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Key Facts
- Federal level: The ABA annual meeting program described a panel discussion on the death penalty and international law.
- Federal level: The ABA event record said the program was free of charge on Saturday, August 7, 2010 from 8:00–9:30 AM (PDT) at Bingham McCutchen LLP in San Francisco, located at Three Embarcadero Center.
- Federal level: The event record listed Gregory J. Kuykendall, Richard Wilson, and Franklin E. Zimring as speakers.
- Federal level: The event record identified Maurice Possley as the moderator and attributed a statement to President Obama seeking to ensure that “international law is not an empty promise.”.
- National overview: The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 held a public hearing in conjunction with the 2010 ABA annual meeting on August 6, 2010 from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Palace Hotel (Twin Peaks Room, Second Floor).
- State level: The archived ABA materials provide historical event details rather than current legal rules.
The target legacy page for this archive recovery could not be retrieved in the evidence set behind this draft, so the verifiable details below come from surviving American Bar Association (ABA) event records. The legacy title’s “national leaders of the legal profession” phrasing is treated only as context, not as a source-backed roster claim. The Sources used here are limited to the surviving ABA event and meeting/minutes pages listed in this record.
- Special ABA program at the 2010 Annual Meeting focused on the death penalty and international law
- Date, time, and venue listed for the program
- Speakers and moderator named for the panel
- Quoted framing attributed to President Obama
- Linked Ethics 20/20 public hearing the day before
- Archive event materials versus current legal authority
- Sources
Archive recovery in a legal information context helps modern readers connect older professional discussion to the primary record that existed at the time. In this case, the ABA’s own event pages function as the historical artifact, documenting (1) a 2010 Annual Meeting program in San Francisco and (2) a linked public hearing held by the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 in conjunction with that annual meeting.
Special ABA program at the 2010 Annual Meeting focused on the death penalty and international law
The ABA event record describes a special program at the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, featuring a panel discussion “on the death penalty and international law.”
Date, time, and venue listed for the program
The ABA event record states that the program “will be held free of charge” on Saturday, August 7, 2010 from 8:00–9:30 AM (PDT), and it identifies Bingham McCutchen LLP as the venue, located at Three Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California. For the original wording and the historical schedule details, the archive relies on the ABA Annual Meeting August 2010 in San Francisco event record.
Speakers and moderator named for the panel
The ABA program listing provides a named panel lineup and moderation. It lists Gregory J. Kuykendall, Richard Wilson, and Franklin E. Zimring as speakers and identifies Maurice Possley as the moderator. These names are reproduced here only as historical details from the ABA event page.
Quoted framing attributed to President Obama
In the same event description, the ABA attributes a statement to President Obama seeking to ensure that “international law is not an empty promise.” The archive recovery presents this quoted framing as part of the ABA’s historical event language, not as controlling legal authority. The quotation appears in the ABA Annual Meeting August 2010 in San Francisco event record.
Linked Ethics 20/20 public hearing the day before
The archive recovery also includes a second ABA program artifact connected to the 2010 Annual Meeting. The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 held a public hearing on August 6, 2010 from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Palace Hotel in the Twin Peaks Room (Second Floor), “in conjunction with the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.” That meeting entry appears in ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 meetings and minutes.
Archive event materials versus current legal authority
The ABA event pages used in this recovery describe programming and scheduling. They do not function the same way as statutes, regulations, or court decisions that bind legal rights and obligations.
| Record type | What the archive records show |
|---|---|
| ABA event page or meeting/minutes entry | A historical description of programming, including dates, locations, and names of speakers or participants |
| Statutes, court decisions, regulations | Binding legal rules or authoritative interpretations that control legal rights and obligations |
This distinction helps place older professional discussion in context: it can illuminate how legal topics were discussed at a particular time, but it does not replace current law.
For another example of how related ABA annual meeting materials can appear in the archive format, see speech by Justice Anthony Kennedy at an ABA annual meeting.
