Sandy Conti, Administrative Assistant for Communications
December 2016
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A longtime constitutional law scholar and professor, who currently serves as the University at Buffalo School of Law’s interim dean, has been chosen to receive the school and the Law Alumni Association’s highest honor, the Edwin F. Jaeckle Award.
How to stop intimate partners from hurting – even killing – each other? Lawyers, social scientists and activists have long wrestled with that difficult question. What preventive strategies and what responses can make peace in troubled families?
When Senior Associate Judge Eugene F. Pigott Jr. ’73, of Grand Island, steps down from New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals on Dec. 31, having reached mandatory retirement age, two other University at Buffalo School of Law alumni are among the seven candidates nominated to fill that vacancy.
Congratulations to those law alumni, students, and firms who were recently honored at the Bar Association of Erie County Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) and Center for Elder Law & Justice’s 9th Annual Champions for Justice Bash Awards Reception held on Dec. 1, 2016.
The School of Law was bustling with arguments and counterarguments as teams of second- and third-year students took part in an annual UB tradition, the intramural Charles S. Desmond Moot Court Competition.
A new book by Professor David Engel, The Myth of the Litigious Society: Why We Don’t Sue, debunks the commonly held belief that injured Americans have their attorney on speed-dial.