Barry B Boyer
Professor Emeritus
B.A., Duke University, 1966
J.D., University of Michigan, 1969
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
520 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-3989
Faculty Assistant:
Barbara Kennedy, 507 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-2167
Biography:
Barry Boyer is a Professor Emeritus at UB Law School, having taught from 1973 to summer of 2009. He specializes in Environmental Law and Administrative Regulation. He taught Environmental Law I and II, Enforcing Environmental Law, and Administrative Law. He also oversaw the Environmental Law Externship in UB's Environmental Law concentration. Boyer was Dean of the UB Law School from 1992 to 1998, and prior to that served two terms as Associate Dean and was Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at UB Law School from 1978-1992. Currently, he is a member of the Baldy Center's Working Group on Environmental Stewardship.
Boyer's research involves regional performance indicators for environment, economy, and government services, as well as work on an environmental legal history of Western New York. He is Co-Director of the State of the Region project sponsored by the UB Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, which received an award for "Outstanding Project in Public Education" from the New York Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association in 2000.
Boyer is also active in several community and environmental organizations. He is a founder and member of the Friends of the Buffalo Niagara Rivers, and has served as President, Vice-President, and Secretary of that organization. He is also a board member and past President of the Erie County Environmental Education Insititute, which operates the Center for Great Lakes Environmental Education in Buffalo, and he serves on several advisory committees including the Lake Erie Forum and the Buffalo River Remedial Advisory Committee. He was named Conservationist of the Year 2001 by the Niagara Frontier Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and also received environmental awards from Great Lakes United (1996) and the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (1991).
Before coming to UB Law School, Boyer worked for the American Bar Foundation, the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, the Administrative Conference of the United States, and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as clerking for Judge Edward Tamm of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Selected Publications:
State of the Region: Performance Indicators for the Buffalo-Niagara Region in the 21st Century (with Kathryn Foster and Beverly Sanford, 1999, 2000), available online.
"A 'Two-Track Strategy' for the Buffalo River Remedial Action Plan" (with John McMahon) in John H. Hartig and Michael A. Zarull, Under RAPs: Towards Grassroots Environmental Democracy in the Great Lakes Basin 93-120 (University of Michigan Press, 1992)
