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JANUARY 2004 CONTENTS

Class Action, Your UB Law Network

Vintage Law School Building Becomes a Law Library

UB Council Names Rooms in O’Brian Hall

Desmond Moot Court Has Something in Common With the Big Leagues

Mediation Advocacy Competition Explores the Art of Compromise

Making Sense of Globalization is Topic of Professor Westbrook’s New Book

Professors Engel and Munger Write on Rights and Identity

Four Alumni Named Among America's Top Black Lawyers

Hon. Richard C. Wesley, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, to Address NYC Law Alumni Jan. 30

Alumni Convocation Looks At Cross-Border Trade and the State Control Board

LAW SCHOOL REPORT

CLASS ACTION, YOUR UB LAW NETWORK: Keep in touch with your former classmates, professors and friends by sending us your personal and professional news, including marriages, births and deaths. If you recently had a reunion, check-out your photos on-line.

VINTAGE LAW SCHOOL BUILDING BECOMES A LAW LIBRARY: In a project with special resonance for UB Law School graduates – especially those who attended classes at the school’s old downtown Buffalo home – the law library of the State Supreme Court, Eighth Judicial District, is now in a new home. The library’s address is 77 W. Eagle St., known to generations of UB Law graduates as the Law School’s longtime home.

COUNCIL NAMES FACILITIES IN O’BRIAN: The UB Council recently approved several resolutions naming classrooms and other rooms in the Law School’s John Lord O’Brian Hall in acknowledgment of gifts to the recently completed Campaign for UB: Generation to Generation. The naming of these facilities "recognizes people who have done a great deal for the university," Council Chair Jeremy M. Jacobs said.

DESMOND MOOT COURT HAS SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH THE BIG LEAGUES: Great minds think alike: A few weeks after UB Law School’s Desmond Moot Court Competition in October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the same case that the student litigants had used as their problem – a Washington state case testing whether the state is within its rights to deny scholarship money to a student who wanted to study theology. The Supreme Court may have had more pomp and circumstance, but the weeklong Desmond competition was no less heartfelt.

MEDIATION ADVOCACY COMPETITION EXPLORES THE ART OF COMPROMISE: A growing area of legal practice, mediation advocacy, got a high-profile airing in November as the Law School held its Intramural ABA Mediation Advocacy Competition. The top two teams – Monique Blackwood and Carol Farrar Gembar, and Allen Blount and Andy Montroy – will represent UB Law School in the regional competition to be held at UB on March 6-7.

FACULTY MEMBERS PUBLISH NEW BOOKS

PROFESSOR WESTBROOK FOCUSES ON MAKING SENSE OF GLOBALIZATION; ARGUES THAT 'MARKETS' ARE NOW THE DOMINANT FORM OF GOVERNANCE; GLOBALIZATION LIMITS THE RISE OF AGGRESSIVE, MILITARIZED NATIONALISM: Globalization is trumpeted by some and demonized by others as a pathway to either unprecedented global prosperity or increased poverty, among other benefits and ills. Author David A. Westbrook, associate professor of law, attempts to make sense of the debate and forge a new era of understanding by examining the powerful cultural and political implications of a force that is transforming the way we live and view the world. In City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent, Westbrook argues that "markets not nations" have become the dominant form of global governance.

NEW AWARD-WINNING BOOK SHOWS HOW RIGHTS AND IDENTITY AFFECT ONE ANOTHER OVER TIME, AND HOW THAT INTERACTION ULTIMATELY DETERMINES THE SUCCESS OF LAWS SUCH AS THE ADA: Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans With Disabilities, published by the University of Chicago Press, is the product of nearly a decade’s work by UB Law Professor David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger, who recently left UB for New York Law School but who continues as an adjunct faculty member at UB and an affiliate of UB’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. The book is a recipient of The Gustavus Myers Center’s annual book award for 2003.

UB LAW ALUMNI

FOUR UB LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI NAMED AMONG AMERICA'S TOP BLACK LAWYERS: Four alumni of the University at Buffalo Law School have been named to Black Enterprise magazine's list of America's Top Black Lawyers. UB Law School alumni cited are: Michael C. Banks, JD '89, of Freeport, N.Y., a partner with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York City, for mergers and acquisitions/securities; Michael A. Battle, JD '81, of Buffalo, U.S. district attorney for the Western District of New York, for government; Vincent Dunn, JD '89, BA '86, of Rockville, N.Y., a partner with Chadbourne & Parke in New York City, for banking and financial services; and Brent L. Wilson, JD '76, for labor and employment.

HON. RICHARD C. WESLEY, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUIT, TO ADDRESS NYC ALUMNI LUNCHEON: Judge Wesley will be the featured speaker when alumni and friends of University at Buffalo Law School hold their annual New York City Alumni Luncheon, on Friday, January 30, at noon, in the Union League Club, 38 East 37th Street (corner of Park Avenue). The event is held each year in conjunction with the New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting, in New York City. “It’s a great opportunity to visit with UB Law School friends from across the state,” says Law Alumni President Denise E. O’Donnell.

28^TH ANNUAL ALUMNI CONVOCATION LOOKS AT CROSS-BORDER TRADE AND THE STATE CONTROL BOARD: With the innovation of “real-time CLE” – continuing legal education certificates available the same day – UB Law’s 28^th annual Convocation took on the issues of cross-border trade and the plight of the City of Buffalo.

The Nov. 15 event, titled “Buffalo: City on the Edge,” addressed legal and ethical issues facing business in the Niagara Frontier, as well as the state control board that currently oversees Buffalo’s finances.

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