Faculty Achievements 2013

  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law, will deliver the talk "How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator" at the "James Oliver Horton Symposium on Abraham Lincoln" in Hawaii on May 25 and 26, 2013.

    He will participate in a panel on "Lincoln, Lieber, and the Law of War from 1863 to 9/11" for The Lincoln Group of D.C. at the U.S. District Court House in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 2013.

    He will also speak at the conference "Congress, the Home Front and the Civil War" on May 3, 2013.
  • Professor Michael Hutter testified on behalf of Court of Appeals nominee Sheila Abdus-Salaam on April 30, 2013.

  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law, delivered The Simon Finkelman Memorial Lecture, "Are the 10 Commandments the Moral Foundation of American Law? Why Jews Should be Concerned about Public Displays of the Decalogue" in Rochester, N.Y., on April 20, 2013.

    Professor Finkelman also participated in a panel on "The Origins and Process of Emancipation" at the symposium "Emancipation at 150" held at Boston College's Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy on April 23, 2013.

  • Professor Timothy Lytton, Albert and Angela Farone Distinguished Professor of Law, delivered a lecture on “Religious Legal Autonomy and the Liberal State: Private Regulation in the American Kosher Certification System” at a conference on “Sha’aria & Halakha in America” sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Law School and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

  • ​Professor Anthony Paul Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, has been named to Lawyers of Color's 50 Under 50 list, a comprehensive catalog of minority law professors making an impact in legal education. The publisher, On Being a Black Lawyer, will release the list in a special law school edition.

     

     

  • Professor Sheldon Halpern, The Honorable Harold R. Tyler Jr. Chair in Law and Technology, will be inducted as a “Life Member” of the American Law Institute at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Washington in May. He was first elected to membership in 1988.
  • Dean Penelope (Penny) Andrews gave a talk at the conference "Lawrence and Goodridge at 10" to be held at Suffolk University School of Law on April 5, 2013. The conference will facilitate reflection on the decade since the landmark decisions of Lawrence v. Texas and Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
  • Professor Laurie Shanks participated in the event "Teaching 'Real' Family Law: A Celebration of the Scholarship and Service of Professor Margo Melli" and the 6th Annual Midwest Family Law Consortium Workshop, held at the University of Wisconsin from April 5 to 7, 2013.

  • Associate Dean Alicia Ouellette participated in an invitation-only workshop series on "Making Sense of Abortion and Assisted Reproduction" at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, N.J., on April 5, 2013.

  • Professor Nancy Maurer spoke to the Clinical faculty at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law about expanding field externship opportunities for students on April 2, 2013.

  • Professor Robert Heverly presented his paper "Regulating the Cyborg" at George Washington University School of Law as part of the institution's Intellectual Property Law Program Papers Series on April 3, 2013.
  • Professor Elizabeth Renuart presented her paper-in-progress "Uneasy Intersections: UCC Articles 3, 9, and the Right to Foreclose" at Suffolk University School of Law on March 28, 2013.

  • Professor Sheldon Halpern, the Harold R. Tyler, Jr., Chair in Law & Technology, gave a lecture on "Fair Use in Copyright Law and it's Role in Harmonization" at Queen Mary University of London Law School on March 15, 2013.  

  • ​Professor Danshera Cords presented “Let’s Get Together: What Tax Should Learn About Collaborative Regulation Development” at The University of Pittsburgh School of Law Tax Workshop on March 20, 2013.

  • Professor Mary Lynch presented her paper "Theories about Gender Differences Regarding Institutional & Communal 'Housework' in American Law Schools in a time of Economic Distress" at the 15th Annual Conference on Women and Education at Harris Manchester College in Oxford, England, held from March 17 to 21, 2013.

  • Dean Penelope (Penny) Andrews delivered a presentation for the Zonta Club of Albany at its annual Status of Women dinner on March 13, 2013.

    Dean Andrews also gave a talk to The Women's Club of Albany to celebrate International Women's Day on March 10, 2013.

    Dean Andrews delivered the talk "From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights" at Siena College on March 8, 2013.
  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, delivered a talk on Frederick Douglass's Constitution at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center on March 12, 2013.
  • Professor Keith Hirokawa accepted an invitation to deliver the Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy at the University of Louisville in Spring 2016.

  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, delivered the spring John Marshall Harlan Lecture, titled "'But I Need Kentucky': Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Bluegrass State," as part of a week-long residency program at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., from March 3 to 9, 2013.

