Faculty Scholarship 2015 to 2018
Message from the Dean
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to update you on the scholarship produced by our faculty since 2015. Situated on the flagship campus of a premier, researchintensive public university, University at Buffalo School of Law has long been associated with innovative, interdisciplinary research and critical approaches to the study of law. Many of our faculty members hold doctorates in areas other than law, and the thoughtful scholarship catalogued here reflects this rich and diverse background. We hope you enjoy getting to know their work. Yours sincerely,
Aviva Abramovsky Dean
law.buffalo.edu/faculty
Contents
Aviva Abramovsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Athena D. Mutua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Samantha Barbas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Makau W. Mutua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Christine P. Bartholomew. . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anthony O’Rourke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Mark Bartholomew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jessica Owley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anya Bernstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Stephen J. Paskey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Guyora Binder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Stephanie L. Phillips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Michael Boucai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
John Henry Schlegel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Irus Braverman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Matthew Steilen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
S. Todd Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Rick Su. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Luis E. Chiesa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Cynthia G. Swann. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Kim Diana Connolly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Matthew Dimick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
David A. Westbrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
David M. Engel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
James A. Wooten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Lucinda M. Finley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Baldy Center Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Rebecca R. French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Areas of Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
James A. Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Nicole Hallett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Meredith Kolsky Lewis. . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Jonathan M. Manes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Isabel Marcus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Martha T. McCluskey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Errol E. Meidinger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Aviva Abramovsky DEAN AND PROFESSOR JD, University of Pennsylvania BA, Cornell University
(716) 645-2052
My research is focused on insurance law with
aabramov@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
INSURANCE LAW
Insurance Online: Regulation and
COMMERCIAL LAW
Consumer Protection in a Cyber World
REGULATION OF FINANCIAL ENTITIES
in The “Dematerialized” Insurance:
LEGAL ETHICS
Distance Selling and Cyber Risks from an International Perspective
emphasis on re-insurance. I am particularly interested in global insurance products and disaster and catastrophe liability. Insurance is a gatekeeper for all corporate behavior and as such the industry’s laws and policies are relevant to every aspect of the world’s economy.”
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BOOKS
(with Peter Kochenburger) (Pierpaolo
Uniform Commercial Code, West’s
Marano, Iōannēs Rokas, Peter
McKinney’s Forms for New York
Kochenburger, editors)
(Thomson Reuters, 2016-18)
(Springer, 2016) (117-142)
Samantha Barbas PROFESSOR JD, Stanford Law School PhD, University of California at Berkeley BA, Williams College (716) 645-6216
sbarbas@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
The Most Loved, Most Hated Magazine
FIRST AMENDMENT
in America: The Rise and Demise of
LEGAL HISTORY
Confidential Magazine, William and
MASS MEDIA LAW
Mary Bill of Rights Journal
My work examines the
vol. 25: 121-193 (2016)
interconnections between law,
BOOKS Confidential Confidential:
The Social Origins of the Personality
The Inside Story of Hollywood’s
Torts, Rutgers Law Review
Notorious Scandal magazine
vol. 67: 393-440 (2015)
social history and the history of mass communications. Drawing on my earlier research in media history, published as
(Chicago Review Press, 2018)
Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and
When Privacy Almost Won: Newsworthy: The Supreme
Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967),
Court’s Battle Over Privacy
University of Pennsylvania
and Freedom of the Press
Journal of Constitutional
(Stanford University Press, 2017)
Law vol. 18(2): 1-86 (2015)
Laws of Image: Privacy and
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Publicity in America (Stanford
Privacy and the Right to One’s Image:
University Press, 2015)
A Cultural and Legal History in
the Cult of Celebrity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and The First Lady of Hollywood (University of California Press, 2005), it focuses on the first modern media revolution — the advent of mass-market publishing, radio, film and television in the early to mid-20th century.”
Injury and Injustice: The Cultural ARTICLES
Politics of Harm and Redress
The Esquire Case: A Lost Free Speech
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Landmark, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal (forthcoming, 2018)
Confidential Confidential CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL: THE INSIDE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD’S NOTORIOUS SCANDAL MAGAZINE (Chicago Review Press, 2018) presents a thoroughly-researched history of America’s first celebrity gossip magazine and the legal disputes that led to its end. With an extensive network of informants, Confidential soiled celebrities’ pristine reputations by publishing the stars’ scandalous secrets, such as extramarital affairs and drug use, in lurid detail. By 1955, Confidential was the nation’s bestselling publication on newsstands, forcing many to question the scope of freedom of the press and society’s moral obligation to censor indecent content. Ultimately, a slew of multimillion dollar libel lawsuits brought against the magazine by celebrities and simultaneous prosecution by the state of California for obscenity and criminal libel led to the magazine’s downfall. Confidential ceased publishing scandalous gossip in 1957, yet the magazine’s legacy lives on. Confidential established the foundation for future gossip tabloids such as People, the National Enquirer and TMZ.
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Christine P. Bartholomew A S S O C I ATE P R O F E S S O R JD, University at California at Davis BA, San Francisco State University
(716) 645-7399
My research is in civil
cpb6@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
AMICUS BRIEFS
CIVIL PROCEDURE
AFMS LLC v. United Parcel
ANTITRUST
Services, Inc. & FedEx Corp.,
EVIDENCE
No. 17-1092 (U.S. 2018)
CONSUMER PROTECTION
procedure, specifically the
REMEDIES
tension between class actions’
AFMS LLC v. United Parcel Services, Inc. & FedEx Corp.,
enforcement potential and
ARTICLES
heightened procedural and
The Venue Shuffle: Forum Selection
evidentiary rules. On the one
Clauses & ERISA (with James A.
hand, judicial resources are
Wooten), UCLA Law Review
far from absolute, and such
vol. 66 (forthcoming, 2019)
rules can promote judicial efficiency. On the other hand,
E-Notice, Duke Law Review
a raft of new procedural
(forthcoming, 2018)
hurdles threaten class actions’ potential to regulate corporate
Exorcising the Clergy Privilege,
behavior. It is now harder
Virginia Law Review
to get into court; harder to
vol. 103: 1015-1077 (2017)
plead a claim; and harder to certify a class. I analyze how
The Failed Superiority Experiment,
such hurdles impact class
Vanderbilt Law Review
actions, and then identify
vol. 69: 1295-1348 (2016)
ways to balance efficiency and enforcement goals. Because
Twiqbal in Context, Journal of Legal
rule interpretation is primarily
Education vol. 65: 744-771 (2016)
left to the judiciary, my work analyzes judicial interpretation
Redefining Prey and Predator in Class
and decision making.”
Actions, Brooklyn Law Review vol. 80: 743-806 (2015) Saving Charitable Settlements, Fordham Law Review vol. 83: 3241-3292 (2015)
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No. 15-55778 (9th Cir. 2017)
Mark Bartholomew PROFESSOR JD, Yale Law School BA, Cornell University
(716) 645-5959
bartholo@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CYBERLAW LEGAL HISTORY
My recent work examines
ADVERTISING LAW
the relationship between law, technology and advertising.
