Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will deliver remarks on the first day of the Institute’s 77th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Other speakers during the May 15-18 meeting at The Mayflower will include American Bar Association President William G. Paul; The Right Honourable Lord Woolf of Barnes, Master of the Rolls of the Royal Courts of Justice; Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia University and former General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission; and Cheryl D. Mills, Senior Vice President for Corporate Policy and Public Programming at Oxygen Media in New York City and former Deputy Counsel to the President of the United States.

The Chief Justice will deliver his remarks at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 15. 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), Grand Inquests: The Historical Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson (1992), and All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime (1998). Chief Justice Rehnquist will be addressing an ALI Annual Meeting for the seventh time, having previously done so in 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1998.

William G. Paul, who will also speak during the opening session on May 15, is a partner in the Oklahoma City law firm of Crowe & Dunlevy. His areas of practice include corporate law, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation in both the state and federal courts. Mr. Paul received both his undergraduate and his law degrees from the University of Oklahoma, where he was Article and Book Editor of the Oklahoma Law Review. He entered private practice in 1956 and joined Crowe & Dunlevy in 1957. From 1964 to 1968 he was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Oklahoma City University. In 1984 he became Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Phillips Petroleum Company and remained in that post until his return to Crowe & Dunlevy in 1996.

A former President of the Oklahoma County and the Oklahoma Bar Associations, Mr. Paul was President of the National Conference of Bar Presidents in 1985-1986. Prior to becoming the ABA’s President in August of 1999, he chaired its Committee on Research About the Future of the Legal Profession, was Vice Chair of its Commission on Women in the Profession, and served on its Commission to Review the Accreditation of American Law Schools and on the Council of its Section on Litigation. He is also a former Chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation and a former President of the American Bar Endowment, and he is currently Vice Chair of the Southwestern Legal Foundation. Elected to membership in the Institute in 1988, Mr. Paul is presently serving as Chair of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education.

The Right Honourable Lord Woolf of Barnes, Master of the Rolls of the Royal Courts of Justice, will be the principal speaker at the Institute’s Annual Dinner on Wednesday evening, May 17. As Master of the Rolls, which entails serving as the President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), Lord Woolf of Barnes (Harry Kenneth Woolf), holds one of the two highest judicial positions in the United Kingdom. A strong supporter of the European Convention on Human Rights and of its incorporation into domestic British law, Lord Woolf has been a leading advocate for expanding the concept of judicial review and enhancing the citizen’s right to challenge the decisions of governmental bodies. In 1990 he led an official inquiry into the Strangeways prison riot, the worst in British history, and produced the influential "Woolf Report," a penological landmark that urged major reforms in the prison system. A subsequent report developed under his direction examined access to justice in England and Wales.

Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and University College, London, where he received his LL.B, Lord Woolf was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1954 and, after completing his military ser-vice, he entered practice in 1956. A Recorder of the Crown Court from 1972 to 1979, he became Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue in 1973 and First Treasury Junior Counsel (Common Law) in 1974. In 1979 he received a knighthood and was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division. In that capacity he served as Presiding Judge for the Southeastern Circuit from 1981 to 1984. In 1986 he was named a Lord Justice of Appeal, and in 1992 he was elevated to the peerage and became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He has been Master of the Rolls since 1996.

Scholar and educator as well as jurist, Lord Woolf is the author of Protecting the Public: The New Challenge, based on his Hamlyn lectures (delivered at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London), and co-editor of a major textbook, Judicial Review of Administrative Action. Pro-chancellor of the University of London, he has also chaired the Board of Management of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Lord Chancellor’s Committees on Legal Education and on Public Records. He is a former President of the Association of Law Teachers. In 1996 the Institute recognized Lord Woolf’s achievements by electing him to membership in the special category of Members of the Legal Profession from Foreign Countries.

Harvey J. Goldschmid, who will speak on Tuesday, May 16, at a luncheon honoring new life members, members elected 50 years ago, and members who were elected within the last five years, will represent the Institute’s membership class of 1975, which attains life membership at the 2000 Annual Meeting. A native of New York City, Professor Goldschmid received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Columbia University, where he was the Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review. After a year as law clerk to Judge Paul R. Hays of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and four years of practice in the New York City office of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, he joined the faculty of Columbia University School of Law in 1970 and was named Dwight Professor in 1984.

Founding Director of the Columbia University Center for Law and Economic Studies, a position he held from 1975 to 1978, Professor Goldschmid served from 1978 to 1981 and again in 1997-1998 as Consultant on Antitrust Policy to the Federal Trade Commission, and in 1995-1996 he was a member of the FTC’s Task Force on High Technology/Innovation Issues. In 1998 he took academic leave from Columbia to become General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in which capacity he was the SEC’s chief legal officer and received the 1999 Chairman’s Award for Excellence. He returned to Columbia on January 1 of this year but continues to serve as part-time Special Senior Adviser to the SEC.

Professor Goldschmid was Reporter for Part IV (Duty of Care and the Business Judgment Rule) of the ALI’s Principles of Corporate Governance and was Deputy Chief Reporter during the project’s early years. In 1980-1982 and also in 1988-1989 he served as Reporter for the Judicial Conference Evaluation Committee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Goldschmid has published many articles on antitrust, corporate, and securities law and is author of Business Disclosure: Government’s Need to Know (1979) and co-author of Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation (4th ed. 1997), The Impact of the Modern Corporation (1984), and Industrial Concentration: The New Learning (1974). Previously Chair of the Board of Advisers of the Program on Philanthropy and the Law at New York University, he is presently a member of the Board of Directors of what is now the National Center of Philanthropy and the Law. Professor Goldschmid is a former Vice President, Treasurer, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has also chaired the Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association of American Law Schools.

Cheryl D. Mills will speak at a luncheon on Wednesday, May 17. Born in St. Louis, Ms. Mills is a 1987 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia, where she received the Gray Award for outstanding leadership, scholarship, and contributions to the university community, and a 1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, where she was elected to the Law Review. While at Stanford she also co-chaired the Third National Conference on Women of Color and the Law.

Upon her admission to the bar in 1990, Ms. Mills became an associate with the District of Columbia law firm of Hogan and Hartson. She joined the White House legal staff in January of 1993 after having been Deputy General Counsel of the Clinton/Gore Transition Planning Foundation following the 1992 election. While serving as Deputy Counsel to the President, she gained national renown for her eloquent defense of President Clinton during his 1999 impeachment trial in the Senate and became only the third African-American to speak from the Senate floor. In October of 1999 she joined Oxygen Media, where she oversees Oxygen’s public policy and philanthropic initiatives and co-directs its legal and political programming.

Ms. Mills is a co-founder of DC Works, a nonprofit organization devoted to the academic enrichment and interpersonal development of underprivileged senior high school students of color. In presenting her with the 1999 Susan B. Anthony Achievement Award, President Clinton described her as "an eloquent and effective champion of equality in education" who "has opened the doors of higher education for underprivileged youth." Ms. Mills currently serves on the Board of the National Partnership for Women and Families, the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Foundation Board of Trustees.

The opening session on Monday, May 15, will also include reports by Institute Director Lance Liebman, ALI-ABA Executive Director Richard E. Carter, and Treasurer Bennett Boskey, and by the Chairs of the Committee on Membership and the Nominating Committee. Other highlights of the ALI Annual Meeting will include a Monday luncheon and colloquium for the particular benefit of new members and a Tuesday evening Officers’ Reception and Buffet for members and guests at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Also on Tuesday will be a special tour of the historic Prospect House in Georgetown for spouses and guests of members, followed by a luncheon at the Hotel Washington, a national landmark.