Event Archive

Conferences & Workshops

2009-2010

• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Effective and Sustainable Law Practice: the Meditative Perspective (Charles Halpern) [Program]
• Workshop: Reconceptualizing Sociality: An Interrogation of Key Concepts (Deborah Reed-Danahay) [Program]
• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Detective Fictions and Sovereign Pursuits: Further Adventures in Policing (John Comaroff) [Program]
• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence? Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms (Fred Schauer) [Program]
• Conference: Advertising & The Law (Mark Bartholomew) [Program]
• Symposium: Thinking beyond the Nation-state: A Symposium on Empires, Diasporas, and Indigeneity (Theresa Runstedtler & Theresa McCarthy) [Program]
• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Japan's New Lay Judge System: Deliberative Democracy in Action? (Valerie Hans)
• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Why (and when) Judges Dissent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (Lee Epstein)
• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Where Have All of the Pro-Choice Lawyers Gone? An Analysis of Post-Roe Reproductive Rights Lawyering (Karen O'Connor)
• Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Civilians, Terrorism, and Deadly Serious Conventions (Jeremy Waldron) [Program]
• Conference: Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context (Lynn Mather & Leslie Levin) [Program]
• Conference: ClassCrits Workshop III: Rethinking Economics and Law After the Great Recession (Angela Harris, Martha McCluskey, & Athena Mutua) [Program]

2008-09

• Conference: Pro Bono, Lawyers, and the State: Cross-Border Perspectives. [Program]
• Conference: Re-Describing the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Legal Story II [Flyer]
• Workshop: The Hidden Places of Law: Exploring Legal Geographies [Details]
• Colloquium: Thinking about Property: Research on Foreclosures [Program/Flyer]
• Workshop: The Hidden Places of Law: Exploring Legal Geographies Details
• Can Attorneys Disclose Clients' Suicidal Thoughts? Exploring the Ethical and Legal Issues: A Multidisciplinary Colloquium Details
• Same-Sex Marriage and Federalism Details
• James Atleson, Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective Details

2007-08

• Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession Details
• Re-Describing the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Legal Story Details
• Limited Health Care Resources: Prioritizing Access in a Community Emergency Details
• The Abortion Controversy in Context Details
• The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating Economic Justice at the Local Level Details

2006-07

• Classcrits II: Toward a Critical Legal Analysis of Economic Inequality Details
• Criminal Law, Terrorism, and the State of Emergency Details
• Prisons and the Death Penalty Details
• Screening of the newly-mastered and restored DVD version of "Death Row"Details
• The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Mental Health Systems: an Interdisciplinary Approach
• ClassCrits: Toward a Critical Legal Analysis of Economic Inequality Details
• Public Health Emergencies and Legal Preparedness: A Cross-Border Challenge Detail
• Workshop on Interpersonal Violence: Using Qualitative Research to Test Hypotheses Details
• Workshop on The Abortion Controversy in Context: Protest and Policy Details
• Law, Buddhism, and Social Change: Conversation with the Dalai Lama Details Video

2005-06

• The Police Power Reconsidered: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern Governance Details
• Merging Immigration and Crime Control: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Details
• Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice Workshop on "Overcoming Racial Discrimination in Housing, Credit, and Urban Policy" Details
• Conversations on Buddhism and Law (held at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center)
• Workshop on Historicizing Capitalism: Historical Political Economy as Critique of Neo-Classical Economics Details
• Conference on The Roles and Representations of Walls in the Reshaping of Chinese Modernity Details
• Conference on Military Culture and Gender Details
• Workshop on Participatory Research and Urban Racial Justice Details

2004-05

• Workshop on Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment
• Immigration Policy and Practice Post-9/11: Impacts, Historical Precedents, and Future Directions
• Government Policy, Cultural Production, Personal Privacy: A Workshop

2003-04

• Public Participation in the Buffalo-Niagara Region: A Workshop
• Workshop on Police Powers in Comparative Perspective
• Locating Law in Buddhist Societies: A Workshop
• Conference on the Ownership and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage
• Sleeping Under Bridges: Economic and Social Rights in Canada and the United States

Conferences and Workshops from 1995 to 2003 are archived here

Regional Sociolegal Studies Conferences

Since 1996 these conferences, cosponsored by the Baldy Center, have brought together groups of 40 to 50 scholars to discuss current topics in law-related research. Participants are drawn from institutions such as York University, the University of Toronto, Brock University, Syracuse University, Cornell University, and Buffalo State College, as well as the University at Buffalo.