BOOKS
Through a variety of
Adcreep: The Case Against
mechanisms, including
Modern Marketing (Stanford
intellectual property law,
University Press, 2017)
privacy law, contract law and the First Amendment, the legal
ARTICLES
system is struggling to set an
Neuromarks, MinnesotaLaw
appropriate balance between
Review vol. 103 (forthcoming, 2018)
commercial freedom and consumer protection in the
The Law of Advertising Outrage,
midst of a modern marketing
Advertising & Society
revolution. Figuring out where
Quarterly vol. 19 (3) (2018)
this balance should be set is a difficult project. My approach
The Political Economy of
is to mine psychology, which
Celebrity Rights, Whittier Law
tells us how consumers think,
Review vol. 38: 1-24 (2018)
and history, which tells us how lawmakers approached
CHAPTERS
similar questions in the past,
From Debbie Does Dallas to The
to help assess the costs and
Hangover: The Changing Landscape of
benefits of advertising in new
Trademark Law in Tinseltown (with
forms and new spaces.�
John Tehranian) in Hollywood and the Law (BFI/Palgrave Press, 2016)
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Anya Bernstein A S S O C I ATE P R O F E S S O R PhD, University of Chicago JD, Yale Law School BA, Columbia College (716) 645-3683
I study cultures of
anyabern@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND COMPARATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Agency in State Agencies in Distributed
ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE IN DEMOCRACIES
Cause, and Accountability (N.J.
LAW AND SOCIETY
bureaucracies and courts, the
ASIAN LEGAL CULTURES
institutions that implement and interpret the law, approaching
JURISDICTION & CIVIL PROCEDURE
them as social arenas and as
Agency: The Sharing of Intention, Enfield and Paul Kockelman, editors) (Oxford University Press, 2017) (41-48) The Songs of Other Birds in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries,
nodes embedded in wider social worlds. Although we sometimes take the legitimacy of democratic governance for granted, that legitimacy is not something that inheres in a particular political form; it’s a dynamic, culturally specific outcome of continuous work
ARTICLES
and Law: Revisiting the Oven
Democratizing Interpretation,
Bird’s Song (Mary Nell Trautner,
William and Mary Law Review
editor) (Cambridge University
vol. 60: (forthcoming, October 2018)
Press, December 2017) (219-236)
Before Interpretation,
BOOK REVIEWS
University of Chicago Law
Regimes of Expertise and the Law,
Review vol. 84: 567-645 (2017)
PoLAR Online: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2016)
by numerous participants. So I’m particularly interested in how bureaucrats and judges legitimize their actions in democracies. Working through ethnography, interview, and
Bureaucratic Speech: Language Choice
(Invited review of The Clinic and the
and Democratic Identity in the Taipei
Court (Ian Harper, Tobias Kelly, and
Bureaucracy, PoLAR: Political and
Akshay Khanna editors) (Cambridge
Legal Anthropology Review
University Press, 2015) and The Role
vol. 40: 28-51 (2017)
of Social Science in Law (Elizabeth Mertz editor) (Ashgate, 2008))
textual analysis, I illuminate
Differentiating Deference,
how government actors
Yale Journal on Regulation
understand, describe, and
vol. 33: 1-53 (2016)
shape law and governance. In recent work, I’ve uncovered presuppositions about communication and democracy in judicial opinions and interviewed government administrators in the U.S. and Taiwan about how they give law life on the ground.”
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Guyora Binder SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR U N I V E R S IT Y AT B U F FA LO D I S TI N G U I S H E D P R O F E S S O R H O D G S O N R U S S F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R V I C E D E A N F O R R E S E A R C H A N D F A C U LT Y D E V E L O P M E N T JD, Yale Law School AB, Princeton University (716) 645-2673
gbinder@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Capital Punishment of Unintentional
CRIMINAL LAW
Felony Murder (with Brenner Fissell
JURISPRUDENCE
and Robert Weisberg) Notre Dame
LAW AND LITERATURE
Law Review vol. 92: 1141-1214 (2017)
My book, The Oxford
Penal Incapacitation: A Situationist
Introductions to U.S. Law:
Critique (with Ben Notterman)
Criminal Law explains the
American Criminal Law
key concepts and persistent
Review vol. 54: 1-56 (2017)
controversies in American
What is Criminal Law About? (with
criminal law in light of its
BOOKS Criminal Law, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law (Oxford University Press, 2016) Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (with John Kaplan and Robert Weisberg) (WoltersKluwer, 8th edition, 2016) Criminal Law: Teacher’s Manual (with Robert Weisberg) (WoltersKluwer, 8th edition, 2016) ARTICLES A Political Interpretation of Vagueness Doctrine (with Brenner Fissell), Illinois Law Review (forthcoming, 2019) The Puzzle of Inciting Suicide (with Luis Chiesa), American Criminal Law Review vol. 56 (forthcoming, 2019) Unusual: The Death Penalty for Inadvertent Murder, Indiana Law Journal vol. 93 (forthcoming, 2018)
history. The English common
Robert Weisberg) Michigan Law
law of crimes enforced a
Review vol. 114: 1173-1205 (2016)
royal peace by conditioning
Why Law Matters for Our
punishment on unauthorized
Obligations, Critical Analysis
force and harm to particular
of Law vol. 2: 268-80 (2015)
victims. The story of American criminal law has been the
CHAPTERS
emergence of a utilitarian
The Coptown Case: Inviolable
conception of criminal
Status and Desert in Inherent
offending as the imposition of
and Instrumental Values:
risk or the violation of consent,
Excursions in Value Inquiry (G.
combined with culpability. Yet
John M. Abbarno, editor) (University Press of America, 2015) (281-296)
to understand contemporary
BOOK REVIEWS
remember the model of offending
criminal law, we must also
American Journal of Legal
as trespass against sovereignty
History vol. 57(1): 121-122 (2016)
out of which it emerged.”
(Reviewing Susanna L. Blumenthal’s Law and the Modern Mind) (Harvard University Press, 2016)
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Michael Boucai A S S O C I ATE P R O F E S S O R MPhil, University of Cambridge JD, Georgetown University Law Center BA, Yale University (716) 645-1743
mboucai@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST CRIMINAL LAW FAMILY LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
My research examines
LAW AND SEXUALITY
various intersections of law
LEGAL HISTORY
and sexuality, from obscenity regulation to same-sex
ARTICLES
marriage. I’m interested in
Is Assisted Procreation an LGBT
how the law favors, tolerates
Right?, Wisconsin Law Review
or disfavors particular
vol. 2016(6): 1065-1125 (2016)
expressions of sexuality and intimacy, and how such
Glorious Precedents: When
treatment relates to moral
Gay Marriage Was Radical, The
systems, social arrangements
Yale Journal of Law and the
and political ideologies. Often
Humanities vol. 27(1): 1-82 (2015)
I explore these questions from a historical perspective, as
BOOK REVIEWS
in current projects on Anita
Canadian Journal of Law & Society
Bryant’s pivotal 1977 campaign
(2016) (reviewing After Legal
against gay rights and the
Equality Family, Sex, Kinship (Robert
1895 trials of Oscar Wilde.”
