercial and appellate litigation. In July 1993, she was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Arizona and served more than four years in the post. While United States Attorney, Ms. Napolitano was a member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee, a select group of U.S. Attorneys who advise the Attorney General on matters of federal law enforcement, and she chaired that committee in 1995-1996. She is presently of counsel at Lewis and Roca and a candidate for Attorney General of Arizona. Ms. Napolitano is a former Chair of the Civil Practice and Procedure Committee of the Arizona State Bar and a member of the Arizona Supreme Court's Committee to Study Civil Litigation Abuse, Cost, and Delay.
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SUBSTANTIVE AGENDA
The agenda set forth below has been established by the President, pursuant to the authority of Council Rule 9.03A, as the agenda for the Annual Meeting.
The following Drafts will be submitted for discussion and consideration:
RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW THIRD
THE LAW GOVERNING LAWYERS
{Monday, May 11, 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 2:45 p.m.
Tuesday, May 12, 8:30 a.m.}
Proposed Final Draft No. 2 -- Chapter 1. Regulation of the Legal Profession; Chapter 3. Client and Lawyer: The Financial and Property Relationship, Topic 5. Fee Splitting with Lawyer Not in Same Firm; Chapter 4. Lawyer Civil Liability (revisions to § 75); Chapter 5. Confidential Client Information (revisions to §§ 117A, 117B, and 129); Chapter 8. Conflict of Interest (revisions to §§ 209 and 215).
Tentative Draft No. 8 (1997) -- Chapter 6. Representing Clients -- In General (§§ 161-164); Chapter 7. Representing Clients in Litigation.
Please Note: This draft was distributed last year and considered in part at the 1997 Annual Meeting. The material indicated above was not reached for discussion at that Meeting and will be considered this year. Members are requested to bring the draft to the Meeting.
RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW THIRD
PROPERTY (WILLS AND OTHER DONATIVE TRANSFERS)
{Tuesday, May 12, 9:45 a.m.}
Tentative Draft No. 2 -- Division I. Probate Transfers (Wills and Intestacy): Chapter 1. Definitions and Basic Principles; Chapter 2. Intestacy; Chapter 3. Execution of Wills; Chapter 4. Revocation of Wills; Chapter 5. Post-Execution Events Affecting Wills.
RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW THIRD
PROPERTY (SERVITUDES)
{Tuesday, May 12, 11:15 a.m., 2:00 p.m.}
Tentative Draft No. 7 -- Chapter 1. Definitions; Chapter 3. Validity of Servitude Arrangements (revision of § 3.1); Chapter 6. Common Interest Communities; Chapter 8. Enforcement of Servitudes.
RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW THIRD
TORTS: APPORTIONMENT OF LIABILITY
{Tuesday, May 12, 2:30 p.m.}
Proposed Final Draft -- Topic 1. Basic Rules of Comparative Responsibility; Topic 2. Liability of Multiple Tortfeasors for Indivisible Harm; Topic 3. Contribution and Indemnity; Topic 4. Settlement; Topic 5. Apportionment of Liability When Damages Can Be Divided by Causation.
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
REVISED ARTICLE 9
(SECURED TRANSACTIONS;
SALES OF ACCOUNTS AND CHATTEL PAPER)
{Wednesday, May 13, 8:30 a.m.}
Proposed Final Draft -- Part 1. General Provisions; Part 2. Validity of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement; Part 3. Perfection and Priority of Security Interests; Part 4. Rights of Third Parties; Part 5. Filing; Part 6. Default; Part 7. Transition.
TRANSNATIONAL INSOLVENCY PROJECT
INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT OF MEXICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW
{Wednesday, May 13, 11:15 a.m.}
Tentative Draft -- I. Introduction; II. Liquidation Proceedings; III. Reorganization Proceedings; IV. Mexican Law in Transnational Cases; V. Groups of Companies.
PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION:
ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
{Wednesday, May 13, 11:45 a.m., 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 14, 9:00 a.m.}
Tentative Draft No. 3 -- Part I: Chapter 1. Introductory Discussion; Chapter 2. Principles Governing the Allocation of Custodial and Decisionmaking Responsibility for Children; Part II: Chapter 3. Child Support.
FEDERAL JUDICIAL CODE REVISION PROJECT
{Thursday, May 14, 11:15 a.m.}
Tentative Draft No. 2 -- Supplemental Jurisdiction: Proposed Revision of 28 U.S.C. § 1367.
