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A sign of the times ~ more law schools? According to the National Law Journal, law schools are on the rise with as many as ten new ones, and a majority set to open on the East Coast. That's what Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Robert Ambrogi discuss with experts, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the Donald Bren School of Law at UC Irvine and Dean Thomas F. Guernsey, President and Dean, Albany Law School. They explore traditional vs. new age law schools, what these new law schools have to offer, the ABA accreditation process and take a look at the reality after law school for students.

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Albany Law School's 157th commencement ceremony took place at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 16.

Jeanine Ferris Pirro '75, a high-profile prosecutor, delivered the annual commencement address to over 220 members of the Class of 2008.

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Albany Law School's Science and Technology Law Center, together with the Government Law Center, present:ed a seminar on Sustainability and Climate Change and Renewable Energy on April 28, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Room 200.

Featured speaker:

Catherine Hill ('88), Of Counsel, Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna LLP

Topics presented:

• Reality and effects of Global Warming
• Federal Response to Climate Change
• Using currently available technologies to stabilize global carbon emissions

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As part of Albany Law School's Justice Robert H. Jackson Lecture Series, the Student Bar Association presented "Society, Security and Civil Rights: Examining Sanctioned Discrimination Across Three Generations" on Friday, April 4, from 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. in Room 200.

United States Supreme Court Justice Jackson's dissent in Korematsu v. United States, the case authorizing the detention of American citizens of Japanese descent, is the basis of this year's event. The event's three panels transitioned from the physical detention of American citizens of Japanese descent, to not only the physical but the construct of societal detention of African American citizens during the civil rights era, to the present day struggle of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgendered community.

Keynote Speaker: Retired New York Court of Appeals Associate Judge George Bundy Smith.

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Panel 1: "The Current Generation: Sexual Orientation & The Law "

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Speakers:

• Prof. Stephen Clark, Professor of Law, Albany Law School
• Dr. Scott Barclay, Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany
• Matt Faiella, Esq., Staff Attorney, NYCLU
• Prof. Alicia Ouellette, Associate Professor of Law, Albany Law School;
  
  Moderator : Prof. Nancy Ota, Professor of Law, Albany Law School

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Panel 2: "The Civil Rights Generation: Race & The Law"

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Speakers:

• Retired New York Court of Appeals Associate Judge George Bundy Smith
• Prof. Anthony Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School
• Prof. Athena Mutua, Associate Professor of Law, University at Buffalo Law School

Moderator : Prof. Stephen Gottlieb, Professor of Law, Albany Law School

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Panel 3: "Jackson's Generation: National Origin & The Law"

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Speakers:

• Prof. Nancy Ota, Professor of Law, Albany Law School
• Prof. Stephen Gottlieb, Professor of Law, Albany Law School
• Prof. Greg Robinson; Professor of History, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Evelyn Gong, Esq., Staff Attorney, Canon U.S.A., Inc

Moderator : Prof Ray Brescia, Visiting Professor of Law, Albany Law School

Kathryn Grant Madigan '78, president of the New York State Bar Association, addressed students and the law school community during the Alumni in Residence program on Wednesday, April 2, at 4:00 pm in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom. Her talk was entitled "If I Started My Law Career Today..."

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