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communications and is currently teaching as an adjunct at SUNY Purchase. Justice

Duffy is the author of the 2011 article, “The Admissibility of Expert Opinion and the

Bases of Expert Opinion in Sex Offender Civil Management Trials in New York,” and

co-author of the 2018 article, “The State of Physical Injury and Serious Physical Injury

in New York Criminal Law,” both published in the Albany Law Review. Justice Duffy

recently co-authored an article about the tension between the right to counsel and the

right to self representation in criminal cases in NY entitled, “He Who Represents

Himself Has a Fool for a Client: The Right to Counsel and the Right to Self

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Representation in New York”. Its anticipated publication will be in the 85 volume of the

Albany Law Review.

Justice Duffy previously served as a member of the publication committee of the

Thomson Reuters publication, The New York Bench Book, in which she authored the

2013 edition of the chapter on “Trial Elements.” She also authored a chapter and its

annual updates on “Entertainment” law for the Thomson Reuters publication,

Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, Fourth Edition.

Justice Duffy is the president and one of the founding members of SOCIAL, the

law society of Irish American Lawyers in the 9th Judicial District. She lives in Mount

Vernon with her husband Tim Lynch; they have three adult children, Céili, Patrick and

Shannon.