UC Law SF Board Chair Thomas F. Gede '81 Elected to the American Law Institute

Thomas F. Gede ’81, Chair of the UC Law SF Board of DirectorsThe American Law Institute (ALI) has elected Thomas F. Gede ’81, Chair of the UC Law SF Board of Directors, to join its membership. Gede is one of 41 new members announced by the ALI this week, a group of individuals who “bring a wide range of perspectives and areas of expertise to ALI’s work of clarifying the law through Restatements, Principles and Model Penal Codes.”

“It is essential to ALI’s process that each of our projects includes members who are at the top of the legal profession and diverse in every way,” said ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo. “We rely on our members’ unique perspectives to create discussion that produces balanced work that clarifies the law. It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome these newly elected members to ALI and our law reform projects.”

Gede is a Principal in Morgan Lewis Consulting, where he assists clients in sensitive high-profile matters involving state governments. He is also Of Counsel at Morgan Lewis & Brockius LLP, where he represents clients in complex governmental matters in litigation, administrative and regulatory proceedings. A former senior deputy in the California Attorney General’s office, he was amicus coordinator and Supreme Court counsel, and argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and numerous state and federal appellate courts.

“This ALI membership affords me a remarkable association with many distinguished experts in their fields,” says Gede, “all of whom are dedicated to the improvement, clarification and simplification of the law and the administration of justice, as well as in furthering the very best in scholarship.”

Mr. Gede has also testified before Congress on American Indian and Native Alaskan issues, and has served for several years as an Adviser to the ALI project on the Restatement of the Law Third, The Law of American Indians. In 2012 he was appointed by Speaker John Boehner to serve on the United States Indian Law and Order Commission, where he examined criminal justice issues in Indian country and Alaska, resulting in the issuance of an important report to the President and Congress.

“Having worked in the field of American Indian law for more than 25 years, and having served as a Commissioner on the federal Indian Law and Order Commission, I am humbled to be recognized for my work and honored to be elected to the ALI,” says Gede. “As an active member, I hope to continue providing assistance to the team working on this important project. Unlike the Restatement of Torts or Contracts, this new Restatement is being written ‘from scratch,’ calling on the creativity and judgment of the team crafting what will become an important publication for the bench and bar.”

“UC Law SF is very fortunate to benefit from Tom Gede’s leadership as the Chair of our Board of Directors,” says UC Law SF Acting Chancellor & Dean David Faigman. “Tom’s dedication to legal education is extraordinary and his contributions to the furtherance and improvement of the law have been most impressive. With his experience and perspective, Tom will be a valuable addition to the American Law Institute’s membership.”

UC Law SF Alumni Elected into the ALI

Professor James D. Cox
Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC

John K. DiMugno, Esquire
Litigation Research Group
Cameron Park, CA

Mark E. Foster, Esquire
Law Offices of Mark Foster
Caledonia, MI

Karen S. Frank, Esquire
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP
San Francisco, CA

Thomas F. Gede, Esquire
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
San Francisco, CA

Professor Jay E. Grenig
Marquette University Law School
Delafield, WI

Rosemary Hart, Esquire
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC

Candace J. Heisler, Esquire
San Bruno ,CA

Richard W. Langerman, Esquire
Law Offices of Richard Langerman
Phoenix, AZ

Matthew L. Larrabee, Esquire
Dechert LLP
New York, NY

Professor Lawrence C. Levine
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Sacramento, CA

The Hon. Eugene F. Lynch
JAMS
Ross, CA

Ronald E. Mallen, Esquire
Hinshaw & Culberton LLP
San Francisco, CA

Professor Leo P. Martinez
University of California, Hastings College of Law
San Francisco, CA

John J. McGregor, Esquire
McCormick Barstow LLP
Fresno, CA

The Hon. J. Dean Morgan
Seattle, WA

Professor Catherine A. Rogers
Penn State University, Penn State Law
University Park, PA

Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz
University of Arkansas, William H. Bowen
Little Rock, AR

E. Budd Simpson, Esquire
Simpson Tillinghast Sorensen & Sheehan, PC
Juneau, AK

Michael W. Stocker, Esquire
Labaton Sucharow LLP
New York, NY

Mark L. Tuft, Esquire
Cooper, White & Cooper
San Francisco, CA

Alfred M. K. Wong, Esquire
Takushi Wong Lee & Yee
Honolulu, HI

Robert Cressey Wright, Esquire
Wright & L’Estrange
San Diego, CA

UC Law SF Faculty Elected into the ALI

Professor Jo Carrillo
Professor John L. Diamond
Dean David L. Faigman
Professor Robin Cooper Feldman
Professor Brian E. Gray
Professor Joseph R. Grodin
Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
Professor Elizabeth Lutes Hillman
Professor Carol L. Izumi
Professor Mary Kay Kane
Professor Chimène Keitner
Professor Charles Lincoln Knapp
Professor Frederick W. Lambert
Professor Evan Tsen Lee
Professor David I. Levine
Professor Richard L. Marcus
Professor Leo P. Martinez
Professor Roger Park
Professor Harry G. Prince
Professor Kevin Tierney
Professor William K.S. Wang
Professor D. Kelly Weisberg
Professor Frank H. Wu