2008 University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology Details

2007 University at Buffalo Law School

2006 York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto

2005 University at Buffalo Law School
Plenary panels: Law and Literature; Risk and Safety Nets; Canadian and U.S. Debates over Selecting Judges

2004 Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario
Plenary panels: Religion, Law, and Culture; Borders and Orders

2003 University at Buffalo Law School
Plenary session: Policing

2002 University of Toronto, Woodsworth College
Plenary session: Comparative Sociolegal Cultures

2001 University at Buffalo Law School

1999 Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto

1998 University at Buffalo Law School
Plenary session: Sociolegal Research and Problems of Governance Transnational Research Perspectives

1997 University of Toronto Law School
Plenary session: Has Globalization Changed your Life?

1996 University at Buffalo Law School

Other Events

The Baldy Center hosts lectures and presentations of work-in-progress by UB faculty and other distinguished speakers visiting UB. These presentations may be either sponsored or cosponsored by the Center or one of the faculty research programs or working groups. The Center also hosts visiting scholars (see below) and their presentation are also listed here. This list does not include the numerous presentations made by speakers and commentators at Center Conferences and Workshops or in the Faculty Seminar Series or Book Manuscript Workshops. Recent presentations include the following:

2008-09

June 18, 2009
Presentation: New Faculty Guest Lecture Award, with Samantha Kwan, Sociology, University of Houston, "Theoretical Perspectives on Body Modification Practices: Agency, Culture, and Cosmetic Genitoplasty." Organized by award recipient, Mary Nell Trautner, UB Sociology. Cosponsored by the UB Gender Institute. [Details]

June 12, 2009
Cosponsored Conference: Great Lakes Connecting Channels: Governance, Ecosystem Science and Management. Organized by Joseph Atkinson, UB Great Lakes Program; Barry Boyer, UB Law; Helen Domske, NYS Sea Grant & UB Great Lakes Program; Lorraine Oak, UB Canadian American Studies Committee/College of Arts and Sciences; Lynda Schneekloth, UB Architecture. [Program/Flyer]

May 19, 2009
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference, "Pro Bono, Lawyers, and the State: Cross-Border Perspectives". [Program] [Framing Questions]

May 13, 2009
Presentation: Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy, with Romain Laufer, HEC Paris, sponsored by the College International de Philosophie, "Language, Law and Management: The Issue of Jurisprudence." [Details]

May 1-3, 2009
Conference: Re-Describing the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Legal Story II
Organized by Winnifred Sullivan, UB Law; Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, UB Law; and Robert Yelle, History, Memphis University. [Visit Conference Web Page]

April 24, 2009
Theorists and Jurists Series Film Screening and Presentation
with Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology, Harvard University,
"Monti Moments: Men's Memories in the Heart of Rome, from the Eternal City to the City of Angels." Details and Flyer Bio

April 23, 2009
Theorists and Jurists Series Presentation
with Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology, Harvard University,
"Housing Rights and Historical Wrongs: Gentrification and Neoliberalism, from the Eternal City to the City of Angels."
Details and Flyer Bio

April 20, 2009
Book Manuscript Workshop
on "Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson," by Theresa Runstedtler, UB American Studies. Commentators: Kevin Gaines, Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan; Tracey Denean Sharpley-Whiting, French and African American Studies, Director, African American and Diaspora Studies, Director, Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. Details and Flyer

April 16, 2009
Cosponsored Presentation
"From Bondage to Freedom" about the History of the Underground Railroad in Western New York and Southern Ontario, with Kevin Cottrell, UB African African Studies; head, North Star Interpretive Project; Station Master, Motherland Connextions, Inc. Organized by Stephanie Phillips, UB Law.

April 9, 2009
Theorists and Jurists Series Presentation with Michael Taussig, Anthropology, Columbia University,
"The Yagé Tapes: Shamanism and Intellectual Property in Colombia."
Commentators: Marcus Boon, English, York University; Mark Bartholomew, UB Law; Dawson Prater, Locust Records, Chicago.
Details and Flyer

April 6, 2009
Faculty Evening Conversations
(1) Law and Anthropology. Moderators: Deborah Reed-Danahay, UB Anthropology, Matteo Taussig-Rubbo, UB Law. Sponsored by the Working Group on Law and Anthropology.
(2) Social Justice. Moderators: Suzanne Tomkins, UB Law, Susan Mangold, UB Law. Sponsored by the Working Group on Children, Families, and the Law.

