Building on its strengths, the School of Law is welcoming to the faculty four new professors who bring diverse interests but a common commitment to making the law a real force for good in society.
At a moment in U.S. history when issues of racial equity are receiving long-delayed attention, Associate Professor Heather Abraham is deeply invested in one of the most foundational: where people live.
Associate Professor Alexandra (Ali) Harrington, director of UB School of Law’s Innocence and Justice Project, knows well how effective student attorneys can be in addressing critical gaps in the provision of justice.
Born in Prague, Paul Linden-Retek moved with his mother to the United States as a child. Now his principal scholarly interests look back across the Atlantic, at the overlapping jurisdictions and shared sovereignty of the European Union.
A specialist in intellectual property law as well as administrative law, Associate Professor Amy Semet brings to her scholarly work the added dimension of quantitative analysis – compiling and mining data sets to better understand how the law works in practice.
Amid ongoing issues of racial injustice in our society, the law school’s faculty, students, administrators and alumni are fully investing in meaningful efforts toward diversity, equity and inclusion for all.
UB School of Law students and faculty will address “a historic blind spot in the judicial system” with the benefit of a major grant awarded to the school’s Advocacy Institute.
In its recent round of grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities has designated UB Law Professor Samantha Barbas a public scholar, awarding her a grant to support her latest book project.
Before discussing anything else, professor Laura Reilly starts her Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) class for first-year students with lessons on resiliency — why it’s important for law students and attorneys, and how to cultivate it.