Law

The University at Buffalo Law School is offering a new General Master's of Laws (LL.M.) program. This post-professional degree program, open to students who have completed their first professional degrees in law, initially will admit international students who hold a first degree in law from a university in their own country.

Though the law is somewhat ambiguous on the subject, the power to postpone November's presidential election as a result of terrorist threat or attack lies mostly with individual states, according to an election-law expert at the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Seven former students of Louis A. Del Cotto, J.D. '51, a highly respected tax authority and professor emeritus in the University at Buffalo Law School, have established an endowment fund -- kicking it off with $75,000 in gifts and pledges -- to honor the man they credit with providing the foundation for their own successful careers.

Fifty students received awards and honors during the UB Law School's recent commencement ceremony, with eight students receiving multiple awards.

A workshop that will bring together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to explore various aspects of the police power as a modern technology of governance will be presented June 12-13 by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo Law School.

An evening lecture series offering presentations on a variety of topics of interest to senior citizens, including the new Medicare prescription drug law, paying for long-term care and planning for death or disability, will be held in June on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

Three faculty members at the University at Buffalo have joined the ranks of distinguished professors appointed by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

Abuse of Iraqi prisoners by members of the U.S. military spotlight a lack of leadership at the U.S. Department of Defense so profound that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld should resign or be dismissed, according to a University at Buffalo professor, who is an international expert on human rights and international law.

The William R. Greiner Scholarship Fund has been newly established in the University at Buffalo Law School to honor UB's 13th president, who retired as UB's chief executive officer at the end of last December.

Hector Feliciano, who spent more than seven years tracking down the story of Nazi art pillaging, will describe the world of secret art trade during the keynote address of the Conference on the Ownership and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, to be presented April 1-2 by the University at Buffalo Law School's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.