Membership Notes

• Judith Areen, the Paul Regis Dean Professor and former dean of Georgetown University Law Center, is the new President of the Association of American Law Schools.

• Albert S. Dandridge, III, of Philadelphia has been elected Chair of the Business Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

• Tamar Frankel, Professor and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law, who was an Adviser for Restatement Third, Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule), is the author of Trust and Honesty, America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad (Oxford University Press 2006).

• Wayne S. Hyatt of the Atlanta bar, who was an Adviser for Restatement Third, Property (Servitudes), has published the 2005-2006 cumulative supplement to the third edition of his bestselling ALI-ABA book, Condominium and Homeowner Association Practice: Community Association Law.

• Professor Emma Coleman Jordan of Georgetown University Law Center is coauthor, with Professor Angela P. Harris of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, of a new casebook, Economic Justice: Race, Gender, Identity and Economics (Foundation Press 2005). The authors have produced four spinoffs, also available from Foundation Press: A Woman’s Place is in the Marketplace: Gender and Economics; Beyond Rational Choice: Alternative Perspectives on Economics; When Markets Fail: Race and Economics; and Cultural Economics: Markets and Cultures.

• John H. Langbein, the Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School, has won the Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award for his book, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford University Press 2003). The award recognizes authors of legal publications that evidence creative talent of the highest order. Professor Langbein serves as Associate Reporter for Restatement Third, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), and as an Adviser for Restatement Third, Trusts.

• Timothy K. Lewis of Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formerly a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. The museum, which has received funding from Congress, is in its beginning stages and will eventually serve as the nation’s primary repository for artifacts and memorabilia reflecting the history of the art form, and will also serve as a resource and learning center.

• Judge R. Terrence Ney of the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia, has received the 2005 Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation from the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, the highest award that the Association bestows.

• Judge Vanessa Ruiz of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has been elected President of the National Association of Women Judges. The Association provides strong, committed judicial leadership to ensure fairness and gender equality in American courts.

• Professor Gregory Charles Sisk of the University of St. Thomas School of Law, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has produced the completely rewritten fourth edition of his ALI-ABA book, Litigation with the Federal Government (2006).

• The Practising Law Institute has published the two-volume second edition of Insider Trading, coauthored by Professor William K. S. Wang of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and Marc I. Steinberg, the Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor at Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law in Dallas.