October 2013

The intersection of two human impulses – play and profit – was at the center of an entertaining and informative Mitchell Lecture on Oct. 8 in O’Brian Hall.

The notion of a “civil Gideon”-  a guarantee of access to counsel for poor litigants in civil proceedings - took center stage at SUNY Buffalo Law School with a series of discussions on Oct. 3.

Capping a two-day Baldy Center workshop called “Race, Space, and Exclusion,” a State University of New York at Albany professor and demographics expert delved into the difficulties of using statistics to study racial segregation in American communities.

“A robust exchange of ideas” is the guiding principle behind an ambitious series of initiatives planned by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, SUNY Buffalo Law School’s platform for in-depth study of U.S., international and comparative criminal law.

Government surveillance was the backdrop for a spirited Oct. 2 discussion at the Law School, in which three constitutional law professors explored recent revelations that the National Security Agency, in its fight against terrorism, has been gathering massive amounts of information on Americans’ electronic communications.

Three SUNY Buffalo Law students made good use of their passports this summer, as they flew off to work at legal internships in Europe and Central and South America.

A SUNY Buffalo Law alumnus who for more than 15 years has taken his legal expertise into the community to fight elder abuse will be honored for his efforts October 16.

The little-known story of William Sulzer, the only New York governor ever impeached, gets a full telling in a new book by Jack O’Donnell ’10 – a project that began as an independent-study project when the author was at SUNY Buffalo Law.

Mornings in Mexico City, says Alberto Benitez ’86, are surprisingly chilly. But if you’re about to run 26 miles and change – breathing air that is thin with altitude and thick with pollution – you welcome the cool.