Leckey, editor) (Routledge, 2015))
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Irus Braverman PROFESSOR AND WILLIAM J. MAGAVERN F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R SJD, University of Toronto MA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem LLB, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (716) 645-3030
My research focuses on the
irusb@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Law’s Underdog: A Call for
ANIMAL STUDIES
Nonhuman Legalities, Annual
NATURE AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
Review of Law and Social
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Science vol. 14: 127-144 (2018)
LAW AND GEOGRAPHY
relationship between law, science, and nature—broadly construed. In Planted Flags: Trees, Land and Law in Israel/ Palestine (2009), I explored the war over tree landscapes
LAW AND GENETICS
Nature as Spectacle, TOPOS:
LEGAL ETHNOGRAPHY
The International Review of
LAW AND SOCIETY
Landscape Architecture and
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
Urban Design vol. 101: 80-85 (2018)
BOOKS
Renouncing Citizenship as Protest:
Blue Legalities: The Law and
in this contentious region.
Life of the Sea (with Elizabeth R.
Next, Zooland: The Institution
Johnson, editors) (Duke University
of Captivity (Independent
Press, forthcoming, 2019)
Publisher Award Winner, 2012) took readers behind
Coral Whisperers: Scientists
the zoo to make surprising interconnections between our understandings of the human and the nonhuman.
Nature (2015), explored the relationship between captive
between Welfare and
Scientists on the Brink (2018),
Captive: Zoometric Operations in Gaza, Public Culture vol. 29(1): 191-215 (2017)
Wild Life: The Institution of Nature
captures a critical moment in
(Stanford University Press, 2015)
the history of coral reef science,
ARTICLES
documenting a community caught in an existential crisis
Corals in the City: Cultivating Ocean
and alternating between despair and hope.”
Anticipating Endangerment: The Biopolitics of Threatened Species Lists, Biosocieties vol. 12 (1): 132-157 (2016) Biopolarity: Coral Scientists between Hope and Despair, Anthropology Now vol. 8(3): 26-40 (2016)
Life in the Anthropocene City,
Bleached!: Managing Coral Catastrophe,
Contemporary Social Science:
Futures vol. 92: 12-28 (2016)
Journal of the Academy of Social
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vol. 9(2): 1-27 (Spring 2018)
editor) (Routledge, 2017)
editor) (Routledge, 2016)
new book, Coral Whisperers:
Conservation, Humanimalia
the Human (Irus Braverman,
Legalities (Irus Braverman,
management. Finally, my
Saving Species One Individual
of California Press, 2018)
Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively
and wild animal population
vol. 44(2): 379-386 (2018)
at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians
Environment: Life Beyond
Wild Life: The Institution of
Ethnographer, Critical Inquiry
on the Brink (The University
Gene Editing, Law, and the
My following monograph,
Reflections by a Jewish Israeli
Sciences (Special Issue: Urban
The Pet Keeping Industry in
Animals: Cartographies of Radical
the American City, Squaderno
Encounters) (forthcoming, 2019)
vol. 42: 51-55 (2016)
Coral Reefs as Catalysts for Action IN RECENT YEARS, A CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL BLEACHING EVENT DEVASTATED MANY OF THE world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans. CORAL WHISPERERS: SCIENTISTS ON THE BRINK (University of California Press, 2018) captures a critical moment in the history of coral reef science. Gleaning insights from over one hundred interviews with leading scientists and conservation managers, Irus Braverman documents a community caught in an existential crisis and alternating between despair and hope. In this important new book, corals emerge not only as signs and measures of environmental catastrophe, but also as catalysts for action.
Conservation and Hunting:
Law and Life in the Deep Sea
The Life and Law of Corals:
Till Death Do They Part? A Legal
in Handbook of Space, Place
Breathing Meditations in Research
Ethnography of Deer Management,
and Law (Jennifer Carter and
Methods in Environmental
Journal of Land Use and Environ-
Robyn Bartel, editors) (Edward
Law: A Handbook (Andreas
mental Law vol. 30(2): 143-200 (2015)
Elgar) (forthcoming, 2019)
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and
Hyperlegality and Heightened
Robotic Life in the Deep Sea in Blue
Surveillance: The Case of Threatened
Legalities (Irus Braverman and
Species Lists, Surveillance &
Elizabeth R. Johnson, editors) (Duke
Lively Legalities: An Introduction
Society vol. 13(2): 310-313 (2015)
University Press, forthcoming, 2019)
in Animals, Biopolitics, Law:
Rights of Passage: On Doors,
Military-to-Wildlife Geographies:
Technology, and the Fourth
Bureaucracies of Cleanup and
Amendment, Journal of Law,
Conservation in Vieques in
The Regulatory Life of Threatened
Culture, and the Humanities
Handbook on the Geographies
Species Lists in Lively Legalities:
vol. 12(3): 669-692 (2015)
of Regions and Territories
Animals, Biopolitics, Law
(Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, and
(Irus Braverman, editor)
Martin Jones, editors) (Edward
(Routledge, 2016) (18-38)
CHAPTERS Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws in the Anthropocene in Blue Legalities: The Law and Life of the Sea (with Elizabeth R. Johnson) (forthcoming, 2019) Coral Restoration and Citizen Scientists in the Anthropocene in The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics (Jenny E. Goldstein & Eric Nost, editors) (Nebraska University Press, forthcoming, 2019) Foreword in Animal Edutainment in a Neoliberal Era: The politics of Teaching and Learning Zoos and Aquariums (Teresa Lloro-Bidart) (Peter Lang) (forthcoming, 2019)
Elgar Publishing, 2018) (268-283)
Victoria Brooks, editors) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) (458-481)
Lively Legalities (Irus Braverman, editor) (Routledge, 2016) (2-16)
En-Listing Life: Red is the Color
Editing the Environment: Emerging
of Threatened Species Lists in
Issues in Genetics and the Law (An
Critical Animal Geographies
Introduction) in Gene Editing, Law
(Rosemarie Collard and Kathryn
and the Environment: Life Beyond
Gillespie, editors) (Routledge/
the Human (Irus Braverman,
Earthscan, 2015) (184-202)
editor) (Routledge, 2017) (1-17)
Is the Puerto Rican Parrot
Gene Drives, Nature, and
Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of
Governance: An Ethnographic
Endangerment and Grievability
Perspective in Gene Editing, Law,
in Economics of Death (Kathryn
and the Environment: Life Beyond
Gillespie and Patricia Lopez, editors)
the Human (Irus Braverman,
(Routledge/Earthscan, 2015) (73-94)
editor) (Routledge, 2017) (55-73)
More-than-Human Legalities in The Wiley Handbook of Law and Society (Patrick Ewick and Austin Sarat, editors) (Wiley Press, 2015) (307-321)
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S. Todd Brown PROFESSOR VICE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS LLM, Temple University, Beasley School of Law JD, Columbia University School of Law BA, Loyola University of New Orleans (716) 645-6213
stbrown2@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST BANKRUPTCY MASS TORT AND BUSINESS LAW
My research currently focuses
ARTICLES
on the intersection of corporate
Consent, Coercion and Bankruptcy
bankruptcy, bankruptcy
Administration, Journal of
trusts and mass tort litigation.
Business and Technology
Recent articles include a study
Law vol. 11(1): 25-57 (2016)
outlining the performance of 32 bankruptcy trusts and the implications for future asbestos personal injury victims, an analysis of individual plaintiffs’ roles in multidistrict mass tort litigation, and the practices that underlie specious claim patterns in comprehensive settlements and the use of stratified and targeted sampling to address these practices. My next article discusses the use of the debtor’s settlement history in the bankruptcy estimation process in asbestos related bankruptcies.”
