February 2016

The rapidly changing legal profession, and how law schools can best train future lawyers to thrive in this new environment, will be the topics of a major two-part presentation at the School of Law.

Two UB School of Law alumni with extensive experience in the criminal courts have been chosen to lead the law school’s Innocence and Justice Project.

The Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal  looks at the emerging field of the post-grant review process established by the 2011 America Invents Act.

Where does the right to water fit into the law? A dispute between India and Pakistan over diverting river water to run a hydroelectric plant led to a landmark 2013 ruling by the Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration. Now a recent SUNY Buffalo Law graduate’s paper on the dispute is being honored by the New York State Bar Association’s International Section.

In his latest book, Professor Makau Mutua steps back from the day-to-day struggle to extend basic human rights to citizens of countries the world over, and takes a critical look at how the norms of the movement are created in the first place.