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Advancing Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship since 1978

The Baldy Center supports faculty research

Conferences, Workshops, Distinguished Speakers, and other events

Our events cover a broad array of topics including but not limited to human rights, courts, environmental governance, legal geography, international trade, intellectual property, social inequality, administrative regulation, state and urban government, the legal profession, family, religion, and cultural understandings of law.

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Event Listing: 2015 to 1995

Past events.

Conferences, workshops and distinguished speakers are among the events hosted by The Baldy Center. This page contains a list of past events hosted between 1996 and 2015, as listed on our previous website.

We welcome your interest in our events. For further information on past events, contact baldycenter@buffalo.edu 

Pain An Interdisciplinary Conference, 2015
10/08/2015-10/10/2015
“Opportunities for Law’s Intellectual History", 2015
2014 Conference
10/10/2014-10/11/2014 • 509 O'Brian Hall
2014 Conference - "More-than-Human Legalities: Advocating an Animal Turn in Law"
09/11/2014-09/12/2014 • 509 O'Brian Hall
2014 - "Vulnerability, Resilience, and Public Responsibility for Social and Economic Justice,"
06/13/2014-06/14/2014 • 509 O'Brian Hall
"Asking and Giving in Religious and Humanitarian Discourses" For more information, please contact Prof. Fred Klaits, UB Anthropology Dept.
04/03/2014-04/04/2014
2013 - The Great Lakes Futures Project: Policy Pathways Toward a Socio-Ecologically Sustainable Future for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin
10/03/2013-10/04/2013
2013 - Workshop on Race, Space, and Exclusion
09/19/2013-09/20/2013
2013 Conference - Leading the Way: Moving New York State Towards a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy
Hosted by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy and the Drug Policy Alliance of NY; Cosponsored by CEPP, UB Department of Sociology, UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, UB Research Institute on Addictions, SUNY Buffalo Law School.
05/02/2013-05/03/2013
2013 Conference - "The Big Thaw: Sustainability Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North," 
04/18/2013-04/20/2013
2013 - "Human Rights in the Middle East and Central Africa: Comparisons and Contrasts Between Rwanda and Israel" 
Sponsored by the Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee with co-sponsorship from the UB Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, the Buffalo Human Rights Center, UB Gender Institute, Buffalo State’s Anne Frank Project, and the Western New York Peace Center
04/16/2013 • 509 O'Brian Hall

2013 Conference - "Under the Influence? Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Campaign Finance," 2013
03/08/2013-03/09/2013
Conference on Intimate Partner Violence: The Ripple Effect of Education, Research, and Advocacy, 2012
2012 Conference 
10/19/2012-10/19/2012
The Future of Heritage: Laws, Ethics, and Sustainability, 2012
05/18/2012-05/19/2012
Beyond Jurisdiction: Wetlands Policy for the Next Generation, 2012
2012 Conference
04/26/2012-04/27/2012
Where Now? Moving Beyond Traditional Legal Geographies, 2012
2012 Conference 
04/19/2012-04/20/2012
Implementing Truth and Reconciliation: Comparative Lessons for Korea, 2011
10/24/2011 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Major Developments in Redistricting, 2011
10/14/2011-10/15/2011 • 509 O'Brian Hall
40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward, 2011
09/12/2011-09/13/2011 • 515 O'Brian Hall
Realizing Europe: The Treaty of Lisbon in Perspective, 2011
04/28/2011-04/29/2011 • 509 O'Brian Hall
"The Quote's the Thing" Negotiating Copyright in Scholarly Criticism, 2011
04/02/2011, 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall
Hydrofracking: Exploring the Legal Issues in the Context of Politics, Science, and the Economy, 2011
03/28/2011-03/29/2011 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Stratification, Segmentation and Fragmentation: The Research University in the 21st Century, 2010
09/30/2010 • 509 O'Brian Hall
ClassCrits Workshop III: Rethinking Economics and Law After the Great Recession, 2010
05/17/2010-05/18/2010 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context
04/23/2010  • 509 O’Brian Hall
Thinking beyond the Nation-state: A Symposium on Empires, Diasporas, and Indigeneity, 2009
11/20/2009, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. • 509 O’Brian Hall
Advertising & The Law, 2009
11/13/2009, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. • 509 O’Brian Hall
Reconceptualizing Sociality: An Interrogation of Key Concepts, 2009
10/23/2009
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2008
01/01/2008 • University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2007
01/01/2007 • University at Buffalo Law School
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2006
01/01/2006 • York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2005
Plenary panels: Law and Literature; Risk and Safety Nets; Canadian and U.S. Debates over Selecting Judges
01/01/2005 • University at Buffalo Law School
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2004
01/01/2004 • Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2003
Plenary session: Policing
01/01/2003 • University at Buffalo Law School
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2002
Plenary session: Comparative Sociolegal Cultures
01/01/2002 • University of Toronto, Woodsworth College
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 2001
01/01/2001 • University at Buffalo Law School
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 1999
01/01/1999 • Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 1998
Plenary session: Sociolegal Research and Problems of Governance Transnational Research Perspectives
01/01/1998 • University at Buffalo Law School
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 1997
Plenary session: Has Globalization Changed your Life?
01/01/1997 • University of Toronto Law School
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference 1996
01/01/1996 • University at Buffalo Law School

