(Philadelphia)— On May 10 the Council of The American Law Institute (ALI) elected the following officers to 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; Director, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.; and Deputy Directors, Elena A. Cappella and Michael Greenwald.

Michael Traynor of San Francisco, who had been Second Vice President since 1993, succeeds Judge Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as First Vice President. Judge Wald, who had held the office since 1993, asked not to be considered for an additional term. Conrad K. Harper of New York City succeeds Mr. Traynor as Second Vice President.

A native of Boston, Mr. Perkins served as the sixth President of the Institute from 1980 to 1993, when he became Chair of the Council. A partner in the New York City law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, Mr. Perkins received his undergraduate and law degrees, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1945 and 1949, respectively, and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Except for periods of government service, Mr. Perkins has practiced since 1949 with the New York City firm of Debevoise & Plimpton and its predecessor firms; he is presently based in Russia as senior partner in the firm’s recently established Moscow office. His work has been principally in the area of corporation and securities law.

Mr. Perkins has been active in the American Bar Association as a member of its Commission on Law and the Economy, as a member of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law, and as a member of the Corporation Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association. He has been active for more than three decades in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has chaired or served on several committees of that organization, including its Executive Committee. He was Co-Chairman of the National Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights Under Law in 1974-75.

Early in his career, Mr. Perkins was appointed by President Eisenhower as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and served in that post for three years. Shortly after returning to New York to become a partner in his present firm, Mr. Perkins undertook studies for Nelson A. Rockefeller, preceding the election of Rockefeller as Governor of New York. He became Counsel to the newly elected Governor in 1959.

Professor Wright, the first holder of the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas Law School, is also the first law professor to serve as President of the Institute. He is a native of the Philadelphia area and a graduate of Wesleyan University and Yale Law School. After teaching at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1950 to 1955, he joined the law faculty of the University of Texas and was the McCormick Professor of Law at Texas from 1965 to 1980, when he was named to the William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice, from which he retired in 1997. Professor Wright has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Schools and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, England, of which he is now an Honorary Fellow. He was also the Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at the University of Cambridge. Professor Wright received the Student Bar Association Teaching Excellence Award in 1980, the Fellows Research Award of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation in 1989, and the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award presented by the American Bar Association’s Section of Tort and Insurance Practice in 1995. In 1997 he was awarded the Fordham-Stein Prize of the Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham University, and this spring the Federal Bar Council presented him with the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence. Professor Wright has also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.

Professor Wright has published prolifically in the fields of civil and criminal procedure, evidence, and constitutional law and is author and coauthor of major treatises on the federal courts and on federal practice and procedure. He has argued numerous cases in the United States Supreme Court as well as in federal courts of appeals and in state supreme courts. Professor Wright was a member of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1964 to 1976 and 1987 to 1993. From 1978 to 1983 he chaired the Committee on Infractions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and in 1993-1994 he was the Chairman of the Administrative Review Panel of the NCAA.

Professor Wright served as a Reporter for the Institute’s Study of the Division of Jurisdiction Between State and Federal Courts from 1963 until its completion in 1969 and more recently was an Adviser to Restatement Second, Judgments; Restatement Second, Restitution; and Restatement Third, Unfair Competition. A member of the Institute’s Council since 1969, Professor Wright was elected Second Vice President of the Institute in 1987, First Vice President in 1988, and President in 1993. As author of The Fictional Lawyer column that appears in the ALI-ABA periodical, The Practical Lawyer, Professor Wright frequently reviews mystery novels that deal with lawyers and the law.

Mr. Boskey, a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. He also did graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago. He was a law clerk to Judge Learned Hand of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed and Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.

Mr. Boskey served in several government positions during and after World War II. He was a special assistant to the Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice in 1943, an adviser on enemy property in the U.S. Department of State in 1946-1947, and an attorney for the Atomic Energy Commission from 1947 to 1951, the last two years of which he was deputy general counsel. During World War II he served in the Army, primarily in what was known as Special Branch of Military Intelligence.

