Apr. 30, 2007 08:22
Tax Law Symposium
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Albany Law School's Tax Law Society hosted a one-day symposium titled, "Coping with Major New Changes in the Tax Law: All You Need to Know." The conference was held on Friday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the Law School's Rochester Moot Courtroom.
Co-sponsored by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and the New York State Bar Association, Tax Section, the symposium is designed for attorneys. Expert speakers presented updates on the topics of:
- income tax
- estate and gift tax
- procedure
- the pension protection act
- state and local taxation
- legal ethics
Speakers:
Deborah Kearns, JD, LL.M. Founding Partner of Lavelle & Finn, LLP- Download her talk HERE or Play It Now!
Martin S. Finn JD, CPA, LL.M. Associate Attorney, Lavelle & Finn, LLP - Download his talk HERE or Play It Now! Download his talk HERE or Play It Now!
Jeffrey Pearlman, JD Visiting Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at Albany Law School - Download his talk HERE or Play It Now!
David Pratt Professor of Law at Albany Law School- Download his talk HERE or Play It Now!
Robert T. Begg, JD Associate Dean; Director, Schaffer Law Library; Professor of Law at Albany Law School-
Apr. 23, 2007 12:12
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand Vists Albany Law
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U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke at Albany Law School on Monday, April 23, 2007 at 11 a.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom.
She talked to students about the breaking of the marble ceiling this year with U.S. Rep Nancy Pelosi, and the future outlook and challenges for young women in politics. She also discussed women's issues in Congress—both substantive for the voters and for female politicians.
Gillibrand, who was raised in the Capital Region, is the Representative for New York's 20th Congressional District.
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Apr. 20, 2007 11:59
TWAIL III (Day 2)
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Presentations on April 21:
9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. -Download HEREor Play It Now!
Keynote: David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. - Law and Development - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Moderator: Associate Dean Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall Law School
Keith Aoki, University of Oregon School of Law “Common Heritage Treatment in the International Plant Genetic Resources Regime Complex”
Ruth Gordon, Villanova University School of Law “Climate Justice and the Incoherence of Sustainable Development”
Marjorie Florestal, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law “On the Origin of Fear in the World Trade System”
Ibironke Odumosu, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law “Re-Constructing the International Law on Foreign Investment: The Third World and ICSID in the 21st Century”
Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto Law School “Global Labor Policy as Global Social Policy: Implications for the Path of Development”
Chantal Thomas, University of Minnesota Law School “Development and Finance: Balance of Payments Crises and International Economic Ordering”
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. - Resistance and Legitimation - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Moderator: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nathaniel Berman, Brooklyn Law School “Disciplining Resistance, or, the Law of Revolution”
Obiora Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) “TWAILing the Bakassi Case: Colonial Logic,Self-Determination, and the Future of International Law”
Anthony Farley, Boston College Law School “Fanon Today”“
Siba Grovogui, John Hopkins University "Law and Empire”“
Hari Osofsky, University of Oregon Law School "Climate Change, Sovereighty, and Environmental Injustice as a ‘Third World’ International Legal Strategy?”
Lunch - Download HERE
Bhupinder Chimni, Professor of International Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India)
“Toward a TWAIL Theory of Interpretation:Some Notes”Apr. 20, 2007 11:52
TWAIL III International Law Conference
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The Robert H. Jackson International and Comparative Programs Committee of Albany Law School and James Thuo Gathii, Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law, presented TWAIL III, The Third World and International Law Conference, from April 19-21 at Albany Law School.
This conference brought together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners and others engaged in Third World international legal scholarship and practice. TWAIL I was held in 1997 at Harvard Law School; TWAIL II at the Osgoode Hall School in 2001.
Presentations on April 20:
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. - Download HERE - or Play It Now!
