Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Director of the Law and Religion Program,
Professor of Law

B.A., Cornell University, 1971
J.D., University of Chicago, 1976
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993
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Professor Sullivan serves on the editorial board of the Religion and Society series at deGruyter; and is currently on the executive committee of the National Association for the Study of Religion, the American Society for the Study of Religion and the Law, Religion and Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion. [Faculty Profile]

Irus Braverman

Associate Professor

M.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LL.B., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
S.J.D., University of Toronto

Irus Braverman was an Associate with the Humanities Center at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard University Law School, a Junior Fellow with the Center of Criminology at the University of Toronto, and a Visiting Fellow with the Geography Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also served as a public prosecutor and as an environmental lawyer, both in Israel. [Faculty Profile]

David M. Engel

SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

A.B., Harvard University, 1967
J.D and MA, University of Michigan, 1974

David M. Engel currently serves as chair of UB's Council on International Studies and Programs, an advisory body to the Provost. From 1991 to 2001, he served as Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and as Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies; and from 2002 to 2008 he was Director of International Programs at the law school. He is faculty adviser to the Asian Law Students Association and a member of UB's Asian Studies Advisory Council, which he chaired from 1999-2001. [Faculty Profile]

Sergey Dolgopolski

Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

Sergey Dolgopolski holds a Joint Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from UC Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophical Sciences from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the Talmud, Interpretation, and Jewish Thought & philosophy, both classical and contemporary. He authors a monograph Rhetoric of the Talmud in the View of Post-Structuralism (1998, St-Petersburg and Jerusalem, in Russian). His latest book is What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement (Fordham U. Press, 2009). He is currently finishing a monograph Who Thinks, Speaks, and Remembers in the Talmud? (contracted with Fordham U. Press for 2011) on thinking and remembering practices in Babylonian Talmud in the context of philosophical and rhetorical disciplines of thinking and remembering. Prior to joining UB in Fall 2010, Dr. Dolgopolski taught at Kansas University-Lawrence, UC Davis, University of San Francisco, Graduate Theological Union, UC Berkeley, and conducted research in Jewish Studies as Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at UC Berkeley. [Faculty Profile]

Rebecca R. French

Professor

B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Washington Law School
LL.M., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

From 2008-2010 Professor Rebecca Redwood French served as director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, an endowed academic center for interdisciplinary research on law and legal institutions. She joined the faculty in 2001 after serving as Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado from 1992-2001. [Faculty Profile]

Alfred S. Konefsky

University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor

B.A., Columbia University, 1967
J.D., Boston College, 1970

Alfred S. Konefsky is a UB Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New  York. He joined the faculty in 1977 after serving as the Charles Warren Fellow in American Legal History at the Harvard Law School and as Editor of the Legal Papers of Daniel Webster at Dartmouth College. He teaches Contracts and a variety of courses in American Legal History, including the subject areas of the nineteenth century (from the Revolution to the Civil War), the colonial period, Law and American Labor History, American Constitutional History, and Melville and the Law. [Faculty Profile]

Isabel S. Marcus

Professor and Director of International and Graduate Programs

B.A., Barnard College, 1961
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1965
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1975

Isabel Marcus is a professor of law and Director of International and Graduate Programs at the University at Buffalo Law School. She is one of the founders of the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender at the University. She served as chair of the Department of Women's Studies at the College of Arts and Sciences from 1997-2002. She is on the board of directors of the Network of East-West Women, an international non-governmental organization. She received her J.D., M.A. (African Studies) and Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley. [Faculty Profile]

Athena D. Mutua

Professor

B.A., Earlham College, 1982
J.D., American University, 1986
M.A., American University, 1986
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1987