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Luis E. Chiesa PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF THE BUFFALO CRIMINAL L AW CENTER JSD, Columbia Law School LLM, Columbia Law School JD, University of Puerto Rico Law School BBA, University of Puerto Rico (716) 645-3152
lechiesa@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
ARTICLES
ANIMAL CRUELTY LAWS
The Puzzle of Inciting Suicide (with
CRIMINAL LAW
Guyora Binder), American Criminal
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Law Review vol. 56 (forthcoming, 2019)
TORTS JURISPRUDENCE
My research lies at the
Comparative Law as an Antidote to
intersection of criminal law,
Tunnel Vision in the Criminal Law: The
philosophy and comparative
Example of Complicity, LawRutgers
law. Drawing from my
Law Review (forthcoming, 2018)
experience teaching and lecturing about criminal law in
Mens Rea in Comparative
the United States, Canada, Latin
Perspective, Marquette Law
America, Europe and Asia, my
Review (forthcoming, 2018)
work aims to understand and critique domestic criminal law
The Model Penal Code and Mass
doctrines by looking at how
Incarceration, George Mason Law
other countries approach basic
Review (forthcoming, 2018)
concepts of criminal theory.�
Solving the Riddle of Rape by Deception, Yale Law & Policy Review vol. 35: 407-460 (2017) Animal Rights Unraveled: Why Abolitionism Collapses into Welfarism and What it Means for Animal Ethics, Georgetown Environmental Law Review vol. 28: 557-587 (2017)
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Kim Diana Connolly PROFESSOR V I C E D E A N FO R E X P E R I E NTI A L A N D S K I LL S E D U C ATI O N D I R E C TO R O F C LI N I C A L LE GA L E D U C ATI O N DIRECTOR OF THE ADVOCACY INSTITUTE LLM, George Washington University Law School JD, Georgetown University Law Center AB, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (716) 645-2092
My substantive research focuses on a number of related areas, including wetlands law and policy as well as other
kimconno@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Marine Protected Areas in Ocean and
CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION
Coastal Law and Policy (Donald
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
C. Baur, Tim Eichenberg, Georgia
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Hancock Snusz, and Michael Sutton,
LAW AND SCIENCE
editors) (American Bar Association,
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
2nd edition, 2015) (593-626)
LEGAL EDUCATION
environmental regulatory
LEGISLATION
and related subjects. More
NATURAL RESOURCES LAW
recently I have added an interest in how the mass media covers environmental law and policy matters. I have also conducted research on student learning and work on experiential and
(Donald C. Baur, Tim Eichenberg, Georgia Hancock Snusz, and Michael
Wetlands Law and Policy
Sutton, editors) (American Bar
Questions For Our Time (American
Association, 2nd edition, 2015) (127-176)
and Climate Change in the
all cases, I seek to bring serious
Circumpolar North (with
scholarly study to pressing
Errol E. Meidinger and Ezra
issues facing people and
B.W. Zubrow, editors) (SUNY
ecosystems on various levels.�
Press, forthcoming, 2019)
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Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy
Beyond Jurisdiction: Essential
The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance
interdisciplinary learning. In
Other Waters in the United States in
BOOKS
Bar Association, forthcoming, 2019)
andragogical issues, including
Regulation of Coastal Wetlands and
Matthew Dimick PROFESSOR PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison JD, Cornell Law School BA, Brigham Young University (716) 645-7968
mdimick@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Better than Basic Income? Liberty,
INCOME TAX
Equality, and the Regulation of
TAX POLICY
Working Time, Indiana Law
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW
Review vol. 50: 473-515 (2017)
My research studies the
LAW AND ECONOMICS
relationship between law
The Altruistic Rich? Inequality ARTICLES
and Other-Regarding Preferences
Models of Other-Regarding
for Redistribution (with David
Preferences, Inequality and
Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller)
Redistribution (with David
Quarterly Journal of Political
Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller)
Science vol.11(4): 385-439 (2016)
and economic inequality. While we may well condemn inequality as an injustice in itself, it also has many negative side effects: a corrosion of the political process, skewed
Annual Review of Political Science vol. 21: 441-460 (2018)
public policies, and an unstable
Should the Law Do Anything About
financial system, to name
Economic Inequality? Cornell
a few. While the causes of
Journal of Law and Public
rising income inequality are
Policy vol. 26: 1–69 (2016)
many and complex, the law undoubtedly plays a role.
Wage-Setting Institutions and
Traditionally, the economic
Corporate Governance (with Neel
analysis of law has focused on
Rao) Journal of Comparative
efficiency—how the law can
Economics 44(4): 854-883 (2016)
make society’s economic pie larger. While using many of
Lords and Order: Credible Rulers
the same economist-inspired
and State Failure, Rationality and
tools, my research uses a
Society vol. 27(2): 161-194 (2015)
more sociologically-inspired set of questions to ask how
BOOK REVIEWS
the law distributes—slices
Contemporary Sociology vol.
up— the economic pie.”
45(1): 93–95 (2016) (reviewing Kathleen A. Thelen’s Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 2014))
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David M. Engel SUNY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR JD, University of Michigan Law School MA, University of Michigan AB, Harvard University (716) 645-2514
dmengel@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
The Myth of the Litigious
TORTS
Society: Why We Don’t Sue
LAW AND SOCIETY
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)
ASIAN LEGAL CULTURES
My research traces the ways in which rights become active, identities are forged, and law is
LEGAL ETHNOGRAPHY
ARTICLES
RIGHTS CONSCIOUSNESS
Legal Consciousness in Asia (with Lynette Chua) Asian Journal of
woven into the fabric of dayto-day experiences. One line of work examines the earliest
BOOKS
Law and Society vol. 5: 1-4 (2018)
Injury and Injustice: The
(Editor’s Note to Special Issue)
Cultural Politics of Harm
stages of the tort law system, when individuals suffer traumatic physical harms and, in most cases, refuse to lodge a
and Redress (with Anne Bloom
Blood Curse and Belonging in
and Michael McCann, editors)
Thailand: Law, Buddhism, and Legal
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Consciousness, Asian Journal of Law and Society vol. 3: 71-83 (2016)
claim or even consult a lawyer.
Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and
I explain this overwhelming preference for law avoidance by drawing on interdisciplinary studies of injury and cognition. Another line of work explores recent transformations in law, culture, and society in Southeast Asia, with particular attention to Thailand.”
Law in the 21st Century: Revisiting
Perception and Decision at the
“The Oven Bird’s Song” (Mary
Threshold of Tort Law: Explaining
Nell Trautner, editor) (Cambridge
the Infrequency of Claims
University Press, December 2017)
(Eighteenth Annual Clifford
(Collection of essays commemorating
Symposium on Tort Law and Social
David M. Engel’s “The Oven Bird’s
Policy) Depaul Law Review vol.
