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Clerked for Judges Matthew J. Jasen and Stewart F. Hancock Jr. of the New York State Court of Appeals. Held U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship. Served in U.S. Army Military Intelligence and Judge Advocate General's Corps. Joined Albany Law School in 1990. 

Has taught as a visiting professor at Syracuse University College of Law and the Maxwell School of Public Affairs. Author of "Streams of Tendency" on the New York Court:Ideological and Jurisprudential Patterns in the Judges' Voting and Opinions (W.S. Hein). 

Published recent articles on judicial decision making, state constitutional law, criminal and civil rights, legal ethics, and New York Court of Appeals. Founding editor-in-chief, Government, Law, & Policy Journal (New York State Bar Association). Editor, State Constitutional Commentary and director, The Center for Judicial Process.

Prof. Bonventre is also the author of New York Court Watcher, a blog devoted to commentary on developments at the Supreme Court, the New York Court of Appeals, and other state supreme courts nationwide. And he is the founder and Director of the Center for Judicial Process.

The Honorable Leslie E. Stein 鈥�81, who retired as an Associate Judge on the New York Court of Appeals in June 2022, is the new Director of the Government Law Center (GLC) at Albany Law School.

Stein received her B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and her J.D. from Albany Law School in 1981, graduating Magna Cum Laude. 

After graduating from Albany Law, Stein began her legal career as the law clerk to the Schenectady County Family Court Judges. She practiced matrimonial and family law with the Albany law firm of McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, P.C. where she made partner. During that time, Stein was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. In 1997, she left private practice to begin her judicial career as an Albany City Court Judge and Acting Albany County Family Court Judge. She was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, Third Judicial District for a term commencing in January 2002. She served as the Administrative Judge of the Rensselaer County Integrated Domestic Violence Part from January 2006 until February 2008, when she was appointed a Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, Third Department. In October 2014, Judge Stein was nominated by former Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals and her nomination was confirmed by the New York State Senate on February 9, 2015.

Stein is a past co-chair of the NYS Unified Court System Family Violence Task Force. She was a founding member of the New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law and chaired the Third Judicial District Gender Fairness Committee from 2001 to 2005. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, as an officer of the New York State Association of City Court Judges, and as a member of the Board of the New York Association of Women Judges. Stein has lectured and developed curricula for continuing legal education of attorneys and judges on multiple topics. She has a long history of involvement in various state and local bar associations and in a number of other professional and civic organizations.

She served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the law school from 2012 until 2021, when she stepped down to become the Director of the GLC. 

Dr McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Law and Research Degree Coordinator (JUS). He has a wide range of research and teaching experiences across the common law world. He has held teaching positions in Australia, Canada and the UK, and has practice experience in both Australia and the UK. Dr McIntyre was awarded his PhD in 2013 from the University of Cambridge. His thesis, entitled ‘The Nature of the Judicial Function’, sought to provide a comprehensive theoretical foundation for understanding the scope and limits of the judicial role.
Originally from South Australia, Dr McIntyre obtained his undergraduate degrees at Flinders University. He was admitted to practice in 2006, and worked at the SA Crown Solicitor’s Office for a period of two years, including a year as Research Assistant to the Solicitor-General. When in the UK, he was a member of the elite Academic Research Panel at the prestigious Blackstone Chambers, providing academic opinions on a broad range of civil and criminal matters. Dr McIntyre has held teaching positions at Flinders University in South Australia; at Jesus College in Cambridge, UK; at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada; and at Charles Darwin University, in the Northern Territory.
Dr McIntyre’s research focuses on judicial studies and judicial theory. This work includes the exposition and examination of primary concepts – understanding the nature of the judicial function, judicial decision making methodology, and derivative concepts of independence, impartiality and accountability - and the exploration of the implications concepts in concrete situations. Current themes include such issues as:

access to justice; 
delay and civil procedure reform; 
judicial dissent; 
intra-court collegiality;
judicial performance evaluation;
accountability for international arbitral tribunals.


 
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge

Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Honours) Flinders University

Bachelor of Arts Flinders University

Work history
Lecturer in Law – Charles Darwin University (Darwin): July 2014 – January 2016

Assistant Professor – Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, Canada): July 2013 – July 2014

Adjunct Lecturer – Flinders University (Adelaide): Feb 2013 – Feb 2015

College Teaching Officer – Jesus College (Cambridge): Sept 2011 – Sept 2012

Legal Researcher, Academic Research Panel – Blackstone Chambers (London): Sept 2009- Sept 2012

Solicitor – Crown Solicitor’s Office (Adelaide): Feb 2008 – Sept 2008

Research Assistant to the Solicitor-General – Solicitor-General’s Office (Adelaide): Feb 2007 – Feb 2008

Principal Research Officer to the Parliamentary Committee on Occupational Health, Safety and Rehabilitation – South Australian House of Assembly (Adelaide): Dec 2006 – Feb 2007