Albany Law School faculty members have broad experience as legal practitioners, strong academic and scholarly credentials, and great teaching skills. Equally important, they are accessible to their students.
Lynch, Mary A.
Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Excellence in Law Teaching
Phone: 518-445-2328
URL: http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org
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B.A., New York University
J.D., Harvard Law School
Assistant district attorney in New York County from 1985 until joining the faculty at Albany Law School in 1989. Worked as an appellate and trial attorney in the district attorney's office. In 1997, while serving as director of the School's Domestic Violence Law Project, Prof. Lynch and seven Albany Law School students won clemency for an incarcerated battered woman. This marked the first time in New York that an incarcerated battered woman who killed her abuser was granted clemency.
Prof. Lynch is the editor and frequent contributor to the Best Practices for Legal Education blog. The goals of this blog are to create a useful Web-based source of information on current reforms in legal education arising from the publication of Roy Stuckey's Best Practices for Legal Education and the Carnegie Foundation's Educating Lawyers; and to create a place where those interested in the future of legal education can freely exchange ideas, concerns, and opinions.
Courses
Domestic Violence (Seminar)Domestic Violence Prosecution Hybrid Clinic
Trial Practice I: Criminal Pretrial Skills
Trial Practice II: Criminal Trial Skills
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