Distinguished Speakers, Fall 2015

Joseph Heath, Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto
"Cost-Benefit Analysis as an Expression of Liberal Neutrality"
11/20/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Paper

Scott Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
"The Functional Values of Diversity"
11/06/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Paper

William Ian Miller, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan
University of Michigan
"Drawing Lines in the Sand: of Outlaws, Cod, Strangers, Barking Dogs, Babies, and Sanctuary"
10/30/2015, 11:45 • 509 O'Brian Hall

Law Faculty Workshop Speaker, Fall 2015

James Gardner, Interim Dean; Bridget and Thomas Black Professor; SUNY Distinguished Professor
SUNY Buffalo Law School
"Justice Brennan and the Foundations of Rights Federalism"
11/13/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/22/2015 Cosponsored Speaker
  Lynette Chua, Assistant Professor of Law
National University of Singapore
"The Socially Transformative, Relational Process of Collective Litigation: The Constitutional Challenges to Decriminalize Homosexuality in Singapore"
10/22/2015, 2:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Cosponsored With: UB Sociology Department, Asian Studies Program

 

10/16/2015 Work in Progress Speaker
  Rebecca Schmidt, Baldy Postdoctoral Fellow, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
"Greening the Olympics: Regulatory Commodities Exchange and Public-Private Cooperation"
10/16/2015 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/09/2015 Work in Progress Speaker
  Justin Simard, Baldy Postdoctoral Fellow, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
"Frontier Property"
10/09/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 
10/05/2015 Cosponsored Speaker
  Nessa Lynch, Senior Lecturer
Victoria University of Wellington
The Trial and Punishment of Youths for Violent and Extraordinary Offending
10/05/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian
Cosponsored With: SUNY Buffalo Law School, Law Faculty Workshop Series

 

Distinguished Speaker
  César Rodríguez Garavito, Associate Professor of Law and International Director of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society
University of the Andes
TBA
Date TBA, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

05/11/2015 Distinguished Speaker
  Carol Greenhouse, Arthur W. Marks Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Princeton University
“Citizens United, Citizens Divided”
05/11/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/24/2015 Cosponsored Speaker
  John Osburg, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Rochester
"Elite Networks and the Moral Economy of Corruption in Contemporary China"
04/24/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Cosponsored With: Asian Studies

 

04/17/2015 Distinguished Speaker
  Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice
UC Berkeley Law
"The Indigenous as Alien"
04/17/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/15/2015 Cosponsored Speaker
  Joy Calico, Associate Professor of Musicology; Director, Max Kade Center for European and German Studies
Vanderbilt University
"Cultural Mobility, Music, and Holocaust Commemoration: Arnold Schoenberg's 'A Survivor from Warsaw' in Postwar Europe."
04/15/2015, 3:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Cosponsored With: CEUS (Center for European Studies)

