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. 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 Uniform Commercial Code. Its headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
[edit] Notable Commissioners
- John Bogart, Law Professor
- Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- John W. Davis, Solicitor General of the United States, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1924
- Ernst Freund, American jurist
- Anne Gorsuch, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- Judd Gregg, member of the United States Senate
- William H. Henning, Professor, University of Alabama School of Law (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
- Theodore B. Olson, Solicitor General of the United States
- Roscoe Pound, American jurist
- William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Wiley Blount Rutledge, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- John G. Sargent, Attorney General of the United States
- David H. Souter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
- John Wigmore, Law Professor
- Samuel Williston, Law Professor
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States
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