Dedicated to Clarifying and Improving the Law
86th Annual Meeting
May 18-20, 2009
The Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
TENTATIVE AGENDA
(As of March 16, 2009)
Note: This agenda, current as of the date shown, is subject to change before or during the Meeting. Annual Meeting sessions are open to ALI members and guests registered to attend the Meeting. Sunday’s CLE programs are open to the public. Events that require advance registration or an invitation are marked with an asterisk (*). Online registration will be available in mid-February.
| Pre-meeting Events | ||
| Sunday, May 17 | ||
| 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. | *CLE Program and Members Consultative Group Meeting: ALI Project on Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration |
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| 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. | *CLE Program: Developments in Legal Ethics | |
| Annual Meeting Program and Events (All sessions and events in the Grand Ballroom unless otherwise noted.) |
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| Monday, May 18 | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Opening Session
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| 11:15 a.m. | Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm (Tentative Draft presented for approval) Reporters: Michael D. Green and William C. Powers, Jr. |
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| 12:45 p.m. | *New Member Luncheon (by invitation only - State Room) (lunch for most members is “on your own”; see the registration room for list of nearby lunch places) |
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| 2:00 p.m. | Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm (continued) | |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law (Tentative Draft presented for approval) Reporters: Samuel Estreicher, Michael C. Harper, and Stewart J. Schwab |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Adjournment | |
| 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. | *Members Reception (The Phillips Collection) | |
| Tuesday, May 19 | [includes concurrent sessions] | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Employment Law (continued) | |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Session A: Principles of the Law of Software Contracts (Proposed Final Draft presented for approval) Reporters: Robert A. Hillman and Maureen A. O’Rourke |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Session B: Restatement of the Law Third, Trusts (Colonial Room) (Tentative Draft presented for approval) Reporters: Edward C. Halbach, Jr. and Randall W. Roth |
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| 12:45 p.m. | *Luncheon honoring new Life (25-year) Members and new 50-year Members (State Room) Speaker: Helaine M. Barnett, President, Legal Services Corporation |
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| 2:00 p.m. | Capital Punishment Report and vote on Council recommendation that ALI withdraw Model Penal Code §210.6 Presenter: Paul L. Friedman, Program Committee Chair |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Model Penal Code: Sentencing (Discussion Draft) Reporter: Kevin Reitz |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Adjournment | |
| 7:00 p.m. | *Annual Reception (State Room) and | |
| 7:45 p.m. | Dinner (black-tie optional) Speaker: The Honorable Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of Arizona |
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| Wednesday, May 20 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation (Proposed Final Draft presented for approval) Reporters: Samuel Issacharoff, Robert H. Klonoff, Richard A. Nagareda, and Charles Silver |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:15 a.m. | Aggregate Litigation (continued) | |
| 12:45 p.m. | *Luncheon (State Room) Speaker: The Honorable Arlen Specter, United States Senator from Pennsylvania |
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| 2:00 p.m. | Aggregate Litigation (continued) | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations (Tentative Draft presented for approval) Reporter: Evelyn Brody |
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| 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Nonprofit Organizations (continued) | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjournment | |