Robert I Reis
Professor
A.B., Adelphi College, 1961
J.D., New York University, 1964
LL.M., University of Southern California, 1965
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
414 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-2354
Assistant:
Suzanne Caruso, 417 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-5598
Biography:
Robert I. Reis came to Buffalo in 1968 from the University of Connecticut, School of Law where he taught in the land use, resources allocation, and business areas. He authored a book while at Connecticut on Connecticut Water Law published by the University Press. Professor Reis has pursued his broad range of environment, land use and development, finance and technology interests since coming to Buffalo.
In the later part of the 1970s and early part of the 1980s he taught a graduate course in the Post Doctoral Program at the University of Rochester in Environmental Law and Policy. He was a Director of the New York State Sea Grant Law Program from the early 1970s well into the 1980s. Professor Reis has participated as an Administrative Hearing Officer for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and as a Alternative Dispute Resolution officer in technology based controversies.
Professor Reis was previously the Director of the Government Law Program and has encouraged widening the scope of program coverage to include municipal law, state and local government and taxation, education law, environmental law and law and technology.
He currently is teaching Law and Technology: Computers, Cyberspace and Policy, Municipal Law, Real Estate Transactions and Commercial Real Estate Development and Land Use. Professor Reis is the Co-Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Concentration at the Law School, and the Director of UB Law's Technology Transfer Program.
Professor Reis' current research is focused primarily in the areas of Law and Technology with special emphasis on the impact of technology as it relates to Intellectual Property, economic, legal and social structures. He is actively engaged in the use of technology based teaching through the delivery of enhanced educational opportunities and content to students.
Selected Publications:
Books
Intellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activity, (with Shubha Ghosh, Richard Gruner and Jay Kesan) (West, 2007)
Coastal Zone Legal References, 1975, New York Sea Grant Institute (editor) NYSSGLPLS-75-011, Reference 1 and Coastal Zone Legal References, New York Sea Grant Institute, NYSSGLP-LS-76-019, Reference 3 (2nd edition, 1976)
Connecticut Water Laws: Judicial Allocation of Water Resources (215 pp.) (Institute of Water Resources, 1967)
Articles
The Sony Legacy: Secondary Liability Perspectives, Akron Intellectual Property Journal vol. 3(1/2): 40 (2009)
Rights and Remedies Post eBay v. MercExchange – Deep Waters Stirred, Akron Intellectual Property Journal vol. 2: 133-162 (2008)
Geographic Information Systems and Analysis: The Future of the Public Trust Doctrine, Albany Law Environmental Outlook vol. 2: 70-76 (1996)
Law Information and Policy for Spatial Databases (with Harlan J. Onsrud) Jurimetrics Journal vol. 35: 377-393 (1995)
A Brief Inquiry into the Imperatives of the Coastal Zone and the Processes of Institutional Change, Sea Grant Law Journal vol. 1: 5-11 (1976)
Environmental Activism: Thermal Pollution AEC and State Jurisdictional Considerations, Boston College Industry & Commerce Law Review vol. 13: 633-684 (1972)
Policy and Planning for Recreational Use of Inland Waters: Private Rights and Public Needs, Temple Law Quarterly vol. 40: 155-193 (1967)
A Review and Revitalization: Concepts of Ground Water Production and Management, the California Experience, Natural Resources Journal vol. 7: 53-87 (1967)
Legal Planning for Ground Water Production, Southern California Law Review vol. 38: 484-493 (Summer 1965) (abstracted in Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Review vol. 3: 139 (Winter 1965))
Chapters
Mortgages in Warren's Weed New York Real Property (Matthew Bender, 1989)
Adirondack Park Land Use and Management: Procedures and Forms in Warren's Weed New York Real Property (Matthew Bender, 1988)
Coastal Zone Management in Warren's Weed New York Real Property (Matthew Bender, 1988)
Land Under Water in Warren's Weed New York Real Property (Matthew Bender, 1986)
