Prof elected to American Law Institute

Leland Ware, Louis L. Redding Professor for the Study of Law and Public Policy

3:04 p.m., Nov. 29, 2004--Leland Ware, Louis L. Redding Professor for the Study of Law and Public Policy at UD, has been elected a member of the American Law Institute. The institute’s membership consists of judges, lawyers and law teachers from all areas of the United States, as well as some foreign countries, selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in the improvement of the law.

“I’m honored to be selected as a member of this very distinguished organization,” Ware said. “I’m looking forward to working with the group.”

“Prof. Ware already serves on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union and recently received an award for his coauthored book on Brown v. Board of Education,” Jeffrey Raffel, Messick Professor of Public Administration and director of UD’s School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, said. “Membership in the American Law Institute will provide him with another opportunity to bring his strong sense of justice, his passion for diversity and his outstanding scholarship to bear on issues of major national importance.”

The American Law Institute was organized in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work. Its incorporators included U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (and former president) William Howard Taft, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and former Secretary of State Elihu Root. Judges Benjamin Cardozo and Learned Hand were among its early leaders.

The institute’s bylaws authorize an elected membership of 3,000. There is also an ex officio membership consisting of the chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the chief judges of each United States Court of Appeals, the attorney general and solicitor general of the United States, the chief justice or judge of the highest court of each state, law school deans, the presidents of the American Bar Association, each state bar association and other prominent legal organizations.

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