School of Law

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Advocate for the elderly. Pursue a political career. With Buffalo’s low cost of living and our affordable public-school tuition, most of our students carry less debt than their peers at other law schools – giving you the freedom to pursue a career you’ll love.

Charging the Field

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Make your play in the growing sports law industry. UB’s Center for the Advancement of Sport offers an interdisciplinary approach to preparing you to tackle sports-related legal issues.

Inspiring Innovation

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Turn ideas into action. Our Entrepreneurship Law Center puts students at the forefront of an economic boom, providing legal services to entrepreneurs and startups, and supporting the development of cutting-edge technologies.

Learn by Doing at New York State’s Law School

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Powerful programs and practical opportunities. UB School of Law prepares you to tackle the real world through clinics, clerkships and hundreds of hands-on learning experiences.

More Than a Law School

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At the State of New York’s premier public law school, faculty become friends and classmates become family. Here, people go out of their way to help you, teach you, and inspire you to achieve more than you ever thought possible.

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Mitigating the damage of COVID-19 with new legal response clinic
10/2/20
UB School of Law’s clinical legal education program serves clients who need the help most – and the novel coronavirus has made the need greater than ever. Now the school’s COVID Response Legal Clinic is working to help people with legal needs arising from the pandemic.
Professor Christine Bartholomew’s new title, new book, new research
9/30/20
The energy that Professor Christine Bartholomew brings to the classroom comes from the heart. “I love the law,” she says, “and I try to share that passion with the students, to help them connect to the material. If you become engaged with the law as a tool for social change, as a way to help people, then all the coursework in law school becomes a way to further that drive and achieve those goals."
Historian Michael Boucai describes his path to becoming a law professor
9/30/20
It was while he was in law school at Georgetown that Michael Boucai first imagined becoming a law professor. He loved writing papers, his professors took notice, and “I realized,” he says now, “that my particular way of looking at the law—critically minded, kind of quirky—might find a happy home in the legal academy. I went to law school hoping to do impact litigation, but I soon came to see scholarship as my best shot at making a unique contribution to the field.”
The Baldy Center introduces a podcast series, blog, and online magazine
9/30/20
With a triple-threat array of information initiatives, the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy is expanding its reach, inviting new scholars into the discussion, and building upon the interdisciplinary relationships that make it unique.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author teaches law students
10/5/20
A gross miscarriage of justice, and a hero of jurisprudence, were front and center during a special virtual gathering that engaged UB School of Law students with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled it all.

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A Message to the Community

"We ask that all members of our law school community join us by taking the time to truly understand individuals’ very real struggle for justice and by openly and unequivocally rejecting any and all forms of systematic racism and transphobia."

Dean Aviva Abramovsky

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Meet Our Alumni Innovators

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, bright lawyers are reinventing how legal work is done. UB School of Law graduates are at the helm, bringing their innovative spirit to their life’s work – and changing the world along the way.

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Creative thinking from the bench
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Easing the way for both clients and lawyers
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Leading the way for next-generation tech
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From tech business to tech law
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A new wave of legal marketing
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Creating her own path
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Helping leaders to connect
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A creative approach to serving creators
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On the front lines of artificial intelligence
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A cutting edge in cancer care
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Recognitions

The University at Buffalo School of Law is situated on the flagship campus of a world-class research-intensive public university, the largest in the northeastern United States.

UB School of Law receives recognition for environmental law.

Our Environmental Law program received top school recognition by PreLaw Magazine.

LLMGuide.com lists the School of Law as a top 10 LL.M. program in New York State.

School of Law earns recognition as a top law school for black law students.

Designated a top law school in the Eastern United States for black law students by Lawyers of Color Magazine.

The Knowledge Review Magazine recognized us in their annual list of "America's 10 Most Valuable Law Schools for 2019."

Prelaw Magazine named us a best school for Practical Training based on our clinical, externship and advocacy opportunities.