UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Focus: American Legal and Constitutional History
Alfred S. Konefsky, a UB Distinguished Professor, joined the University at Buffalo School of Law faculty in 1977 after serving as the Charles Warren Fellow in American Legal History at Harvard Law School and as editor of Legal Papers of Daniel Webster at Dartmouth College. He teaches contracts and a variety of courses in American legal history, including the subject areas of the 19th century (from the Revolution to the Civil War), the colonial period, law and American labor history, American constitutional history, and Melville and the law.