Volume 1, Issue 1, Fall 2020

The Baldy Center Magazine

From ‘Sight’ to ‘Site’: Wading the Waters of the Niagara River Corridor Ramsar Designation

9/23/20

Keywords: Environmental Law, Ramsar, International Wetlands, Wetlands Policy, Environmental Studies,

A Double Pandemic: Domestic Violence During COVID-19

9/23/20

Keywords: Cultural Studies, COVID-19, Culture and Society, Gender, Law and Society, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Inequality, Social Justice and Social Change.

Living with Pervasive Agrichemicals

9/23/20

Keywords: Environmental Studies, Health and Society, Regulation

Podcast, Blog and more

9/7/21

The Baldy Center Blog and The Baldy Center Podcast share exciting new law and social policy research, and expert perspectives on current events from UB faculty. Our community of scholars is actively engaged in research and writing even if social distancing and travel restrictions have interrupted our normal dynamic of in-person talks, workshops, and conferences for the foreseeable future. All are welcome to read, listen, and comment.

True Cost of a Pandemic: Bursting the Neoliberalist Bubble

9/23/20

Keywords: Employment and Labor Law, Labor Markets and Work Policy, Inequality, Law and Economics

Morris Ernst – Civil Liberties Pioneer

9/16/20

Keywords: Culture and Society, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Social Justice and Social Change

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Message from Samantha Barbas, Director

Samantha Barbas

Welcome to the Fall 2020 edition of The Baldy Center Magazine, our inaugural issue. The Baldy Center, along with many others around the world, shifted to remote work in March 2020. The months since have offered challenges to us all, as we adapt to virtual research, online engagement, and socially distanced lives. The Baldy Center's past and present fellows and grant recipients have demonstrated their resilience throughout, adapting and advancing their important research in these changing and unusual times. We invite you to learn about their cutting-edge work at the intersection of law, legal institutions, and social policy in our virtual magazine.

We welcome your comments.

FEATURES

Domestic Violence and COVID-19

Baldy Center Blog and Podcast

Living with Pervasive Agrichemicals

Morris Ernst – Civil Liberties Pioneer

Niagara River Corridor Ramsar Designation

True Cost of a Pandemic

INSIGHT

New Buddhist Outlooks from Old Buddhist Sources
9/21/20
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Culture and History, Culture and Society, Legal Research, Religion and Research Methods
Reflecting on Two Years at the Baldy Center
9/21/20
Title: Reflecting on Two Years at the Baldy Center
By: Daniel Platt, PhD, Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, 2018-2020
The problem is multifaceted: police brutality and juror decision making
9/21/20
Keywords: Race, Law and Policy, Jury Decision Making, Police Brutality, Racism
Law and Policy Graduate Student Research Spotlight
9/24/20
Keywords: Aid, Welfare, Critical Race Theory, Degree Attainment, Education, Indigenous, Intersectionality, Oppression, Racial Equity, Recidivism
From the Fellows: Issues and developments in law and social policy
9/21/20
Baldy Center Research Fellows are scholars working on law, legal institutions, and social policy at the University at Buffalo and in our regional, national, and global sociolegal community. We asked our current fellows two questions about law and social policy research.
Demographics and Developing Social Policy
9/21/20
Keywords: Culture and Society, Economic and Community Development, Immigration Studies, Law and Policy Inequality, Law and Society, Legal Research, Legislation, Public Policy, Urban Studies
2021-2022 Senior Fellows
9/21/20
Baldy Center Senior Fellows are accomplished academics and professionals who pursue intensive scholarly projects closely related to the mission of the Baldy Center. They utilize UB’s extensive research resources, participate regularly in Baldy Center events, and share their expertise with the larger Baldy community.

