2020

Jun. 11

Faculty Panel:  Professors Luis Chiesa, Athena Mutua and Anthony O’Rourke.
Title: George Floyd, Race and Policing

Apr. 24 - POSTPONED

Mitchell Lecture Series: Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
Title: To Be Represented: How they fail us, and how we do too 

Mar. 27 - POSTPONED

Baldy Center Book Talk: Hadar Aviram, UC Hastings College of Law
Title: Yesterday's Monsters the Manson Family Cases and The Illusion of Parole
 

Feb. 28

Baldy Center, Legal History Series Speaker: Sam Erman, USC Gould School of Law
Title: Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

Feb. 21

Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Paul Gowder, The University of Iowa Law 
Title: On Platforms and Polities

Feb. 14

Sarah Ludin
Title:
 Litigating 'Religion' in Reformation Germany: The Accidental Construction of a Bricolage Legal Category

Feb 7

Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
Title: Towards the Liberal Family

2019

Dec 6

Baldy Center, Legal History Series Speaker: Christian Burset, University of Notre Dame Law School
Title: Redefining The Rule of Law in The Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Oct. 11-12

Baldy Center Conference: Baldy Conference: Journal of Law & Political Economy, Developing the Field

Sept. 20

Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Alexandra Natapoff, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Title: Criminal Municipal Courts

Sept.  26-29

Baldy Center Conference: The Second International Conference on Buddhism and Law

Sept. 13

Mark Bartholomew
Title:
Academic Branding and Cognitive Dissonance

Sept. 6

Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Stuart Banner, UCLA Law
Title: Natural Law in the 19th-Century Legal System

Aug 14 - Law Review Camp

10:00am 
    Presenter:
 Michael Boucai, “Phenomenology of the Closet” 
    Commentators: Diane Elze (UB Social Work) and Christine Varnado (UB Global Gender & Sexuality Studies)
    

    Presenter: Mark Bartholomew, "Copyright and the Brain”
    Commentators: Joyce Lacy (UB Psychology) and Jonathan Manes
    

12:15pm
    Presenter:
Matthew Dimick, "Marx and Legal Positivism"
    Commentators: John Abromeit (Buffalo State, History) and Guyora Binder 
    

1:15pm
    Presenter:
 Guyora Binder, "Authority and Obligation"
    Commentators: Matt Dimick and Ryan Muldoon (UB Philosophy)

Aug 7 - Law Review Camp

10:00am 
    Presenter:
 James Gardner, "Structural Analysis of Democratic Practice: On the Constitutional Management of Power"
    Commentators:  Nicole Hallett and Matt Steilen

11:00am
    Presenter:
 Nicole Hallett, “Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement”
    Commentators: Lucinda Finley and Anthony O'Rourke

12:15pm
    Presenter: 
Anthony O’Rourke, “Punishing Self-Incrimination”
    Commentators: Luis Chiesa and Guyora Binder

1:15pm
    Presenter:
 Amanda Hughett, Book Proposal (on how prison reform in NC got subverted by well-meaning civil rights lawyers)
    Commentators: Samantha Barbas and Jack Schlegel