Director Emeritus Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., who stepped down as ALI Director at the end of the Institute’s 76th Annual Meeting after 15 years of service, will now be joining the Institute’s Council. Professor Hazard, holder of the Trustee Chair at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was elected to the Institute’s governing body on May 17 at the ALI’s recently completed Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Others elected to the Council for the first time were Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Elizabeth J. Cabraser of the San Francisco bar.

Professor Hazard, 69, who is also Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale, became the fourth Director in the Institute’s history in 1984 after having previously served as the Reporter for Restatement of the Law Second, Judgments. An authority on civil procedure, trial practice, and legal ethics, he has written prolifically on all of these subjects and was the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. A member of the Institute since 1965, he is now serving as Co-Reporter for the ALI’s current project to develop Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure.

Born in Newcastle, Natal, South Africa, and educated as an undergraduate at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, Justice Marshall, 54, was the first woman president of the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students from 1966 until 1968, when she came to the United States. After receiving a M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1969 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1976, she practiced law in Boston, becoming a partner in the firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart, where she focused on civil litigation with an emphasis on copyright and intellectual property law. In 1992 she joined Harvard University as Vice President and General Counsel and served four years in that position. She was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court by Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld in 1996.

A United States citizen since 1978, Justice Marshall is a Fellow and past Massachusetts State Chair of the American Bar Foundation and a former President of the Boston Bar Association. Her extensive involvement in the courts and court reform has included service on the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Council, the Advisory Committee on Rules of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the Policy Advisory Committee of the Supreme Judicial Court, and the Civil Justice Advisory Group of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts; she also served as Chair of the Court Rules Subcommittee of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group and as Special Counsel to the Supreme Judicial Court Commission on Judicial Conduct. A member of both the Massachusetts and International Women’s Forums, she served on the Committees for Gender Equality of both the Supreme Judicial Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and on the Board of the Women’s Bar Association. She has been a member of the Institute since 1990 and is presently an Adviser for its Restatement Third of Agency. She spoke at the 1997 Annual Meeting about the legal challenges faced by universities seeking to preserve their independence from governmental interference.

Born in Oakland, Ms. Cabraser, 47, received both her undergraduate and her law degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a partner in the law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, a litigation firm that prosecutes securities fraud, antitrust, consumer fraud, products liability, toxic claims and environmental issues, employment discrimination, and other tort actions on behalf of plaintiffs throughout the United States.

Ms. Cabraser has served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bar Association and was President of its Securities Litigation Section. She has served as Co-Chair of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation, as Chair of its Subcommittee on Mass Torts, and as Vice-Chair of the Rules and Procedures Committee of the American Bar Association. She was a member of the California Constitution Revision Commission from 1994 to 1996 and a lawyer-delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference from 1992 to 1995, and she served from 1991 to 1994 as a member of the Northern District of California Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee. Ms. Cabraser has also taught on the faculty of the Federal Judicial Center and has been an instructor for various ALI-ABA programs dealing with federal civil litigation. A member of the Institute since 1993, she has published numerous articles in professional journals on complex litigation and mass-tort class actions.

Also elected to regular terms on the Council were Judge Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Dean Antonio García-Padilla of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, and John J. McKetta, III, President of the firm of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, in Austin, Texas. They had been elected to interim terms by the Council in October, with the understanding that their names would be submitted for election by the membership in May.

On May 16, the Council elected Lance Liebman, the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of Columbia’s Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, to become the fifth Director in the Institute’s 76-year history. Professor Liebman, who a year ago was named Director Designate, succeeds Professor Hazard as Director.

The following officers were reelected to new one-year terms: Chair of the Council, Roswell B. Perkins; President, Charles Alan Wright; First Vice President, Michael Traynor; Second Vice President, Conrad K. Harper; Treasurer, Bennett Boskey; and Deputy Directors, Elena A. Cappella and Michael Greenwald.

At its meeting on May 16, the Council also elected the following to serve for the next year on the Executive Committee: Philip S. Anderson, Allen D. Black, Herma Hill Kay, Vester T. Hughes, Jr., Sherwin P. Simmons, Robert MacCrate, Robert A. Stein, Patricia M. Wald, Elizabeth Warren, and William H. Webster. Reelected to three-year terms as ALI representatives on the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education were Edward R. Becker, A. Leo Levin, and Mervin M. Wilf. Reelected to new one-year terms as ALI representatives on the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code were Amelia H. Boss, Ronald DeKoven, Donald J. Rapson, Curtis R. Reitz, and Steven O. Weise.