September 2023

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An impressive group of new instructors and scholars has joined the UB Law faculty as the fall semester gets into full swing. They bring a wide variety of experience and expertise, furthering the law school’s strengths in diversity and interdisciplinary study of the law. And they’re teaching at all levels, including traditional doctrinal courses, legal research and writing, and courses in the law school’s B.A. in Law program.

In addition to the faculty members you’ll meet below, the law school also welcomes Dr. Mihreteab Tsighe Taye, an Ethiopian scholar who’s here through the university’s Scholars at Risk fellowship program; and Dr. Theophilus Edwin Coleman, coming in January as a visiting assistant professor from the University of Johannesburg.

Meet the next generation of faculty as they settle into O’Brian Hall.

Law School News

Doctoral students span the globe
9/29/23
UB Law’s newly established doctoral program has hit its stride this fall with the arrival of the first full cohort of students pursuing the JSD degree.
All-alumni reunion celebration marks a new era for Law Alumni Association
9/29/23
On Oct. 14 at a special All-Alumni Reunion Celebration, the Law Alumni Association’s outgoing executive director, Ilene Fleischmann, vice dean emerita, will pass a ceremonial baton to her successor, Stephanie Mack ’08, incoming executive director.

Faculty Spotlight

New leadership for a foundational curriculum
9/29/23
Angie McDuff has been named director of the LAWR program, whose instructors teach the three-semester sequence that gets every student up to speed in the fundamental skills of lawyers through small classes and intensive one-on-one coaching.