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2004 Hugh R. Jones Memorial Lecture
On March 29, 2004, the Fund for Modern Courts and Albany Law School
hosted the third Judge Hugh R. Jones Memorial Lecture at Albany
Law School. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York,
introduced the speaker, Stewart F. Hancock, Jr., Associate Judge
(retired) of the New York Court of Appeals. Judge Hancock’s
lecture highlighted the importance of the principles of fundamental
fairness and equality as influences in the evolution of the common
law in New York. More than 200 people, including the members of
the Court of Appeals and New York State Bar Association President
A. Thomas Levin, gathered in the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom for
the speech.
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