Melissa L. Breger

Albany Law School

Professor of Law

80 New Scotland Avenue

Albany, NY 12208

United States

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Making Waves or Keeping the Calm?: Analyzing the Institutional Culture of Family Courts Through the Lens of Social Psychology Groupthink Theory

Law & Psychology Review, Vol. 34, p. 55, 2010, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 29
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2011
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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gender, race, groupthink, family court, culture, psychology, reform, family, children, court, lawyering, judging, bias, institution, group dynamics

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Against the Dilution of a Child's Voice in Court

Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 175, 2010, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-42
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2011
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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children, courts

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The (In)Visibility of Motherhood in Family Court Proceedings

New York University Review of Law & Social Change, Vol. 36, p. 555, 2012
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2013
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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gender, motherhood, implicit bias, family, family court, child welfare, mother, bias, family law, reform

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Teaching Professionalism in Context: Insights from Students, Clients, Adversaries and Judges

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Jul 2004
Melissa L. Breger, Gina M. Calabrese and Theresa A. Hughes
Albany Law School, St. John's University - School of Law and St. John's University - School of Law
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clinical education, clinical law practice, professionalsim

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New York Law of Domestic Violence (Third Edition)

New York Law of Domestic Violence (Thomson-Reuters 2013), Albany Law School Research Paper No. 13 for 2013-2014, Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 14-10
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Melissa L. Breger, Deseriee A. Kennedy, Jill Zuccardy and Lee Elkins
Albany Law School, Touro University - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Independent and Independent
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domestic violence, family, criminal, immigration, torts, housing, employment, family offenses, evidence, criminal procedure, constitutional law, Family Court, coercive control, intimate partner abuse, enforcement, contempt

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Transforming Cultural Norms of Sexual Violence Against Women

Journal of Research in Gender Studies, Volume 4(2), 2014, pp. 39–51, ISSN: 2164-0262, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 3 for 2015-2016
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2015
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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gender, bias, violence against women, rape, culture, norms, modern society

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Healing Sex-Trafficked Children: A Domestic Family Law Approach to an International Epidemic

118 W. Va. L. Rev. 1131, 2016, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 19 for 2015-2016
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2020
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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human trafficking, sex trafficking, children, child abuse, therapeutic foster care, family violence, sexual abuse, trauma

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Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring Implicit Bias, Judicial Diversity, and the Bench Trial

University of Richmond Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1039, 2019, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 1 for 2019-2020
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2019
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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implicit bias, bench trial, judge, judiciary, bias, diversity, bench

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Introducing the Construct of the Jury into Family Violence Proceedings and Family Court Jurisprudence

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2006
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2009
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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jury, family, domestic violence, child abuse, family violence, family court, procedural justice

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Reforming by Re-Norming: How the Legal System Has the Potential to Change a Toxic Culture of Domestic Violence

44 Notre Dame Journal of Legislation 171, Volume 2 (2018), Albany Law School Research Paper No. 12 for 2018-2019
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 May 2018 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2018
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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intimate partner violence, culture, domestic violence, gendered norms, implicit bias, toxic masculinity, social norms, re-norming, law

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Advancing the Future of Family Violence Law Pedagogy: The Founding of a Law School Clinic

Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 41, No. 1, Fall 2007, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0107, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 07/08-26
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Mar 2008
Melissa L. Breger and Theresa A. Hughes
Albany Law School and St. John's University - School of Law
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Transforming Our Cultural Norms and Deconstructing Sexual Violence against Women

Albany Law School Research Paper No. 4 for 2013-2014
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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gender, implicit bias, rape, culture, inequality, norms

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Corporal Punishment, Social Norms and Norm Cascades: Examining Cross-National Laws and Trends in Homes Across the Globe

26 William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 1 (2020), Albany Law School Research Paper No. 12 for 2019-2020
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Melissa L. Breger, Lucy Sorensen, Victor Asal and Charmaine Willis
Albany Law School, University at Albany (SUNY), State University of New York at Albany and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University of Albany
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norms, corporal punishment, children

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From Kate Stoneman to Kate Stoneman Chair, Katheryn D. Katz: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United States Law School

Albany Law Review, Vol. 77, 2014, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 1 for 2014-2015
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Mar 2014
Melissa L. Breger and Mary A. Lynch
Albany Law School and Albany Law School
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feminism, legal education, history, domestic violence, family law, pioneer

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New York Law of Domestic Violence (Second Edition)

NEW YORK LAW OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (SECOND EDITION), Thomson Reuters, 2012, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 3 of 2012-2013
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 May 2012 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2012
Melissa L. Breger, Lee Elkins and Jane Fosbinder
Albany Law School, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Stemming the Tide: Social Norms and Child Sex Trafficking

126 Dickinson Law Review 135 (2021) , Albany Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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social norms, child sex trafficking, child exploitation, human trafficking, Nordic model, demand

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Implementing a Jury Option in Family Violence Proceedings

FAMILY LAW: BALANCING INTERESTS AND PURSUING PRIORITIES, Chapter 37, Lynn Wardle, Camille Williams, eds., pp. 306-312, Wm. S. Hein & Co., 2007
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Jun 2010
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School
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Building Pediatric Law Careers: The University of Michigan Law School Experience

Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 531, 2000
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2012
Melissa L. Breger, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Frank E. Vandervort and Naomi Woloshin
Albany Law School, University of New Mexico - School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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Pediatric, Pediatric law, Child Advocacy, clinic

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Paddling the Pupils: The Legality (or Not) of Corporal Punishment in Schools

Posted: 02 Aug 2019
Lucy Sorensen, Charmaine Willis, Victor Asal and Melissa L. Breger
University at Albany (SUNY), Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University of Albany, State University of New York at Albany and Albany Law School

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CRC, corporal punishment, children, schools, gender, common law, civil law, child rights, discipline, classroom

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Re-Norming Sport for Inclusivity: How the Sport Community Has the Potential to Change a Toxic Culture of Harassment and Abuse

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 2019, 13, 274–289. , Albany Law School Research Paper No. 2 for 2019-2020
Posted: 04 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2019
Melissa L. Breger, Margery Holman and Michelle Guerrero
Albany Law School, University of Windsor Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 519-253-3000 Ext. 2436 and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute

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masculinity, #MeToo, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sport

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Trauma in Sex-Trafficked Children

Chapter 8 in Human Trafficking: Emerging Issues and Legal Applications (Nora Cronin and Kimberly Ellis, eds.) (Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, 2017)
Posted: 26 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2017
Melissa L. Breger
Albany Law School

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children, therapeutic foster care, sex trafficking