Service to Legal Profession
(AALS, ALI & Bar Associations)
Association of American Law Schools Committee on Curriculum, 1962-63
Director, American Bar Foundation Study of the United States Courts of Appeals, 1966-68
Director, Association of American Law Schools Project for the Study of the Law Curriculum, 1968-71 (Ford Foundation)
Association of American Law Schools
Chairman, Committee on Civil Rights and Responsibilities, A.B.A. Section on Individual Rights, 1968-72
ABA-AALS Inspection Team, Rutgers Univ - Newark, 1971
Board of Editors, Journal of Legal Education, 1971-73
House of Delegates, Assn. of American Law Schools, 1971-75
Consultant, AALS re Law Books Recommended for Libraries, 1973-74
Examiner, Multi-State Bar Examination on Civil Procedure, National Conference of Bar Examiners, 1974-75
AALS, Special Investigator, California Western Law School, San Diego, 1976
Chairman, Accreditation Committee, Association of American Law Schools 1976-78, 1980-81
AALS Investigator, Academic Freedom at the Univ of South Carolina, 1977
AALS Special Committee on Federal Aid to Legal Education, 1979
Executive Committee, Association of American Law Schools, 1984-86
Board of Directors, Council on Legal Education Exchange with China, 1984-1991
Membership Requirements Review Committee, Association of American Law Schools, 1986-88
ALI-ABA CLE Faculty, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993
ABA-AALS Inspection Team, Stanford University, May, 1987
ABA Section on Tort and Insurance Law, Task Force on Cost and Delay in Tort Litigation, 1988-89
ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Committee on Law School Architecture, 1988-89
Chair, ABA Section on Judicial Administration, Lawyers Conference Committee on Private Dispute Resolution, 1988-90
ABA-AALS Inspection Team, University of Virginia, March 1989
ABA Special Committee on Judicial Independence and Accountability, 1998-99
North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers Legislative Committee, 2002-
North Carolina Bar Association Committee on Judicial Independence, 2003-