Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Illustrious Alumni of Albany Law

Tomorrow, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Albany Law School will be hosting a panel on Illustrious Alumni, with a reception to follow (and CLE credit available): 
This program, created with our Trustee, Penelope Andrews, Dean of Albany Law School, is the inaugural program in a new series on the contributions of Upstate New York law schools to our legal history. The series will highlight the contributions of alumni in events hosted at the various campuses.

The inaugural program will feature talks on four prominent alumni of Albany Law School:

Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court Justice
by Professor John Q. Barrett, Professor of Law, St. John's University & Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow, The Robert H. Jackson Center

David Josiah Brewer, United States Supreme Court Justice
by Dean Alicia Ouellette, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Intellectual Life & Professor of Law, Albany Law School

James Campbell Matthews, First African-American judge in New York
by Hon. Randolph F. Treece, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of New York

Greene Bronson, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
by Professor Vincent M. Bonventre, Professor of Law, Albany Law School

Conversation with Presenters
Moderated by Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt, President, The Historical Society of the New York Courts