Michael Traynor
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Michael Traynor served as ALI’s eighth President from 2000 to 2008, taking office after the sudden death of Charles Alan Wright. He is a recipient of ALI’s Distinguished Service Award.
Traynor has been an ALI member since 1972 and was elected to the Council in 1985. He has served as an Adviser for several ALI projects, including Restatement Third of Unfair Competition, both the Projects Liability and Apportionment of Liability segments of Restatement Third of Torts, the 1988 Revisions to the Restatement Second of Conflict of Laws, Restatement Third of Restitution, Restatement Third of Conflict of Laws, and Restatement Fourth of the Foreign Relations Law (Jurisdiction).