October 2016

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  • An exoneree’s story moves School of Law audience
    10/26/16
    On Oct. 6, law students heard exoneree Marty Tankleff’s tell his story of a gross miscarriage of justice and its eventual correction as a part of the course “Conviction and Remedies” taught by Innocence and Justice Project co-directors Gary J. Muldoon and Jon P. Getz. In 1990, Tankleff was convicted as a teenager of killing his parents in their Long Island home. Throughout his ordeal he said the justice system “couldn’t incarcerate an innocent person forever. I still had faith that the system eventually had to work.”
  • A cautionary rethinking of the Watergate scandal
    6/5/22
    For the law students in attendance, the Watergate affair is the stuff of U.S. history books – they weren’t yet born when President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace in 1973.
  • At a tennis shrine, finding his day on court
    10/19/16
    It was a tip from a UB School of Law alumnus that led Joe Schafer ’18 to his summer legal internship with the U.S. Tennis Association, the sport’s nationwide governing body.
  • Lecturer Bernadette Gargano to receive Woman Lawyer of the Year award
    2/1/23
    Women Lawyers of Western New York honors Lecturer Bernadette Gargano as their Woman Lawyer of the Year in recognition of her legal work, civic engagement, and commitment to diversity in the legal profession.