Podcasts

On August 19, 2008 at 12pm in the Career Center, Professor Deborah Kearns '02 discussed and demonstrated interviewing strategies for large law firms and how the New York City job market works. Before returning to the Albany area, Professor Kearns spent time as both a summer associate and associate for White & Case in New York City.

In addition, members of the Class of 2009 who interviewed through the off-campus programs last year were present to answer questions.

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On Monday, August 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm in the Career Center, Michael Garcia ’89, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, discussed how a judicial clerkship can change the course of your law career.

In addition to his work at the US Attorney’s Office, Mr. Garcia has:

• Served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement.
• Served as Acting Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) where he led the transition of that agency into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Where did it all begin?
... As a Judicial Clerk for Chief Judge Judith Kaye at the New York State Court of Appeals.

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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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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.

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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!

The Amnesty International Chapter of Albany Law School held a symposium entitled "Lost Childhood: Child Soldiers, Trafficked Children, and Child Rights" on Friday, February 1, from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in Room 200.

Symposium panelists addressed a packed room about the legal and policy issues surrounding child soldiers and child victims of trafficking, including cases involving child soldiers that have come before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the perpetrator bar to asylum-seeking, the international trade in child labor and international rights.

Panel 1 -"CHILD SOLDIERS"

An overview of the issues surrounding child soldiers, including a description of the experiences of the children, legal issues, such as asylum-seeking and applying for refugee status, and cases involving child soldiers that have come before the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague. This panel was Moderated by Professor Brescia.

Speakers included:

- Alec Wargo, Program Officer, Office of the Special Representative for Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, United Nations

- Isaac Flattau, former associate of the legal office of the ICC

- Anna Makanju, Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, LLP, former clerk of the ICC

- Professor Christian Sundquist,, Assistant Professor of Law, Albany Law School, "Child Soldiers and the 'Perpetrator Bar' Under U.S. Asylum Law"

PANEL 1 AUDIO RECORDING: Click HERE to download or Play It Now!

Professor Donna Young, Professor of Law, Albany Law School, "On The Backs of Our Children: The International Trade in Child Labor"

- An overview of legal and social issues pertaining to trafficking of children for sex or labor. This panel was moderated by Professor Kathy Katz.

Speakers included:

- Professor Maria Grahn-Farley, Associate Professor of Law, Albany Law School, "The Withholding of International Rights from American Children"

- Pantea Javidan, Legal Representative and Advocate, "Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children with Disabled Parents in the Cambodian Community of Oakland"

PANEL 2 AUDIO RECORDING: Click HERE to download or Play It Now!

Panel 3 - "RIGHTS, REHABILITATION & RESETTLEMENT"

- The rights of former child soldiers and trafficked children and the services that are available to them. This panel was moderated by Professor Peter Halewood.

Speakers included:

- Joanne Corbin, PhD, Associate Professor, Chair Research Sequence, School of Social Work, Smith College, "Resettlement of Formerly Abducted Children in Northern Uganda"

- Professor Melissa Breger, Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Family Violence Litigation Clinic, Albany Law School, "Healing the Wounds of Sexually Trafficked Children by Examining Strategies for Childhood Survivors of Family Violence and Sexual Abuse."

PANEL 3 AUDIO RECORDING: Click HERE to download or Play It Now!

The Albany Times Union featured a story about the symposium on February 2, 2008. Click here to read the article.

The symposium was hosted by the Amnesty International Chapter of Albany Law School in conjunction with Diversity Office and the Faculty Diversity Committee of Albany Law School, the Special Initiative Fund of Amnesty International USA and the Program for International Justice and Accountability of Amnesty International USA.

Albany Law School's Journal of Science & Technology hosted a symposium called "Helping New York Choose: Voting Technology in the 21st Century" on Friday, November 16, in Room 200 from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The symposium presented three panel discussions about the current voting methods and machines that are used in New York, the effect of implementing the Help America Vote Act ("HAVA") and other similar legislation, and how changing technologies can affect New York's voting system.

Speakers included:

• Commissioner Gracia Hillman, United States Election Assistance Commission;
• Commissioner John Graziano, Albany County Board of Elections;
• Commissioner Edward Szczesniak, Onondaga County Board of Elections;
• New York State Senator Martin Connor, 25th Senate District;
• Kimball Brace, president, Election Data Services, Inc.; and
• Bo Lipari, executive director, New Yorkers for Verified Voting.

