MEMORANDUM 03-39

The Committee on Nominations for 2004 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on September 4, 2003. The members of the committee are: Sara Sun Beale, Duke University; Harry J. Haynsworth, William Mitchell College of Law; Daniel Louis Keating, Washington University, Chair; David Wayne Leebron, Columbia University; Harry G. Prince, University of California, Hastings; Efren Rivera-Ramos, University of Puerto Rico; and Laura F. Rothstein, University of Louisville.

At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Monday, January 5, 2004, the committee will place the following names in nomination:

For the Position of President-Elect:
        N. William Hines, University of Iowa

For the Position of Members of the Executive Committee - Three-Year Term:
        John H. Garvey, Boston College
        Beverly I. Moran, Vanderbilt University

For the Position of Member of the Executive Committee - One-Year Term:

If Dean Hines is elected President-Elect, we will nominate Richard A. Danner, Duke University for the remaining one year of his term.

Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the committee in 2004 are:

        Gerald Torres, University of Texas
        Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University

        Term expiring 2004
        Nancy Rogers, Ohio State University

        Term expiring 2005
        Alison Grey Anderson, University of California at Los Angeles
        Allen K. Easley, Washburn University

Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association's House of Representatives meeting on Monday, January 5, 2004, at the Annual Meeting, two members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. Dale A. Whitman will have completed his term as Immediate Past President and Mildred Wigfall Robinson will have completed her three-year term.

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

N. WILLIAM HINES
N. William Hines received his A.B. from Baker University in 1958 and his LL.B. from University of Kansas in 1961. During law school, he clerked for Senior Judge Walter A. Huxman, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit. He became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard in 1961. He became Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in 1962, where he became Associate Professor in 1965, Professor in 1967, and Dean in 1976. He served as Director of Iowa's Agricultural Law Center 1963-73. He has been the Joseph F. Rosenfeld Distinguished Professor since 1973.

Dean Hines has served on several AALS committees including chair and a member of the Nominating Committee, chair of the AALS Section on Administration of Law Schools, two terms as chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure and chair of the AALS-NALP Joint Committee on Job Fairs. He also served on the Committee on Professional Development, chaired several planning committees and was twice a Group Leader in AALS Law Teaching Clinics.

Dean Hines has written numerous law review articles and books, with an emphasis on property, estate planning, and environmental law. He is currently an elected member of the International Council of Environmental Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the American Law Institute.

RICHARD A. DANNER
Richard Danner received his B.A. in 1969, his M.S. in 1975, and his J.D. in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin. In 1979, he became Associate Librarian at Duke University, where he later became Director and Associate Professor in 1982, and Professor in 1985. He was named Rufty Research Professor of Law in 2003. He has been the Senior Associate Dean for Information Services since 1998.

He has served on the AALS Committee on Libraries as well as the Advisory Group on Electronic Publishing. He has also served on the Membership Review Committee and is completing a two-year partial term on the Executive Committee.

Dean Danner has written numerous law review articles and books, particularly in the area of law librarianship and information technology. He has served as President of the American Association of Law Libraries and on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Libraries, and the Digital Collections Project Task Force of the Research Libraries Group. He has also served as Editor of the Law Library Journal.

JOHN H. GARVEY
John Garvey received his A.B. from University of Notre Dame in 1970 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974. He clerked for Judge Irving R. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit in 1974. In 1975, he was an Associate with Morrison & Foerster. He became Professor at the University of Kentucky in 1976, and an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice in 1981-84. He became Professor at Notre Dame Law School in 1994. He has been Dean of Boston College Law School since 1999.

He has served on the AALS Planning Committee for the Mini-Workshop on the Last Ten Years: What Your Students Know that You Should Know Too. He also served as Chair of three different Sections: Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, and the Section for the Law School Dean.

Dean Garvey has written numerous law review articles and books, with an emphasis on religious freedom and constitutional law. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 1982 and Institute for Judicial Administration in 1984.

BEVERLY I. MORAN
Beverly Moran received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1977, her J.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1981, and her LL.M. from New York University in 1986. In 1981, she became an Associate with Cullen & Dykman. In 1983, she became Executive Director of New York City Business Relocation Assistance Corporation. At University of Cincinnati, she became Assistant Professor in 1986, Associate Professor in 1989, and Professor in 1990. At University of Wisconsin, she became Associate Professor in 1991 and Voss Bascom Professor in 1994. She has been a Professor at Vanderbilt University since 2001.

She has served on several AALS planning committees, Committee on Professional Development, and Committee on Curriculum and Research. She has also served as Chair of the Sections on Africa and Minority Groups, and on the Board of the Society of American Law Teachers.

Professor Moran has written numerous law review articles and books, with an emphasis on Race and Tax Law. She is currently an elected member of the American Law Institute.

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