Faculty Presentations
March 2020

Professor Mary Lynch virtually presented on Kate Stoneman and her experience with the suffrage movement as part of the library-hosted event Reflecting on 100 Years after the 19th Amendment on March 20, 2020.

Professor Patrick Connors served on the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on the New York Bar Examination and participation in authorship of March 5, 2020 Report of the NYSBA Task Force on the New York Bar Examination and March 30 Report recommending postponement of New York's July bar exam and providing alternative suggestions.

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.
February 2020

Professor Patrick Connors presented a "New York Civil Practice Update" at the Annual New York Court of Claims Judges' Association Meeting in Cooperstown, N.Y., on October 16, 2019.

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 Vincent Bonventre is a judge for the MENSA national scholarship program.

Associate Dean Antony Hayes presented "Algorithmic Injustice: How Artificial Intelligence Embeds Human Bias and Distorts Our Decision-Making" to a crowd at the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard's Kennedy School on February 13, 2020.

Professor Patrick Connors presented a "New York Civil Practice Update" to the Suffolk County Bar Association in Hauppauge, N.Y., on October 22, 2019.

Professor Jaya Connors will present at the Immigration Issues in Family Court CLE at Albany Law School on February 4, 2020.

Professor Sarah Rogerson was invited to co-lead two amicus briefs on behalf of legal scholars—arguments rooted in her previous scholarship on immigration enforcement in state courthouses: New York v. ICE, No. 19 Civ. 8876 (SDNY) and Doe v. ICE, No. 19 Civ. 8892 (SDNY).

Dean Antony Haynes presented "Algorithmic Injustice: How Artificial Intelligence Embeds Human Bias and Distorts Our Decision-Making" as part of Harvard Kennedy School's seminar series on February 13, 2020.

President and Dean Alicia Ouellette is serving as chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Law School Deans.

Professor David Walker contributed to the American Association of Law Libraries Spectrum magazine's "Ask a Director" column, published in the January/February 2020 issue.
January 2020

Professor Sarah Rogerson was the keynote speaker to Kick Off the Schenectady Women's March, Jan. 18, 2020.

Presenter, “Social Justice Philanthropy,” AALS Conference, Washington, D.C., January, 2020.
Professor Melissa Breger presented, Stemming the Tide: Social Norms and Child Sex Trafficking (various presentations in 2020, including Union University, NYC Family Law Scholars, Seton Hall Law School and Law & Society)

Professor Vincent Bonventre presented "Trump Justice: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and the Current Court" at the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning in Dorset, Vt., on January 28, 2020.

Professor Rob Heverly served as speaker and presented "Cyborg Lives: The Law and Policy of Human Augmentation," Presenter, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (Law Faculty), January 7, 2020.

Professor Sarah Rogerson was the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Shabbat Soup Dinner at Congregation Gates of Heaven (Schenectady, NY) on Jan. 24, 2020.

Professor Ray Brescia presented "Private Largess in the Digital Age: The Concept of Privacy in The New Property and What It Means Today" at a conference held at Touro Law School celebrating the life and work of Charles A. Reich on January 30, 2020.