ALI Names 18 New Law Prof Members

The American Law Institue has announced that Tax Prof Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah) and seventeen other law professors are among its 47 new members:

• Ronald G. Aronovsky (Southwestern)
• Susan Bisom-Rapp (Thomas Jefferson)
• Robert Mims Chesney (Wake Forest)
• Sarah H. Cleveland (Columbia)
• Darby Dickerson (Stetson)
• Catherine L. Fisk (Duke)
• William Funk (Lewis & Clark)
• Heather Gerken (Yale)
• Jennifer J. Johnson (Lewis & Clark)
• Craig N. Johnston (Lewis & Clark)
• Christine Jolls (Yale)
• Glenn S. Koppel (Western State)
• Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola-L.A.)
• Kermit Roosevelt (Pennsylvania)
• Lionel D. Smith (McGill)
• Maxwell L. Stearns (Maryland)
• Simon J. Whittaker (Oxford)

ALI's total membership is now 4,098 (2,718 active and 1,380 life, honorary, and ex officio members).  As Brian Leiter (Texas) notes, ALI membership is "a traditional badge of distinction in the legal academy" (but Brian has stopped factoring ALI membership in his law school rankings for the reasons he explains here). For a list of the 69 Tax Prof members of ALI, see below the fold:

• Howard E. Abrams (Emory)
• Alice G. Abreu (Temple)
• Thomas B. Allington (Indiana-Indianapolis)
• William D. Andrews (Harvard)
• Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.)
• Loretta C. Argrett (Howard)
• Mark L. Ascher (Teas)
• Hugh J. Ault (Boston College)
• Carter G. Bishop (Suffolk)
• Ira Mark Bloom (Albany)
• Thomas G. Bost (Pepperdine)
• David A. Brennen (Georgia)
• Evelyn Brody (Chicago-Kent)
• Karen B. Brown (George Washington)
• Lawrence R. Brown (Lewis & Clark)
• Karen C. Burke (San Diego)
• Patricia A. Cain (Santa Clara)
• C. Ronald Chester (New England)
• Alan L. Feld (Boston University)
• Mary Louise Fellows (Minnesota)
• J. Clifton Fleming (BYU)
• Martin L. Fried (Syracuse)
• Thomas P. Gallanis (Minnesota)
• Deborah A. Geier (Cleveland State)
• Mark P. Gergen (Texas)
• Wendy C. Gerzog (Baltimore)
• Martin D. Ginsburg (Georgetown)
• Michael J. Graetz (Yale)
• Edward C. Halbach (UC-Berkeley)
• Daniel I. Halperin (Harvard)
• Christopher H. Hanna (SMU)
• Walter Hellerstein (Georgia)
• Frances R. Hill (Miami)
• Erik M. Jensen (Case Western)
• Carolyn C. Jones (Iowa)
• Herbert I. Lazerow (San Diego)
• Ray D. Madoff (Boston College)
• Elliott Manning (Miami)
• Leo P. Martinez (UC-Hastings)
• Guy B. Maxfield (NYU)
• Edward McCaffery (USC)
• Grayson M. P. McCouch (San Diego)
• Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah)
• Martin J. McMahon (Florida)
• John K. McNulty (UC-Berkeley)
• Beverly I. Moran (Vanderbilt)
• Joel S. Newman (Wake Forest)
• William W. Park (Boston University)
• Jeffrey N. Pennell (Emory)
• William D. Popkin (Indiana-Bloomington)
• Richard C. Pugh (San Diego)
• Eric Rakowski (UC-Berkeley)
• Deborah H. Schenk (NYU)
• David Schizer (Columbia)
• Richard Schmalbeck (Duke)
• Jeffrey Alan Schoenblum (Vanderbilt)
• Ferdinand P. Schoettle (Minnesota)
• Virginia V. Shue (San Diego)
• Daniel L. Simmons (UC-Davis)
• Karla W. Simon (Catholic)
• Theodore S. Sims (Boston University)
• Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard)
• Paul B. Stephan III (Virginia)
• William P. Streng (Houston)
• Samuel C. Thompson (Penn State)
• Stephen Utz (Connecticut)
• Lawrence W. Waggoner (Michigan)
• Alvin C. Warren (Harvard)
• Bruce A. Wolk (UC-Davis)
• Eric M. Zolt (UCLA)