September 2020

Iconic. Brilliant. Funny. Notorious. Words don’t come close to capturing the spirit of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her visit to Buffalo, just over a year ago, afforded a rare opportunity to be in her presence and learn from her life.

A gross miscarriage of justice, and a hero of jurisprudence, were front and center during a special virtual gathering that engaged UB School of Law students with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled it all.

With a triple-threat array of information initiatives, The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy is expanding its reach, inviting new scholars into the discussion, and building upon the interdisciplinary relationships that make it unique.

UB School of Law’s clinical legal education program serves clients who need the help most – and the novel coronavirus has made the need greater than ever. Now the school’s COVID Response Legal Clinic is working to help people with legal needs arising from the pandemic.

The energy that Professor Christine Bartholomew brings to the classroom comes from the heart. “I love the law,” she says, “and I try to share that passion with the students, to help them connect to the material. If you become engaged with the law as a tool for social change, as a way to help people, then all the coursework in law school becomes a way to further that drive and achieve those goals."

It was while he was in law school at Georgetown that Michael Boucai first imagined becoming a law professor. He loved writing papers, his professors took notice, and “I realized,” he says now, “that my particular way of looking at the law—critically minded, kind of quirky—might find a happy home in the legal academy. I went to law school hoping to do impact litigation, but I soon came to see scholarship as my best shot at making a unique contribution to the field.”