​Professor Melissa Breger's publication "Corporal Punishment, Social Norms and Norm Cascades: Examining Cross-National Laws and Trends in Homes Across the Globe," has been accepted for inclusion at the 2021 Law and Society Annual Meeting, which will be held in virtually May 27-30, 2021.

​Professor Melissa Breger was appointed to the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Children & the Law.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Stemming the Tide: Social Norms and Child Sex Trafficking" at Yeshiva University's Family Law Workshop on August 7, 2020. Breger also presented the work at the Law and Society Association (LSA) meeting in May 2020 as part of the Feminist Legal Theory panel The State and Violence: New Proposals for Stopping the Cycle.

​Professor Melissa Breger has been selected as this year's co-recipient of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Children and the Law's Howard A. Levine Award for Excellence in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare.

​Professor Melissa Breger's work in progress "Stemming the Tide: Social Norms and Child Sex Trafficking" was accepted to be presented at the Law and Society Association (LSA) meeting in Denver, Colo., in May 2020.

​Professor Melissa Breger chaired a scholarship panel (virtually) at the Law and Society Association meeting in May 2020 on State Power & the Lives of Children.

​Professor Melissa Breger gave a presentation at Albany Leadership Charter High for Girls' Career Day on March 10, 2020. She spoke to the high school students about the law school experience.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Stemming the Tide: Social Norms and Child Sex Trafficking" at the Capital District Consortium Conference at Union College on February 7, 2020.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Implicit Bias in the Courtroom" at a CLE for the Capital District Trial Lawyers Association in October 2019.

​Professor Melissa Breger's NEW YORK LAW OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE was cited by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Barrera v. Graham (January 2019).

​Professor Melissa Breger's article "Reforming by Re-Norming: How the Legal System Has the Potential to Change a Toxic Culture of Domestic Violence" (44 Notre Dame Journal of Legislation) was selected to be reprinted in the 2019 Edition of WOMEN AND THE LAW (Thomson Reuters).

​Professor Melissa Breger received Albany Law School's Excellence in Scholarship Award on May 24, 2019.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Making the Invisible Visible: Implicit Bias in Law and Society" at the firm Carter Conboy in Albany on May 15, 2019.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Making the Invisible Visible: Implicit Bias in Law and Society" to the New York State Department of Health attorneys at a CLE at the New York State Museum on April 16, 2019.

​Professor Melissa Breger's co-authored treatise, NEW YORK LAW OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, was cited by the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in the decision Gayanich v. Gayanich.

​Professor Melissa Breger moderated the panel "Investigation and Litigation" at the Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology's annual symposium, From Investigation to Incarceration: How Science and Technology Impact the Different Stages of the Criminal Justice System, on November 8, 2018.

​Professor Melissa Breger's treatise NEW YORK LAW OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE was cited in the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands' opinion in Gayanich v. Gayanich.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Representing Children in Cases Involving Domestic Violence" at the Introduction to Effective Representation of Children CLE, presented by the Offices of Attorneys for Children, Appellate Division, Third and Fourth Judicial Departments in Latham, N.Y., on October 11, 2018.

​Professor Melissa Breger was reappointed to the Third Department's Office of Attorneys for Children Advisory Committee for a two-year term, effective August 1, 2018.​

​​Professor Melissa Breger presented at "Not so Blind Justice: Implicit Bias and the Legal System," a CLE presented by the Third Judicial District and others in Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y., on June 13, 2018.

Professor Melissa Breger presented her paper “Reforming by Re-Norming: How the Legal System Has the Potential to Change a Toxic Culture of Domestic Violence” as part of the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network panel “Using Feminist Perspectives to Reform Tort and Criminal Law” at the Law and Society Association's Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, on June 8, 2018.

Professor Melissa Breger delivered her remarks, "Motherhood Bias," while participating in a panel discussion of the book BLAMING MOTHERS: AMERICAN LAW AND THE RISKS TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH at the Law and Society Association's Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, on June 7, 2018.

​Professor Melissa Breger received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Service​ at Albany Law School's 167th Commencement on May 18, 2018.

