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KENNETH R. FEINBERG TO ADDRESS AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE'S 82ND ANNUAL MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA; OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE SCIRICA, LONGSTRETH, AND SLAUGHTER

(Philadelphia) – Kenneth R. Feinberg, the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will address the membership of The American Law Institute (ALI) at the ALI’s 82nd Annual Meeting, May 16-18, at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia. Other speakers during the Meeting will include Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Bevis Longstreth, a former SEC Commissioner and an Adviser on ALI’s Trusts Restatement; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Kenneth R. Feinberg will be the principal speaker at the Institute’s Annual Dinner on Tuesday evening, May 17. One of the nation’s leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution and the managing partner and founder of The Feinberg Group, LLP, Mr. Feinberg is a native of Brockton, Massachusetts. He graduated cum laude in 1967 from the University of Massachusetts and in 1970 from New York University School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review. He was a Law Clerk for the late Stanley H. Fuld, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, from 1970 to 1972; an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1972 to 1975; Special Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1975 to 1980; Administrative Assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy from 1977 to 1979; and a partner at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler from 1980 to 1993. In 1993, he founded The Feinberg Group, which has offices in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

In November 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft named Mr. Feinberg the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, in which 97 percent of the victims’ families participated. As Special Master, he developed and promulgated the Regulations governing the Fund’s administration and oversaw the evaluation of applications, the determination of appropriate compensation, and the dissemination of awards totaling $7 billion. For his work in managing the Fund and its negotiations with victims and their families over its 33-month life, entirely on a pro bono basis, The National Law Journal selected him as its 2004 "Lawyer of the Year."

Mr. Feinberg has had a distinguished teaching career as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Virginia School of Law. He has been the mediator and arbitrator in thousands of disputes. He was one of three arbitrators selected to determine the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination and was one of two arbitrators selected to determine the allocation of legal fees in the Holocaust slave-labor litigation.

Mr. Feinberg served on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Human Radiation Experiments from 1994 to 1995 and the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents from 1989 to 1990. He also served as a member of the Carnegie Commission Task Force on Science and Technology in Judicial and Regulatory Decision Making. He is listed in "Profiles in Power: The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" (The National Law Journal, April 4, 1994; June 12, 2000) and is the author of numerous articles and essays on topics including mediation and mass torts.

Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica will deliver his remarks during the opening session on Monday, May 16, which begins at 9:30 a.m. Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Judge Scirica is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan Law School. After graduating from law school, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Central University in Caracas, Venezuela.

Judge Scirica practiced law in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1980, when he was elected to the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the interval he served as an Assistant District Attorney and also as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he chaired the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and sponsored the state divorce code, the sentencing guidelines code, and the witness-immunity act. He is a former Chair of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.

In 1984 President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Scirica to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 1987 President Reagan appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where he has been Chief Judge since 2003.

Judge Scirica was a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1992 to 1998. He chaired the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1998 to 2003.

Judge Scirica has been a member of the ALI since 1994, and he is currently an Adviser to the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation Project and a member of the Special Committee on Federal Judicial Code Revision. He also served as an Adviser to the recently completed project on Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure.

Judge Scirica is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has taught at Duke University Law School and Dickinson-Penn State Law School.

Bevis Longstreth will speak on Tuesday, May 17, at a luncheon honoring new life members, members elected 50 years ago, and members elected within the last five years, representing the membership class of 1980, which attains life membership at the 2005 Annual Meeting. A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Mr. Longstreth graduated in 1956 from Princeton University. After serving two years as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, he graduated in 1961 from Harvard Law School. For 20 years, until July of 1981 when President Reagan appointed him as the 60th Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Longstreth practiced law with the New York City law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he was admitted to partnership in 1970. In February 1984, after his resignation from the SEC, he returned to Debevoise and the practice of corporate, finance, banking, and securities law; he is now a retired partner in the New York office.

Mr. Longstreth taught at Columbia University School of Law as an Adjunct Professor from 1994 to 1999. He has lectured often on various securities- and corporate-law topics, has written numerous articles on business-related subjects, and is the author of Modern Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule, a book on law reform published by Oxford University Press in 1986. Mr. Longstreth serves on the Boards of Directors of College Retirement Equities Fund and AMVESCAP plc. He is a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange and of the National Adjudicatory Council of NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.). In 1999 he was appointed by the Public Oversight Board to the Panel on Audit Effectiveness and served until 2001. In 2004 he was appointed by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to its Standing Advisory Group. For many years he also was a member of the Pension Finance Committee of The World Bank. Mr. Longstreth is a member and for many years was the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Rockefeller Family Fund. He is Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where he is also a trustee. In addition, he serves on the board of the New School University, the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Integrity, and the Investment Committee of Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. He is Chairman of the Board of the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

Mr. Longstreth, a member of the Institute since 1980, was an Adviser both to the ALI’s Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations and to its Restatement Third, Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule). He currently is an Adviser to the Institute’s ongoing Restatement Third of Trusts.

Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter will speak at a luncheon for members and guests on Wednesday, May 18. Dean Slaughter, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia, is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and received a certificate in European cultural studies. She won one of Princeton’s top honors, the Daniel M. Sachs Memorial Scholarship, which provided for two years of study at Oxford University. She received her Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in international relations from Oxford in 1982 and 1992, respectively, and her law degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1985.

After graduation from law school, Dean Slaughter remained at Harvard through 1989, first as a researcher for Professor Abram Chayes, and later as a fellow in international law. From 1989 to 1994 she taught Law and International Relations at the University of Chicago Law School. She joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1994, where she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law. At Harvard, she also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and served as the Director of the Law School’s Graduate and International Legal Studies program.

In September 2002, Dean Slaughter assumed her current position as Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and the founder and Faculty Director of the Princeton Colloquium on International Affairs. In addition, she is the convener and academic Co-Chair of the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national-security strategy for the United States.

Dean Slaughter was the President of the American Society of International Law from 2002 to 2004 and is a former member of its Executive Council. She serves on the boards of several other organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, and the Canadian Institute for International Governance Innovation. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a frequent presenter at conferences, debates, and public events. Among other honors, she gave a set of Millennial Lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2000 and has twice won the Francis Deak Prize awarded by the American Journal of International Law.

Dean Slaughter’s teaching and research have focused on global governance, international law and international relations, and American foreign policy. She has written over 50 articles for legal and scholarly journals and has coedited or written four books. She also writes regularly for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. Her article "The Real New World Order," originally published in 1997 in the 75th-anniversary issue of Foreign Affairs, is widely taught in colleges and universities. Her most recent book, A New World Order (Princeton University Press, 2004), identifies the transnational networks of government officials who exchange information and coordinate activity across national borders as an increasingly important component of global governance.

The Annual Meeting’s opening session at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 16, will also include reports by ALI Director Lance Liebman, ALI-ABA Executive Director Richard E. Carter, and Treasurer Bennett Boskey. A casual lunch and colloquium will be held on Monday, May 16, for the particular benefit of new members.

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