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  • UB’s Mugel Tax Moot Court, Largest and Oldest Tax Moot Court in U.S., Sets 30th Anniversary Competition
    2/13/01
    The Honorable Richard C. Wesley, associate judge on the New York State Court of Appeals, will be among the experts sitting on the bench for the final round of competition when law students from around the nation come to Buffalo on Feb. 22-24 to compete in the Law School's national Mugel Tax Moot Court, the largest and longest-running tax moot court in the United States.
  • Spitzer to Address UB Law Alumni in New York City
    1/10/01
    New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will be the featured speaker when alumni and friends of the University at Buffalo Law School hold their annual New York City Alumni Luncheon at noon on Jan. 26, in the Union League Club, 38 East 37th St. in Manhattan. The event is held each year in conjunction with the New York State Bar Association's annual meeting.
  • Doyle Receives Jaeckle Award From UB Law School, UB Law Alumni Association
    11/1/00
    State Supreme Court Justice Vincent E. Doyle, administrative judge for the Eighth Judicial District, received the Jaeckle Award, the highest honor bestowed by the UB Law School and its Law Alumni Association, at the 25th Anniversary Alumni Convocation and 2000 Jaeckle Award Luncheon, held Nov 4 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • Baldy Center Has Risen to Top Among Programs Focusing on Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Legal Institutions
    9/29/00
    The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, which began at the University at Buffalo Law School as a program in law and the social sciences, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as one of the top academic institutions internationally recognized for interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions.
  • Applications Surge at UB Law School as Marketing Efforts Pay Off, Selectivity Increases
    9/13/00
    Students are applying in record numbers to the University at Buffalo Law School, thanks to a personalized team approach for marketing a first-rate quality education. Applications to the UB Law School were up 40 percent this year -- from 844 in 1999 to 1,178 in 2000 -- the second-highest increase among the 182 American Bar Association-accredited law schools, according to figures available to the Law School Admissions Council.
  • UB Law Professor Urges Zero Tolerance of Abuse to End Out-of-Control Rage, Behavior at Youth Sporting Events
    7/19/00
    A policy of zero tolerance is an effective deterrent against abusive, out-of-control behavior by parents at youth sporting events, says Charles Patrick Ewing, a nationally known law professor and forensic psychologist at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB’s Baldy Center to Host Workshop on Race and the Law
    6/19/00
    "Race and the Law: Critical Discourses Exploring Law and Society Methods and Traditions" will be the theme of the Law and Society Association's Eighth Summer Institute to be held July 5-9, hosted by the Christopher Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Law Professor Judy Scales-Trent Wins Fulbright Award
    6/5/00
    Judy Scales-Trent, professor of law at the University at Buffalo, has received a Fulbright award to conduct research and teach in Senegal during the 2000-2001 academic year.
  • Head Of UB Women’s Studies Program Says Progress Slow As Women Strive “To Claim Their Own Voice”
    3/22/00
    Isabel Marcus has been championing the rights of women since the mid-1950s. And while time would seem to be on the side of progress, the director of the Women's Studies Program at the University at Buffalo says women still are striving to claim their own voice in the 21st century.
  • Defender of Indigenous Rights Leaves His Law Library to UB
    1/17/00
    The Charles B. Sears Law Library at the University at Buffalo has received an important collection of books, manuscripts, documents, treaties and other material related to the defense of indigenous rights -- and in particular, of American Indian nations -- from the late Howard R. Berman. A distinguished scholar of international human-rights law, Berman, a 1971 graduate of the UB Law School, devoted his legal career to defending the interests of aboriginal peoples.