[2] While at Yale, he was part of the team of law students led by then professor Harold Hongju Koh that litigated Sale v. Haitian Centers Council and its related case.
Upon graduation from law school, Brescia received one of a small number of Skadden Fellowship awards,[4] through which he worked at the Legal Aid Society of New York as a staff attorney until 1995.
In 2007, Brescia became a full-time legal academic, joining the faculty of Albany Law School.
[6][7] The Government Law Center focuses on the legal aspects of current public policy issues, hosts a number of annual events and conferences, and is a publication vehicle for papers on numerous legal and governmental topics.
Brescia is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post on legal and political issues and maintains a blog entitled "The Future of Change.