Song”: Insiders, Outsiders, and
62: 293-334 (2013) (Translated into
Personal Injuries in an American
Japanese and published in Law As
Community, Law and Society
Everyday Practice: Sociology
Review vol. 18: 551-582 (1984))
of Law on Clinical Knowledge (Hidekazu Nishida and Kenji
Le Droit À L’inclusion: Droit
Yamamoto, editors) (2016))
Et Identité Dans Les Récits De Vie Des Personnes Handicapées
Keynote Address: Reimagining
Aux États-Unis, Éditions EHESS
Law and Society Research in
(Translation by Yohann Aucante
Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai
and Thomas Cayet of David M. Engel
University Law Review (2015)
and Frank W. Munger’s Rights of
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Inclusion: Law and Identity in the
Rights as Wrongs: Legality and
Life Stories of Americans With
Sacrality in Thailand, Asian Studies
Disabilities (EHESS, May 2017)
Review vol. 39: 38-52 (2015)
State and Personhood in Southeast Asia: The Promise and Potential for Law and Society Research (with Lynette Chua) Asian Journal of Law and Society vol. 2: 211-228 (2015) CHAPTERS Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles: The Cultural Construction of Injuries and the Failed Promise of Law in Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress (Anne Bloom and Michael McCann, editors) (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Past and Future Lives of “The Oven Bird’s Song” in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law in the 21St Century: Revisiting “The Oven Bird’s Song” (Mary Nell Trautner, editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Two Books with an Eye on Society CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS HAS released two books this year reflecting a career of interdisciplinary work by Professor David Engel. For the first, INJURY AND INJUSTICE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF HARM AND REDRESS (2018), Engel was one of three co-editors. Squarely in the law and society tradition, the book examines how cultures worldwide understand injury and its relation to the justice system. Engel also contributed a chapter, titled “Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles: The Cultural Construction of Injuries and the Failed Promise of Law.” It draws on the thinking that went into his 2016 book THE MYTH OF THE LITIGIOUS SOCIETY. “The theory of tort law,” he says, “is that litigation will deter dangerous or risky behavior; it will compensate people when they suffer injuries and struggle with their medical bills and damaged careers; and it will provide a moral statement of who’s to blame when unnecessary risks are posed. But those promises fail if very few people with valid claims actually use the tort system.”
The second book grew from a Baldy Center conference that took place in 2015. In INSIDERS, OUTSIDERS, INJURIES, AND LAW: REVISITING “THE OVEN BIRD’S SONG” (2017), legal scholars take stock of a groundbreaking article by Engel first published in 1984. In that article, he examined how predominant norms and values in a rural Illinois county discouraged injury litigation, even when residents believed they had suffered serious wrongs. Engel argued that anxiety about social and economic changes in the community found expression in negative perceptions of tort claims as compared to positive perceptions of contract claims. “‘THE OVEN BIRD’S SONG’ is such an enduringly influential work that law and society scholars around the world turn to David’s work again and again and again for insight and inspiration,” the book’s editor, UB sociology professor Mary Nell Trautner, writes in her introduction.
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Lucinda M. Finley FRANK G. RAICHLE PROFESSOR OF TR I A L A N D A P P E LL ATE A DVO C AC Y JD, Columbia University Law School BA, Barnard College (716) 645-3594
finleylu@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST TORT LAW AND GENDER ISSUES FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
My research focuses on
EQUAL PROTECTION LAW AND EQUALITY THEORY
the gender-based impact of seemingly neutral tort
FIRST AMENDMENT AND LIMITS ON PROTEST ACTIVITY
doctrines. I am studying caps on non-economic damages to demonstrate that caps have a
BOOKS
disparate impact on women, the
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten
elderly, and children’s death
Torts Opinions (with M.
cases. I’m also exploring why
Chamallas) (Cambridge University
non-economic damages are an
Press, forthcoming, 2019)
under-sustained challenge, and why women tend to receive
CHAPTERS
greater proportions of their
Geduldig v. Aiello in Feminist
tort awards in non-economic
Judgments: Rewritten Opinions
damages, as well as other
of the United States Supreme
important empirical questions
Court (Linda L. Berger, Bridget
about the hidden or unintended
J. Crawford and Kathryn M.
consequences of tort reform,
Stanchi, editors) (Cambridge
including how it will affect
University Press, 2016) (185-207)
lawyers’ case selection and settlement strategies. Better understanding of the actual consequences of legal change on the institutional players and the people who seek access to the civil justice system can lead to sounder and more equitable law reform.”
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Rebecca R. French PROFESSOR PhD, Yale University LLM, Yale Law School JD, University of Washington Law School BA, University of Michigan (716) 645-2159
rrfrench@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW COMPARATIVE LAW LAW AND RELIGION
In the course of my
PROPERTY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
investigation of the Tibetan
BUDDHISM AND LAW
legal system, I discovered a gaping hole in the substantial
ARTICLES
discipline of Religious
The Anthropology of Religion
Legal Studies — the study
and Law, Religious Studies
of Buddhist legal systems.
Review (forthcoming, 2018)
Incredibly, almost nothing has been written on the legal
Is Buddhist Law “Sophisticated”?,
systems that were influenced
Buddhism, Law and Society
by Buddhism, one of the
vol. 2: vii-xvii (2018)
largest world religions with a 2,500 year history and 500
Editor’s Introduction, Buddhism, Law
million followers. My project
and Society vol. 1: vii-xvii (2016)
for the last few years has been to write in this area and
What is Buddhist Law? Buffalo Law
to organize a wide array of
Review vol. 63: 833- 872 (2015)
international scholars to talk, think and write about this exciting new subject matter.”
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James A. Gardner SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR BRIDGET AND THOMAS BLACK PROFESSOR JD, University of Chicago Law School BA, Yale University (716) 645-3607
Americans have long fretted about the disjunction between
jgard@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Canadian Federalism in Design
CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF POLITICS
and Practice: The Mechanics
LAW AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY
Constitution, Perspectives on
ELECTION LAW
Federalism vol. 9(3): 1-30 (2017)
of a Permanently Provisional
FEDERALISM
our high aspirations for the
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
democratic electoral process
Claims of Distinctive Identity in Federal Systems: Judicial Policing of the
and the desultory reality of the modern election campaign. My research examines the role of the law in constituting this disjunction. I am interested in how the law regulating
BOOKS
Limits of Subnational Variance (with
Election Law in the American
Antoni Abat i Ninet) International
Political System (with Guy-
Journal of Constitutional Law
Uriel Charles) (Aspen, 2d edition)
vol. 14: 378-410 (2016) (Translated into
(2018) (1st edition, 2012)
Russian and reprinted, in two parts, as Trebovaniya priznaniya samobytnosti
campaigns operates in its actual institutional setting; how the findings of empirical social science determine what kinds of campaigns the
ARTICLES
v federativnoiy sisteme: sudebnyi na-
The Theory and Practice of
dzor za regional’noiy svobodoiy, Srav-
Contestatory Federalism,
nitel’noe Konstitutsionnoe Obozre-
William & Mary Law Review
nie vol. 4: 69–91 and vol. 5: 48–56 (2017)
vol. 60 (forthcoming, 2018)
law might feasibly aspire
Justice Brennan and the Foundations of
to institutionalize; and how democratic theory addresses the normative desirability of
Active Judicial Governance,
Human Rights Federalism, Ohio State
New England Law Review
Law Journal vol. 77: 355-385 (2016)
vol. 51: 545-554 (2018)
these institutional options.”
