Membership Notes

• In its current volume dedicated to the memory of Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the Albany Law Review has published the following tribute essays by ALI members: "Bob Jackson Remembered," by ALI Treasurer Bennett Boskey of the District of Columbia; "The Legacy of Robert H. Jackson," by Eugene C. Gerhart of Binghamton, New York; and "Robert H. Jackson: Nuremberg’s Architect and Advocate," by Bernard D. Meltzer, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School (Vol. 68, 2004).

• James Donato of San Francisco has been elected Secretary of the Bar Association of San Francisco and will advance to President in three years.

• J. Clifton Fleming, Jr., Ernest L. Wilkinson Professor of Law at Brigham Young University, and Deborah A. Geier, Leon M. and Gloria Plevin Endowed Professor of Law at Cleveland State University, have published (with Joseph M. Dodge) the third edition of Federal Income Tax: Doctrine, Structure and Policy (Lexis/Nexis).

• Bryant G. Garth, the former Director of the American Bar Foundation and former Dean of Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, has been named Dean and Chief Executive Officer of Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. He will succeed Dean Leigh H. Taylor, who is retiring after serving as Dean for 27 years.

• Carl F. Goodman, Adjunct Professor of Japan/U.S. Comparative Law and International Legal Consultant at Georgetown University Law Center, has published Justice and Civil Procedure in Japan (Oceana Publications, Inc.). Since January 2005, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Tokyo campus of Temple University Law School.

• Caswell O. Hobbs, III, of the District of Columbia bar has received the Federal Trade Commission’s lifetime-achievement award, the Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award, for his outstanding contributions to the Commission in the public and private sectors. Mr. Hobbs, who retired as an antitrust partner in the Washington office of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius in September 2004, is a principal in the management and regulatory consulting firm of Potomac River Associates.

• Samuel Issacharoff of Columbia University School of Law has been awarded an Astor Visiting Lectureship by the University of Oxford, England.

• Atlanta trial lawyer Linda A. Klein; Catherine A. Lamboley, senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Shell Oil Company in Houston; and South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean H. Toal were among five women lawyers chosen by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession to receive a 2004 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.

• Gerald Korngold, Dean and McCurdy Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, has published the second edition of Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes (Juris Publishing). Dean Korngold served as an Adviser for Restatement Third, Property (Servitudes).

• George W. Liebmann of Baltimore has published The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars (Transaction), which examines the life and achievements of former ALI Council member Edward H. Levi, as well as those of Harry Kalven, Jr., Karl Llewellyn, Philip Kurland, and Kenneth Culp Davis.

• Houston Putnam Lowry of Meriden, Connecticut, was recently sworn in as a freeman of the City of London and was installed as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (London).

• Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has been elected to the Yale Corporation as an Alumni Fellow for a six-year term. (Note: When this item appeared in the Membership Notes for the Fall 2004 issue of the Reporter, the name of ALI Director Lance Liebman was erroneously substituted for that of Chief Justice Marshall.)

• The Maine State Bar Association has created a new award in honor of ALI Council member Vincent L. McKusick, former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The Vincent L. McKusick Award will be presented annually to an author whose work published in the Maine Bar Journal enhances the understanding of Maine law.

• Senior Judge Roger J. Miner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is the author of "Judicial Ethics in the Twenty-First Century: Tracing the Trends" in the Summer 2004 issue of the Hofstra Law Review (Vol. 32, No. 4).

• A group of Penn law alumni and friends have established a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the name of the law school’s former Dean, ALI Council member Robert H. Mundheim of New York City.

• The Texas Association of Civil and Appellate Specialists has given Harry M. Reasoner of Houston a Lifetime of Excellence in Advocacy Award.

• Michael H. Reed of the Philadelphia bar, the first African-American to serve as President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, has been appointed to the Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account board for a three-year term.

• ALI President Michael Traynor of San Francisco has been named a member of the first Advisory Board for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties organization working to protect rights of privacy and free expression in the digital world.