iconThe Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is pleased to announce the Christopher Baldy Prizes for Innovation in Law and Social Policy.

Established in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Baldy Center, the prizes are aimed at stimulating and rewarding innovative research, scholarship and uses of communication and information technologies that advance our knowledge and understanding of socio-legal issues.

For more information, please visit Baldy Prizes.

BaldyCentral The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is an endowed, internationally recognized institute that supports the interdisciplinary study of law and social institutions. More than 100 UB faculty members from 17 academic departments participate in Baldy Center research, conference and scholarship activities, as do an increasing number of graduate students. The center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and co-sponsors a regional network of socio-legal scholars in New York State and Canada. The Baldy Center also hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, speakers and conference participants.

Baldy Spring 2010 Highlights

The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy offers an exciting program of events for the Spring 2010 semester. The Theorists and Jurists series, initiated in the beginning of 2009, brings world renowned scholars with significant contributions to the fields of law, theory and social policy to the University at Buffalo. This semester, the Theorists and Jurists series will feature lectures by:

  • Valerie Hans, February 24-25, Cornell University Law School
  • Lee Epstein, March 15-16, Henry Wade Rogers Professor at Northwestern University School of Law
  • Karen O'Connor, March 30-April 1, founder and Director Emeritus, Women and Politics Institute, American University
  • Jeremy Waldron, April 8, New York University School of Law

The new International Human Rights Law series, convened by UB Law School professor Tara Melish, will feature a semester-long program of presentations and lectures, including Buffalo Human Rights Advocates; Special Court for Sierra Leone: Achieving Justice? City-based Human Rights Initiatives: Comparative Lessons for Buffalo; Sex Trafficking in the United States; Indigenous Rights in the Americas: Recent Developments in Human Rights Law; and Gender and Human Rights in the Context of Refugee/Asylum Law and Protection. For more information on these events, please see our online event calendar here.

The Baldy Center sponsors several conferences each year, and the Spring 2010 conferences will include:

  • Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context, April 23
  • Economic Crisis and Economic Class, May 17 and 18