April 3, 2009
Presentation: Working Group on Children, Families, and the Law with Laura Dresser, Center of Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Caring and Cleaning in the Home: Shared Problems? Shared Possibilities?" Details/Flyer

March 17, 2009
Theorists and Jurists Series Presentation
with Jules L. Coleman, Law and Philosophy, Yale Law School
"Legal Directives and Moral Reasons" (note new title)
Details/Flyer

March 18, 2009
Theorists and Jurists Series Presentation
with Jules L. Coleman, Law and Philosophy, Yale Law School
"Allocation and Accountability" (note new title)
Details/Flyer

March 19, 2009
Presentation: Working Group on Theory with Larry May, Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis & Research Professor of Social Justice, Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Health, Charles Sturt University, Australia
"Habeas Corpus and Global Justice." Flyer Bio Abstract Paper

March 20, 2009
Presentation: Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy
with Jorge Heine, Center for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI) Chair in International Governance, Wilfrid Laurier University
"New Challenges to the World's Second Oldest Profession: The Theory and Praxis of Twenty-First Century Diplomacy." Details/Flyer

March 27, 2009
Presentation: Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy
with Renata Stih, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, and Frieder Schnock, Arts historian, critic, author, "Politics and Policies of Memorialization." Details Flyer

February 27
Julia Hall, Senior Counsel, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Human Rights Watch, "Closing Guantanamo Bay: A New Set of Human Rights Challenges." Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies Details

February 26
Sandra Lane, Health and Wellness, Social Work, College of Human Ecology, Syracuse University; Research Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, "Viewing Poverty through Different Lenses: The Impact of Poverty and Race on Health." Commentator: Raquaiiah Yearby, UB Law. Organized by the Working Group on Children, Families, and the Law Details/flyer
Click here for Post-Presentation Podcast

February 20
Presentations and Short Student Film, "Identities, Nationalisms, and the Rule of Law: January 2009 Seminar in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia." Introduced by Isabel Marcus, UB Law. Program/Flyer

February 19
Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Attorney General, "The Empire State Strikes Back: A Plan for Reform of Local Government." Flyer

December 16
Evening Faculty Reception, The Barton House, 118 Summit Ave, Buffalo, in Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House Complex Details

November 21
Anver Emon, Law, University of Toronto, "Techniques of Rights Reasoning in Islamic Law" Flyer Paper
Cosponsored by the Law Faculty Workshop

November 19
Richard Abel, UCLA Law, discussing his new book "Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from New York Disciplinary Cases" Flyer Book Extract

November 6
Film Screening and Discussion, "'Be Like Others': Transsexuals in Iran" introduced by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, UB Law, with discussion by film director, Tanaz Eshaghian

October 30
James Gardner, UB Law, "Fraud and Error in Voting: Is Democracy in Danger?" Flyer

October 29
Dorothy Noyes, Ohio State University, English; Director of Center for Folklore Studies, "Vernacular Invention from Scarcity to Abundance." A discussion about international intellectual property regimes. Flyer. Organized by the Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy

October 22
"The Discomfort of Religion: Integration of Post War Immigrants in Western Europe Compared with the U.S." with Leo Lucassen, Leiden University, Social History Paper Flyer. Organized by Working Group on Migration, Pluralism and Policy

October 15
Rhoda Howard-Hassman, Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, "'Why the Jews, Why Not Us'? The African Social Movement for Reparations" Flyer Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

September 26
Nancy Staudt, Northwestern University School of Law
"Does the Court Cycle?" Cosponsored by Law Faculty Workshop Paper

September 26
Lee Epstein, Northwestern University School of Law, "Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging" Paper. Cosponsored with UB Political Science

2007-08

June 26
Paul Goldstein, Stanford Law Flyer
"A Patent Lie"

May 27
Antoni Abad i Ninet, University of Barcelona, Spain Flyer
"The Spanish Constitutional System: A Sui Generis Model of a Decentralized State"