Practice-Driven Changes to La contienda intergubernamental en
Constitutional Structures of
sistemas federados, Yearbook of the
Governance, Arkansas Law
National Academy of Law (CÓrdoba,
Review vol. 68: 335- 369 (2016)
Argentina) vol. 28: 123-140 (2018) Partitioning and Rights: The Supreme Court’s Accidental Jurisprudence
Highly Cited Election Law Scholar THE ELECTION LAW BLOG’S 2018 RANKING OF TOP SCHOLARLY IMPACT ONCE again includes Professor James Gardner. The list of top ten faculty in election law identifies faculty from the more than 200 ABA law schools whose work in election law is cited most frequently in law review articles. The ranking shows that other scholars cited Gardner’s work 275 times in articles published from 2013-2017. Gardner was also a part of the influential blog’s biennial top ten list in both 2014 and 2016.
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of Political Representation, Florida State University Law Review vol. 42: 61-94 (2015)
Nicole Hallett A S S I S TA NT C LI N I C A L P R O F E S S O R DIRECTOR OF THE COMMUNITY JUSTICE CLINIC JD, Yale Law School MS, University of Oxford, St. Cross College BA, DePauw University (716) 645-3193
nicole@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
The #Buffalo 25 and the New Era of
WORKPLACE LAW
Immigration Enforcement, CUNY
IMMIGRATION LAW
Law Review vol. 20: 1-34 (2017)
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
I am broadly interested in
From the Picket Line to the
how law either promotes or
Courtroom: A Labor Organizing ARTICLES
Privilege to Protect Workers,
Winning the War Against Wage
N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social
Theft, Yale Law & Policy Review
Change vol. 39: 475-524 (2015)
impedes collective action and power-building in subordinated communities. Specifically, I study how the
vol 37 (forthcoming, 2018)
decline of labor unions has spawned experimentation by immigrant workers into new forms of organizing, collective bargaining, and worker protection. I am also interested in how immigration law leads to the exploitation and subordination of immigrant communities.�
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Meredith Kolsky Lewis PROFESSOR V I C E D E A N FO R I NTE R N ATI O N A L A N D G R A D UATE P R O G R A M S DIRECTOR OF THE CROSS-BORDER LEGAL STUDIES CENTER JD, Georgetown University Law Center MSFS, Georgetown University BA, Northwestern University (716) 645-1631
mlewis5@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
ARTICLES
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW
My research focuses on international trade law, particularly issues relating to the World Trade Organization, free trade agreements, dispute settlement and trade policy. My scholarship is influenced by my
INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
The “New” Plurilateralism
INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
in International Trade Law,
FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS
Journal of World Investment
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION LAW
& Trade (forthcoming, 2019)
BOOKS
TPP and RCEP: Implications of Mega-
Reconceptualizing the
FTAs for Global Governance, Social
Multilateral Trading
Science Japan vol. 52: 11-13 (2015)
System (Cambridge University
background in international
Press, forthcoming, 2019)
relations and economics.
CHAPTERS Dissents in Research Handbook on
I also have a strong interest
WTO Dispute Settlement (Simon
in the Asia-Pacific, a result
Lester and Bryan Mercurio, editors)
of having lived and worked
(Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
in New Zealand and Japan.”
Import and Export Controls in International Commercial Contracts (Petra Butler, editor) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) The TPP as a Potential New Paradigm for Trade Agreements: Implications and Opportunities in El TLCAN Frente a Nuevas Negociaciones Comerciales Regionales: El TPP y el TTIP (María Celia Toro Hernández, editor) (forthcoming, 2018) (Translated into Spanish)
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The Embedded Liberalism
The United States’ Path to Concluding
OTHER
Compromise in the Making of
the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Will
Bilateralism in Elgar Encyclopedia
the GATT and Uruguay Round
TPA + TAA = TPP? in European
of International Economic Law
Agreements in The Future
Yearbook of International
(Thomas Cottier and Krista
of International Economic
Economic Law, vol. 7: 495-505 (Marc
Nadakavukaren Schefer, editors)
Integration: The Embedded
Bungenberg, Christoph Herrmann,
(Edward Elgar Publishing,
Liberalism Compromise
Markus Krajewski and Jörg Philipp
2017) (32-33)
Revisited (Gillian Moon and
Terhechte, editors) (Springer, 2016)
Lisa Toohey, editors) (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Multilateralism in Elgar When Popular Decisions Rest
Encyclopedia of International
on Shaky Foundations: Systemic
Economic Law (Thomas Cottier
Mega-FTAs and Plurilateral Trade
Implications of Selected WTO
and Krista Nadakavukaren
Agreements: Implications for the
Appellate Body Trade Remedies
Schefer, editors) (Edward Elgar
Asia-Pacific in The Trans-Pacific
Jurisprudence in International
Publishing, 2017) (33-35)
Partnership: A Paradigm Shift in
Economic Law and Governance:
International Trade Regulation?
Essays in Honour of Mitsuo
Plurilateralism in Elgar
(Julien Chaisse, Henry Gao and
Matsushita (Julien Chaisse
Encyclopedia of International
Chang-fa Lo, editors) (Springer, 2017)
and Tsai-Yu Lin, editors) (Oxford
Economic Law (Thomas Cottier
University Press 2016) (9-27)
and Krista Nadakavukaren
The ASEAN-Australian-New Zealand
Schefer, editors) (Edward Elgar
Free Trade Agreement in Bilateral
BOOK REVIEWS
and Regional Trade Agreements:
American Journal of
Case Studies (Lorand Bartels,
International Law (2018)
Voluntary Export Restraints
Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio,
(reviewing A History of Law
(VERs) and Orderly Marketing
editors) (Cambridge University
and Lawyers in the GATT/
Arrangements (OMAs) in Elgar
Press, Second Edition, 2016) (114-132)
WTO (Gabrielle Marceau, editor)
Encyclopedia of International
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
Economic Law (Thomas Cottier
International Political Economy
University Press and the World
and Krista Nadakavukaren
and the Prisoner’s Dilemma:
Trade Organization, 2015))
Schefer, editors) (Edward Elgar
Compliance with International
Publishing, 2017) (35-36)
Publishing, 2017) (366-368)
Law in The Political Economy of International Law: A European Perspective (Alberta Fabricotti, editor) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) (178-201)
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Jonathan M. Manes A S S I S TA NT C LI N I C A L P R O F E S S O R DIRECTOR OF THE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND TR ANSPARENCY CLINIC JD, Yale Law School MSc, London School of Economics BA, Columbia University (716) 645-6222
My research investigates how we should regulate government authority in contexts where secrecy is common and public deliberation is often limited. Recent work examines the problem of secret rules and methods in the national
jmmanes@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
AMICUS BRIEFS
CIVIL RIGHTS/CIVIL LIBERTIES
Information Society Project and
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Scholars of Intellectual Property and
INFORMATION PRIVACY
Free Expression Law, in support of
TRANSPARENCY LAW
Defendant-Petitioner, Flo & Eddie, Inc. v.
TECHNOLOGY LAW
Pandora Media, Inc., No. S240649
NATIONAL SECURITY LAW
(Cal. Sup. Ct. Jan 12, 2018)
ARTICLES
Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom
Secret Law, Georgetown Law
of Expression and First Amendment
Journal, vol. 106(3): 803-869 (2018)
Scholars, in support of the Parties Under Seal, In re National Security
security and law enforcement
Online Service Providers
programs, and explores
Letter, 863 F. 3d 1110 (9th Cir. 2017)
and Surveillance Law
strategies for vindicating values of transparency, free speech, and democratic
Transparency, Yale Law Journal
Law Professors in Support of Plaintiffs’
Forum, vol. 125: 343-358 (2016)
Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss, Microsoft v. Department of Justice,
deliberation in these domains. I
233 F. Supp. 2d 887 (W.D. Wash. 2016)
am also particularly interested in the accountability and transparency challenges that are posed by new and emerging information technologies.”
