Membership Notes

• Jerry B. Blackstock of Atlanta recently received one of the four Tradition of Excellence Awards presented annually by the General Practice and Trial Section of the State Bar of Georgia. Mr. Blackstock was honored as Defense Lawyer of the Year.

• Robert L. Byer of Pittsburgh has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Mr. Byer, a former Judge of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, becomes one of only four members of the Academy from Pennsylvania and the only Pennsylvania member not from Philadelphia.

• Professor Joshua Dressler has been appointed to the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. Professor Dressler served as editor-in-chief of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, recently published by Macmillan Reference.

• Professors David M. English of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law and Robert Whitman of the University of Connecticut School of Law have collaborated on a new book for ALI-ABA, Fiduciary Accounting and Trust Administration Guide (2002).

• Retired Justice William H. Erickson of the Colorado Supreme Court, a member of the Institute’s Council, received an honorary doctorate in engineering in May from his alma mater, the Colorado School of Mines.

• Professor Eric M. Freedman of Hofstra University School of Law has published Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty (New York University Press, 2002).

• Council member George Clemon Freeman, Jr., of Richmond is the author of "Constitutional Constraints on Punitive Damages and Other Monetary Punishments" in the February 2002 issue (Vol. 57, No. 2) of The Business Lawyer.

• Professor Philip P. Frickey, the Richard W. Jennings Professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• First Vice President Conrad K. Harper, together with fellow ALI members James O. Freedman, President Emeritus of Dartmouth College; Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor at Yale Law School; and Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan of Stanford Law School, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.

• Mark I. Harrison of Phoenix has received the 2002 Walter E. Craig Award of the Arizona Bar Foundation. The Foundation’s highest award, it recognizes those whose careers have manifested the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession and of service to their communities.

• William B. Hilgers of Austin is the 2002 recipient of the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Fifth Circuit.

• Council member Carolyn Dineen King, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, will become in October Chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

• Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who spoke at the ALI’s 79th Annual Meeting in May, has been inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.

• A scholarship fund has been established at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education in the name of Herbert P. Wilkins, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and a member of the ALI Council. The Honorable Herbert P. Wilkins Scholarship Fund was created in Justice Wilkins’s honor by his former law firm, Palmer & Dodge. Since his tenure on the bench ended in 1999, Justice Wilkins has been a Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School.

• Carolyn B. Witherspoon of Little Rock in May received the William H. Bowen School of Law Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.