May 16
"Texas Children Taken into Custody: Clashes of Law, Culture, and Religion"
Organized by the Working Group on Children, Famililes, and the Law, and Law and Religion

April 25
Cosponsored event on Antagonistic Tolerance: A Comparative Analysis of Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites with Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh Law School and Department of Anthropology

April 24
Book Publishing Workshop with Melody Herr, Aquisitions Editor, University of Michigan Press

April 23
Barry Smith, Director, Ontology Research Group, UB Philosophy
"Ontology of Law" Flyer

April 9
Sasha Pack, Professor of History, UB
"Neo-Catholicism, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Religion in Modern Spain" Flyer

February 27
David Velleman, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
"The Gift of Life" Flyer
Organized by the Working Group on Theory

March 24
Molly Dragiewicz, Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
"A Discussion of Gender in the Etiology of Violence" Flyer
Organized by the Working Groups on Children, Families & the Law and Gender, Law, and Social Policy

March 19
Kevin Mulcahy, Louisiana State University, Political Science, and Editor, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
"Coloniality, Identity, and Cultural Policy" Flyer
Organized by the Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy

March 18
Isabel Marcus, UB Law
"Walking the Line: Working to Reform Legal Education in Eastern Europe" Flyer
Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

February 27
Samina Raja, UB Urban and Regional Planning
"Racial Disparities in Food Access: Lessons from Erie County, NY" Flyer
Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

February 25
Thomas Nochajski, UB Social Work
"Evaluation of the Family Treatment Court: Lessons Learned Flyer
Organized by the Working Group on Children, Families, and the Law

February 6
Joshua Dyck, UB Political Science
"Who is Mobilized by Direct Democracy?" Flyer

December 13
Baldy Center Annual Faculty Retreat Flyer

December 3
Maia Jaliashvili, Republic of Georgia; and Eduardo Muchado, Brazliian Prosecutor
"International Dimensions of Addressing Domestic Violence"
Organized by the Working Groups on Children, Families, and the Law, and Gender, Law, and Social Policy

November 29
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Philosophy
"Two Kinds of Recognition Respect for Persons"
Organized by the Working Group on Theory

November 13
Brenda Moore, UB Sociology; and Debra Street, UB Sociology
"Gender and Deployment: Experiences of Stateside Families"
Organized by the Working Group on Gender, Law, and Social Policy

October 23
Alan Gerson, Chair, Gerson International Law Group
"Holding Foreign Governments Accountable for Terrorism and Gross Human Rights Abuses-Almog vs. Arab Bank (EDNY) and the Privitization of Justice: Implications for the Future of Anti-Terrorism Litigation"
Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

October 18
Phillips Stevens, UB Anthropology
"Anthropology and Directed Cultural Change: The Case of Iraq"
Organized by the Working Group on Internatioinal and Comparative Legal Studies

October 3
Carole Rosenstein, UB Arts Management
"The Regulation of Public Space as Cultural Policy"
Organized by the Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy

September 27
J. Philip Thompson, MIT Political Science
"A Call for Deep Democracy"
Organized by the Seminar on Racial Justice and the Working Group on Classcrits

September 24
Sarah Schulman, author and activist
"United in Anger: The ACT UP Oral History Project"
Cosponsored with UB Gender Institute and UB Department of Anthropology

2006-07

April 26
Hal Langfur, UB History
"Territoriality and Race Relations in Colonial Brazil"
Organized by the Seminar on Racial Justice

April 23
Najia Aarim-Heriot, SUNY Fredonia, History
"Race and Citizenship: Chinese Immigrants and African Americans in the Age of Emancipation" flyer
Organized by the Migration Policy and Pluralism Working Group

April 23
Elizabeth Beiring Kim, US Environmental Protection Agency, Former Gilbert Moore Fellow
"Oceans and Coastal Protection: Law and Policy" Flyer
Organized by the Environmental Stewardship Working Group

April 12
Michael Sartisky, Director, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
"Transformation Through Strategic Planning: Matching Institutional with Community Needs" flyer
Organized by the Cultural Policy and Diplomacy Working Group

April 4
"Access to Experimental Drugs: A New Right to Life?"
Student presentations on DC Court of Appeals case on patients' rights.
Organized by Sheila Shulman, UB Public Health & UB Law

