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The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research, current events, and our distinguished speaker’s presentations and research projects from scholars and others whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. On this page you will find blog posts for AY 2025-2026.

The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research and current events from UB scholars and others whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. On this page you will find blog posts for season AY 2024-2025.

The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research and current events from UB scholars whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. 

The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research and current events from UB scholars and others whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. 

The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research and current events from UB scholars whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. New blogs are generally released twice a month during each semester.

The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research and current events from interdisciplinary UB scholars whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. New blogs are generally released twice a month during each semester.

The Fall 2025 Episodes of The Baldy Center Podcast feature: a panel discussion with Helen “Nellie” Drew (School of Law) and author Ken Belson; fellowship recipients Whitney K. Taylor, and, Michael Gibson-Light.; Raj Sharman (School of Management); and (Matthew Dimick (School of Law).

The 2024-2025 edition of The Baldy Center Podcast features episodes with interdisciplinary scholars of law, legal institutions, and social policy. Episodes include discussions by Korydon Smith (School of Architecture and Planning), Monica Miles (Engineering Education), Judith Olin (UB Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic) with law student, Jahna Mott (3L). This season's episodes also includs two panel discussions: one with Siwei Lyu (Computer Science and Engineering), Mark Bartholomew (Law), and George Brown (Law); and the another with Jeremy Kessler in conversation with Matthew Dimick (Law), Paul Linden-Retek (Law), and Matthew Steilen (Law).

The 2023-2024 edition of The Baldy Center Podcast features episodes with interdisciplinary scholars of law, legal institutions, and social policy. Guests include: Theophilus Edwin Coleman; Melissa Crouch; Helen “Nellie” Drew; Greta LaFleur; Rebecca R. French and Mark A. Nathan; Paul Linden-Retek; Athena Mutua; Kate Nelischer; and Mihreteab Taye.  

The 2022-2023 edition of The Baldy Center Podcast features episodes with interdisciplinary scholars of law, legal institutions, and social policy. Guests include: Shaun Marq Anderson, Samantha Barbas, Claire Cameron, Jorge M. Farinacci-Fernós, and Judith Olin.

The 2021-2022 edition of The Baldy Center Podcast features episodes with interdisciplinary scholars of law, legal institutions, and social policy. Guests include: Samantha Barbas; Anya Bernstein;  Helen Drew; Jordan Fox Besek; Matthew Dimick, Daniel Brantes Ferreira; Devonya Havis; David Herzberg; Rachael K. Hinkle; John Schlegel, Victoria Wolcott; and Seth Parker Woods.

The Fall 2020 episodes of The Baldy Center Podcast offer insight from Mark Bartholomew (UB Law), Irus Braverman (UB Law), Amanda Hughett (former Baldy Center Fellow), David Herzberg (UB History), Jennifer Gaynor (Baldy Center) and others. The Spring 2021 episodes include faculty discussing research about: Nurse-Initiated Protocols in Emergency Departments; Tacit Racism; Urban Renewal and School Reform; Harm Reduction; Law, Class and Racial Capitalism on ClassCrits, the opiod crisis; and, the Alison Des Forges International Symposium, among other topics. 

In 2013, to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, The Baldy Center and the Drug Policy Alliance hosted a two-day conference, Leading the Way: Moving New York State Towards a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy.

In Fall 2009, The Baldy Center sponsored the day-long conference, Thinking Beyond the Nation-State: A Symposium on Empires, Diasporas, and Indigeneity. The event was organized by faculty in the UB American Studies Program, with Theresa Runstedtler, PhD, as convenor. Now, over a decade later, the event meets the criteria of a legacy conference in presenting topics that continue to be relevant today.

The conference, Beyond Jurisdiction: Wetlands Policy for the Next Generation, provided an opening platform for scholars and advocates from all perspectives to think about how the narrow focus of recent years has stagnated the thought and action necessary to take the next steps. 

In the conference, Where Now? Moving Beyond Traditional Legal Geographies, participating scholars sought to expand the present intellectual boundaries of the critical legal geography project through a collaborative investigation of new themes and questions. Now, a decade later, the 2012 event is considered a legacy conference.

The conference, 40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward, held September 12 and 13, 2011, was sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law and The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Teresa A. Miller organized the conference which featured presentations by experts representing various groups of stakeholders. Now, a decade later, the 2011 event is considered a legacy conference.

The UB School of Law hosted the international conference, Implementing Truth and Reconciliation: Comparative Lessons for Korea, on October 24, 2011. The conference brought together experts from around the globe to reflect on national experiences of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. Co-sponsored by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, the Asian Studies Program, and the Buffalo Human Rights Center, the conference offered lessons on the TRC process in South Korea. Now, a decade later, the 2011 event is considered a legacy conference.

The conference, Hydrofracking: Exploring the Legal Issues in the Context of Politics, Science and the Economy, was held March 28-29, 2011, sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law and The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Horizontal gas drilling involving hydraulic fracturing, also known as hydrofracking or fracking, and its potential effects are important environmental and energy concerns for the nation. This conference provided an opportunity for a scholarly exchange of ideas as well as a forum for community discussion. Now, a decade later, the 2011 event is considered a legacy conference.

The Baldy Center magazine highlights recent University at Buffalo research focusing on law and social policy themes. Global research has flourished this semester with the return of faculty and students to campus, and pandemic-delayed research programs reactivated with immense productivity here in The Baldy Center.

Welcome to the Spring 2021 edition of The Baldy Center Magazine. The past academic year has been a challenging time for all of us, as we’ve adapted to virtual research, online engagement, and socially distanced lives.

The Baldy Center Podcast highlights research and perspectives on current issues and events that focus on interdisciplinary scholarship in law, legal institutions, and social policy. This page contains the listing for each podcast episode, published since Fall 2020.

Welcome to the Fall 2021 edition of The Baldy Center Magazine. As we begin the third academic year impacted by the pandemic, we in The Baldy Center are witnessing extraordinary resilience from the scholars linked to our center, who continue to advance their research focusing on critical problems in law and society.