At the 92nd Annual Meeting of The American Law Institute, the ALI Council named Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas as its Second Vice President.
Judge Rosenthal was elected to ALI in 1994 and was elected to the Council in 2007. Previously she served as Chair of the Program Committee, now renamed Projects Committee. She is an Adviser on the Principles of Data Privacy project and was an Adviser on the now-completed Restatement of Employment Law project. She previously served as an Adviser on the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation project.
Before being appointed to the bench, Judge Rosenthal was a partner at Baker & Botts in Houston. In 2007, she was appointed to chair the Judicial Conference Committee on the Rules of Practice of Procedure, which coordinates the work of the Advisory Committees for the Civil, Criminal, Evidence, Appellate, and Bankruptcy Rules. After law school, she clerked for Chief Judge John R. Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
In addition to the election of Judge Rosenthal, the ALI Council also elected Douglas Laycock, the Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law and the Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, as its First Vice President. Professor Laycock was previously ALI’s Second Vice President.
Professor Laycock was elected to ALI in October 1983 and was elected to the Council in May 2001. He is on the Members Consultative Group for the Principles of the Law of Charitable Nonprofit Organizations and previously served as an Adviser on the Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment project.
Before joining the University of Virginia's faculty in 2010, Professor Laycock served as the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to that he taught for 25 years at the University of Texas and for five years at the University of Chicago.