April 2
Andy Finch, Senior Director of Government Affairs, Americans for the Arts
"Cultural Diplomacy from the Standpoint of National Arts Service and Advocacy Organizations" Flyer
Organized by the Cultural Policy and Diplomacy Working Group

March 29
Scott Gehl, Executive Director of Housing Opportunities Made Equal
Organized by the Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice

March 28
Alon Harel, Hebrew University, Law
Visiting Fellow at University of Toronto Centre of Ethics
"Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions: On the Incoherence of Privately-Inflicted Criminal Sanctions" paper
Organized by the Theory Working Group

March 7,
Li Chen, History, Columbia University Details

March 5,
Shaun Irlam , UB Comparative Literature
"Probing Darkness in Rwanda: Genocide & Gacaca" Details
Organized by the International and Comparative Legal Studies Working Group

February 14,

Claude Welch, UB Political Science
"Linking National and International Human Rights Networks: India's Dalits ('Untouchables')" Flyer
Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

January 18,
Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Philosophy.
Philosophy Colloquium cosponsored by the Theory Working Group Details

September 18, 2006 Book Publishing Workshop
Kate Brett, Senior Commissioning Editor, Cambridge University Press Details

2005-06

May 3, 2006
Ruth Bereson, UB Art History/Arts Management Program, on "Fats Domino is Missing. An Analysis of Arts and Cultural Policy Making in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina."
Commentators: Kate Foster, Director, Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, and John Pick, Emeritus Professor, Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London, and former Chair of Rhetoric, Gresham College, London. Organized by the Working Group on Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy.

April 26, 2006
Debra Street, UB Sociology, and Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University, Sociology "Public Subsidies for Private Health Insurance: Perverse Incentives or Practical Welfare?" Organized by the International and Comparative Legal Studies Working Group

April 6, 2006
Johanna Oreskovic "International Adoption: Corruption and Regulation." Organized by the Children, Families, and the Law Working Group

February 22, 2005
Ezra Zubrow, UB Anthropology "The Atlas of the Unmapped: The Spatial Determinants and Social Consequences of Human Rights for People with Disabilities." Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

February 13, 2006
David Westbrook, UB Law, "Theorizing the Diffusion of Law: Conceptual Difficulties, Unstable Imaginations, and the Effort the Think Gracefully Nonetheless." Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies

December 14, 2005 Annual Retreat Keynote Address
Richard Abel, UCLA Law School, "Legalizing Torture"

October 10, 2005 Mini Workshop
Dr. Hans-Rudolf Bork, Director of the Ecology Centre, University of Kiel, Germany. Margaret Shannon, UB Law, Environmental Stewardship Working Group "Niagara Escarpment and Bioregional Governance"

2004-05

March 29, 2005
Mark Cameron, UB Social Work "The Impact of a School Closing on Students Receiving Special Education Services and Their Families"

March 10, 2005
Roger des Forges, UB History, and Qiang Fang, graduate student, UB History "Were Chinese Rulers Above the Law? Toward a Theory of the Rule of Law in China from Early Times to 1949 CE"

March 2, 2005
Claude Welch, UB Political Science; and Jeanette Ludwig, UB Romance Languages and Literature "Caste Conversion and Constitutional Rights: Dalits in India"

December 15, 2004 Annual Retreat Keynote Address
Jeffrey Rachlinski, Cornell Law School "Inside the Judicial Mind"

November 19, 2004 Great Lakes Colloquium
Training and Development for Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarianship, organized by James Milles, UB Law Library, hosted by the Baldy Center Program on Regulation, Technology, and Society Details

November 16, 2004, Work-in-Progress Presentation
Eric Caine, Chair of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center "Public Health and Preventive Psychiatry" Introduced by Sheila Shulman, UB Law. Discussant: Catherine Cerulli, UB Law.

