F A C U LT Y N O T E S Professor Moriarty led his Criminal Law class—his last class—in an “Irish toast” to celebrate his retirement from full-time teaching.
Professor Moriarty Retires after 41 Years and 2,500 Students After 41 years at Albany Law School, Professor Daniel Moriarty taught his last class as a full-time professor this spring. Joining the faculty for the 1971-72 year, he taught for more than a quarter of the law school’s 162-year history, giving him the longest length of service of any current faculty or staff member. Appreciated by students and colleagues for his keen understanding of the law and good humor, he educated thousands of lawyers, teaching the basic course Criminal Law, required of all first-year students, as well as more advanced courses including White Collar Crime, Federal Criminal Law, Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice, Juvenile Justice, Post-Conviction Remedies, Sentencing & Corrections, and Comparative Criminal Law. He also taught Administrative Law, Remedies and Business Organizations. “Professor Moriarty was a truly terrific teacher,” said Timothy MacPherson ’13, who took his corporate and criminal law classes. “He had a profound and lasting impact on my legal education, and I’m sure that generations of Albany Law graduates hold him in the same high regard. His daily presence on campus will be greatly missed.” “Dan Moriarty has long been the ‘Dean of the Criminal Law Department’ at the school, and all of us who teach criminal law courses have been the beneficiaries of his abundance of wisdom, encouragement and good humor,” said Professor Vincent Bonventre. Professor Bonventre continued, “One of my earliest recollections at the school is Dan explaining the delights of teaching R v. Dudley and Stephens, the old English case about cannibalism on the high seas—that devilish grin and hearty laugh of his. I saw them often over the years and will sorely miss them and him.” Beyond the classroom, he has taken on a number of criminal appeals cases as assigned counsel, as well as served as faculty director of a legal services project for New York prisoners. Prior to coming to Albany Law, Professor Moriarty served as a law clerk to the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, and an assistant district attorney with the Albany County District Attorney’s office. He graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1964 with a B.S./F.S. degree and in 1967 from the Georgetown University Law Center with a J.D. degree. Professor Moriarty looks forward to time off for relaxing, reading, some traveling and spending time with his family. 38
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Law” for the IP Institute in London on Nov. 20, 2012. He is leading a working group on intellectual property issues as part of a project supported by a two-year federal grant to explore the impact of digital technology on the collection, preservation and dissemination of oral history. The “Oral History in the Digital Age” project is based at Michigan State University in conjunction with the American Folklore Society at the Library of Congress. Professor Halpern also wrote an essay, “A Shifting Paradigm: Intellectual Property Issues for Oral History in the Digital Age,” published as part of the final project documents. Professor Alexandra Harrington ’05, ’08 delivered a presentation on national and international human rights at the First Annual Health & Human Rights Week, sponsored by the Institute for Health & Human Rights at the University at Albany, on Dec. 6, 2012. She also presented a paper via Skype, “The Future Implications of Recent Free Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property Rights,” to the Conference on International Aspects of Intellectual Property Law at Arizona State University on Dec. 1, 2012. Professor Harrington presented her paper “The Expansion of Transnational Corporations and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Over Acts of Corruption: Solving the Paradox Through Corporate Social Responsibility” at the 2012 Australia New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) conference, held in Wellington, New Zealand, from July 5 to 7, 2012. She delivered a presentation titled “All That You Leave Behind: The Territorial Relationship of Heritage Defence Sites and Military Bases” at the Defence Sites: Heritage and Future 2012 conference, sponsored by the Wessex Institute of Technology, in Portsmouth, U.K., on June 6, 2012.
Professor Robert Heverly ’92 participated in an IP workshop at NYU Law as a commenter in January. In February, he traveled to St. John’s and presented a talk on Tort Liability in Denial of Service Attacks as part of our scholarship exchange. On March 29, 2013 he joined the online video/pod-cast “This Week in Law.” On April 3, he presented his paper “Regulating the Cyborg” at George Washington University School of Law, as part of its Intellectual Property Law Program Papers Series, and on Friday, April 5, 2013, he participated in the GLC/Journal of Science and Technology symposium, speaking about Tort liability and technology. Professor Dorothy E. Hill moderated a panel on the film “Compliance” at the Saratoga Film Forum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on Nov. 30, 2012. Professor Keith Hirokawa delivered a presentation on environment and health at the First Annual Health & Human Rights Week, sponsored by the Institute for Health & Human Rights at the University at Albany, on Dec. 4, 2012. He discussed “The Development of Federal Environmental Law” on a panel for “Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie: A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio” at the University of Akron School of Law on Sept. 27, 2012. Professor Michael Hutter will serve as president of the Albany County Bar Association for the 2013 term. He was elected vice president in January 2011 and served as presidentelect for the 2012 term. Justice John T. Casey ’49 swore in Professor Hutter at a ceremony on Jan. 16, 2013. Professor Hutter also gave a presentation on “Expert Testimony and Related Discovery Issues at the annual meeting of the Association of Justices of the