SCHOOL OF LAW

UT Law Dean William Powers, Jr. Elected to Enron Corp. Board of Directors

Austin, TEXAS — Dean William Powers, Jr. has been elected to the Board of Directors of Enron Corp., the company announced on Oct. 31.

Professor Powers holds the John Jeffers Research Chair, the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law and is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is especially well-known for his writings on products liability, a field in which he remains active in cutting-edge litigation. He also teaches and writes in jurisprudence. He came to Texas from the University of Washington School of Law in 1978. He is the author of Texas Products Liability Law (Butterworth, 2nd ed., 1992) and co-author of Cases and Materials on Torts (West, 2nd ed., 1998) and Cases and Materials on Products Liability (West, 2nd ed., 1994). He recently finished his work as Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Apportionment of Liability. He is a member of the American Law Institute. He received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1973, and his B.A. in 1967 from U.C.- Berkeley.