National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
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The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) is a non-profit, unincorporated association in the United States that consists of commissioners appointed by each state and territory. The purpose of the association is to discuss and debate in which areas of law there should be uniformity among the states and to draft acts accordingly (called Uniform Acts). The results of these discussions are proposed to the states as either model acts or uniform acts. NCCUSL is best known for its work on the landmark legislation Uniform Commercial Code, drafted in conjunction with the American Law Institute. NCCUSL headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois. The organization is alternatively referred to as the Uniform Law Commission (ULC).
The first NCCUSL conference was held in 1892 when seven states sent commissioners to discuss and work toward uniformity in state laws. Every state had appointed commissioners to participate in the conference by 1912. The current Conference President is Martha Lee Walters, of Eugene, Oregon and the Chair of the Executive Committee is Robert A. Stein.
[edit] Notable Commissioners
- John Bogart, law professor
- Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- John W. Davis, Solicitor General, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Democratic 1924 presidential election nominee
- Ernst Freund, jurist
- Anne Gorsuch, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- Judd Gregg, United States Senator
- William H. Henning, University of Alabama School of Law law professor (former executive director)
- Albert E. Jenner, Jr., prominent Chicago attorney
- James M. Landis, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board
- Karl N. Llewellyn, American jurist and Chief Reporter for the Uniform Commercial Code
- James C. Nance, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate
- Theodore B. Olson, Solicitor General of the United States
- Roscoe Pound, jurist
- William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
- Wiley Blount Rutledge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- John G. Sargent, United States Attorney General
- David H. Souter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
- John Wigmore, law professor
- Samuel Williston, law professor
- Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- NCCUSL Official website
- NCCUSL's List of Uniform Acts
- The NCCUSL Archives at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
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