Penelope Andrews, First permanent female Dean and President of Albany Law School
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David D. Siegel, prolific and influential commentator on New York Civil Practice
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The law school inducted its first permanent female President & Dean, Penelope Andrews, on July 1, 2012.
He attended Albany Law School where he earned a Juris Doctor degree and is currently a member of the New York State Bar.
He was a graduate of Brown University, where he received the degree of A.M. in 1866, graduated from Albany Law School in 1859, studied international law in Europe, was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, and afterward moved to Albany, New York.
After serving with distinction in the Civil War, Moses studied at Hillsdale College and then the Albany Law School, where he graduated LL.B.
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He edited Historical Manuscripts, State of New York (1887–89), was professor of law at Union College, and dean of the Albany Law School (1889–91), professor of law at Columbia University (1891–1901), dean of Columbia Law School from 1901 to 1910 and was a pioneer in the introduction of the case method of studying law.
After attending Albany Law School for a year, he was admitted to the Vermont Bar in December 1860, beginning the practice of law in Springfield, Vermont.
Patricia E. Salkin, Raymond and Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Albany Law School, was appointed Director of the GLC in 1992, and served as the Center's Director until her appointment as dean of the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 2012.
Historian and scholar Paul Finkelman was named Senior Faculty Fellow at the GLC and Albany Law School's President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy.