MEMORANDUM 02-50

The Committee on Nominations for 2003 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on September 5, 2002. The members of the committee are: Katharine T. Bartlett, Duke University; Robert A. Gorman, Arizona State University; H. Reese Hansen, Brigham Young University; Harry J. Haynsworth, William Mitchell College of Law, Chair; Leo P. Martinez, University of California, Hastings; Nancy B. Rapoport, University of Houston; and Alfred Chueh-Chin Yen, Boston College.

At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Friday, January 3, 2003, the committee will place the following names in nomination:

For the Position of President-Elect:

Gerald Torres, University of Texas

For the Position of Members of the Executive Committee - Three-Year Term:

Alison Grey Anderson, University of California at Los Angeles
Allen K. Easley, Washburn University

Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the committee in 2003 are:

Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University
Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri-Columbia, President

Term expiring 2003
Richard A. Danner, Duke University
Mildred Wigfall Robinson, University of Virginia

Term expiring 2004
N. William Hines, University of Iowa
Nancy Rogers, Ohio State University

Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association’s House of Representatives meeting on Friday, January 3, 2003, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. Mary Kay Kane will have completed her term as Immediate Past President; Anita L. Allen-Castellitto and Todd D. Rakoff will have completed their three-year terms.

Biographical Sketches of the Nominees. The Directory of Law Teachers contains brief biographical sketches of the three nominees. For your convenience we have provided the following, more comprehensive, biographical information.

GERALD TORRES

Gerald Torres received his A.B. in 1974 from Stanford University, his J.D. in 1977 from Yale, and his LL.M. in 1980 from the University of Michigan. He became a staff attorney with Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, DC in 1977. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1980 as an Assistant Professor. He joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1983, where he later served as Associate Dean. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources and Counsel to the Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC from 1993-1995. He became a Professor at the University of Texas in 1993, where he became Associate Dean in 1997, and served as Vice Provost from 1999-2001.

He has served on several AALS committees including the Executive Committee, Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting, Nominating Committee, Resource Corps, AALS/ABA/LSAC Joint Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, was co-Chair of the Special Commission on Meeting the Challenges of Diversity in an Academic Democracy, and Chair of the Planning Committee for 1992 Workshop on Minorities in Law Teaching as well as a member of other planning committees, including the 1997 Conference on New Ideas for Experienced Teachers II.

Professor Torres has written numerous law review articles, with an emphasis on federal Indian, agricultural, and environmental law. He recently co-authored the book, The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy with Lani Guinier. He serves on the Board of the Environmental Law Institute, the National Petroleum Council and formerly served on the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. He is currently a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the Open Society Institute, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

ALISON GREY ANDERSON

Alison Anderson received her B.A. in 1965 from Radcliffe College and her J.D. in 1968 from the University of California at Berkeley. She clerked for Judge Simon Sobeloff, United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968. She then became an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, DC in 1969. She joined the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles in 1972 as an Acting Professor and has been a Professor since 1977.

Professor Anderson has served on several AALS committees including the Nominating Committee, Professional Development Committee, Special Committee on Placement, as well as Chair of the Committee on Accreditation. She has also served on planning committees including Chair of the Planning Committee for the 2001 Workshop on New Ideas for Experienced Teachers, and has presented workshops on law teaching at various law schools.

Professor Anderson has written several law review articles, with an emphasis on securities exchange and corporate structure. She has served as a Consultant at the Rule of Law Program in Kiev, Ukraine and a Carnegie Scholar of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), and is a member of the American Law Institute.

ALLEN K. EASLEY

Allen Easley received his B.A. from the College of Wooster in 1970 and his J.D. in 1974 and LL.M. in 1979 from Temple University. In 1974, he joined the law firm of Egnal & Egnal in Philadelphia. He served as senior law clerk for Judge Herbert Fogel, United States District Court in Philadelphia from 1976 to 1977. He became a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Temple University in 1977. He joined the faculty of Washburn University as an Assistant Professor in 1979. He became an Associate Professor in 1981, Professor in 1984, and has been Associate Dean since 1991.

He has served on several AALS committees including the Committee on Libraries and Technology, the Planning Committee for the 2000 Annual Meeting Workshop on the Impact of Technology on Law and Legal Culture. He chaired the Special Committee on Faculty Recruitment Services which designed the web-based Faculty Appointment Register and is just completing a two-year term as chair of the Membership Review Committee. He spoke at the first Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Professors and has remained an active member of the Conference.

Dean Easley has written several law review articles, with an emphasis on civil procedure, chaired several site visit teams, and served as the first chair of the Law School Admission Council’s Admit-M Advisory Group.

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