Lance Liebman

Lance Liebman (born 1941) is an American law professor. He is the former Dean of Columbia Law School, and served as the Director of the American Law Institute from May 1999 to May 2014.

Liebman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1962, graduating summa cum laude, and earned an M.A. in history from Cambridge University in 1964. He graduated magna cum laude in 1967 from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review.

After serving as a law clerk to Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court during the Court’s 1967 term, he spent two years working on transportation and community issues as an assistant to New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay. 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.

In 1991 he moved to Columbia as Dean of the law school and as the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. He stepped down as dean in 1996 and was named the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law; the following year he was appointed director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia.

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..

Under Liebman's leadership, the Institute experienced a significant expansion of its law reform work with the commencement of 18 new projects, including the first project in the Restatement Fourth series, The Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.

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