    Professor Finkelman also gave a lecture at the University of Kentucky Law School co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society titled "Are the Ten Commandments the Moral Foundation of American Law?"

  • Dean Penelope (Penny) Andrews delivered The 2013 Paul Robeson Lecture, "A Champion for African Freedom: Paul Robeson and the Struggle Against Apartheid," at Columbia Law School on Feb. 28, 2013.

  • Professor Sheldon Halpern, The Honorable Harold R. Tyler Jr. Chair in Law and Technology, gave a talk on copyright harmonization at Drexel Law School on Feb. 25, 2013.

  • Professor Donna Young moderated the panel "Further Along the Jericho Road; The Elusive Struggle for Economic Justice" at an event presented by the Labor and Employment Law Section of The New York State Bar Association, Albany Law School and The Sage Colleges - Law, Criminal Justice and Psychology Club on Feb. 21, 2013.

  • Professor Timothy Lytton delivered the talk "Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food" for the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on Feb. 19, 2013.
  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, delivered the presentation "How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator" at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego on Feb. 14, 2013.

    Professor Finkelman also delivered a talk on "The Emancipation Proclamation 150 Years Later" at the LSU Law Center in Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 21, 2013.

    In honor of Black History Month, Professor Finkelman delivered the presentation "Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery: How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator" at the James T. Foley U.S. Courthouse on Feb. 26, 2013.
  • Professor Christian Sundquist was recently included among the law professors who will comprise the Society of American Law Teachers' Fisher v. Texas response team. On Feb. 14, 2013, he delivered the talk "The Future of Affirmative Action after Fisher v. Texas" at an event presented by the New York State Department of Health Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.
  • Professor Mary Lynch delivered the presentation "Redeeming Law Schools: How Do 'Outcomes' Fit In?" for the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center faculty.

  • Professor Robert Heverly gave a talk on "Tort Liability in Denial of Service Attacks" at St. John's University School of Law as part of a faculty scholarship exchange.

  • Professor Timothy Lytton is part of a team of researchers studying the efficacy of New York state laws and regulations aimed at promoting breastfeeding. The team received a $436,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Law Research Program to fund their research for three years.

  • Professor Deborah Kearns was named program chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee.

  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, presented a paper on Frederick Douglass's Constitution to the University of Richmond Law Faculty Colloquium on Feb. 1, 2013.
  • Professor Patrick Connors' committee, the New York State Racing Fan Advisory Council, submitted its 2012 Report and Recommendations in an effort to help ensure the state's ongoing prominence in the racing industry.
  • Professor Ira Mark Bloom received the Chair's Award from the Trusts and Estates Section of the New York State Bar Association for his service and leadership to the section and state bar.
  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, delivered the paper "First Step to Citizenship: Emancipating Slaves and Enlisting Free Blacks Under a Proslavery Constitution" during the 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2013 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia on Jan. 25, 2013.

  • Professor Robert Heverly participated in a workshop on intellectual property at New York University School of Law.

  • Professor Evelyn Tenenbaum presented "Revitalizing Informed Consent to Protect Patient Autonomy" at Albany Medical College on Jan. 17, 2013.
  • Professor Michael Hutter will serve as president of the Albany County Bar Association for the next year. He was elected vice president in January 2011 and served as president-elect for the 2012 term. Justice John T. Casey '49 swore in Professor Hutter at a ceremony on Jan. 16, 2013.
  • Associate Dean Alicia Ouellette, with Professor Mary Lynch, presented on the legal obligations of medical professionals when confronted with interpersonal violence at Albany Medical College on Jan. 10, 2013.
  • Professor Mary Lynch, with Associate Dean Alicia Ouellette, presented on the legal obligations of medical professionals when confronted with interpersonal violence at Albany Medical College on Jan. 10, 2013.

  • Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, was on a panel for the International Human Rights Section of the AALS on Jan. 6, 2013. The session was on Human Rights in Times of Conflict: New Voices in Human Rights. He spoke on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and more generally on the role of history in understanding human rights in war time.

    He delivered on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, a lecture entitled “The Ten Commandments on the Courthouse Lawn and Elsehwere,” at Florida Atlantic University. His lecture was sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program, the History Department, and the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.

    Professor Finkelman also delivered the presentation "How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator" at Hudson Valley Community College on Jan. 29, 2013.

    He gave a talk on Jan. 31, 2013, on proslavery religion sponsored by the departments of religion and history at the University of Richmond.