Rise of the Machines HARD DECISIONS ABOUT CRIMINAL JUSTICE ARE INCREASINGLY BEING TURNED OVER TO “SMART MACHINES” THAT USE computer algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data to make decisions such as where to deploy more police patrols. An ambitious new project spearheaded by Assistant Clinical Professor Jonathan Manes, along with five UB colleagues, will examine ethical and social concerns raised by the increasing use of artificial intelligence. The group has been awarded $25,000 in seed funding for a year-long series of projects as part of the University at Buffalo’s Germination Space program, which promotes interdisciplinary research on major societal challenges. “This grant is meant to bring together people who are building AI tools – the computer scientists and engineers – and people who are thinking about how they affect society. “We want to work in both directions – to build concerns about ethics, fairness and accountability into the tools as they’re developed, and to think about ways to regulate the tools after they’re built. I’m learning from my colleagues in computer science and other technology disciplines about how these systems work and how the law can respond in a way that preserves fairness and accountability.”
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Isabel Marcus PROFESSOR PhD, University of California, Berkeley JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law MA, University of California, Berkeley BA, Barnard College (716) 645-2108
imarcus@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
ARTICLES
FAMILY LAW
Compensatory Women’s Rights
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Legal Education in Eastern Europe:
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
The Women’s Human Rights
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS
Training Institute, Human Rights
For the past 20 years, I have devoted my scholarly,
Quarterly vol. 39(3): 539-573 (2017)
activist and pedagogical
REMEDIES
attention to human rights issues, with particular emphasis on women’s human rights. Much of my lecturing, training and provision of scholarships has been to NGO lawyers focusing on women’s rights in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. More specifically, I have worked with them on violence against women in post-socialist societies. My concerns extend to legal, political and social theory and practice regarding gender, nationalism, civil society and efforts to develop and implement a rule of law. To supplement my domestic teaching, I teach at universities and consult with NGOs in post-socialist countries on a regular ongoing basis.”
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Martha T. McCluskey P R O F E S S O R A N D W I L L I A M J . M A G A V E R N F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R JSD, Columbia University School of Law LLM, Columbia University School of Law JD, Yale Law School BA, Colby College (716) 645-2326
mcclusk@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST LAW AND ECONOMICS WELFARE LAW GENDER AND LAW
My interest is in exploring
CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES
questions of economic policy
HEALTH LAW
and regulation from outside
EMPLOYMENT LAW
the conventional boundaries of
FAMILY LAW
‘private’ law and neo-classical
DISABILITY LAW
economics. I am interested in
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
how law and politics shape
RACE AND THE LAW
markets and in how economic
INSURANCE AND THE LAW
policies reflect and reproduce
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
ideas about citizenship and
GOVERNMENT ETHICS
social status. I draw on critical
REGULATION
perspectives of legal theory
ENERGY LAW
to examine the relationships
HIGHER EDUCATION LAW
between questions of economics and questions of race, gender,
FINANCE
class, sexuality and disability
ARTICLES
status. My work challenges the
All Costs Have a Right, in Eleven Things They Don’t Tell You About Law and Economics: An Informal Introduction to Political Economy and the Law, Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice vol. 37 (forthcoming, 2018)
divide between economic and moral or social regulation.”
Are We Economic Engines Too? Precarity, Productivity and Gender, Toledo Law Review (Symposium Issue, Gender Equality: Progress and Possibilities) (forthcoming, 2018) Defining the Economic Pie, Not Dividing or Maximizing It, Critical Analysis of Law vol. 5(1): 77-98 (2018) Following the Money in Public Higher Education Foundations, Academe vol. 103(1): 27-31 (Jan./Feb. 2017)
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Constitutional Economic Justice: Structural Power for “We the People,” Yale Law & Policy Review vol. 35(1): 271-296 (2016) Framing Middle Class Insecurity: Tax and the Ideology of Unequal Growth, Fordham Law Review vol. 84: 2699-2720 (2016) Law and Economics: Contemporary Approaches (Casebook Introduction) (with Frank Pasquale and Jennifer Taub) Yale Law and Policy Review vol. 35: 297-308 (2016) Facing the Ghost of Cruikshank in Constitutional Law, Journal of Legal Education vol. 65(2): 278-297 (2015) Toward a Fundamental Right to Evade Law? Protecting the Rule of Power in Shelby County and State Farm, Berkeley Journal of AfricanAmerican Law & Policy (Symposium) vol. 17(2): 216-229 (2015) and Touro Law Journal of Race, Gender & Ethnicity vol. 7: 216-229 (2015) CHAPTERS Big Government Against Social Responsibility: A Vulnerability Critique of Privatization’s Public Priorities in Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility (Martha A. Fineman, Ulrika Andersson, and Titti Mattsson, editors) (Ashgate/ Routledge, 2017) (24-33) Personal Responsibility for Systemic Inequality in Edgar Elgar Handbook On Political Economy and the Law (Ugo Mattei and John Haskell, editors) (Edward Elgar, 2016) (227-245)
Errol E. Meidinger M A RGA RET W. WONG PROFE S SOR D IREC TOR OF TH E BA LDY CE NTE R FOR L AW A N D SOCI A L P OLICY HONORARY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, GERMANY PhD, Northwestern University JD, Northwestern University School of Law MA, Northwestern University BA, University of North Dakota (716) 645-6692
“My research focuses on how non-governmental actors interact with each other and with governments to establish and maintain transnational regulatory programs in fields where
eemeid@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Governance Interactions in
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ LAW
in Transnational Business
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
Governance Interactions:
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Enhancing Regulatory Capacity,
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT
Ratcheting Up Standards, and
LEGAL THEORY
(Stepan Wood, Rebecca Schmidt,
SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
Kenneth Abbott and Burkard Eberlein,
Empowering Marginalized Actors
editors) (Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
governments have typically
BOOKS
been the main regulators — e.g., environmental protection, human rights, and food safety. I am studying how effective, fair, and democratic the emerging governance ecosystems are, and
The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
and Climate Change in the
Agreement and Environmental
Circumpolar North (with Ezra B.W.
Regulation in MegaRegulation
Zubrow and Kim Diana Connolly,
Contested: Global Economic
editors) (SUNY Press, forthcoming)
Ordering After TTP (Benedict Kingsbury, et al) (Oxford
particularly, how competition
Transnational Business
and cooperation among the
University Press, forthcoming)
Governance Interactions:
different regulators affects the overall system. It is important to understand these processes because the nation states have had great difficulty in creating effective international environmental and social regulatory programs. As
Enhancing Regulatory Capacity,
OTHER
Ratcheting Up Standards, and
Environmental Principles in U.S. and
Empowering Marginalized Actors
Canadian Law (with Daniel A. Spitzer
(with Stepan Wood, Rebecca Schmidt,
and Charles W. Malcomb) in Elgar
Kenneth Abbott and Burkard Eberlein,
Encyclopedia of Environmental
editors) (Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2018)
ARTICLES
non-governmental programs
The Interactive Dynamics of
become more important, we
Transnational Business Governance:
may also need to revise some
A Challenge for Transnational Legal
of our main assumptions about
Theory (with Kenneth W. Abbott,
what counts as law and how law
Julia Black, Burkard Eberlein and
is made and implemented.”
