Judge Gail Hagerty named Life Member of Uniform Law Commission

Document Type

News Article

Publication Date

8-5-2015

Campus Unit

School of Law

Abstract

North Dakota Uniform Law Commissioner and District Judge Gail Hagerty was elected to life membership in the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) at the annual meeting in July. Commissioners are eligible for life membership after serving as a commissioner for 20 years. Hagerty was initially appointed by Gov. Ed Schafer, and was reappointed by Governors Hoeven and Dalrymple.

Founded in 1892, the ULC is an organization comprising more than 350 practicing attorneys, judges, law professors, legislators and other state officials – all lawyers – appointed by every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to draft and promote enactment of uniform laws that are designed to solve problems common to all the states. Commissioners donate their time as a pro bono public service.

Uniform law commissioners come together as the Uniform Law Commission once a year to study and consider drafts of specific statutes in areas of the law where uniformity between the states is desirable. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis, Wiley B. Rutledge, and David Souter, and former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, have all served as uniform law commissioners. Since its inception in 1892, the ULC has promulgated more than 200 uniform acts, among them such bulwarks of state statutory law as the Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Partnership Act, the Uniform Securities Act, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, and the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

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