November 2014

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Amid memories and tributes, Alan Carrel says goodbye
11/11/14
Alan Carrel spent the better part of four decades building relationships with all sorts of people on behalf of SUNY Buffalo Law School. In a crowded hotel banquet room, a lot of those people gathered to celebrate his retirement. The Oct. 15 gathering at the Hotel @ the Lafayette brought together colleagues, faculty and alumni to celebrate a career that has meant much to the Law School.
Heilman '75 to receive the 2015 Jaeckle Award
11/11/17
Pamela Davis Heilman’75, a longtime leader in cross-border business practice with the Hodgson Russ law firm and an active presence in the University at Buffalo and its Law School, has been chosen to receive SUNY Buffalo Law’s highest honor.
Hard choices on the nation’s southern border
8/9/16
The flood of unaccompanied minors showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border was the focus of a student-sponsored panel discussion that brought some legal light to a heated issue.
A challenge to rethink homicide laws
8/9/16
Consider, said Joshua Dressler, two people who kill: a mother who, on a whim, throws her child from a bridge, and a son who carefully plans out the mercy killing of his terminally ill father. Which killer deserves the more severe punishment?
A time-out from challenges in China
11/10/14
Taking a break from her criminal law practice, Jing Heng, a defense lawyer and lecturer from the Sichuan province of southwest China, is spending a year at SUNY Buffalo Law School as a visiting scholar.
Visiting Fulbright scholar focuses on economic development and cooperative security agreements in Africa
11/10/14
"You cannot have economic development without security,” says Kennedy Gastorn, whose nine-month term at SUNY Buffalo Law School as a visiting Fulbright scholar ends in December.