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Ava Ayers is an assistant professor of law, and a past Director of the Government Law Center, at Albany Law School.
Before teaching, Ayers worked for nine years in the office of the New York Attorney General, where she was a Senior Assistant Solicitor General. She served both as a supervisor and as lead counsel in various high-profile cases involving immigration law, states’ rights, constitutional rights, environmental law, and other issues. Ayers graduated first in her class from Georgetown Law in 2005. She then clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for the Honorable Gerard Lynch on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ayers is the author of articles on immigration law, federalism, legal ethics, and other subjects, as well as the book A Student’s Guide to Law School, published by the University of Chicago Press. Before her gender transition in 2020, she was known as Andrew Ayers.

Professor Brescia combines his experience as a public interest attorney in New York City with his scholarly interests to address economic and social inequality, the legal and policy implications of financial crises, how innovative legal and regulatory approaches can improve economic and community development efforts, and the need to expand access to justice for people of low and moderate income. He is the author of “The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions” (Cornell University Press, 2020), which examines the intersection of technology and social movements, from the American Revolution, to the present day. He is also the co-editor of two books: Crisis Lawyering: Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations” (New York University Press, 2021); and “How Cities Will Save the World: Urban Innovation in the Face of Population Flows, Climate Change, and Economic Inequality (Routledge 2016). Before coming to Albany Law, he was the Associate Director of the Urban Justice Center in New York, N.Y., where he coordinated legal representation for community-based institutions in areas such as housing, economic justice, workers' rights, civil rights and environmental justice. He also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School from 1997 through 2006. Prior to his work at the Urban Justice Center, he was a staff attorney at New Haven Legal Assistance and the Legal Aid Society of New York, where he was a recipient of a Skadden Fellowship after graduation from law school. Professor Brescia also served as Law Clerk to the pathbreaking Civil Rights attorney-turned-federal judge, the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, Senior U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. While a student Yale Law School, Professor Brescia was co-recipient of the Charles Albom Prize for Appellate Advocacy; was a student director of several clinics, including the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Homelessness Clinic; and was Visiting Lecturer in Yale College. Professor Brescia is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.

Professor Edward W. De Barbieri teaches courses in community economic development law and directs the Community Economic Development Clinic, which focuses on community-based transactional skills and advocacy. His scholarship examines ways the public can engage in land use approvals and economic development activities and how that engagement can lead to reforms in economic and social systems. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Fordham Urban Law Journal, and Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law.

Prior to joining the Albany Law School faculty in 2016, Professor De Barbieri directed a community economic development clinic at Brooklyn Law School, and was an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. His background also includes work as a legal services attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, beginning as an Equal Justice Works fellow. He spent his final year of law school conducting research in Ireland as a Fulbright fellow, and is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, where he concentrated in religious ethics.

LL.M. National University of Ireland, Cork, MAR Yale Divinity School, J.D. Brooklyn Law School

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