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                                                                   March 27, 2006


        BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ROGER C. CRAMTON

         Roger C. Cramton, the Robert S. Stevens Emeritus Professor of Law,
Cornell University, was born on May 18, 1929, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and
was raised in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He received his A.B. degree magna cum
laude from Harvard University in 1950 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He
received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1955),
where he served on the law review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

        Cramton began his legal career by serving as law clerk to two federal
judges, Sterry R. Waterman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit (1955-56) and Harold H. Burton of the Supreme Court of the United
States (1956-57). He was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1956, the Michigan Bar
in 1963, and the New York Bar in 1979.

         Cramton has been engaged in law school teaching since 1957 when he
was appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Law School
(1957-61). From 1961-1970 he was a member of the faculty of the University of
Michigan Law School. His teaching and scholarship have been primarily in the
fields of Legal Ethics, Legal Profession, Conflict of Laws and Torts.

        With co-authors, Cramton has published two leading teaching books: The
Law and Ethics of Lawyering (4th ed. 2005) and Conflict of Laws (5th ed. 1993). He
created The American Legal Ethics Library, a unique collection of state ethics codes
accompanied by narratives on the law of lawyering of the respective states; this
electronic publication is regularly updated on the Internet at
. Cramton has served as an advisor on a number
of projects of the American Law Institute, including Restatement (Third) of the Law
Governing Lawyers (1999), and Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability (1998).
From 2003-05 he served as a Reporter for the revision of New York's Rules of
Professional Conduct, a revision completed in late 2005 and now awaiting
adoption by the New York courts.

         Cramton served as Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the
United States, an independent federal agency concerned with the improvement of
federal administrative procedures, from 1970-1972; and then as Assistant
Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of
Justice from 1972-1973.

        He was appointed Dean of the Cornell Law School on July 1, 1973 and
served in this capacity until June 30, 1980. In 1982 he was elected the Robert S.
Stevens Professor of Law. He has been a visiting professor at Berkeley (summer
1965), Duke (1980-81), Michigan (fall 1984 and fall 1994), Washington & Lee
(spring 1985), Pepperdine (spring 1995), Wisconsin (fall 1997) and Arizona
(spring 1998). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987-88 and
appointed an honorary fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford University, England.

         Cramton is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State
Bar Association, American Law Institute (council member), and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the board of directors of the
Law School Admission Council (1981-83). He was president of the Association
of American Law Schools in 1985 and served as editor of its publication, the
Journal of Legal Education, from 1981-87. In February 2000 he was awarded the
American Bar Foundation's "2000 Research Award" for lifetime scholarly
contributions to research on law and government.

        With Paul D. Carrington, Cramton in 2005 led a group of eminent
academics who urged reform of the Supreme Court of the United States. The
reform proposal and the supporting articles have been published as Roger C.
Cramton & Paul D. Carrington, Eds., REFORMING THE COURT: TERM
LIMITS FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, Pp. vii, 504 (Carolina Academic
Press, 2005).

         Cramton served as the first chairman of the board of directors of the
Legal Services Corporation from July 1975-July 1978, as an appointee of
President Ford, and as a member of the board until May 1979. In 1979-80 he
served as chairman of the American Bar Association's Task Force on Lawyer
Competency: The Role of the Law Schools, which published its report in June
1979. In 1991-1993, he served as a member of the National Commission on
Judicial Discipline and Removal, an organization created by act of Congress to
study impeachment and discipline of federal judges (as an appointee of Chief
Justice Rehnquist). The Commission completed its work with an extensive final
report in August 1993.

        A resident of New York State since 1973, Cramton is married to the
former Harriet C. Haseltine. They have four children (Ann, Charles, Peter, and
Cutter), eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Cramton can be
reached at the following address:
                       Professor Roger C. Cramton
                       Cornell Law School
                       Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-4901
Office telephone: (607) 255-3379; office fax: (607) 255-7193; e-mail address:
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