Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

Established in 1978, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary research and teaching at UB Law and the University at Buffalo as a whole. Although the center primarily supports interdisciplinary research by faculty members in law and the social sciences, some of its activities are directly aimed at UB Law students. These activities include: Public Lectures and Events, Courses, Seminars, and Advising; Research Opportunities; and the Gilbert Moore Fellowship. [Visit Website]

For more information, contact:

Rebecca R. French, Director
(716) 645-2102
rrfrench@buffalo.edu
www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter

Buffalo Human Rights Center

As the focal point for human rights work at UB Law, the Buffalo Human Rights Center fosters coursework, research, and scholarship in human rights. It maintains cooperative links worldwide with human rights organizations, human rights programs in other universities, think tanks, and governmental and quasi-governmental agencies interested in human rights. The center organizes speaker series, conferences, and symposia with leading scholars and practitioners of human rights from around the world. It also hosts the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, one of only four human rights journals in the nation. The center arranges student summer internships with leading human rights organizations in this country and abroad. Recent human rights summer internship placements have included organizations in Geneva, Switzerland; the West Bank; Mexico City, Mexico; Cape Town, South Africa; Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; Kampala, Uganda; Istanbul, Turkey; Cairo, Egypt; Lima, Peru; Albania; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kathmandu, Nepal. [Visit Website]

For more information, contact:

Tara Jane Melish, Director
(716) 645-6184
hr-center@buffalo.edu
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/orgs/bhrc

Canada-United States Legal Studies Centre

Founded in 1989, the Canada-United States Legal Studies Centre integrates Canadian legal issues into the Law School by coordinating its activities with those of research groups, faculty initiatives, and student organizations. The Centre's directors and staff actively encourage and support Canada-related and comparative Canada-United States related research, curricula initiatives, and public presentations. Faculty members are encouraged and funded to pursue Canadian perspectives or topics in their research, and to include Canadian speakers to academic events they are organizing. Students interested in Canadian studies or legal practice are given advice and direction.

Cross-border issues have been identified as being of particular interest in the UB 2020 strategic strength on Civic Engagement and Public Policy. The Law School and the Canada-U.S. Legal Studies Centre are integral parts of the development of this strategic strength. [Visit Website]

For more information, contact:

Robert S. Berger, Director
Laura S. Mangan, Associate Director
Dawn Fenneman, Administrative Assistant
(716) 645-2581
lawdawn@buffalo.edu
www.law.buffalo.edu/research/centers/canada-US/

Center for the Study of Business Transactions

A joint venture of UB Law School and the UB School of Management, the Center for the Study of Business Transactions sponsors a variety of courses, research opportunities, and distinguished speakers, and encourages collaboration among faculty and graduate students in law and management. Studying the business decision-making process is a sound basis on which to build an understanding of the worlds of law and business. The center is dedicated to understanding the realities of the business world by dissecting actual business decisions and examining transactions where law and business intersect.

For more information, contact:

Thomas Disare, Director
(716) 645-3696
disare@buffalo.edu

Edwin F. Jaeckle Center for State and Local Democracy

The Jaeckle Center focuses on the ways in which law, politics, and principles of democratic self-governance intersect at the state and local levels. Through coordinated programs of research, teaching, and public engagement, the Center takes on pressing contemporary questions relating to the distribution of power between public and private stakeholders; the structure and operation of democratic institutions and processes at the subnational level; the relationships among place, citizenship, and identity; and regional questions of distributional justice, to name just a few. [Visit Website]

For more information, contact:

James A. Gardner, Director
Rick T. Su, Associate Director
(716) 645-2080
law-jaecklecenter@buffalo.edu
www.law.buffalo.edu/research/centers/govlaw/

Law and Religion Program

The Law and Religion Program at the University at Buffalo focuses on the multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural study of the intersection of law, religion, society and culture. Law and religion are present in all human societies. Law and religion are also cultural products. We seek to understand how these two powerful social and cultural sets of ideas, practices, and institutions have come to be seen as separate and how they interact and have interacted and recombined in diverse ways across space and time. What is distinctive about the program at Buffalo is that it is the very pluralism, openness and contingency of law and religion and their interrelationship that engages a very diverse set of scholars, historians, anthropologists, social theorists, sociologists, and lawyers. [Visit Website]

For more information, contact:

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Director
(716) 645-3010
wfs2@buffalo.edu
www.law.buffalo.edu/research/religion/

Program for Excellence in Family Law

The UB Law Program for Excellence in Family Law integrates teaching, research, policy, and practice to provide you with the skills and experience needed to practice family law. For students, the program coordinates the concentration in family law, the many family law courses, clinics, practice opportunities, and research projects at UB Law School. The program also serves the public through ResourceLink, an online and phone-line resource to connect advocates and practitioners with UB Law School, and through annual educational institutes. The educational institutes provide an opportunity for comprehensive training for attorneys and advocates, including research presentations by law students completing the family law concentration. [Visit Website]

For more information, contact:

Suzanne Tomkins, Co-Director
(716) 645-2103
tomkins@buffalo.edu
www.law.buffalo.edu/family_law

Susan Vivian Mangold, Co-Director
(716) 645-2428
svm@buffalo.edu
www.law.buffalo.edu/family_law