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68 Alb. L. Rev. 703 (2004-2005)
If Legislators Fail, Who Is There to Follow

handle is hein.journals/albany68 and id is 725 raw text is: IF LEGISLATORS FAIL, WHO IS THERE TO FOLLOW? Richard C. Wesley* I have enjoyed a long-standing love affair with the Capitol District. As reflected in my curricula vitae, I attended the University at Albany, worked and served in the state legislature and had the great honor and pleasure to serve for six and a half years on New York's High Court-The Court of Appeals. Albany has always been a place of growth and personal fulfillment for me. The Albany Law School has also played an important role in my professional life. The law school has sent me several wonderful clerks and has invited me twice before to speak on the law and its development. My initial effort in that regard was the inaugural Hugh R. Jones Memorial Lecture on March 11, 2002.1 In that talk, I focused on the life of Hugh Jones and the artcraft of appellate judging in a common law court. The following March, I returned to speak at a seminar entitled The Use of Legislative History in Interpreting New York State and Federal Statutes.2 I moderated the panel discussion on how laws are made in New York and how legislative history is assembled. That was a very distinguished panel that included the Chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Helen Weinstein; the former Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge James Lack; and former counsel to the Governor, Evan Davis. It was, for me, an exciting and enlightening discussion. It combined my years of service as aide and Assembly member with my tenure as a trial and appellate judge. Today I return, this time, to give you my views of where some of the jurisprudential action will be in the years to come. This has not been an easy task for me. As you all know, I left Eagle Street and changed my professional address to 40 Foley Square in New York City. My new responsibilities as a Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have, to some * United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. ' See Hon. Richard C. Wesley, Hugh Jones and Modern Courts: The Pursuit of Justice Then and Now, 65 ALB. L. REV. 1123 (2002). 2 See The Use of Legislative History in Interpreting New York State and Federal Statutes, 68 ALB. L. REV. 723 (2005).

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