Athena D. Mutuas  work includes the edited collection entitled, Progressive Black Masculinities (Routledge, 2006); and articles entitled, Restoring Justice to Civil Rights Movement Activists: New Historiography and the 'Long Civil Rights Era' (forthcoming 2009); The Rise, Development, and Future Directions of Critical Race Theory, 84 Denver University Law Review 329 (2006); and Gender Equality and Women's Solidarity across Religious, Ethnic, and Class Difference in the Kenya Constitutional Review Process, 13 William and Mary Journal of Women and Law 1 (2006). [Faculty Profile]

Errol E. Meidinger

Professor and Director, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

B.A., University of North Dakota, 1974
M.A., Northwestern University, 1977
J.D., Northwestern University, 1979

Errol Meidinger teaches Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, International Trade and Environment, Property, and Administrative Law, enhancing his teaching with research in each area. Much of his current research focuses on efforts to use 'supra-governmental' regulatory systems, such as environmental certification and fair labor standards programs, to improve the social and environmental performance of business organizations. He is also writing on the subjects of 'soft law,' global regulation, and recent efforts to change the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act. [Faculty Profile]

James G. Milles

Professor

B.A., St. Louis University, 1978
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1980
M.L.I.S., The University of Texas at Austin, 1982
J.D., St. Louis University, 1990

From 2000 through 2008, Professor Milles served the Law School as Director of the Law Library. Prior to coming to UB, he worked as Associate Director for Information and Technology at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and as Head of Computing Services at Saint Louis University School of Law. Professor Milles is convenor of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy's Working Group on Social Technologies, co-convenor (with Professor Teresa Miller) of the Baldy Center's Projecting Law: Working Group on Law and New Media, and a member of The Sedona Conference Working Groups on Electronic Document Retention and Production and on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure. [Faculty Profile]

Mark Nathan

Visiting Research Scholar, Asian Studies

Stephanie L. Phillips

Professor

B.A., University at Buffalo
J.D., Harvard University

Stephanie L. Phillips is Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo Law School. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981, and is presently pursuing a Master's in Theology at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

A founding member of the Workshop on Critical Race Theory, Professor Phillips has collaborated with her colleague, Professor Athena Mutua, to create and teach Critical Race Theory seminars focusing on the social construction of race and on intersections between race, gender, and sexuality. She and Professor Mutua are presently engaged in a multi-year teaching project in African American legal history.

Stephanie's other principal research and teaching interests are in the area of Law and Religion, broadly defined to include theology, spirituality, contemplative practice, and cognitive science. Professor Phillips also teaches Conflict of Laws. [Faculty Profile]

John H. Schlegel

Professor

B.A., Northwestern University
J.D., University of Chicago

Known to faculty and students alike by his last name, Schlegel currently teaches in the corporate/commercial area about the getting and spending of clients, a topic that is covered in both first year and upper division courses. He is part of the faculty group that offers the financial transactions concentration, teaching both acquisition transactions and in the concentration's colloquium. Such courses are only tangentially related to what he started out to do when he came to Buffalo in 1973. At that time Schlegel was hired to teach civil procedure and commercial law. In the intervening years he has tried his hand at administrative law, contracts, torts, public utility rate regulation, seminars in jurisprudence and the history of legal education, and increasingly courses and seminars that focus on the practices of lawyers. [Faculty Profile]

Rick Su

Associate Professor

B.A., Dartmouth College, 2001
J.D., Harvard University, 2004

Rick Su graduated from Harvard Law School where he served as an Articles Editor for the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he was a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a law clerk in the legal honors program at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. [Faculty Profile]

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo

Associate Professor

B.A., University of Chicago, 1994
M.Phil., Cambridge University, 1998
J.D., Yale University, 2001
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2007

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo earned his J.D. at Yale Law School; practiced in the area of cross-border transactions at a New York City firm; and clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York. He is also an anthropologist, and completed the dissertation for his doctoral degree at the University of Chicago, where he also did his undergraduate work. Taussig-Rubbo focuses on such anthropological concepts as gift, sacrifice and consecration, as they apply to modern political and legal situations. [Faculty Profile]