 

04/10/2015 Cosponsored Speaker
  Joseph W. Belluck, SUNY Trustee
Belluck & Fox
Making the Mindful Citizen: Higher Education's Role in Cultivating the Essential Values for 21st-Century Citizenship
04/10/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Cosponsored With: WNY Contemplative Faculty/Staff Working Group

 

02/13/2015 Distinguished Speaker
  Bernard Harcourt, Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
"The Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Digital Age"
02/13/2015, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

12/08/2014 Work in Progress Speaker
  Errol Meidinger, Margaret W. Wong Professor; Director, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
SUNY Buffalo Law School
“The Changing Roles of Corporations in Global Human Rights Governance”
12/08/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/12/2014 Work in Progress Speaker
  Gywnn Thomas, Associate Professor, Department of Transnational Studies
University at Buffalo Department of Transnational Studies
Challenging Gender Inequality within the State: Policy Agencies and Quota Laws in Latin America
11/12/2014 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/07/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Simon Singer, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
America's Safest City
11/07/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/05/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Osagie Obasogie, Professor of Law
University of California, Hastings
Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
11/05/2014, 3:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/17/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Greg Shaffer
University of California Irvine School of Law
"The World Trade Organization and India: State Transformation and the Role and Relative Rise of Lawyers ... Or?"
10/17/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

09/30/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
Julia Minich, Assistant Professor of English
University of Texas at Austin
Aztlán Unprotected: Reading Gil Cuadros in the Aftermath of a Pandemic
09/30/2014, 1:00 • 280 Park Hall

 

09/29/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Luc Foisneau, Director of Research
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
“Against Reason of State and Political Theology: Early Modern Arguments”
09/29/2014, 1:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall
Cosponsored by: History Department, Philosophy Department, Center for European Studies, Humanities Institute Early Modern Research Workshop, and the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

 

09/05/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Aziz Huq, Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar
University of Chicago
The Architecture of Constitutional Remedies
09/05/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/25/2014 - Law Faculty Workshop Speaker
  Anthony O'Rourke, Associate Professor of Law
SUNY Buffalo Law School
TBA
04/25/2014, 12:00 •

 

04/22/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
Professors Helga Leitner & Eric Sheppard, Professors Geography Department UCLA
"The Great Transformation: Neoliberalization, the urban commons and socio-spatial justice in Jakarta, Indonesia"
04/22/2014, 3:30 • 120 Clemens Hall

 

04/21/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
Professors Helga Leitner & Eric Sheppard, Professors, Geography Department, UCLA
Workshop based on "Provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto"
04/21/2014, 2:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/16/2014 - Work in Progress Speaker
Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law, Duke Law
Duke University Law School
"State's Rights, Last Rights, and Voting Rights"
04/16/2014, 12:00 • 505 O'Brian Hall

 

04/11/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Aziz Rana, Associate Professor of Law
Cornell University Law School
"Constitutionalism and the Foundations of the Security State"
04/11/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/04/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Lauren Benton, Professor of History
New York University
Works in Progress Session, “Empire without the Flag: Regional Legal Regimes in the British Global Order”
04/04/2014, 10:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/04/2014 - Law Faculty Workshop Speaker
  Kaja Tretjak, Baldy Fellow, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
"Mobilization Beyond the State: Bitcoin, the P2P Revolution, and the Anti-politics of Intellectual Property"
04/04/2014

 

04/03/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Lauren Benton, Silver Professor; Professor of History; Affiliate Professor of Law
New York University
"The Promise of Protection: The Imperial Origins of an International Law Doctrine"
04/03/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/02/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Annelise Riles, Cornell University Law School
Cornell University Law School
"From Comparison to Collaboration: A New Paradigm for Comparative Law and the Anthropology of Law"
04/02/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/31/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Kidada Williams
Department of History, Wayne State University
'If You can, the Colored People Need Help': African Americans and the Vernacular History of Racial Violence
03/31/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/28/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  David Kennedy, Professor, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
“Law and Global Political Economy”
03/28/2014, 12:00 •


 