​Professor Melissa Breger moderated the panel "Tackling Tough Cases and Complex Issues" for the Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, Office of Attorneys for Children in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on April 27, 2018. ​

​​Professor Melissa Breger spoke at the film screening of "Very Young Girls" and panel discussion presented by the Sex Trafficking Committee of the Capital District Women's Bar Association and Albany Law School on February 22, 2018.

​Professor Melissa Breger gave a presentation on the trauma to young victims of sex trafficking for the Capital District Women’s Bar Association on December 18, 2017.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented “Child Sex Trafficking: Complex Trauma, Poly-Victimization and Linkages to Child Sexual Abuse” for the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition (NYSATC) in New York City on November 16, 2017.

Professor Melissa Breger delivered a lecture at Bethlehem Central High School entitled “Human Trafficking: What Post-Millennials Should Know” for the Our Community, Our World series arranged by Students for Peace and Survival on October 26, 2017.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented “Representing Children in Cases Involving Domestic Violence” at a two-day CLE for the Office of Attorneys for Children—Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department in Latham, N.Y., on October 19, 2017.

​Professor Melissa Breger was invited to join the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition based in New York City. She will present to the coalition in June.

​​Professor Melissa Breger presented "Making the Invisible Visible: Analyzing Implicit Bias in the Courtroom" at Boston University on April 13, 2017.

​​Professor Melissa Breger presented at the “Balancing the Scales of Justice: The Impact of Judicial Diversity” CLE sponsored by the Third Judicial District Gender Fairness Committee in Albany, N.Y. on March 31, 2017.

​​Professor Melissa Breger was appointed to the New York State CLE Board by Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks.

​​Professor Melissa Breger presented “How the Legal System Has the Potential to Change a Culture of Domestic Violence” at the conference “Domestic Violence Update: Where We Were, Where We Are Now, & the Work Ahead” at UB School of Law on November 18, 2016.

Professor Melissa Breger co-led a discussion on Anne Fadiman's book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" at the University at Albany on October 27, 2016.

​Professor Melissa Breger delivered a CLE for the Office of Attorneys for Children — Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, on October 13, 2016, in Latham, N.Y. Presenters over the two-day Introduction to Effective Representation of Children training included Judge Garry, Judge Powers, Professor Mooney of Cornell Law, Gary Solomon of Legal Aid NYC, Dr. Schockmel and others. Professor Breger’s segment was entitled "Representing Children in Cases Involving Domestic Violence."

​Professor Melissa Breger was reappointed for a two-year term as a member of the Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department’s Office of Attorneys for Children Advisory Committee. The reappointment commences August 1, 2016.

​​Professor Melissa Breger was a panelist at the "Human Trafficking: An Upstate Perspective" CLE at Albany Law School on June 16, 2016.

​Professor Melissa Breger received Albany Law School's Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching on May 20, 2016.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented “Implicit Bias: Making the Invisible Visible” at the law firm of Barclay Damon on April 7, 2016. Her lecture was webcast to the firm's attorneys and staff members nationwide.

​Professor Melissa Breger presented “How the Legal System Has the Potential to Change a Culture of Domestic Violence” at Boston University on March 24, 2016.

​​Professor Melissa Breger was invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board for a new journal being launched through Addleton Academic Publishers entitled Sociology and Social Work.

​Professor Melissa Breger was invited to review and critique a manuscript for inclusion in the open access journal LAWS, published quarterly by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.

​​Professor Melissa Breger's works were cited in eight statutes (two in Michigan, six in New York) in 2015.

​Professor Melissa Breger organized the interdisciplinary conference "Domestic Violence Update: Where We Were, Where We Are Now, and the Work Ahead” and presented a paper for the conference at Albany Law School on October 23, 2015.

Professor Melissa Breger is quoted in footnote 8 of the United States v. Ray, No. 14-2159 (6th Cir. 2015).

​​Professor Melissa Breger presented a CLE for the Appellate Division, Third Department Office of Attorneys for Children in September 2015.

Professor Melissa Breger presented at the conference "Combatting Slavery in the 21st Century" at the United Nations on April 9, 2014.

NYS COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF CRIMINAL CHARGES (website)

• Website designed, Columbia Law School Clinic, NYC, Fall 2005

• Project launched, State of Judiciary Address, Albany, February 2006

• Next colloquium, State Judicial Institute, White Plains, June 2006