Professor Kenneth F. Joyce - Jaeckle Award 2003
Kenneth F. Joyce, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, received the Edwin F. Jaeckle Award, the highest honor the UB School of Law and the Law Alumni Association can bestow. For 40 years, Professor Joyce has helped define the UB Law experience for the thousands of students he has taught.
About this Interview
Date
Nov. 15, 2003
Occasion
Presentation of the 28th annual Edwin F. Jaeckle Award following the annual Alumni Convocation
Place
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Buffalo
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About Professor Kenneth F. Joyce
Professor Kenneth F. Joyce, one of the most popular and engaging faculty members to teach at UB School of Law, is a graduate of Boston College High School, Boston College and Boston College Law School. While Joyce has lived in Buffalo for two-thirds of his life, he sounds as though he moved to Buffalo last week.
After graduating from BC Law in 1961, Joyce clerked for Hon. Paul Kirk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Hon. John Danaher of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., garnering the experience to land a teaching job. In 1963 he began a yearlong LL.M. program at Harvard Law School, funded by a Ford Foundation fellowship in law teaching.
Except for one semester as a visiting professor at Cornell University Law School in 1971, and a brief stint at Albany Law School while serving as director of the New York State Law Revision Commission, in Albany, in the late ’80s, Joyce has never left UB Law. He has earned a reputation as one of the law school’s most popular faculty members, teaching courses on tax administration and procedure, trusts and estates, and administrative law. Named a State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1997, he has lost track of how often he has received the student-awarded Faculty Award at UB Law commencements but guesses it is between 10 and 15 times.
Speakers
Mistress of Ceremonies: Hon. Denise E. O’Donnell, Law Alumni Association president.
Remarks presented by R. Nils Olsen Jr., UB School of Law dean, and William R. Greiner, professor of law and UB president.
President Greiner presents the Jaeckle Award to Professor Joyce, who offers acceptance remarks.
About the Jaeckle Award
The Jaeckle Award is given annually to a person who exemplifies the highest ideals of UB School of Law and the Law Alumni Association and has made significant contributions to the school and the legal profession. It is named for Edwin F. Jaeckle ’15, a founding partner of the Buffalo law firm Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, and a major benefactor of the school.