Keynote: Makau Wa Mutua, Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar and SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. -Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Moderator: Prof. Peter Halewood, Albany Law School
Maxwell Chibundu, University of Maryland School of Law “Cosmopolitanism, Liberal Internationalism, the Third World and International Law”
Gustavo Gozzi, Dipartimento di Politica, Instituzioni, Storia, University of Bologna (Italy) “History of International Law and Western Civilization”
Mekondjo Kaapanda, University of Cambridge “Civilized Negroes: Pan-African Petitions to the League of Nations”
Ileana Porras, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University “Liberal Cosmopolitanism or Cosmopolitan Liberalism? Reflections from International Law”
S E S S I O N 1 : War, Sovereignty and Territoriality - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Moderator: Prof. Christian Sundquist, Albany Law School
Emmanuel Bagenda, Harvard Law School “A Deconstructive View of Third World Sovereignty”
Michelle Burgis, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University “The Promise of Solid Ground: Arab States, Territorial Disputes and the Discourse of International Law”
Ernesto Hernández-López, Chapman University School of Law “Migration and Reinterpreted Sovereignty in U.S. Immigration Law and Mexican Foreign Relations Law: Inspiration from Third World Transnational National Identities”
Usha Natarajan, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University “Debating the Legality of the Iraq War: What does TWAIL Contribute?”
S E S S I O N 2 : International Regimes and Institutions: Emancipation or Emasculation? - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Moderator: Prof. Hope Lewis, Northeastern University School of Law
Kindiki Kithure, Department of Public Law, University of Nairobi, (Kenya)“International Law on Trial: The Darfur Crisis and the Responsibility to Protect Civilians”
Jackson Maogoto, The University of Newcastle(Australia) “The ‘Good Governance’ Crusade in the Third World: A Rich, Complex Narrative—Magic Wand or Smoke Screen”
Vijayashri Sripati, Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) “Faking or Crafting Genuine Constitutionalism? The UN and Afghanistan’s Constitutionmaking Process”
Daniel Wanjau Muriu, University of Melbourne School of Law (Australia) “The Imperial-Emancipatory Paradox ofInternational Human Rights: How Useful is the Right to Health in Sub-Saharan Africa?”
Angela Banks, William and Mary College of Law “Social Movements and Human Rights Compliance”
1:30-2:00 – Gym - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Dianne Otto, Director, International Human Rights Law Program of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne School of Law (Australia) “The Gastronomics of TWAIL’s Feminist Flavourings: Some Lunch-time Offerings”
2:30-4:00 pm - Third World International Legal Feminisms
Moderator: Prof. Nancy Ota, Albany Law School - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Sylvia Kang’ara, University of Washington, Seattle “Navigating Cultural Waters, Surviving Legal Deserts—African Women Jurists in the 20th Century”
Danne L. Johnson, Oklahoma City University School of Law “Standing on Sinking Sand: Bridging the Gap Between the Status of U.S. Women and Third World Women Through the Erosion of the Status of U.S. Women”
Erika George, The SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah “Virgin Territory—Virginity Testing as HIV/AIDS Prevention: Human Rights Universalism and Cultural Relativism Revisited”
Vasuki Nesiah, The International Center for Transitional Justice "Topic To be determined"
Penelope Andrews, City University of New York Law School “The South African Constitution and Gender Equality: A Bit on the Side?”
S E S S I O N 2 : Law and Globalization at the Margins - Download HERE or Play It Now!
Moderator: Prof. Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School Roberto Aponte Toro, University of Puerto Rico Law School “Government Procurement and the Third Worldness and Foreingness of the Puerto Rican Monster Inside Out”
Aginam Obijiofor, University of Carlton (Canada) “Predatory Globalization: The WTO, GATS and Migration of Third World Health Professionals to the West”
Sergio Lattore, Cornell Law School “Land Rights for Internally Displaced Campesinos in Colombia”
Bibhas Vaze, Barrister, Conroy & Co., Vancouver, BC (Canada) “The Legal Missionary: Reflections on the Rule of Law and the First World’s Legalization of the Third World
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. - The Jurisprudence of Alejandro Álvarez (1868-1960) - Download Here or Play It Now!
Moderator: Prof. Antony Anghie, The SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Jorge Esquirol, Florida International University Law School “Alejandro Álvarez: A Question of Identity”
Katharina Zobel, Max Planck Institute (Germany) “Alejandro Álvarez as a Judge at the International Court of Justice: Was he a Protagonist of the Newly Independent States and their Aspirations?”