Audio Recordings:

• Opening Remarks by Abigail O’Connor and Shalyn Morrison, The First Panel entitled "Introduction to Voting Equipment and Technologies - Click HERE or Play It Now!

• Second Panel entitled "Current Status and Future of Voting Technology in New York"- Click HERE or Play It Now!

• The Keynote Address presented by Mr. Matthew Masterson, The Third Panel entitled "HAVA and Relevant Legislation", The Fourth Panel entitled "How Modern Voting Technologies Will Affect the Practice of Law, Voting Rights, and Relevant Legislation" - Click HERE or Play It Now!

Albany Law School hosted a career planning program called "Careers in Intellectual Property and Technology Law" on Thursday, November 1, at 4 p.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom. This event, co-sponsored by the Albany Law School's Science & Technology Law Center, the Office of Alumni Affairs and the Career Center, will feature a panel of Albany Law alumni who will share advice and tips based on their own professional experiences and successful career progression in IP and technology law.

Panelists included:

MARC D. SCHECHTER '78
GAIL M. NORRIS '83STEPHEN TREGLIA ‘79
HEATHER M. HAGE ‘06
STEPHEN B. (BRAD) SALAI ‘74
IRENE LIPPA ‘06
TODD FRIEDMAN ‘98

The Race/Diversity Symposium took place on October 25, 2007 at 5:30 pm in DAMC. Guest Speaker was Prof. Anthony Farley, Albany Law School. The event was sponsored by LALSA.

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October 19, 2007 Recordings:

"Studies in American Political Development" by Leslie Goldstein

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"Gun Control and America's Cities..." by Carl Bogus

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"Public Policy, Public Health & Gun Control Panel Discussion by Timothy Lytton, Matthew Bennett, Joshua Horwitz and Stephen Teret

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"Guns & The City" by Dennis Archer

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This conference addressed historical issues of the Second Amendment, including the relationship between the right to bear arms and the influence of the militia in early America. Saul Cornell of The Ohio State University spoke and led discussion about his recent book, A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. Other speakers included:

• Dennis W. Archer, Former Mayor of Detroit;
• Carl Bogus, Roger Williams Law School;
• Brannon Denning, Cumberland Law School;
• David Konig, Washington University in St. Louis;
• Leslie Goldstein, University of Delaware
• Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School;
• Richard Feldman, Pres. of MLS Communications LLC;
• Robert Spitzer, SUNY Cortland; and
• Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School

October 18, 2007 Recordings:

Opening remarks by Paul Finkleman and Margaret Dougherty (ed. of Albany Gov't Law Review)

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"Arms, Militias and Constitutional Design..." by Sandford Levinson

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"The Ironic Second Amendment" by Saul Cornell

"Cornell's Second Amendment: Why History Matters" by Robert Spitzer

"The Other Founders and the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms..." by David Konig

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"Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist" by Richard Feldman

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"Why the Constitution Won't End Our Fights Over Guns" by Mark Tushnet

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"Defending a Thin Second Amendment..." by Brannon Denning

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Hon. Richard Bartlett, Chief Administrative Judge (retired) of the State of New York and former Dean, Albany Law School was the guest speaker on October 17, 2007 at the Hon. Hugh R. Jones Memorial Lecture.

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Two term Iowa governor and national co-chair for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Tom Vilsack '75 addressed students, faculty and staff on Friday, Oct. 12, at 3 p.m. Vilsack was also honored Friday evening at the annual Barrister Ball and will receive the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award.

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On August 29, 2007, Alan M. Rotach, and Brad Jorgensen, both Associate General Counsels, Office of General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Prisons discussed the U.S. Department of Justice Graduate Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program.

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The 156th Commencement of Albany Law School was held on Friday, May 18, 2007, at 11 a.m. at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC). Of the 238 graduates, 234 received the Juris Doctor (J.D.); three the Master of Law and Letters (LL.M.); and one the Master of Science in Legal Studies (M.S.).

The commencement speaker was The Hon. Judith S. Kaye. Judge Kaye, who became the state's top judge in 1993, and was the first woman to serve on the New York State Court of Appeals in 1983. She was recently reconfirmed to another term as the state's top jurist by Gov. Elliot Spitzer. Judge Kaye also received Albany Law School's Trustee's Gold Medal Award.

A reception followed immediately after the ceremony at the Hall of Springs.

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Click HERE to download Judge Kaye's commencement address or Play It Now!

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:

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.

Click HERE to listen to or download her talk and answers to questions posed by the audience or Play It Now!

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

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: