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  • Rosemary Queenan

    Associate Dean for Student Affairs; Professor of Law
    518-445-3394
    rquee@albanylaw.edu
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Cour​se​s​​​

  • Appellate Practice
  • Drafting
  • Introduction to Lawyering
  • New York Practice II
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  • Biography

    B.A., University of Maryland
    J.D., New York Law School (magna cum laude)

     

    Prior to joining Albany Law School in 2007, Professor Queenan was Assistant General Counsel for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Inc., where she represented the Union in various court actions and arbitrations, and advised the Board of Trustees on issues involving the Union’s affiliated Health and Welfare Funds.  She also served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation and Civil Rights Bureaus of the New York Attorney General’s Office, where she defended various state agencies in state and federal court actions and investigated potential claims of discrimination.  Before that she was an associate in two private litigation firms, where she represented clients in commercial, products liability, and general negligence actions. 

    Professor Queenan began teaching in 1999 as an adjunct faculty member at New York Law School, where she taught Legal Reasoning, Writing & Research, Written and Oral Advocacy and Drafting Contracts.

     

  • Presentations

    “The Private School Advantage: Examining the Myth About Private Placement for Children with Disabilities,” presented at a Workshop on Vulnerability and Education at Amherst College

    Served on a panel for a program titled “Replicating the Practice Environment in Law School,” at the Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, New York Law School (December 7, 2012).

    Long-Term Contracts Are Not a Mirage: Lessons Learned During the Long-Term Contract Review Process, 2012 Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, May 2012 (with Prof. Gerald Rock)

    Teaching 1Ls to Think and Practice Like Lawyers By Teaching in Role
    , Center for Excellence in Law Teaching (CELT) Inaugural Conference: “Setting and Assessing Learning Objectives,” Albany Law School, March 30, 2012 (with Prof. Jodi Balsam, New York Law School) 

    Meeting with the Partner: Learning to Organize and Draft Meaningful Legal Arguments in the Objective Memo Through Oral Discussion, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, Washington D.C., AALS Annual Meeting, January 2012 (with Prof. Jenean Taranto)

    “Revisiting the Traditional Objective Memo: Using the First-Year Objective Memo to Teach Upper-Level Students How to Draft 'Practice-Ready' Pleadings” - Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference (John Marshall Law School in Chicago), September 2011

    Albany Law School – Continuing Legal Education – Administrative Decision Writing (presented for the NY Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance), April 2011

    Albany Law School Public Service Workshop Program – Legal Writing for Non-Attorneys, August and October 2010

    Office of Children and Family Services Presentation – Continuing Legal Education – Legal Writing for Attorneys, December 2009

    Office of Children and Family Services Bureau of Special Hearings Presentation – Continuing Legal Education – Decision Writing, December 2009

    Albany Law School Public Service Workshop Program – Continuing Legal Education – Legal Writing for Attorneys: Advanced, October 2009

    A New Approach to Helping Students Navigate the Rocky Mountain of Persuasive Facts (presented at the 9th Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University), March 2009.

Bo​oks

Publications

  • Dean Alicia Ouellette: Scholar, Mentor, Leader, 78 Albany Law Review 913 (2015)

  • School’s Out for Summer: But Should it Be?, 44 Journal of Law and Education 165 (2015)papers.cfm

  • Repairing the Extended School Year Regression Standard in New York to Individualize the Need for Special Education Services, NYSBA Government, Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Winter 2012)

  • "The Legal Implications of Green Policies by State and Local Government Employers" in GREENING LOCAL GOVERNMENT (American Bar Association, 2012) (Keith H. Hirokawa and Patricia Salkin, eds.)

Forthcoming Publications

Selected Achievements

  • ​Associate Dean Rosemary Queenan was selected to serve as the 2018-2019 Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Student Services.

  • ​Associate Dean Rosemary Queenan moderated a panel discussion on "Best Practices for Understanding the Complexity of the Reasonable Accommodation" and presented on "Lawyers as Collaborators" during a panel on orientation at the Association of American Law Schools' Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., January 3-6, 2018.

  • ​Associate Dean Rosemary Queenan moderated the panel “Women in the Law” at Albany Law School on November 6, 2017.

  • ​Associate Dean for Student Affairs Rosemary Queenan joined the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction and also joined the editorial staff as editor-in-chief of the committee's Leaveworthy newsletter.

  • ​Associate Dean for Student Affairs Rosemary Queenan received Albany Law School's Faculty Award for Excellence in Service on May 20, 2016.

  • ​​Associate Dean for Student Affairs Rosemary Queenan was named to the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Student Services at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York, January 2016.

    Selected to serve as Chair-Elect.

  • ​​Associate Dean for Student Affairs Rosemary Queenan received Friend of the Class Award on May 20, 2015.

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