"Our Changing Families"
Dedicated To The Influential Work of
former Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye

Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Time:  8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: Albany Law School, 1928 Building, Room 200
Registration:  The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is, however, preferred. To register contact Lauren Hunt 518-445-3320 or lhunt@albanylaw.edu. 
Continuing Legal Education: This symposium has been certified as a source of 5 credit hours for both transitional and non-transitional areas of professional practice for attorneys in the State of New York. Cost: $75. CLE registration is required. CLE Registration Form

Program
This year's Justice Robert H. Jackson Lecture Series is dedicated to Former Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye's tireless efforts to protect, rehabilitate, and promote families in New York State. 

The changes Judge Kaye instituted for families, as both a jurist and administrator, are the starting points for the symposium. The panelists, however, will only briefly reflect on these changes. The discussions will, therefore, primarily focus on improving the protection of families, and people who comprise them, in the future.

The panels represent areas that Judge Kaye had a significant impact on. Our first panel will discuss emerging trends in family law, including the rights various litigants do and do not have within the court system. Our second panel addresses children and the law, including innovative ways to ensure children have a brighter future. Our last panel will examine reforming the courts to better serve families, including views from the bench and the bar.

Please join us for the day as we examine families, the cornerstones of our society, and what we can do to better protect them, and the persons who comprise them.

—Lauren L. Hunt, SBA Executive President

Detailed Agenda (.pdf) 

Speakers:

Keynote
Hon. Leslie E. Stein
Associate Justice, Appellate Division,Third Department

Closing Keynote
Hon. Jan H. Plumadore
Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for the Courts Outside New York City

Liberty Aldrich
Director, Domestic Violence & Family Court Programs, The Center for Court Innovation

Amy Barasch
Director, Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

John Carter Jr., Esq.
Director, Third Department Law Guardian Program

Kathleen R. DeCataldo, Esq.
Executive Director, N.Y.S. Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children

Martin Guggenheim 
Boxer Family Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law

Leah Hill
Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Hon. John M. Leventhal
Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department;
Former Presider, Nation's First Dedicated Felony Domestic Violence Court

Sharon Stapel
Executive Director, NYC Anti-Violence Project

Timothy M. Tippins, Esq.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Albany Law School
Special Consultant to the Family Bar

Moderators:

Melissa L. Breger
Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Family Violence Litigation Clinic,
Albany Law School

Katheryn D. Katz
Kate Stoneman Chair in Law and Democracy, Albany Law School

Alicia Ouellette
Associate Professor of Law, Albany Law School