November
3, 1999
MEMORANDUM
99-47
TO: Deans of Member Schools and
Members of the AALS
House of Representatives
FROM: N. William Hines, Chair
Committee on Nominations
SUBJECT: Nominations
for President-Elect and for New Members of the Executive Committee
The Committee on Nominations for 2000 Officers and
Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on September 23, 1999, and
all members were in attendance. The
members of the Committee are: Eleanor M. Fox, New York University; Richard A.
Matasar, University of Florida; Burnele Venable Powell, University of
Missouri-Kansas City; Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago; Kathleen M.
Sullivan, Stanford Law School; Gerald Torres, The University of Texas; and N.
William Hines, University of Iowa, Chair.
At the meeting of the House of
Representatives on Saturday, January 8, 2000, the committee will place the
following names in nomination:
For
the Position of President-Elect:
Mary Kay Kane, University of
California, Hastings
For
the Position of Member of the Executive Committee:
Anita L. Allen-Castellitto,
University of Pennsylvania
Todd D. Rakoff, Harvard Law School
Continuing
Members of the Executive Committee: Those
members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the Committee in
2000 are:
Elliott S. Milstein, American
University, President
Gregory H. Williams, The Ohio State
University, Immediate Past President
Term expiring 2000
Judith C. Areen, Georgetown
University Law Center
Lee E. Teitelbaum, Cornell Law
School
Term
expiring 2001
Rachel F. Moran, University of
California at Berkeley
Randal C. Picker, The University of
Chicago
Retiring
Members of the Executive Committee. At the
conclusion of the Association’s House of Representatives meeting on Saturday,
January 8, 2000, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive
Committee will have completed their terms.
Deborah Rhode will have completed her term as Immediate Past President;
David Chambers and Pamela Gann 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.
MARY KAY KANE
Mary Kay Kane received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1968 and her J.D. (with
honors) from the University of Michigan Law School in 1971. In that same year she became a Research
Associate at the University of Michigan Law School where she was the
co-director of the National Science Foundation project on privacy,
confidentiality and social science research data. She became an Assistant Professor in 1974 at the State University
of New York at Buffalo Law School. In
1977 she joined the faculty of California, Hastings, becoming Associate
Academic Dean in 1981 and Dean of the Law School in 1993.
She has served on the Executive Committee and other
Association committees including many workshop Planning Committees, the
Committee on Professional Development, the Nominating Committee and the Special
Committee on Faculty Recruitment Services which was instrumental in putting the
Faculty Appointments Register on-line.
She has served as chair of the Sections on Remedies and Civil Procedure.
Dean Kane is an active member of the American Law
Institute. She has written numerous law
review articles and books, particularly in the area of Civil Procedure. She is a co-author of a Civil Procedure
casebook, Federal Practice and Procedure (C. Wright, A. Miller & M.
Kane).
ANITA L. ALLEN-CASTELLITTO
Professor Anita Allen-Castellitto
received her B.A. from New College in 1974.
After receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of
Michigan in 1978 she went on to earn her J.D. from Harvard Law School in
1984. She joined the faculty of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1998, after also serving on the faculty of the
University of Pittsburgh and Georgetown University. She teaches Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence.
Professor
Allen-Castellitto has served as chair of the AALS Sections on Jurisprudence and
Defamation and Privacy. She is
currently finishing her term on the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. She has also served on the Nominating
Committee and the Planning Committee for the 1994 Mini-Workshop on Beyond
Tokenism: Wrestling with Power, Creating Opportunity. She has written numerous law review articles and books, including
a recently published casebook entitled Privacy Law, (with Richard
Turkington).
TODD D. RAKOFF
Todd D. Rakoff is the Byrne
Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School. In 1967 he earned his B.A. in Social Studies
and his J.D. in 1975 from Harvard University.
He began his legal teaching career in 1978 as an Assistant Professor at
Harvard. From 1993-98 he served as the
Law School’s Associate Dean.
He has served on various Association
committees including workshop planning committees, the Committee on
Nominations, and the Committee on Professional Development which he chaired
from 1992-94.
Professor Rakoff has written
numerous law review articles, recent electronic publications, and is co-author
of an Administrative Law casebook entitled Gellhorn and Byse’s
Administrative Law (Strauss, Rakoff, Schotland & Farina).
cc: Executive Committee
Committee on Nominations
Deans of non-member fee-paid schools
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