03/14/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Eduardo Peñalver, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
"Exactions Creep"
03/14/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/07/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Amy Kapczynski, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Global Health Justice Partnership
Yale Law School
"Order Without Intellectual Property Law? A Case Study in Influenza"
03/07/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

02/28/2014 - Law Faculty Workshop Speaker
Kim Connolly, Niles Olsen, Professors of Law
SUNY Buffalo Law School
“Consciously Complex: A Contextual History of the Clinical Legal Education Program at SUNY Buffalo Law School”
02/28/2014, 12:00 •

 

02/19/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology
New York University
"The Nature of Race: Investigating Concepts of Human Difference"
02/19/2014, 12:30 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

02/07/2014 - Distinguished Speaker
  Serena Mayeri, Professor of Law and History
University of Pennsylvania Law School
“Stuck with the Result”: Feminist Challenges to Illegitimacy Penalties, 1972-1979
02/07/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

12/13/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  Paul Williams
Haudenosaunee lawyer
"No rights without remedies: Pragmatic 21st Century Haudenosaunee Legal Strategies"
12/13/2013, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

 
12/06/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
 

Christine Farley, Professor of Law, American University, American University College of Law
“Furthering Interests Abroad: Advancing Trademark Rights in the Americas in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century”
12/06/2013, 12:00 

 

 

11/08/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  Joyce Sterling, Bryant Garth
University of Denver, University of California Irvine
“Data, Polemics, and Panics: The After the JD Project and Legal Education Reform.”
11/08/2013, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/18/2013 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Or Bassok, Baldy Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
“The Court Cannot Hold”
10/18/2013, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/16/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  Masayuki Murayama, Leading Japanese Sociologist of Law
Meiji University
10/16/2013, 12:00 • 505 O'Brian Hall

 

10/11/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  Randolph Roth, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
Ohio State University
"Biology, Psychology, and the Deep History of Homicide"
10/11/2013, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall


 

09/20/2013 - Guest Speaker
  Nancy Denton, Professor, Sociology Department
University at Albany
“Race and Segregation in America: Continuities and Changes”
09/20/2013, 1:00 • 106 O'Brian Hall

 

09/12/2013 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Professor emeritus and Oungan Asogwe, Department of Africology
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
"Entwined Spirits, Cosmological Truths, and Natural Order: Ideas of the "Feminine" in Vodou and Cultural Erasures"
09/12/2013, 4:00 • 207 UB Commons

 

05/17/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  Kim Lane Scheppele
Princeton University
The International State of Emergency: Constitutional Stress and the Globalization of Public Law
05/17/2013, 12:00-2:00 • 509 O’Brian Hall

 

05/10/2013 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Irus Braverman
SUNY Buffalo Law School
"Managing (Wild)Life: The Nature of Captivity in the Anthropocene"
05/10/2013, 12:00-2:00 •

 

04/15/2013 - Guest Speaker
  Judge Ricardo Li Rosi
Argentina National Court of Appeal
"Judicial Independence and Constitutional Reform in Latin America"
04/15/2013, •

 

04/12/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  David Super, Professor of Law
Georgetown University
The Modernization of American Public Law: Health Care Reform and Popular Constitutionalism
04/12/2013, 12:00-2:00 •

 

03/29/2013 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Julia Tomassetti, Baldy Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
Who is a Worker? FedEx Home Delivery, the Copyright “Work-for-Hire” Doctrine, and the Status-Contract Contradiction in Employment
03/29/2013

 

03/25/2013 - Guest Speaker
  Caroline Nguyen Ticarro-Parker, Founder and Executive Director, Catalyst Foundation
A Catalyst for Human Rights and Dignity: Protecting Children and Building Communities in the Mekong Delta
03/25/2013, 3:30-5:00 •

 

03/25/2013 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Marjorie Heins
"Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge"
03/25/2013

 

 

03/01/2013 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Kathleen Biddick, Fellow, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
Temple University
"Tears of Reign: Big Sovereigns Do Cry"
03/01/2013

 

02/28/2013 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University
"The Internet and Privacy in an Information Economy"
02/28/2013, 12:00-2:30 • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

