Event Archive
Conferences & Workshops
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
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- 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 Details
- 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
2002-03
- Dialogue on Multicultural and Diversity Policies: Canada and the
United States
- Law, Technology, and Development Workshop
- Building Politics: Law, Institutions, and Democratic Theory
- Locked Up,
then Locked Out: A Conference on Prisoners' Civil Disabilities
- Financing the Next Generation of Community Development
Conferences and Workshops from 1995 to 2001 are archived here
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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 - 2007 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:
2007-08
"A Patent Lie"
"The Spanish Constitutional System: A Sui Generis Model of a Decentralized State"
Organized by the Working Group on Children, Famililes, and the Law, and Law and Religion
"Ontology of Law" flyer
"Neo-Catholicism, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Religion in Modern Spain" flyer
"The Gift of Life" flyer
Organized by the Working Group on Theory
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
"Coloniality, Identity, and Cultural Policy" flyer
Organized by the Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy
"Walking the Line: Working to Reform Legal Education in Eastern Europe" flyer
Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies
"Racial Disparities in Food Access: Lessons from Erie County, NY" flyer
Organized by the Working Group on International and Comparative Legal Studies
"Evaluation of the Family Treatment Court: Lessons Learned flyer
Organized by the Working Group on Children, Families, and the Law
"Who is Mobilized by Direct Democracy?" flyer
"International Dimensions of Addressing Domestic Violence"
Organized by the Working Group on Children, Families, and the Law, and the Working Group on Gender, Law, and Social Policy
"Two Kinds of Recognition Respect for Persons"
Organized by the Working Group on Theory
"Gender and Deployment: Experiences of Stateside Families"
Organized by the Working Group on Gender, Law, and Social Policy
"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
"Anthropology and Directed Cultural Change: The Case of Iraq"
Organized by the Working Group on Internatioinal and Comparative Legal Studies
"The Regulation of Public Space as Cultural Policy"
Organized by the Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy
"A Call for Deep Democracy"
Organized by the Seminar on Racial Justice and the Working Group on Classcrits
"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 International and Comparative Legal Studies Working Group - 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
- Wednesday, May 3,
- 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. - Wednesday, April 26, 2006, Work-in-Progress Presentation
- 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
- Thursday, April 6, 2006, Work-in-Progress Presentation
- Johanna Oreskovic "International Adoption: Corruption and Regulation." Organized by the Children, Families, and the Law Working Group
- February 22, 2005 Work-in-Progress presentation
- 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
- Monday, February 13, 2006 Work-in-Progress Presentation
- 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 Work-in-Progress Presentation
- Mark Cameron, UB Social Work "The Impact of a School Closing on Students Receiving Special Education Services and Their Families"
- March 10, 2005 Work-in-Progress Presentation
- 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 Work-in-Progress Presentation
- 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"