Mr. Boskey has written extensively on legal subjects, particularly on matters relating to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, including Volumes 1 and 1A, Supreme

Court, in West's Federal Forms. A member of The American Law Institute's Council since 1972 and its Treasurer since 1975, Mr. Boskey also serves on the Institute's Executive and Investment Committees, as well as on the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing

Professional Education and its American Law Network Subcommittee. He has served as an Adviser for Restatement Second, Judgments; Restatement Third, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States; and Complex Litigation: Statutory Recommendations and Analysis, and he is presently an Adviser for ALI’s Federal Judicial Code Revision Project.

Professor Hazard, Trustee Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, was born in Cleveland in 1929 and is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University School of Law. He began his career in private practice in Oregon, where he was also Deputy Legislative Counsel for the State of Oregon and Executive Secretary of the Oregon Legislative Interim Committee on Judicial Administration. He became a member of the law faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1958, moved to the University of Chicago in 1964, and was a member of the Yale faculty from 1971 until his retirement from Yale in 1994, when he became Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus. An authority on civil procedure, trial practice, and legal ethics, Professor Hazard has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Arizona. From 1964 to 1970 he was Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation, and during his tenure at Yale he served variously as Associate, Deputy, and Acting Dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management.

In 1973, Professor Hazard became Reporter for the Institute's Restatement, Second, of Judgments, which was published in 1982. He also served as Reporter for the American Bar Association Special Commission on Evaluation of Professional Standards (the Kutak Commission), and as such was the principal draftsman of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct adopted by the ABA. Earlier he was Reporter for the ABA's Standards of Judicial Administration, Consultant for its Code of Judicial Conduct, and drafter of the ABA Consortium on Legal Services' Report on Legal Services for the Average Citizen. He succeeded Herbert Wechsler as the fourth Director of the Institute in 1984 and is presently also serving as Co-Reporter for the ALI’s new project on Rules of Transnational Procedure.

As the first Trustee Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Hazard teaches courses in professional responsibility and civil procedure. He also worked closely with the Law School's Center on Professionalism, which developed innovative methods and materials for teaching legal ethics to law students, attorneys, and judges.

A former member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Professor Hazard is the author of numerous published articles and several books.

Ms. Cappella of Philadelphia came to the Institute in 1990 after serving six years as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, the state's judicial disciplinary agency. She assumed her present position in 1993.

Ms. Cappella has served on the Board of the Association of Judicial Disciplinary Counsel, as Chair of the Advisory Committee of the American Judicature Society's Center for Judicial Conduct Organizations, as Chair of the Wisconsin Women's Network's Task Force on Women in the Criminal Justice System, and as a consultant to the Wisconsin State Bar Commission on Legal Education. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she holds magna cum laude degrees from the University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D. 1979), where she was also Order of the Coif, Michigan State University (M.A. Communication 1974), and Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York (A.B. Mathematics 1969).

From 1979 to 1980 Ms. Cappella clerked for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She subsequently taught torts, criminal procedure, and women and the law at the University of Wisconsin. She also practiced law for three years in the Wisconsin Public Defender's Office, where she handled conditions of confinement litigation and related matters for state prisoners.

A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Greenwald of Philadelphia joined the staff of the Institute in 1978 and has been Editor of The ALI Reporter since its inception that year. In addition to his duties with ALI, he served from 1980 to 1981 as Director of ALI-ABA's Department of Research and Development. He was named Counselor to the Executive Vice President in 1986, and he assumed his present position in 1993.

Mr. Greenwald was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and subsequently a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, and he received his doctorate in English from Harvard in 1974. From 1970 to 1975 he was an Assistant Professor of English at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Before joining the Institute, he spent three years as a law clerk to the late Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, Michael J. Eagen. A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, he is presently a member of the Judicial Selection and Reform Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and formerly served on the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee of the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Center on Professionalism.

The American Law Institute, founded in 1923, drafts and publishes restatements of the law, model codes, and other proposals for legal reform "to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work." Its membership consists of judges, practicing lawyers, and legal scholars from all areas of the United States as well as some foreign countries, selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in the improvement of the law. The Institute’s incorporators included Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and former Secretary of State Elihu Root; Judges Benjamin N. Cardozo and Learned Hand were among its early leaders.

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