International and Comparative Legal Studies
The Program on International and Comparative Legal Studies fosters
and encourages interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the
rapidly expanding fields of international and comparative law.
Members of this program conduct research on the national and
transnational arenas where law and policy impact each other to
generate social phenomena and practices. In a world of increasing
interdependence, it has become necessary consciously to explore
the relationships among disciplines, and among cultures, economies,
and legal norms. In the area of international and comparative law,
that necessity is glaring if only because of the very nature of
the process of globalization.
In addition to research in issues of international law, such as
human rights, international business, international institutions,
and the relationships between states, the program covers national
and comparative studies in law-like or law-related norms, practices,
processes, and institutions at local, national, and international
levels. The program includes (but is not limited to) law, political
science, region-based studies, anthropology, philosophy, sociology,
women and gender studies, environmental studies, criminology, cultural
studies, international relations, management studies, and geography.
Formerly known as the Program on Human Rights Law and Policy,
the new program retains a commitment to the study of human rights
but now welcomes interdisciplinary research on other equally significant
topics of international and comparative legal studies.
Director
Claude E. Welch, Jr. University at Buffalo,
Deptartment of Political Science
417 Park Hall • Buffalo, NY 14260 phone: 716.645.2251 x
417 email: cwelch@buffalo.edu
Calendar for 2006
- Monday, February 13, 2006
- Work-in-progress luncheon presentation
David Westbrook, UB
Law, "Theorizing he Diffusion of Law: Conceptual Difficulties, Unstable
Imaginations, and the Effort the Think Gracefully Nonetheless"
- Wednesday, February 22, 2006
- Work-in-Progress luncheon presentation
Ezra Zubrow, UB Anthropology "The Atlas of the Unmapped: The Spatial Determinants
and Social Consequences of Human Rights for People with Disabilities"
- Wednesday, April 26, 2006
- Work-in-Progress luncheon presentation
Debra Street, UB Sociology, and Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University,
Sociology "Public Subsidies for Private Health Insurance: Perverse Incentives
or Practical Welfare?"
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Baldy Center For Law & Social Policy
511 O'Brian Hall, University at Buffalo Law School
Buffalo, NY 14260
716.645.2102
