September 2022

With the academic year now well underway, UB School of Law has welcomed several new faculty members to the classroom. Their expertise and experience range widely, and their teaching portfolios are broad: traditional doctrinal courses, legal research and writing, and courses in the law school’s B.A. in Law program.

As a newly appointed lecturer in the School of Law’s Legal Analysis, Writing and Research program, Farina Barth will guide first-year students through two semesters of building the fundamental skills of lawyering.

Joel Black joins the School of Law faculty this year where he’ll teach the B.A. in Law program, guiding students toward both a practical understanding of law and its application, and the situations out of which our legal system has arisen.

Fabra-Zamora, an Associate Professor of Law, will teach Torts and Conflict of Laws this year, and in the future he’ll offer courses in jurisprudence (legal theory) in keeping with his scholarly interest in legal philosophy.

Jorge Farinacci-Fernós begins a yearlong visiting assistant professorship at the School of Law where he will be teaching a Constitutional Law course.

It’s a moment every teacher treasures: when the light of understanding dawns in a student and you can see it in their eyes.

Professor Tanya Monestier’s students agree on one thing – she expects and delivers excellence in the classroom.  It’s evident by the comments in their end-of-year reviews:

With four academic degrees and aspirations toward another, Pamela Newell knows the value of rigorous study in higher learning.

Building on generous alumni gifts, UB School of Law is looking to provide much-needed support at a critical time for our students: the run-up to the bar exam.

As UB Law’s new assistant director for alumni affairs, Stephanie Mack ’08 shares a portfolio that engages the school spirit of more than 12,500 alumni worldwide.

With a new slate of officers and directors, law school alumni leadership has charged into a new academic year with an ambitious agenda and fun new ways to further expand alumni connections.

UB Law students had a close-up view of lawyers at work—and perhaps a glimpse into their own future as litigators—when a state Supreme Court justice held daylong special term proceedings in the law school’s Francis M. Letro Courtroom.

In his latest book, While Waiting for Rain: Community Economy and Law in a Time of Change, Professor John Henry Schlegel reviews the nation’s economic history and looks at Buffalo as an example of how a city devastated by the loss of its manufacturing base might find a brighter future.