VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 2 WINTER 2014 The ReporterPublished By The American Law Institute DEDICATED TO CLARIFYING AND IMPROVING THE LAW Richard L. Revesz of NYU Is ALI Director Designate In late January, the Council of University, to work with ALI The American Law Institute President Roberta Cooper Ramo announced a transition in as a search committee. The leadership as Richard L. Revesz search committee unanimously of New York University School recommended Professor Revesz, of Law was named Director whose appointment was approved Designate. An ALI member unanimously by ALI’s Council. since 1991, Professor Revesz is the Lawrence King Professor of ALI President Roberta Ramo Law and Dean Emeritus at NYU said: “In more than 90 years of and will remain a member of working toward law reform, we NYU’s full-time faculty. He will have had only five Directors, work with ALI Director Lance and each one was a giant in the Liebman until May 2014, when law. In Richard Revesz, we have Professor Liebman will complete found another major legal figure his 15-year directorship. to carry on the essential work of clarifying, modernizing, and The Nominating Committee of improving the law.” the ALI Council appointed Chief Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. President Ramo said she was “especially happy because Court of Appeals for the Seventh NYU Law Dean Emeritus and Lance is so enthusiastic about Circuit and Gerhard Casper, ALI Director Designate Richard L. Revesz President Emeritus of Stanford his successor. The ALI will continued on page 2 Inside… X The President’s Letter Chairs Selected for Regional News from Philadelphia, Without Snow Advisory Groups pages 6-7 In a brilliant, prescient moment of scheduling, the Council of the ALI met in Philadelphia in January the week before a crippling snowstorm hit the area. This meeting Q&A with Trevor Potter had a particularly packed agenda, with seven project drafts to consider and with many page 8 reports of Council Committees deep in their work for the year. The Philadelphia meeting was held just before the Council appointed Richard Revesz, News about the professor and former dean at NYU Law School, our Director Designate as successor to Lance Liebman. You have already seen his sterling resume and you can learn much more 91st Annual Meeting about him in the cover article in this issue of our quarterly Reporter. We are all—Lance, May 19-21, 2014 • Washington, DC Stephanie Middleton, Dan Meltzer, and the entire Council—excited at the reality that Pages 3, 4 & 5 Ricky will succeed Lance at the close of our Annual Meeting in May. He is already working hard to get up to speed on our 14 projects in various states of development and continued on page 20 Winter 2014 | 1 Richard L. Revesz continued from page 1 benefit from Lance and Ricky working Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to together as a team along with Stephanie parents who had fled Europe in the Middleton, our Deputy Director, until 1930s, Professor Revesz came to the May, which will ensure that our 14 United States just one week before A Reminder from ongoing law-reform projects continue beginning his studies at Princeton without interruption.” University. Professor Revesz graduated the Membership summa cum laude from Princeton Department: Professor Revesz is one of the and earned a master’s degree from the nation’s leading voices in the fields of Massachusetts Institute of Technology When updating your online environmental and regulatory law and in environmental engineering before bio or CV, please include your policy. He has published eight books attending Yale Law School, where he was membership in The American and 60 articles in major law reviews Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. Law Institute. For website and journals, and his work focuses on bios, consider adding a link to the use of cost-benefit analysis, the Professor Revesz clerked for then-Chief the ALI’s home page. Doing Judge Wilfred Feinberg on the U.S. allocation of regulatory responsibility so enhances your professional Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a federal system, and the design of credentials and promotes ALI by and for Justice Thurgood Marshall on liability regimes. making you a potential source of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was then information about the Institute that he met his wife, Vicki L. Been, who As dean of NYU School of Law from for your colleagues. was clerking for Supreme Court Justice June 2002 to May 2013, he increased the Harry Blackmun. size of the full-time faculty by more than 30 percent, building the leading faculty Professor Been—one of the nation’s groups in many significant areas of the leading scholars at the intersection of editor law. He more than doubled the number land use, urban policy, and affordable Marianne M. Walker of clinics, and established 11 new centers housing—is