American Law Institute president to deliver Fairchild Lecture

Michael Traynor, president of the American Law Institute, will deliver the 16th annual Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture at the Law School on Friday, April 23.

Traynor’s talk, “Citizenship in a Time of Repression,” will be held at 4 p.m. in the school’s Godfrey and Kahn Lecture Hall.

The Philadelphia-based American Law Institute, considered the most prestigious organization of lawyers, judges and academics in the nation, promotes clarification and simplification of the law. It drafts and publishes restatements of the law, model codes and other proposals for legal reform.

Traynor, a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Cooley Godward, has served on a number of American Bar Association panels and sits on the board of the Environmental Law Institute.

In 1995, he was recognized as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work on issues at the intersection of science and law in biotechnology, the environment and information technology.

The lecture was established in 1988 at the Law School as a tribute to Fairchild, a 1937 graduate and former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. He later served as chief judge and now as a senior circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Due to limited seating capacity, reservations for Traynor’s lecture are required. For a reservation, call (608) 263-3833 or e-mail Lynn Thompson, lfthomp1@wisc.edu.