Lance Liebman

He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1970 and remained there for 21 years, becoming a full professor in 1976 and serving as associate dean from 1981 to 1984.

On May 16, 1999, Liebman was named Director of the American Law Institute, the fifth person to hold the position, succeeding Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.

Works completed and published under Liebman’s stewardship include new Restatements of Agency, Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers), Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Torts: Apportionment, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, and Trusts, as well as Principles of the Law volumes on Aggregate Litigation, Family Dissolution, Intellectual Property, Software Contracts, Transnational Civil Procedure, and Transnational Insolvency.

He also taught at the Harvard-Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

They have two sons, Benjamin L. Liebman, who is the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School, and Jeffrey B. Liebman, who is a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and served as an economic advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.