Podcasts

Founder and Executive Director of Working Today and the Freelancers Union, Sara Horowitz, spoke on March 26, 2008 at 2 p.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom on "Providing Benefits and Protections to the New Flexible Workforce."

Ms. Horowitz has been the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant and a few years ago was named as one of "America's 50 Best & Brightest" by Esquire magazine, she's been profiled in the NY Times and NPR and many other media outlets, and her organizations represent tens of thousands of workers in the NYC metropolitan area alone.

Click HERE for the audio recording or Play It Now! (only the first 32 minutes)

On a recent PBS special, she talked about the same issue: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/407/index.html

The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, held a session of Court at Albany Law School on Monday, March 24, 2008, for its 13th consecutive year.

To review the cases, click here.

Albany Law School has hosted a session of the Appellate Division, Third Department each year beginning in 1995. When the first session at Albany Law School was held on Oct. 11, 1995, it marked the first time in over 85 years that the Court had sat at a location other than its home courtroom. That initial session also marked the beginning of a program whereby the Appellate Division, Third Department, began holding court sessions throughout the 28 counties that make up the Court's geographic jurisdiction.

Last year the Court's visit to the School featured a case that put Albany Law professor Michael Hutter against a former student Brett Knowles '05 involving a defendant serving two consecutive 25-year terms for attempted murder of two police officers. Click here to read the decision.

Presiding Justice Anthony V. Cardona, who has conducted the sessions at Albany Law School, said the sessions have given the students "a greater opportunity to observe the appellate process first hand."

The session began at 1:30 p.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom and was open to the public.

Order of Cases: Click HERE

Audio Recordings:

• Cases 1-8: Click HERE or Play It Now!
• Cases 9-20: Click HERE or Play It Now!

Albany Law Review, an Albany Law School student-edited journal, presented "Judges on Judges," the annual Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cooke State Constitutional Commentary Symposium. The event featured all of the current judges on the New York Court of Appeals revealing their own favorite judges in the Court's past on Friday, March 14 at 1:00 p.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom.

The symposium featured:

• Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye
• Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick
• Judge Victoria A. Graffeo
• Judge Susan P. Read
• Judge Robert S. Smith
• Judge Eugene F. Pigott, Jr.
• Judge Theodore T. Jones
• Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt (ret'd), Moderator

Audio Recordings:

• Complete Event - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Opening/Introduction - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye on Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cooke -Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick on Judge Vito J. Titone - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Judge Victoria A. Graffeo on Judge Francis Bergan - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Judge Susan P. Read on Chief Judge John T. Loughran - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Judge Robert S. Smith on Chief Judge Cuthbert W. Pound - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Judge Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. on Judge Matthew J. Jasen - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Judge Theodore T. Jones on Judge Harold A. Stevens - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Q & A/Closing - Click HERE or Play It Now!

Kate Stoneman Day is held in honor of the Law School's first female graduate (1898) who was also the first woman admitted to practice law in New York state in 1886. The Kate Stoneman Awards are given to individuals in the legal profession who have demonstrated a commitment to actively seeking change and expanding opportunities for women.

Arlinda F. Locklear, pioneering litigator in Native American law, Mae A. D'Agostino, partner, D'Agostino, Krackeler, Baynes & Maguire, P.C. in Albany; and Melissa Mourges '80, assistant district attorney, New York County were honored during Albany Law School's 14^th Annual Kate Stoneman Day celebration on Thursday, March 6 at 5:00 p.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom.

A new website - www.katestoneman.org was created in Kate Stoneman's honor, as well.

Audio recording - click HERE to download or Play It Now!