Lance Liebman
Lance Liebman (born 1941) is an American law professor. He is the former Dean of Columbia Law School,[1] and served as the Director of the American Law Institute from May 1999 to May 2014.[2]
Education
Liebman received his
Legal and Academic Career
After serving as a
In 1991 he moved to Columbia as Dean of the law school[4] and as the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. He stepped down as dean in 1996 and was named the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law; the following year he was appointed director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia.
Leadership of The American Law Institute
On May 16, 1999, Liebman was named Director of the
Under Liebman's leadership, the Institute experienced a significant expansion of its law reform work with the commencement of 18 new projects, including the first project in the Restatement Fourth series, The Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Works completed and published under Liebman’s stewardship include new Restatements of Agency, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Torts: Apportionment, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, and Trusts, as well as Principles of the Law volumes on Aggregate Litigation, Family Dissolution, Intellectual Property, Software Contracts, Transnational Civil Procedure, and Transnational Insolvency. Also published were a proposed federal statute concerning recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and 11 volumes on world trade law.
A final draft of The Restatement Third, Employment Law was approved by the membership of the American Law Institute at its May 2014 Annual Meeting on the final day of Liebman's tenure as Director. It is expected to be published in early 2015.
International Teaching Experience
Liebman has had extensive international teaching experience. He was a Visiting Fulbright Professor of Law at Maharajah Sayajirao University in
Research and Writing
Liebman's research and teaching interests include employment law, legal ethics, comparative United States–Japanese social-welfare law, property law, and telecommunications law.
He is the author of A Concise Restatement of Property (2001), and the coauthor of Decentralizing City Government (1972), Property (2d ed. 1985), The Social Responsibilities of Lawyers, Case Studies (1988), and Employment Law (4th ed. 1998).
Personal life
Married to Carol B. Liebman, who is clinical professor of law at
See also
References
- ^ Columbia Law School - Faculty Bios - Lance Liebman
- ^ American Law Institute bio - Lance Liebman
- ^ Swing Man on the Supreme Court, By Lance Liebman, the New York Times, October 8, 1972
- ^ At the Bar-At Columbia Law School, an uncommon ebullience and evangelism at the top, David Margolick, The New York Times, November 27, 1992