INBRIEF
Help Us Celebrate our Retiring Faculty and Honor their Legacy Six veteran faculty members of Albany Law School retired this year or plan to retire next year. The group is made up of individual members who taught, advised, and touched the hearts of literally thousands of students over the past 30 years. Probably no student went through Albany Law School without learning from at least one of these retiring professors. Share your stories online about your memories and experiences with the retiring faculty members and we will post them for viewing at their retirement celebration in the spring. Go to www.albanylaw.edu/retiringfaculty to share your stories.
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Albany Law Magazine
Fall 2009
Robert Begg
Norman Deutsch
Harold Dubroff
Associate Dean and Director of the Schaffer Law Library Dean Begg will retire at the end of this school year. He joined the Albany Law School faculty in 1983 as head librarian. After earning his B.S. at Slippery Rock College, his J.D. at University of Oregon, and an M.L.S. at Rutgers University, he served as director of the law library, professor of law, and chairman of the Faculty Senate and University Council at Ohio Northern University. He oversaw the building of the new Albany Law School library in 1985. As director of the library, he led the shift into the digital age, maintaining a high national ranking for the law library, even as the market continues to shift resources online. He served as the associate dean of academic affairs from 1993–1996. He has taught Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility Seminar.
Professor Deutsch will retire at the end of this school year. He joined the Albany Law School faculty in 1978. He earned his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Maryland, taught at the University of Illinois, was a member of the law faculty of Stetson University, and also practiced privately for several years before joining the Albany Law School faculty. Professor Deutsch has taught Constitutional Law, Contracts, Political and Civil Rights and Secured Transactions. His most recent scholarship includes two papers: “May Religious Worship Be Excluded From a Limited Public Forum? Commentary on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries v. Glover,” published in the Hawaii Law Review last year, and “Does Anybody Really Need a Limited Public Forum?” published in the St. John’s Law Review also last year.
Professor Dubroff retired July 1 this year. He joined the faculty in 1972. He earned his B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, and his LL.B. and LL.M. from New York University. After two years as an associate with a New York City law firm, he was an attorney advisor for the U.S. Tax Court, and subsequently a legislation attorney with the Joint Committee on Taxation in Washington, D.C., before joining Albany Law School. He taught Contracts, Federal Income Taxation partnerships, Non-profit Organizations: Tax/ Governance, Trusts and Estates. “The Implied Covenant of Good Faith in Contract Interpretation and Gap-Filling: Reviling a Revered Relic,” was published in St. John’s Law Review (2006). Books he authored include Estate Planning for the Small Business Owner (1993), and The United States Tax Court: An Historical Analysis (1979).