Carl Landauer, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Charles Schwab “Alejandro Álvarez, the Monroe Doctrine and the Art of Triangulation”
Liliana Obregon Tarazona, Directora, Área de Derecho Internacional Facultad de Derecho Universidad de los Andes, (Colombia) “Noted for Dissent: The International Life of Alejandro Álvarez”
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Harvard Law School “Alejandro Álvarez Situated: Subaltern Modernities and Modernisms That Subvert”
Apr. 19, 2007 15:53
Environmental Outlook Symposium: Combating Climate Change: Legal Issues of Alternative Energies
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Albany Law Environmental Outlook Journal held its fifth Annual Symposium sponsored by the Government Law Center of Albany Law School on April 18, 2007.
In a world increasingly interested in constrained carbon emissions, reduced-carbon energy sources and energy efficiency receive more and more attention. Transitioning to an economy that reduces its emissions of greenhouse gas will require attention not only on technology but also on the legal issues and policy concerns.
Topics included:
- Kinetic In-Stream Hydropower
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
- Alternative Fuels in the Transportation Sector
- the Role of Energy Efficiency In Climate
- Change Initiatives
- Choosing Between Coal, Wind, Gas & Energy Efficiency for New Energy Supply
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
- Renewable Portfolio Standard
- Using State & Local Laws to Promote Sustainability
Speakers:
Hon. David A. Paterson - Lieutenant Governor New York State
Stephen Filler, Esq. - Law Offices of Stephen Filler www.greencounsel.com
Catherine S. Hill, Esq - - Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Prof. David R. Hodas- Widener University School of Law
Ruth Horton - Program Manager, Energy Efficiency Services ,New York State Energy Research & Development Authority
Peter R. Keane, Esq. - Senior Counsel, New York State Energy Research & Development Authority
Franz T. Litz, Esq. - Climate Change Policy Coordinator, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Prof. Joan Leary Matthews - Albany Law School
N. Jonathan Peress, Esq. - LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP
Richard Perez - Research Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany
Joseph Sayer - Senior Project Manager, Power Systems New York State Energy Research & Development Authority
Gilbert P. Sperling, Esq. - General Counsel Verdant Power Inc.
Douglas H. Ward, Esq. - Young Sommer Ward Ritzenberg Baker & Moore, LLC
Audio Recordings:
- Welcome - Play It Now!
- Panel 1 - Play It Now!
- Panel 2 - Play It Now!
- Panel 3 - Play It Now!
- Panel 4 - Play It Now!
- Peress Talk - Play It Now!
Apr. 6, 2007 12:00
Day 2 of Alan Dershowitz Conference
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Speakers on April 6:
Abraham Wagner, Professor of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University Law School
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Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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Apr. 5, 2007 09:59
Conference Honoring Alan Dershowitz
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Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School—in conjunction with the Government Law Center—hosted a two-day conference on April 5-6, 2007 celebrating the career of influential defense attorney and Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.
Described by Newsweek as America's"most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights," Dershowitz is also a scholar, activist and educator. As a criminal defense lawyer, he has participated in some of the most high-profile cases of our time, including the O.J. Simpson trial, trials of the Jewish Defense League, and the Claus von Bülow case. He is the author of more than 24 works of fiction and nonfiction—including six best sellers. In his career he has addressed the topics of torture warrants, Middle East conflicts, Judaism, Israel, civil rights, civil liberties, the war on terror and the First Amendment.
Speakers on April 5:
Cecil Hunt, Associate Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School
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John T. Parry, Associate Professor of Law, Lweis & Clark Law School
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Renee Redman, Director, ACLU of Connecticut
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Martin Belsky, Professor of Law and former Dean, Univesity of Tulsa College of Law, Albany Law School
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Garrett Epps, Orlando John & Marian H. Hollis Professor Of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
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Nicholas Rostow, University Counsel & Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, State University of New York
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Hon. Dr. Irwin Cotler, Member, Canadian Parliament, Former Attorney General of Canada
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Apr. 4, 2007 09:12
Violence Against Women Topic of Albany Law Symposium
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Amnesty International at Albany Law School hosted a symposium - "Violence Against Women: Locally, Nationally and Globally" - on Wednesday, April 4 from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Panelists addressed topics such as representing domestic violence victims, asylum issues for rape and domestic violence victims, and human trafficking in the United States sex industry.
Panelists included:
- Dishpaul Dhuga, Empire Justice Center
- Lori Adam, Human Rights First
- Marcia Pappas, National Organization of Women (NOW)
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