02/22/2013 - Distinguished Speaker
  Chantal Thomas, Cornell Law
"What Does the Emerging International Law of Migration Mean for Sovereignty?"
02/22/2013, 12:00-2:00 •


 

02/15/2013 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Christina Boyd, Political Science
University at Buffalo
"She'll Settle it? The Effects of Judge Sex on Case Settlement in Federal District Courts"
02/15/2013, 12:00-2:30 •

 

02/07/2013 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Kathleen Biddick, Baldy Fellow
Temple University, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
"Deciding on the Tree of Life: The Biopolitics of Political Theology"
02/07/2013

 

11/05/2012 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Cary Nelson, Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois
What to Do When the Devil Offers You a Deal
11/05/2012, 3:00-5:00 •

 

10/05/2012 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Nimer Sultany, Baldy Fellow
Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy
The Sharia Clause: Islamic Law, Democracy, and Constitutionalism in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
10/05/2012

 

10/05/2012 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Alison Barkoff
Department of Justice
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision: Where Are We Today?
10/05/2012, 12:00-2:00 •

 

10/02/2012 - Guest Speaker
  Susan Carle
American University Law
Inventing Civil Rights Lawyering: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915
10/02/2012, 12PM - 2PM • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/18/2012 - Distinguished Speaker
  Franz von Benda-Beckman, Head of Project Group, Legal Pluralism
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
'Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship: Experiences, Probabilities and Suggestions'
04/18/2012, 1:30 pm • 509 O'Brian Hal

 

03/09/2012 - Work in Progress Speaker
  Toni Pressley-Sanon, Assistant Professor
UB Dept. of Transnational Studies
Chapter Presentation and Discussion from research project: "Istwa: History, Memory and Cultural Production in Haiti."
03/09/2012

 

03/02/2012 - Distinguished Speaker
  Mariana Valverde
University of Toronto
How the Earth Became a Collection of Land Uses -- or Did It? Reflections on Doing Sociolegal Research in a Post-theoretical Age
03/02/2012, 12:00 pm • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

12/09/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Helge Arsheim
University of Oslo
Legal Forms of the Religious Life
12/09/2011, 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O’Brian Hall

 

12/02/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Andrew Harding
University of Victoria
Asia's Rise, Asian Legal Studies, and the Future of Legal Interdisciplinarity
12/02/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/21/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Michael McCann
University of Washington
Beyond Legal Mobilization: Rethinking How Law Matters in the Transpacific Struggles of Filipino Cannery Workers
10/21/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

 

10/14/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Michael Pearson
University of New South Wales
Maritime History
10/14/2011, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 532 Park Hall

 

10/07/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Flora Sapio, Researcher
Centre of Advanced Studies on Contemporary China
Finding a New Foundation for Justice in China
10/07/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

 

10/06/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Robert Ferguson
Columbia University Law School
The Confused Place of Mercy in Legal Discourse
10/06/2011, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

 

09/23/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Robert Nelson
American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University
Race and Representation: Researching Employment Civil Rights Litigation in the Post Civil Rights United States
09/23/2011, 12:00 pm • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

09/09/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Scott Barclay
Drexel University
Future Directions in Law and Social Sciences
09/09/2011, 12:00 pm • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/19/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Scott Barclay, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
SUNY Albany
NSF Funding Opportunities for Research on Law
04/19/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/18/2011 - Guest Speaker
  Adena Rissman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evaluating Conservation Effectiveness and Adaptation in Dynamic Landscapes: Linking Law, Social Science, and Ecology
04/18/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/08/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Carol Heimer, Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Using Just One Drug Makes Them Guilty: The Two Faces of Law in HIV Clinics
04/08/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

 

04/07/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Ernesto Laclau, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Political Science
Northwestern University
Social Antagonisms (and their discursive construction)
04/07/2011, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. • 120 Clemens Hall

 

04/04/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Lynn Mather, Professor
University at Buffalo Law School
With the Honorary Kevin Dillon, Erie County Supreme Court Justice - The Vanishing Trial in State and Federal Courts: A Discussion of the Trend over the Past Decades, Possible Reasons for the Decline, and Implications for the Field
04/04/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • Downtown Buffalo Courthouse, Ceremonial Courtroom

