the Future of Change

Please read the annual report of the Government Law Center for the 2014-2015 Academic Year.  Highlights of the report include:

• Our symposia: which covered such topics as: Police-Community Relations, featuring U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr.; the Separation of Powers between the Executive and Legislative Branches in New York State, with former New York Gov. David Paterson; and the Lessons of Detroit’s Fiscal Woes, keynoted by ex-lieutenant governor Richard Ravitch, and carried out in conjunction with the Institute for Financial Market Regulation and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute for Government at the State University of New York;
• Scholarship and activities focused on access to justice, laws impacting economic development, and urban planning;
• Events fostering entrepreneurship and innovation;
• Updates from the Albany Citizens’ Police Review Board;
• Details on the new Government Law Center Fellows Program; and
• An overview of Semester-in-Practice program where our students engage in full-time, semester-long internship placements in such locations as the White House, the NYS Legislature, Pfizer, Her Justice, and the NYPD.