the Boxer Family Professor (215) 243-1627 and institutes—interdisciplinary ventures of Law at NYU School of Law, the [email protected] that bring together faculty members, Director of NYU’s Furman Center for professional researchers, and students to Real Estate and Urban Policy, and an associate editor work in areas of legal and policy salience. Affiliated Professor of Public Policy of Todd David Feldman Professor Revesz also enhanced NYU’s the NYU Wagner Graduate School of commitment to public-interest law Public Service. On Feb. 8, 2014, New (215) 243-1682 and to scholarships to support students York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced [email protected] from socio-economically disadvantaged that she will be the Commissioner of the backgrounds. Department of Housing Preservation managing editor and Development. Shannon P. Duffy (215) 243-1694 [email protected] With our responsive design, membership director the ALI 91st Annual Meeting website Beth M. Goldstein looks good on every device. (215) 243-1666 [email protected] The ALI Reporter (ISSN 0164-5757) is pub- lished quarterly by The American Law Insti- tute, 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3099. Periodicals U.S. postage paid at Langhorne, PA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes and any other communications to 4025 Chestnut Street, http://2014annualmeeting.org Philadelphia, PA 19104-3099. 2 | The ALI Reporter Justice Ginsburg to Present Distinguished Service Award to Gerhard Casper The American Law Institute’s Cooper Ramo—that was tasked with Annual Meeting, and the Institute later Distinguished Service Award will be identifying and recommending a new sponsors a conference on issues related presented at this year’s Annual Meeting Director. In late January, the search to the scholars’ work. on Tuesday, May 20, to Gerhard Casper, committee unanimously recommended the President Emeritus of Stanford and the Council unanimously approved Professor Casper was also a member of University, whose extraordinary service Richard L. Revesz, the Dean Emeritus of the Program Committee from 2001 to over more than three decades has helped NYU School of Law, as ALI’s Director 2007, assisting the Director in discerning to chart the Institute’s course and shape Designate to replace Lance Liebman which new projects should be started. its agenda. when he ends his directorship in May He has also served since 2002 as an 2014. Adviser on the ALI project Principles of Presenting the award will be the Law of Charitable Nonprofit U.S. Supreme Court Justice Organizations, bringing his Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who experience to an area that needs developed a friendship with clarification and simplification. Professor Casper when they both served as directors A lifelong leader in academia, of the American Bar Professor Casper is the President Foundation, a relationship Emeritus of Stanford University that continued and and a Professor of Law Emeritus deepened during their 13 at Stanford Law School. Before years on the ALI Council joining Stanford, he was a together. longtime faculty member at the University of Chicago, Professor Casper was elected where he served as provost of to the ALI in 1977 and the University, dean of the law served for 30 years on the GINSBURG CASPER school, and a professor of law. Council, from 1980 to 2010. As Chair of He began his career as a professor of the Nominating Committee, he led the To increase the ALI’s profile among rising political science at the University of efforts to identify qualified candidates stars in the ranks of law school professors, California at Berkeley. for the ALI’s Council, volunteer officers, Professor Casper suggested the idea of and Executive and Audit Committees. an invitational meeting of promising A native of Hamburg, Germany, young scholars. This led to the creation Professor Casper studied law at the He continues to be an active participant of ALI’s Young Scholars Medal, which Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, as an emeritus member of the Council, recognizes academics whose work has where he earned his first law degree. most recently by serving on the three- the potential to influence improvements In the United States, he studied at Yale member search committee—along with in the law. First bestowed in 2011, the Law School, earning an LL.M., then Chief Judge Diane P. Wood of the medal is given every other year to one or returned to Freiburg, where he received U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh two early-career law professors. Each of his doctorate, writing his dissertation on Circuit and ALI President Roberta the scholars is asked to speak at an ALI the realist movement in American law. Professor Neil Cohen to Receive Wisdom Award The John Minor Wisdom Award than 25 years in major domestic and recognizes extraordinary contributions international law-reform projects.