 

04/01/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Robert Tignor, History Department
Princeton University
Middle East Uprisings: How the Past Informs the Present
04/01/2011, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/30/2011 - Guest Speaker
  Amy Bach
New York Bar
Ordinary Injustice: the Case Studies Behind the Justice Index
03/30/2011, 1:50 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/28/2011 - Distinguished Speaker
  Bina Agarwal, Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Domestic Violence and Women's Security from Owning Property
03/28/2011, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

 

03/24/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Erin Kelly, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Minnesota
Is 'Family-Friendly' also Women-Friendly? Corporate Family Leave Policies, the Family & Medical Leave Act, & Women's Occupational Standing in US Firms
03/24/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/10/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
Karen Bravo Karen Bravo
Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indiana University
The Role of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Contemporary Anti-Human Trafficking Discourse
03/10/2011, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/04/2011 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Jeffrey Segal, Distinguished University Professor, Political Science
SUNY Stony Brook
Are Supreme Court Justices Merely 'Legislators in Robes'?
03/04/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/30/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Irus Braverman , Associate Professor of Law
University at Buffalo Law School
Law, Place, and Space Working Group - Zooveillance: Controlling to Conserve
11/30/2010, 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/16/2010 - Distinguished Speaker
  Sol Picciotto, Scientific Director of International Institute for the Sociology of Law
Lancaster University School of Law
Paradoxes of Regulating Corporate Capitalism: Property Rights and Hyper-Regulation
11/16/2010, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/16/2010 - Distinguished Speaker
  Sol Picciotto, Scientific Director of International Institute for the Sociology of Law
Lancaster University School of Law
Presentation on the Onati International Institute for Sociology of Law
11/16/2010, 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/05/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Marcus Rediker, Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Rethinking the Amistad Rebellion
11/05/2010, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/29/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Scott Pasternack, Supervisor for Policy Development
Toronto Environment Office
Environmental Stewardship Working Group - Who is Building the Better Green Energy Mousetrap? A Comparison of Canadian and US Approaches to Renewables, Energy Efficiency, and Smart Distribution
10/29/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

09/22/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Annping Chin
Yale University
Living with the Enemy: Insights from the Manchurian Diary of Jin Yufu, 1931-1935
09/22/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

08/10/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Nathalie A. Wall
Washington State University
Radionuclide Environmental Behaviors: An Overview
08/10/2010, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. • NCS 306

 

04/30/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Dennis Des Chene, Department of Philosophy
Washington University in St. Louis
Law & Science Working Group - Laws, the Divine Mind, and the Theoretical Virtues
04/30/2010, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/19/2010 - Distinguished Speaker
  Carol Greenhouse
Princeton University
Judgment and Justice: An Ethnographic Reading of the Confirmation Hearings for Justice Sotomayor
04/19/2010, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/16/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Malika Zeghal, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion in the Divinity School
University of Chicago
What is a Muslim State?
04/16/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/15/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Michael Les Benedict, Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Ohio State University
The Power to Say No: Constitutional Politics & Constitutional Law in the 19th Century
04/15/2010, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/12/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Daniel Faas, Department of Sociology
Trinity College Dublin
Migration Policy and Pluralism Working Group - Immigrant Incorporation and Identity: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe
04/12/2010, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

04/08/2010 - Distinguished Speaker
  Jeremy Waldron, Professor of Law
New York University
Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Civilians, Terrorism, and Deadly Serious Conventions
04/08/2010, 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O’Brian Hall

 

04/05/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Ariel Heryanto, Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies, Head of the Southeast Asia Centre
Australian National University
Becoming Religiously Hip: Middle Class Muslims in Indonesian Pop Culture
04/05/2010, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

 

04/02/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Kiarina Kordela
Macalester College
Here and Elsewhere
04/02/2010, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. • 420 Capen Hall

 

