Gubernatorial Succession in New York: Improving Lieutenant Governor Replacement and Succession Procedures

New York’s governor currently has sole power to appoint a new lieutenant governor when a vacancy occurs. This program will consider whether there should be additional checks on that power. It will also analyze other reform issues raised by recent events involving gubernatorial succession. For more background, the New York State Bar Association released this report on gubernatorial succession and the Fordham Law School Rule of Law Clinic released this report.

This program is free to all NYSBA members and co-sponsoring partner organizations. Please use use offer code NH11COMP to register. 

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs

John D. Feerick, Dean Emeritus and Sidney C. Norris Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, Past President of the NY City Bar Association, and a framer of the Constitution’s 25^th Amendment

Richard C. Lewis, President, New York State Bar Association and Special Counsel at Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP

Michael Miller, Past President, New York State Bar Association and New York County Lawyers Association, Law Office of Michael Miller

John Rogan, Senior Fellow, Fordham Law School

Agenda

• Opening Remarks
  • Matthew Diller, Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
  • Richard C. Lewis, President of the New York State Bar Association
• Fireside Chat
  • John D. Feerick, Dean Emeritus and Sidney C. Norris Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, Past President of the New York City Bar Association, and a framer of the U.S. Constitution’s 25^th Amendment
  • Michael Miller, Past President of the New York State Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association, Law Office of Michael Miller
• Fireside Chat
  • David A. Paterson, 55^th Governor of New York
  • Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Project and Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
• Panel
  • Liz Benjamin, Managing Director at Marathon Strategies and former New York politics journalist
  • Adrienne B. Koch, President of the New York County Lawyers Association and Partner at Katsky Korins LLP
  • James M. McGuire, Partner at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and former Chief Counsel to Governor George Pataki
  • Alan Rothstein, Chair of Subcommittee of NYSBA Committee on the NY State Constitution that drafted the committee’s gubernatorial succession report and former General Counsel of the New York City Bar Association
  • Moderator: John Rogan, Senior Fellow at Fordham Law School
• Q&A

Sponsors

Fordham University School of Law

New York State Bar Association

Co-Sponsors
• Citizens Union
• League of Women Voters of New York
• New York City Bar Association
• New York County Lawyers Association

• Government Law Center at Albany Law School
• Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law School
• Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Project
• Fordham Law Rule of Law Clinic
• New York City Bar Association Election Law Committee
• New York City Bar Association State Affairs and Government Ethics Committee
• Fordham Law Student Bar Association
• Fordham Urban Law Journal
• Fordham Law Advocates for Voter Rights