Symposia
The Albany Law Review annually reserves one issue for the publication of articles and lectures on a specific topic of contemporary import to the legal community. This year's events will include:
Judges on Judges: The New York Court of Appeals Judges' Own Favorites in Court History
Friday, March 14, 2008
1-3:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom
Albany Law School
The Albany Law Review is proud to present this year's annual Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cooke State Constitutional Commentary Symposium on Friday, March 14, 2008, which will feature all of the current Judges on the New York Court of Appeals. The Judges will be speaking about their favorite Judges in the Court's illustrious history. The event will certainly be a memorable one. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Kelcie McLaughlin (KMcLaughlin@albanylaw.edu). Transcripts of the event, as well as Perspectives pieces concerning animal law and animal rights, will appear in the State Constitutional Commentary, due for publication in April/May 2008.
Article Symposium on the Work and Scholarship of Professor Alan Dershowitz
Due for Publication in March/April 2008
The Albany Law Review is proud to publish an article symposium honoring the work and scholarship of Professor Alan Dershowitz. On April 5 & 6, 2007, Albany Law School, along with the Government Law Center and the Law Review, hosted an intellectually-stimulating conference honoring the work and career of Professor Dershowitz. The conference was organized by Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School's new President McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy. In addition to Finkelman and Dean Tom Guernsey, speakers at the conference included: Irwin Cotler, Member of Canada’s Parliament and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Martin Belsky, Professor of Law and Former Dean, University of Tulsa College of Law, and Former Dean, Albany Law School; Garrett Epps, Orlando John & Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law; Cecil Hunt, Associate Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School; John T. Parry, Associate Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School; Renee Redman, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut; Nicholas Rostow, University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, State University of New York; and Abraham Wagner, Professor of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University Law School. The Article Symposium will feature an article from Professor Dershowitz, as well as works from the distinguished speakers at the conference. For more information, feel free to contact us.
Past Symposia:
A Second-Class Constitutional Right?: Free Exercise and the Current State of Religious Freedom in the United States.
March 29, 2007
1:00pm - 5:30pm
Room 200
The symposium will consist of two panels that will look to explore current issues that are judicially pressing in the area of religious free exercise. The speakers will present on the problems arising from the U.S. Supreme Court's erroneous decision in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990); the importance of state constitutional law to rectify issues that arise from the Smith decision; "free exercise as a negative right" and the application of this principle to religious displays, charitable choice, and military chaplains; the Catholic Church's "dual loyalty" and the impact of current free exercise policy on its clergy; employment law issues relating to free exercise; and the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) that protects religious land use.
Currently, the symposium participants include:
- Professor Timothy Byrnes from Colgate University;
- Professor Steven K. Green from Willamette University College of Law
- Professor Richard A. Hesse from Franklin Pierce Law Center;
- Professor Luke Meier from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law;
- Professor Michael P. Moreland from Villanova University School of Law; and
- Dean Gary J. Simson from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
There will be a twenty-five minute break between panels and a reception to follow at the conclusion of the event.
The articles and transcripts from the Spring Symposium will appear in Book 4 of Volume 70, scheduled for publication in Summer 2007.
The event is free and open to the public. CLE credit will also be available. For more information, please contact Pete VanBortel (PVanBortel@albanylaw.edu).
The Reemergence of State Constitutional Law and the State High Courts in the 21st Century:
Re-examining the Emergence of State Constitutional Law
February 16th, 2007
1:30pm - 4:30pm
Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom
Albany Law Review is proud to host a spring symposium entitled The Reemergence of State Constitutional Law and the State High Courts in the 21st Century. This event will be dedicated to reexamining the reemergence of state constitutional law in American jurisprudence and the growing role that state high courts will play in the 21st century. The panel of speakers and moderators for the symposium features chief justices and judges from state high courts all around the country, including Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals, and other experts in state constitutional law.
To celebrate New York's first female Court of Appeals judge and Chief Judge, the symposium will also feature a tribute to Chief Judge Kaye. This year's State Constitutional Commentary issue of Albany Law Review will include transcripts and articles from symposium speakers and other experts on state constitutional law. The issue is scheduled for publication early in 2007 as Issue 3 of Volume 70.
Outsourcing Authority? Citation to Foreign Court Precedent in Domestic Jurisprudence
Featured in Volume 69, Book 3 of the Albany Law Review.
Other Past Events (Articles Only)
Intellectual Property Conference
October 2006
The Albany Law Review is pleased to published articles from the Intellectual Property Conference, a three day long event in New York City organized by Professor Sheldon Halpern that will focus on intellectual property issues in the law. Articles from this event are scheduled to be published in Book 4 of Volume 70, early in 2007.
