April 2016

The legal profession is changing. If there was any doubt about that reality, it was put to rest by Part 1 of this year’s Mitchell Lecture, which looked at how technology, outsourcing and deregulation are reshaping the landscape of legal practice.

The former president, attorney general and chief legal counsel of the Seneca Nation of Indians will be the keynote speaker as the University at Buffalo Law School conducts its 127th Commencement exercises.

An influential survey has shown that the Buffalo Law Review now ranks 49th in the nation, among general student-edited law reviews, in its impact on legal scholarship.

SUNY Buffalo Law School’s premier student-run legal journal, the Buffalo Law Review, will honor two alumni of the school and the Review when it holds its 27th annual year-end dinner. The April 28 dinner, to begin at 6 p.m., will be held at the Park Country Club, 4949 Sheridan Drive, Williamsville.

While all eyes are looking toward this November’s presidential election, a University at Buffalo Law School forum looked ahead to a vote next year with even greater impact for New Yorkers: the question of whether to convene a convention to revise the state’s Constitution.

This year or next, the U.S. Senate will hold hearings to confirm the next nominee for the nation’s highest court. Sure to be raised is the judicial philosophy called originalism – the idea that the Constitution should be understood in light of the original meaning of its authors.

The Lt. Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, a non-alumnus, and six law alumni who have gone on to succeed in widely varied types of practice, will be honored as SUNY Buffalo Law School confers Distinguished Alumni Awards at its annual Law Alumni Association Dinner on May 11.

His life reached from one touchstone of the African-American experience to another – from just after the Emancipation Proclamation all the way to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.             

Are you an anxious lawyer? Jeena Cho ’03 may have an answer for you.

In many ways, says Loraine Yates, her new job as a development officer for SUNY Buffalo Law School is like coming home.

This year’s 27th annual Students of Color Dinner marked a first: the graduation of two students who came to the School of Law by way of DiscoverLaw, the school’s program to introduce promising students of color to the possibilities of a legal career.

A gay-rights pioneer told his story of two major court victories – ones that advanced the legal rights and human dignity of gay and lesbian people – at the annual dinner of OUTLaw, the Law School’s LGBTQ student organization.

Associate Professor Matthew Steilen’s paper takes a new look at the case of an 18th century terrorist in Virginia and brings recognition to the Law School.