Experts by Expertise: Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties

Samantha Barbas

Professor of Law

Expertise: Mass media law, libel, privacy, freedom of the press

Phone: 716-645-6216

Email: sbarbas@buffalo.edu

Christine P. Bartholomew

Professor of Law

Expertise: class actions, antitrust law, consumer protection, clergy abuse, clergy privilege

Phone: 716-645-7399

Email: cpb6@buffalo.edu

Guyora Binder

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Law and Hodgson Russ Faculty Scholar

Expertise: criminal law, felony murder, homicide, jurisprudence, legal theory, international law

Phone: 716-645-2673

Email: gbinder@buffalo.edu

Michael Boucai

Professor of Law

Expertise: LGBT rights and queer history; gender and sexuality law; family, criminal and constitutional law

Phone: 716-645-1743

Email: mboucai@buffalo.edu

Shawn J. Donahue

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Expertise: voting rights, redistricting, gerrymandering, state and local politics (including New York State and Buffalo-area politics), campaigns, elections, civil liberties, Constitutional law, election law

Phone: 716-645-8446

Email: shawndon@buffalo.edu

Lucinda M. Finley

Frank G. Raichle Professor of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

Expertise: abortion, reproductive rights, women and the law, Supreme Court, employment discrimination, equal protection law, tort law and reform

Phone: 716-645-6152

Email: finleylu@buffalo.edu

Contact: Finley can also be contacted through Doug Sitler in UB Media Relations at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.

James A. Gardner

Bridget and Thomas Black SUNY Distinguished Professor of Law

Expertise: election law, constitutional law, federalism, voting rights, redistricting, democracy, state constitutional law

Phone: 716-645-3607

Email: jgard@buffalo.edu

Athena D. Mutua

Professor of Law and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

Expertise: civil rights law; constitutional law (Fourteenth Amendment); critical race and feminist legal theory; law and political economy; race and the legal justice system

Phone: 716-645-2873. Athena D. Mutua can sometimes be contacted more quickly through the UB Media Relations team at ub-news@buffalo.edu.

Email: admutua@buffalo.edu

Anthony O’Rourke

Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice

Expertise: criminal law and procedure, inequality in the criminal justice system

Phone: 716-645-3097

Email: aorourke@buffalo.edu