| "Appellate Division,
Second Department, 100th Anniversary " | |
INTRODUCTIONIt is with a sense of pride and accomplishment that we mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of our court. In our day-to-day endeavors in the Second Department, we grapple with the full range of human conflict, applying the civilizing rule of law to resolve the complex issues that our modern society compels us to confront. We do not work alone. We stand in the shadow of those who have gone before, those great jurists, lawyers and teachers, men and women, who have shaped our legal traditions. Their efforts inform our work and their spirits vitalize our institutions. It is one of those institutions, the Appellate Division, that we commemorate in the pages of this publication. Throughout its hundred-year history, the court has embodied the spirit of the law, an aspirational ideal that has been the object of so much gallant effort. Because of its traditions, the Appellate Division has endowed us with a strength that steadies us during the upheavals of human history and enables us to perform our work with the requisite focus and attention. Upon this milestone in its life, we recognize and honor our court's illustrious history and look to its future with confidence and hope.  |
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 The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York | |
