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.

Passionate. Purposeful. Proud to be Public.

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Policy makers, thought leaders and champions for justice. Blaze your own path at UB School of Law, where access to justice is at the heart of everything we do.

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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In the Press

06/02/2019 - The Wall Street Journal quoted Dean Aviva Abramovsky in an article about Henry Greenberg, the new president of the New York State Bar Association.

Abramovsky was recently named chair of the NYSBA's new Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles and the Law. The task force will hold hearings and examine questions about liability, data collection, implications for traffic routes and shared-use agreements.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to visit Buffalo
5/2/19
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States will visit Buffalo on August 26. SUNY Chancellor to present Justice Ginsburg with Honorary Doctoral Degree in Law at UB ceremony.
Mediation, Vienna Style: A Transformative Week at the CDRC Competition
8/21/19
This summer the School of Law’s mediation team, Rachel Vicario '20 and Darian Wilkom '20, advanced to the quarterfinals in the CDRC Mediation and Negotiation Competition held Vienna, Austria. Read about their experiences competing in this international event, pitting them against 85 other law students from around the globe.
All aboard for public service
8/15/19
Make way for the Justice Bus! Soon this new initiative will be rolling into neighborhoods and rural areas to provide on-the-spot legal help to poor and disabled people in Western New York.
D.C. alumni chapter builds on its connections
7/24/19
The D.C. Chapter of the UB Law Alumni Association is one of our strongest, with alumni that are helpful and supportive to the law school and to law students. That loyalty powers the work of the alumni chapter, which develops opportunities for alums to network with each other and supports the work of the law school’s career services office.
Pro Bono Scholars hit the ground running
7/24/19
The Pro Bono Scholars Program allows students in their final year of law school to devote their last semester of study to performing pro bono service through a legal services provider or law school clinic. While it’s a lot of work, it affords both the satisfaction of providing legal help where it’s sorely needed, and gives Scholars a head start on their post-law-school career.

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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 the pre-eminent magazine for prospective law students.

UB has achieved an all-time high ranking among the nation’s best public and national universities.

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

The Knowledge Review Magazine recognized us in their annual listing of “The 10 Best Law School’s in America."

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