Pamela Katz

Pamela S. Katz, J.D.

RSC Political Science
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science
Chair, Department of History, Law and Government

Office Address:
Russell Sage College for Women
45 Ferry Street, Gurley 101D
Troy, NY 12180
Office Phone: 244-2067
E-Mail: katzp@sage.edu

Brief Biographical Statement

Pamela S. Katz holds a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1983) and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center (1986). She has worked as an attorney in the private sector in the real estate department of the Manhattan law firm Shea & Gould. She has also worked in the public interest law sector at the New York Civil Liberties Union as Assistant Legislative Director (lobbyist) and as Executive Director of the Capital Region Chapter. Since 1997, she has been a full time faculty member at The Sage Colleges. Ms. Katz teaches in the Legal Studies and Political Science Departments at Sage.

Courses taught include:

American Government
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Introduction to Public Policymaking

Law and Legal Process
Legal Research and Writing
Legislative Process

Liberty versus Security

Practicum and Research Seminar in Political Science

Research in Law and Government
Right to Privacy

Women and the Law

Publications/Presentations include:

Presenter: Free Speech in Schools, presented at the Annual Conference of the New York State Bar Association, New York, NY January, 2009

Presenter: State Court Watch: A Teaching Tool, presented at the NYSATE/NYACTE (New York Association for Teacher Education/New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) Annual Conference, October 2008 in Albany, New York

Author and Presenter: Alternatives to Adversarial Family Law Practice, New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 2008

Presenter: State Court Watch: A Teaching Tool, presented at the Law, Youth and Citizenship Annual Conference, November, 2007 in Saratoga, New York

Presenter: Emerging Technologies and Reproductive Rights in the United States, at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, Shanghai, China, March 2007

Presenter: State Court Watch: A Web-based Teaching Tool, at the American Political Science Association's Conference on Teaching and Learning, January 2006.

Author and Presenter: The Reproductive Right to Clone, presentated at the Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Prato, Italy and published in the International Journal of the Humanities, Fall 2005.

Presenter: Separation of Powers: Another Victim of September 11? at Bradley University, Congress in the Classroom conference sponsored by the Dirksen Congressional Center, July 2002

Presenter: New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference, An Alternative Practice Model: The Lawyers' Cooperative, 2001

Organizer and moderator: Capstone Seminar in Law Presentation, Election 2000: Making it Make Sense, March 2001

Author: The Case for Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, Brooklyn Law School Journal of Law and Policy, Fall 1999.

Presenter: New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting, Same-Sex Marriage , Equal Protection and Privacy, 1999.

Presenter: New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference, The Constitutionality of Bans on Same-Sex Marriage, 1999.

Discussion Leader: The Sage College's Philosophy Forum, Exploring the Legality and Morality of Sexual Harassment, 1999.

Reviewer: We the People (civil liberties chapter), by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1998.

Organizer and moderator: Hot Topics Forum, New York State Constitutional Convention: Yes or No, 1997

Speaker: Government Law Center of Albany Law School conference on Commercial Speech: Historical, Constitutional & Policy Issues, Commercial Speech and the Constitution: Commercial versus Non-Commercial Speech, 1993.

Associations and Organizations

Columbia County League of Women Voters, Founding Member

Columbia County Land Conservancy
National Association of Prelaw Advisors
New York State Bar Association

Women's Bar Association

Personal

Pamela Katz lives in Chatham, NY with her husband, Richard Steinbach,; two children, Bobby (19) and Rae (15) Steinbach; and various domestic wildlife. She enjoys bicycle riding, hiking, reading and skiing.