Scholars in Residence
Overview
Scholars-in-Residence
Scott Fein
Senior Counsel, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna
Scott Fein served as an assistant counsel to New York State Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo and before that as a prosecutor. He serves as vice chair of the Governor’s Task Force on Public Authority Reform, senior advisor to the Center for Law & Policy Solutions at the Rockefeller Institute, counsel to the New York State Archives Trust, chair of the State Bar Association’s annual program in Albany on Ethics and Civility, and formerly, as the Chief Judge’s appointment to the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing and Chair of the Government Law Center Board of Advisors of the Albany Law School.
He was the statewide recipient of the 2021 New York State Bar Association’s Award for Pro Bono Service. He has contributed to and edited numerous publications about state government, including, Making of a Modern Constitution: The Prospects for Constitutional Reform in New York State, “Protections in the New York State Constitution Beyond the Federal Bill of Rights,” “Rural Justice in New York State: Challenges and Recommendations, New York: A Laboratory for Innovative Public Policy, and, Immigration: Key to the Future – The Benefits of Resettlement to Upstate New York.
Scott received his law degree from Georgetown Law School and master’s in law degree from New York University Law School. He is a partner at Whiteman Osterman and Hanna.
Rey Koslowski
Professor of Political Science & Director, Master of International Affairs Program, University at Albany, State University of New York
Rey Koslowski is a professor of political science and director of the master of international affairs program at the State University on New York’s University at Albany. He has held fellowships at the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Princeton University, and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Koslowski has published extensively on the politics of international migration, immigration policy and border control, notably as author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000), editor of Global Mobility Regimes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Recent and forthcoming articles and chapters include: “Transforming Border Security through Transgovernmental Cooperation: US and Canadian Efforts to get ‘Beyond the Border’” with Geoff Leckey in Kiran Banerjee and Craig Smith, Understanding North American Migration Governance (McGill-Queens’ University Press, forthcoming); “Drones and Border Control: An Examination of State and Non-State Actor use of UAVs along Borders,” in Marie McAuliffe, ed. Handbook on Migration and Technology (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021); “Farmers Sponsoring Refugees,” in Scott Fein, Immigration: Key to the Future – The Benefits of Resettlement to Upstate New York (Albany: New York State Bar Association, 2021); “International Travel Security and the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration,” International Migration, Vol. 57, No. 6 (December 2019).
Hongseok Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University at Albany
Hongseok Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is also a scholar-in-residence at the Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy. His research focuses on human resources management, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and ethical behaviors. His work has been published in prestigious journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, and Review of Public Personnel Administration. Lee has investigated the effective management of diversity and inclusion in various policy areas, such as education, law enforcement, and government. He is now expanding his research to encompass immigrant integration issues.
Sarah Rogerson
Director, Justice Center, Albany Law School
Sarah Rogerson directs The Justice Center at Albany Law School. She is also the faculty director of the Immigration Law Clinic, in which students represent immigrant victims of crime, including child abuse and neglect, persecution, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Under her supervision, her students also represent wrongfully detained immigrants and regularly participate in legislative advocacy and community outreach initiatives. Before joining the faculty, Rogerson worked as a housing and immigrant rights public interest attorney in Newark, New Jersey, and in Dallas, Texas.
Her scholarship addresses flaws in the administration of immigration law and policy, including intersections with domestic violence and international law. She has also been published on current issues such as crisis lawyering, education policy and gun safety, having direct lived experience with each of those topics. She is a New York State Municipal Police Instructor and is a regular panelist on WAMC Public Radio’s “The Roundtable.” In 2020, Rogerson was elected to a three-year term on the Niskayuna Central School District Board of Education, on which she serves as Vice President.
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