MEMORANDUM 98-46

October 26, 1998

 

To: Deans of Member Schools and Members of the AALS House of Representatives
From: Geoffrey Stone, Chair
Committee on Nominations
Subject: Nominations for President-Elect and for New Members of the Executive Committee

 

The Committee on Nominations for 1999 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on September 16, 1998. The members of the Committee are: Jo J. Carrillo, University of California, Hastings; Charles E. Daye, University of North Carolina; Sylvia Ann Law, New York University; David Thomas Link, Notre Dame Law School; Susan Westerberg Prager, UCLA; Edward L. Rubin, University of Pennsylvania; and Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago.

At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Saturday, January 9, 1999, the committee will place the following names in nomination:

For the Position of President-Elect:

Elliott S. Milstein; Washington College of Law, American University

For the Position of Member of the Executive Committee:

Rachel Moran, University of California, Berkeley
Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago

Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the Committee in 1999 are:

Gregory H. Williams, The Ohio State University, President
Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School, Immediate Past President

Term expiring 1999
David L. Chambers, The University of Michigan Law School
Pamela Brooks Gann, Duke University School of Law

Term expiring 2000
Judith C. Areen, Georgetown University Law Center
Lee E. Teitelbaum, University of Utah College of Law

Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association's House of Representatives meeting on Saturday, January 9, 1999, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. John Sexton will have completed his term as Immediate Past President; Phoebe Haddon and Elliott Milstein 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.

 

ELLIOTT S. MILSTEIN

Elliott Milstein received his B.A. from the University of Hartford in 1966; a J.D. (with honors) from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1969, an LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1971 where he was a Ford Urban Law Fellow, and an honorary LL.D. in 1997 from the University of Hartford. In 1972 he joined the faculty at the American University, Washington College of Law. He was the Director of the Clinical Programs from 1972 to 1988 when he became the dean of the College of Law, a position which he held for seven years. He served as Interim President of American University in 1993-94.

He currently teaches International Human Rights Clinic, a live-client in-house clinic in which he supervises students handling political asylum and international human rights cases, and Lawyer Bargaining, a simulation course in negotiation. He has previously taught Criminal Litigation Clinic, Women and the Law Clinic, Public Interest Law Clinic, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation, as well as courses in Criminal Law and Professional Responsibility. He has either chaired the planning committee or served on the faculty of more than half of the annual AALS Clinical Teachers Conferences and Workshops held since 1977. In his presentations and teaching demonstrations at those conferences he has developed and disseminated his work on the content, structure and methods of modern clinical education.

Professor Milstein has served on numerous AALS committees, including the Executive Committee, Committee on Accreditation, Committee on Clinical Legal Education, Task Force on Solomon Amendment (which he chaired), Nominations for 1989 Executive Committee; and clinical conference planning committees. He has also chaired the Section on Clinical Legal Education (1982) and received its William Pincus Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Legal Education. He served on several site evaluation teams.

 

RACHEL F. MORAN

Rachel F. Moran received her A.B. in Psychology with Honors and with Distinction from Stanford University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School where she was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Runner-up in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Prize Competition, and Teaching Assistant to the Associate Dean. She joined the faculty at the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1982 and is now the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law. At Boalt, she teaches Torts, Education and the Law, and Bilingualism and the Law. From 1993–96, she served as Chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change. In 1995, she received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Berkeley campus. She has published and lectured extensively in the area of bilingual education law and policy, and she is currently working on a book on interracial intimacy. She has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law, Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Miami School of Law.

Professor Moran has served on several AALS committees. She chaired the Special Commission on Meeting the Challenges of Diversity in an Academic Democracy and the Planning Committee for the 1997 Annual Meeting Workshop on Achieving Diversity in Legal Education and the Profession. She has been on the Journal of Legal Education Editorial Board, the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers, and the Nominating Committee. She is currently serving on the Membership Review Committee.

 

RANDAL C. PICKER

Professor Picker is the Paul and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from the College of the University of Chicago in 1980, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then spent two years in the Department of Economics, where he was a Friedman Fellow, completing his doctoral course work and exams; he received a masters degree in 1982. He attended the University of Chicago Law School and graduated cum laude in 1985. He is a member of the Order of the Coif. While at the Law School, Professor Picker was an associate editor of the Law Review. After graduation Professor Picker clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. He then spent three years with Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where he worked in the areas of debt restructuring and corporate reorganizations in bankruptcy, before joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty in 1989. He served as Associate Dean from 1994–96.

Professor Picker is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and served as project reporter for the Conference's Bankruptcy Code Review Project. He is also a commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and served as a member of the drafting committee to revise Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Professor Picker's primary areas of interest are the laws relating to capital formation and redeployment, regulated industries and antitrust, and application of game theory to the law. He co-authored Game Theory and the Law (with Douglas G. Baird and Robert Gertner). He teaches classes in antitrust, regulated industries, secured transactions, commercial transactions, bankruptcy, and corporate reorganizations.

 

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