Sandy Conti, Administrative Assistant for Communications
November 2013
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A state Court of Appeals judge with a long record of public service has been chosen to receive the 2014 Edwin F. Jaeckle award, the highest honor given by his alma mater, SUNY Buffalo Law School, and the SUNY Buffalo Law Alumni Association.
Perhaps the most famous poem about coming to America – Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” etched on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty – was the springboard for a challenging Oct. 18 discussion at the Law School about what kind of welcome our nation should extend to potential immigrants.
Students from SUNY Buffalo Law and 36 other law schools who were in town for the Buffalo Niagara Trial Competition heard top area and national litigators share their hard-won wisdom about trial tactics.
Bryant Garth, a professor at the University of California Irvine School of Law, and his co-investigator, Joyce Sterling of the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, were in Buffalo on Nov. 8 to update administrators, faculty and students on the “third wave” of their ambitious survey called the After the J.D. Project.
In a strongly worded Nov. 5 op-ed in The New York Times, SUNY Buffalo Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua defended the International Criminal Court and urged President Obama to continue U.S. support for the court amid pressure to defer a key case in Kenya.
Associate Professor Tara J. Melish saw the problems firsthand, and even though she had worked on similar cases, she says what she found last summer when she visited Guatemala’s national psychiatric hospital as part of an international fact-finding team was disturbing.
If you’re looking for clarity on the legal status of same-sex marriage in the United States, don’t look to the Supreme Court. That was the overarching message of a Nov. 14 panel discussion of the high court’s recent ruling in the Windsor case, which invalidated a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Nicole Lee ’02, one of the Law School’s most accomplished alumnae in the area of human rights advocacy, brought a message of inspiration – and some practical tips on working in the field – to the next generation of activists.
Off the beaten track. Alternative. Rome with the Romans. All these descriptions apply to Modern Rome: 4 Great Walks for the Curious Traveler, a new e-book in the Curious Traveler Series by acclaimed travel writers Dianne Bennett and William Graebner. Modern Rome features more than 100 hyperlinks, 63 photos, and 4 detailed maps. Pack your bags. Bring your curiosity.
The 2013 Desmond Competition problem concerned two hot-button issues: the scope of the president’s power to make appointments to federal positions while Congress is in recess; and whether a corporation enjoys a Free Exercise Clause right to refuse to provide government-mandated health insurance that includes access to contraceptives.