03/31/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Judith Herman, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Training
Harvard Medical School, Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital
Children, Families, and the Law Working Group & Gender and the Law Working Group - Celebrating a Life's Work on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence Against Women
03/31/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/04/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Ekow Yankah
Cardozo Law School
Theory Working Group - When Justice Can't Be Done
03/04/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

03/02/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Asian Law Working Group - Law, Environment, and the Public Sphere in India
03/02/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

02/24/2010 - Distinguished Speaker
  Valerie Hans
Cornell University Law School
Japan's New Lay Judge System: Deliberative Democracy in Action?
02/24/2010, 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

02/19/2010 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Irus Braverman, Associate Professor of Law
University at Buffalo Law School
Law, Place, and Space Working Group - The Hidden Zoo: Legal Anomalies (And Other Animals)
02/19/2010, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

11/12/2009 - Distinguished Speaker
  Fred Schauer, Law
University of Virginia
Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence? Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms
11/12/2009, 11:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. • 509 O’Brian Hall
Program

 

11/03/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Tom Ginsburg, Professor of Law
University of Chicago
Asian Law Working Group - Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Change and Constitutional in Comparative Perspective
11/03/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/27/2009 - Distinguished Speaker
  John Comaroff, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Detective Fictions and Sovereign Pursuits: Further Adventures in Policing
10/27/2009, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 

 

10/21/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Henry Roediger, Department of Psychology
Washington University in St. Louis
Law & Cognitive Science Working Group - Illusory Memories and their Implications
10/21/2009, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts

 

10/19/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Julian Meyrick
La Trobe University
Cultural Policy & Diplomacy Working Group - What is the Function of a Rubber Duck? Australia and the Quest for a National Cultural Policy
10/19/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/16/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker

 

 

Don Mitchell
Syracuse University
Law, Place, and Space Working Group - The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculation, Surveillance, Legal Innovation and the Criminalization of Innovation
10/16/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

10/15/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Don Mitchell
Syracuse University
Law, Place, and Space Working Group - Homelessness, Geography, and the Right to the City
10/15/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

09/30/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Department of History
St. Cloud State University
Asian Law Working Group - 'The Japanese Deviation' in Colonial Korea: Revisiting Customary Law in a Comparative Context
09/30/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

 

09/25/2009 - Distinguished Speaker
  Charles Halpern
University at Buffalo Law School
Theorists & Jurists Presentation: Effective and Sustainable Law Practice: the Meditative Perspective
09/25/2009, 2:00 p.m. •  106, O’Brian Hall

 

09/22/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker
  Susan Hanson, Distinguished University Professor Emerita
Clark University
Gender & Mobility: Implications for Sustanability
09/22/2009, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall
   

Past Event Spotlight

  • Judge Michael A. Corriero
    7/6/26
    In 2012, The Baldy Center hosted Judge Michael A. Corriero in its Distinguished Speaker Series. That same year, he founded, along with the New York Foundling (one of New York's oldest and respected social service agencies run by the Sisters of Charity) the Families Rising Project, an alternative-to-incarceration program that works with young offenders and their families.
  • Gender and the Drug War
    7/6/26
    The Spring 2016 conference examined how gender plays a role in the drug war as viewed by the varied disciplines that inform sociolegal studies.
  • Celebrating David Engel's "The Oven Bird's Song"
    7/6/26
    Just over thirty years ago, David Engel published “The Oven Bird’s Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community” in Law and Society Review. Engel’s research revealed the attitudes that residents in a rural Illinois community brought to contested cultural issues regarding personal injury, dispute resolution, social change, and law. The article quickly became one of the signature contributions to the law and society movement, a kind of instant classic.
  • Leading the Way
    7/6/26
    In examining New York’s drug policies, the conference will engage with an upcoming report by DPA and The New York Academy of Medicine: Blueprint for a Public Health Safety Approach to Drug Policy.  Drawing from disciplines such as public health, drug treatment, harm reduction, medicine, public safety, law, sociology and criminal justice, the conference will convene key political leaders, government officials, community organizations, leading academics, service providers, advocates and people directly impacted by the range of drug policies in New York State.