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
ARTICLE 2B (LICENSES)
{Thursday, May 14, 2:00 p.m.}
Tentative Draft -- Part 1. General Provisions; Part 2. Formation and Terms; Part 3. Construction; Part 4. Warranties; Part 5. Transfer of Interest and Rights; Part 6. Performance; Part 7. Remedies.
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PROGRAM OF THE MEETING
Any changes required in the following schedule or in the agenda will be announced at the conclusion of each afternoon session and will be posted in the registration area (Cabinet Room).
Sunday, May 10
2:00 p.m.Registration of members and guests until 8:00 p.m. Cabinet Room.
Monday, May 11
8:00 a.m.Registration in the Cabinet Room until 5:00 p.m.; assembling of members and guests in the Grand Ballroom.
10:00 a.m. Opening Session -- 75th Annual Meeting of The American Law Institute. Grand Ballroom.
1. Call to order by the President, Charles Alan Wright.
2. Report of the Director, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.*
3. Report of the Executive Director of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education, Richard E. Carter.*
4. Report of the Treasurer, Bennett Boskey.*
5. Report of the Committee on Membership, Carolyn Dineen King, Chair.
6. Report of the Nominating Committee, William H. Webster, Chair.
7. Remarks by ABA President Jerome J. Shestack.
* Written report submitted in advance of the meeting.
11:00 a.m.
Discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers. Grand Ballroom.
12:45 p.m.
Adjournment for lunch.
Luncheon and Colloquium for New Members in the State Room. See page 8.
2:00 p.m.
Continuation of discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers. Grand Ballroom. See page 17.
2:30 p.m.
Remarks by the Honorable William H. Rehnquist. Grand Ballroom. See page 6.
2:45 p.m.
Continuation of discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers. Grand Ballroom. See page 17.
5:15 p.m.
Adjournment.
(The American Judicature Society is sponsoring a reception for ALI members and guests in the State Room from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. See page 8.)
Tuesday, May 12
8:00 a.m.
Registration until 5:00 p.m. Cabinet Room.
8:30 a.m.
Continuation of discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers. Grand Ballroom. See page 17.
9:00 a.m.
Tour and Luncheon for Spouses and Guests. See page 8.
9:45 a.m.
Discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers). Grand Ballroom. See page 18.
11:15 a.m.
Discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Servitudes). Grand Ballroom. See page 18.
12:45 p.m.
Adjournment for lunch.
Luncheon honoring new life members, 50-year members, and recently elected members in the East and State Rooms. Address by the Honorable Dorothy Toth Beasley. See page 9.
2:00 p.m.
Continuation of discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Servitudes). Grand Ballroom. See page 18.
2:30 p.m.
Discussion of Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Apportionment of Liability. Grand Ballroom. See page 18.
5:00 p.m.
Adjournment.
6:30 p.m.
Officers' Reception and Buffet Supper for members and guests until 8:30 p.m. at the National Building Museum (Pension Building). See page 10.
Wednesday, May 13
8:00 a.m.
Registration until 5:00 p.m. Cabinet Room.
8:30 a.m.
Discussion of the Uniform Commercial Code, Revised Article 9 (Secured Transactions; Sales of Accounts and Chattel Paper). Grand Ballroom. See page 18.
11:15 a.m.
Discussion of the Transnational Insolvency Project (Mexican Statement). Grand Ballroom. See page 19.
11:45 a.m.
Discussion of Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations. Grand Ballroom. See page 19.
12:30 p.m.
Adjournment for lunch.
Luncheon for members and guests in the East and State Rooms, followed, at 1:15 p.m., by a special program celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Institute. See page 11.
2:00 p.m.
Continuation of discussion of Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations. Grand Ballroom. See page 19.
5:00 p.m.
Adjournment.
7:00 p.m.
Reception for members and guests in the East and State Rooms. See page 13.
8:00 p.m.
Dinner for members and guests in the Grand Ballroom. Address by StanfordUniversity President Gerhard Casper. See page 13.
Thursday, May 14
8:00 a.m.
Registration until 4:00 p.m. Cabinet Room.
8:00 a.m.
Meeting on International Jurisdiction and Judgments. State Room. See page 14.
9:00 a.m.
Continuation of discussion of Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations. Grand Ballroom. See page 19.
11:15 a.m.
Discussion of the Federal Judicial CodeRevision Project. Grand Ballroom. See page 19.
12:30 p.m.
Adjournment for lunch.
Luncheon for members and guests in the East and State Rooms, followed, at 1:15 p.m., by a special program celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Institute. See page 14.
2:00 p.m.
Discussion of the Uniform Commercial Code, Article 2B (Licenses). Grand Ballroom. See page 19.
5:00 p.m.
Adjournment.
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