Service to Public Institutions  and Foundations     

Consultant, Wyoming Legislative Research Bureau (re Uniform Commercial Code 1958-1960)

Director, American Bar Foundation Study of United States Courts of Appeals (1966-1968)

Consultant, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1970-73

Elected Member, Ann Arbor Board of Education, 1970-1973)

Executive Committee, Advisory Council on Appellate Justice, 1970-75 (Federal Judicial Center)

Commission Chair, United States Dist Court for the Western District of Michigan, In re Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, 1971

Consultant, Alabama Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, 1972-73

Consultant, Commission on Revision of Federal Court Appellate System, 1973-75

Program Chair, National Conference on Appellate Justice, San Diego, January 1975 (National Center for State Courts)

Consultant, Office of Economic Opportunity re funding of Antioch School of Law, 1975

Commission Chair, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, United States v. 2970 Acres (Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore), 1975

Consultant, Office of Economic Opportunity re funding of Antioch School of Law, 1975

Consultant, Detroit Public Schools, Milliken v. Bradley, US Supreme Court, 1977

Director, Michigan Judicial Planning Committee, Sup. Ct. of Michigan, 1977-78

Consultant, National Center for State Courts, Education Project, 1979-81

Reporter, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1985-92

Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986, 1996

Consultant, Philippine Sugar Administration re claims against Marcos administrators, 1986-87

Editorial Board, Alternatives, Center for Public Resources, 1991-1999

Consultant, Department of State, re Treaty on Judgments, 1992-95

Consultant, Federal Commission on the Structure of the Courts of Appeals, March 1998

Consultant, Judicial Conference of US Committee on Mass Torts, May 1998

Co-Reporter, Century Fund – Citizens for Independent Courts 1998-1999

Consultant, North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee, March 1999 (re judicial selection)

Consultant, Durham County re merger with city, 1999

Consultant, Public Citizen Litigation Group, re Texas Campaign Finance Litigation, 1999-2000

Member,  National Academy of Science Panel on Science, Technology and Law, 2000-2006     

Consultant, Judicial Conference of the United States, Committee on Class Actions 2001

Consultant, North Carolina Attorney General, 2002 (re mandatory arbitration)

Commissioner, Annenberg Foundation Council on the Future of the Judiciary and American Democracy (2003-2004)

Consultant, Rural Advancement Foundation International (2004-2008 (re mandatory arbitration)

Consultant, North Carolina Attorney General 2008 (re  false claims law)