Joseph Storch is an Associate Counsel in the SUNY Office of General Counsel and Chair of the Student Affairs Practice Group. He provides primary representation for the Cortland, Morrisville, and Oswego campuses and concentrates his practice on student affairs, intellectual property, and campus safety. He also serves as Principal Investigator on more than $3.3 million in grants to fund violence prevention and response on campuses and in the community. He has trained thousands of higher education professionals, furnished technical guidance to numerous education institutions, organizations, and associations on the Clery Act and Title IX, and provided expert testimony to the United States Senate regarding campus safety. He regularly advises legislators and staff at the federal and state level on best practices in drafting and analyzing pending domestic and international campus violence prevention legislation and served as an expert adviser to the VAWA Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Counting Clery Crimes. In 2014, Joe received the Commissioner’s Award from the State University Police for contributions to safety on campus. In 2015, he served as a technical adviser to the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, developing comprehensive legislation that was enacted in July 2015 as 129-B of the Education Law (also called “Enough is Enough”). That same year, the National Association of College & University Attorneys awarded him its First Decade Award. In 2016, he coordinated the SUNY’s Got Your Back program which has donated well over 22,000 comfort bags to victims and survivors of violence. Joe graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Oswego where he served as Vice President of the Student Association, from the University at Albany with a Masters of Public Policy, and from Cornell Law School where he served as Moot Court Board Chancellor. After graduating, he clerked for the New York State Appellate Division, 3rd Department. He serves as Executive Editor of the Student Affairs Compliance Report and Analysis and is the author of more than 55 articles and book chapters in law reviews, practitioner journals, and popular media, most centering around campus safety or copyright law.