November 10, 2004, Work-in-Progress Presentation
Junhao Hong, UB Communications "Internet Regulations and Policies in China and their Sociolegal Implications" 

October 28, 2004 Work-in-Progress Presentation
Evis Bozo Daum, former Senior Legal Advisor at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo Department of Justice "Justice in Times of Transition: The United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo and its Implications for Human Rights" hosted by the Program on International and Comparative Legal Studies

October 21, 2004 Presentation
Opportunities in International Law Presentation on internships and human rights work by International Law Fellows Susan Cimini and Mary Little. Cosponsored with the Human Rights Center

October 15, 2004 Asia at Noon Presentation
Henry Thiagaraj, leader in the Dalit Liberation Education Trust, Madras "Major Issues Confronting the Dalit (formerly Untouchable) Community in India." Cosponsored with the Baldy Center Program on International and Comparative Legal Studies

September 24, 2004
Gender Week Panel Presentation:"Theories of Rape" Panelists: Melissa Deem, Dept. of Communication, University of New Hamphire; Carrie Renthschler, McGill University; Carine Mardorossian, UB English Isabel Marcus, UB Law. Cosponsored with UB Women's Studies, UB English, and UB Gender Institute

2003-04

April 23, 2003 Work-in-Progress Presentation
Rebecca French UB Law "Holes and Disciplinarity: Why the Field of Buddhist Legal Studies Doesn't Exist" cohosted by the Law Faculty Workshop.

April 14, 2003 Work-in-Progress Presentation
Peter St. Jean UB Sociology "Legal Cynicism and Community Policing" hosted by the Program on International and Comparative Legal Studies.

April 12, 2003 Lecture
William A. Johnson, Jr. Mayor of Rochester, NY "Metropolitan Government: Promise and Impediments" cosponsored by the Baldy Center. Commentator: Kathyrn Foster, UB Department of Urban and Regional Planning

April 9, 2003 Work-in-Progress Presentation
Barry Boyer UB Law, and Linda Schneekloth, UB Architecture
"Hydropower and Empowerment" hosted by the Environmental Stewardship Working Group and the Law Faculty Workshop

April 8, 2003 Lecture
Mary Frances Berry Chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission "On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision" organized by UB Dept of African American Studies

April 8, 2004 Work-in-Progress Presentation
David Gerber UB History"Creating Narrative Accounts of Lives from Immigrant Letters: Thomas Spencer Niblock - A Conflict of Respectability and Failure" hosted by the Program on Community and Identity

April 5, 2004 Lecture
Jace Weaver Law and Religion, & Native American Studies, University of Georgia "On Native America: Religous or Religious Traditions"

April 6, 2004 Lecture
Jace Weaver Law and Religion, & Native American Studies, University of Georgia "Dispatches from the Front: Notes on NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act)" cosponsored by the Baldy Center

February 13, 2004 Work-in-Progress Presentation
Ernie Sternberg UB Planning "Prudent Deliberation under Catastrophic Threat: Beyond Risk Assessment"

February 18, 2004 Work-in-Progress Presentation
Nadia Shahram UB Law "Professional Couples of Abrahamic Religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Discuss Marriage, Divorce, and their Relationships According to their Faith, as Well as in Practice" Hosted by the Program on Children, Families, and the Law.

Visiting Scholars

May 10, 2005
Pierre d’Argent, University of Louvain, Belgium "From the Public Law of Europe to International Law and Back Again?" Commentators: Mark Drumbl, Washington & Lee Law School; David Westbrook, UB Law. flyer

April 25, 2005
Kevin Boyle, History, Ohio State University Winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age "The Ossian Sweet Case and the Course of Civil Rights." Cosponsored with UB African American Studies, American Studies, History, and Sociology.

April 14, 2005
Beth Simmons, Political Science, Harvard University "International Law Compliance and Human Rights." Cosponsored with UB Political Science GSA paper

February 18, 2005
Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law "The Ten Commandments on the Courthouse Lawn and Elsewhere" paper flyer

October 25, 2004 Graduate and law student luncheon
Michael McCann, Director of the Law, Societies, and Justice Program,
University of Washington. Informal discussion on "Whose Fault is Fat? How the Media Frame Fast Food Litigation"

October 25, 2004 Presidential Inaugural Academic Event
Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship and Director of the Law, Societies, and Justice Program, University of Washington. "Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis." Cosponsored with UB Political Science.

October 18, 2004 Presidential Inaugural Academic Event
Annelise Riles, Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell Law School. "The Aesthetics of "Rule of Law" Reform: The Case of Japanese Financial Regulation." Cosponsored with UB Asian Studies Program.

September 17, 2003 Visiting Scholar Presentation
Keith Hawkins Reader in Law and Society, Oriel College, University of Oxford "Law as Last Resort: Prosecution Decision-Making in a Regulatory Agency"