THE ALI REPORTER
Summer 2002

The President’s Letter

Institute Approves Restatement Drafts
and Revisions to UCC Articles 3 and 4

UCC Update

Justice O’Connor Predicts Greater Domestic Reliance on Norms of International Law and Praises Institute’s Increasing Transnational Focus

Justice O’Connor on the ALI’s Enhanced International Role

Membership Notes

Annual Meeting Faces (2002)

UNIDROIT To Celebrate 75th Anniversary in Septembe

New Projects Begin

Officers Reelected

The Institute in Legal Literature

158 Become Life Members

In Memoriam

Special Contributions

Calendar of Forthcoming Meetings

Officers Reelected

At its meeting in Washington prior to the start of the Annual Meeting on May 13 the Council reelected all officers to new one-year terms: Chair of the Council Roswell B. Perkins, President Michael Traynor, First Vice President Conrad K. Harper, Second Vice President Elizabeth Warren, Treasurer Bennett Boskey, Director Lance Liebman, and Deputy Directors Elena A. Cappella and Michael Greenwald.

During the meeting on May 13 the Council also elected the following to serve for the next year on the Executive Committee: Shirley S. Abrahamson, Philip S. Anderson, Allen D. Black, Paul L. Friedman, Mary Kay Kane, Herma Hill Kay, Douglas Laycock, Roberta C. Ramo, Sherwin P. Simmons, and Robert A. Stein. Reelected to new three-year terms as ALI representatives on the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education were Edward R. Becker and Mervin M. Wilf. Also elected to a three-year term was Michael E. Flowers, replacing A. Leo Levin, who retired after many years of service as an ALI Representative on the Committee. Reelected to new one-year terms as ALI representatives on the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code were Amelia H. Boss, Donald J. Rapson, Curtis R. Reitz, Linda J. Rusch, and Steven O. Weise.

Pursuant to the recommendation of the Council, Myles V. Lynk, who in December had been elected to an interim term on that body, was elected by the membership at the Annual Meeting to a regular term.