FALL 2020 MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia
12/13/22
We invite you to engage with UB’s dynamic interdisciplinary scholars focused on critical law and social policy issues. Our blog, podcast, and virtual magazines share the perspectives of faculty and visiting fellows.
Blog
10/27/22
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.
Episode 1: Mark Bartholomew discusses contact tracing
7/28/20
Episode 1 of the podcast features UB School of Law professor Mark Bartholomew. Professor Bartholomew discusses the pandemic, contact tracing, and the tension between public health security and privacy in using technology to track the coronavirus. Mark Bartholomew received a 2018-2019 research grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy to help support his research, “The Law of Advertising Outrage.”
Episode 2: Irus Braverman discusses medical posthumanities
8/7/20
Episode 2 of the podcast features UB School of Law professor Irus Braverman discussing her upcoming workshop, Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human. Braverman's work explores holistic approaches to health that include scientific, natural science discussions between ecologists and virologists that also takes into consideration social and cultural understandings and also legal norms.
Episode 3: New book by David Westbrook and Mark Maguire
9/9/20
Episode 3 of the podcast features David A. Westbrook, UB School of Law and Mark Maguire, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Professors Westbrook and Maguire discuss airport security and counterterrorism, and their new book, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge, 2020).
Episode 4: Amanda Hughett discusses the history of prisoner labor unions
9/23/20
Episode 4 of the podcast features Amanda Hughett discussing the history of prisoner labor unions. The work examines how efforts to litigate around prison conditions in the 1970s unintentionally cut against imprisoned people’s efforts to mobilize at the grassroots level.
Episode 5: Jennifer Gaynor discusses maritime Southeast Asia
9/23/20
In Episode 5 of the podcast Jennifer Gaynor discusses her current research and her previous book, Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia, which drew on European and Southeast Asian sources, as well as four years in Indonesia, where she worked with rare Bugis language manuscripts and lived in communities of Sama sea people.
Episode 6: David Gerber and Bruce Dierenfield discuss disability rights and religious freedom
9/21/20
Episode 6 of the podcast features David Gerber, emeritus professor of history at UB and Bruce Dierenfield of Canisius College. Professors Gerber and Dierenfield discuss their new book, focused on the Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District case at the crossroads of disability rights and church-state separation.
Episode 7: Daniel Platt discusses “The Domestication of Credit.”
11/3/20
Episode 7 features Daniel Platt, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Springfield and former Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor Platt discusses his recent article “The Domestication of Credit,” focused on the moral politics of personal finance in 19th and 20th century U.S., paying specific attention to women’s contributions to household finances, to credit, debt, and financial institutions, and to the roles of coercion and discrimination in a debt economy.
Episode 8: Sarah Ludin discusses the socio-legal history of the Early Reformation in Germany
11/18/20
In episode 8 of the podcast Sarah Ludin discusses her developing book manuscript focused on the socio-legal history of the Early Reformation in Germany, which relies on close readings of 1521-1555 C.E. case files in the Holy Roman Empire to understand the historiography of secularism and the definition and significance of religion as a modern secular legal category.

SPRING 2021

Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human
4/11/23
April 14, 15 & 16, 2021: While medical humanities have tended to focus almost exclusively on humans, a medical posthumanities, by contrast, would take seriously the role of "more-than-human" actors to explore the complex entanglements of human, animal, and ecological health.
Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene
4/11/23
November 11 & 12, 2021: Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene.
Workshop on Marx, Law, and the Administrative State
5/18/21
June 25, 2021, Marx, Law, and the Administrative State, workshop organized by Matthew Dimick. The online event is sponsored, in part, by: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the University at Buffalo School of Law; and Legal Form.
Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!
7/6/21
The Del Cotto Professorship, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and the Buffalo Law Review are pleased to announce publication of the symposium issue Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel! Essays focus on legal and economic history, legal scholarship, and teaching. Serious Fun is being planned. The 2021 symposium issue is here.
Hadar Aviram, Book Talk: March 5, 2021
6/24/21
Join us for an online talk by Hadar Aviram, March 5, Friday, at 12:00 p.m. The author will discuss her recent book, Yesterday's Monsters The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole (UC Press, 2020). Aviram specializes in criminal justice, civil rights, law and politics, and social movements. Her research employs socio-legal perspectives and methodologies. Her blog, California Correctional Crisis, covers criminal justice policy in California. In related news, it was reported that an imprisoned follower of Manson convicted in the 1969 killing spree was denied parole for the fourth time in four years. The Baldy Center book talk is co-sponsored by the UB Department of Sociology. Learn more.