Stepan Wood) Transnational Legal Theory vol. 6: 333-369 (2015)
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Athena D. Mutua PROFESSOR AND FLOY D H . AND HILDA L . HURST F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R LLM, Harvard Law School MA, American University JD, American University Washington College of Law BA, Earlham College (716) 645-2873
admutua@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
ARTICLES
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Framing Elite Consensus, Ideology
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
and Theory & A ClassCrits
CORPORATE LAW AND REGULATION
Response, Southwestern Law
CRITICAL RACE, ECONOMIC, AND FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY
Review vol. 44: 635-667 (2015)
My work is inspired by much of the activism (both recent and historical) around the pursuit
Latcrit Praxis @ XX: Toward
of human dignity, democracy,
Equal Justice in Law, Education and
justice, and prosperity. My
Society (with Tayyab Mahmud and
scholarship focuses specifically
Francisco Valdes) Chicago-Kent
on issues related to racial,
Law Review vol. 90: 361-426 (2015)
economic and gender justice. In it, I seek to map the mechanisms by which law, together with other social structures, works to both hinder and support these justice pursuits.�
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Makau W. Mutua SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR F L OY D H . A N D H I L D A L . H U R S T F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R SJD, Harvard Law School LLM, Harvard Law School LLM, University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) LLB, University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) (716) 645-2311
My scholarship has centered on state legitimacy, postcolonialism, constitutionalism and the
mutua@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
The International Criminal Court:
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Promise and Politics-The National
HUMAN RIGHTS
Impact of International Criminal
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
Law (Proceedings of the Annual
POST-COLONIALISM
Meeting), American Society of
THIRD WORLD APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (TWAIL)
International Law Proceedings vol. 109: 269-272 (2015)
STATE RECONSTRUCTION
critiques of the human rights idiom. In a world that is increasingly defined by relativism — and the expansion
POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES
What is the Future of Transitional
CONSTITUTION-MAKING
Justice?, International Journal
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
of Transitional Justice (Special Issue) 1-9 (2015)
of the meaning and content of
BOOKS
freedom — shackles of state power are constantly being loosened. Human rights is the medium of choice for
Human Rights Standards:
CHAPTERS
Hegemony, Law, and Politics (David
Africans and the ICC: Hypocrisy,
C. Earnest, editor) (SUNY Press, 2016)
Impunity, and Perversion in Africans and the ICC: Perceptions
this discourse which has become indispensable in post-colonial societies, by far the overwhelming majority
ARTICLES
of Justice (Kamari Clarke, Abel
The Richardson Escuela: Law as
Knottnerus, and Eefje de Volder,
Politics, Temple International
editors) (Cambridge, 2016) (47-60)
and Comparative Law Journal
of the earth’s inhabitants.
vol. 31: 247-256 (2017)
How societies resolve the
Closing the ‘Impunity Gap’ and the Role of State Support for the
questions I tackle may very well determine the pace at which the chasm between power and powerlessness shrinks or grows.”
Africa and the Rule of Law,
ICC in Contemporary Issues
Sur International Journal
Facing the International
of Human Rights (Revista
Criminal Court (Richard H.
Internacional de Direitos Human)
Steinberg, editor) (Martinus
vol. 13(23): 159-173 (2016)
Nijhoff; Lam edition, 2016) (99-111)
Mazrui and Barkan: A Tribute,
Is the Age of Human Rights Over?
Journal of Contemporary African
in The Routledge Companion
Studies vol. 33: 433-440 (2016)
to Literature and Human Rights (Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schulthesis Moore, editors) (Routledge, 2016) (450-458)
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Anthony O’Rourke JOS E PH W. B E LLUCK A N D L AU R A L . ASWA D PROFESSOR OF CIVIL JUSTICE JD, Columbia Law School BA, University of Michigan (716) 645-3097
aorourke@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
White Paper of Democratic Criminal
CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Justice (with Joshua Kleinfeld et al.)
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Northwestern University Law
LEGISLATION
Review vol. 111: 1693-1706 (2017)
Much of my research lies at
STATUTORY INTERPRETATION LEGAL THEORY
the intersection of criminal
Statutory Constraints and
procedure and structural
Constitutional Decisionmaking, ARTICLES
Wisconsin Law Review
Parallel Enforcement and Agency
vol. 2015: 87-152 (2015)
constitutional law. I am currently exploring how political and economic
Interdependence, Maryland Law Review vol. 77: 985-1061 (2018)
conditions affect the capacity
Substantive Due Process for
of courts to solve difficult
Noncitizens: Lessons from Obergefell, Semantic Vagueness and Extrajudicial
Michigan Law Review First
Constitutional Decisionmaking,
Impressions vol. 114: 9-20 (2015)
doctrinal problems. Using a methodological approach that integrates doctrinal
William & Mary Bill of Rights
analysis with legal theory
Journal vol. 25(4): 1301-1324 (2017)
and social science, my work challenges some common assumptions concerning how institutional pressures shape both constitutional and statutory interpretation.”
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Jessica Owley PROFESSOR PhD, University of California, Berkeley JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law MS, University of California, Berkeley MLA, University of California, Berkeley BA, Wellesley College (716) 645-8182
My research centers on
jol@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Understanding the Complicated
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Landscape of Civil War Monuments
PROPERTY LAW
(with Jess Phelps) Indiana Law
NATURAL RESOURCES LAW
Journal vol 93: 15-33 (2018)
FEDERAL INDIAN LAW
the evolving meaning of property. I am particularly interested in how shifting meanings and interpretations affect environmental values and regulatory schemes. My recent line of inquiry examines the intersection between ‘public’ and ‘private’ land conservation and how that moving line influences property and environmental
LEGISLATION AND STATUTORY INTERPRETATION
Unforeseen Land Uses: The Effect
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Conservation Programs, U.C. Davis
CLIMATE CHANGE
Law Review vol. 51: 1673-1716 (2018)
BOOKS
Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism
Rethinking Sustainability
(with Shalanda Baker, Robin
to Meet the Climate Change
Kundis Craig, John Dernbach, Keith
Challenge (with Keith H.
Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Melissa
Hirokawa, editor) (Environmental
Powers, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan
Law Institute Press, 2015)
Rosenbloom, J.B. Ruhl, Jim Salzman,
of Marijuana Legalization on Land
Inara Scott and David Takacs)
law. I am intrigued by our relations to land and decisions about conservation at multiple
ARTICLES
Environmental Law Reporter News
Etched in Stone: Historic Preservation
& Analysis vol. 47: 10328-10351 (2017)
Law and Confederate Monuments
scales. I have been engaging with individual decisions regarding land use and the
(with Jess Phelps), Florida Law
Enhancing Conservation Options: An
Review (forthcoming, 2019)
Argument for Statutory Recognition of Options to Purchase Conservation
emergence of conservation easements as a preferred method of conservation. Where private agreements regarding land use form the
Climate Change Challenges for
Easements (OPCEs) (with Federico
Land Conservation: Rethinking
Cheever) Environmental Law
Conservation Easements, Strategies,
Reporter News & Analysis
and Tools (with Federico Cheever,
vol. 47: 10655-10660 (2017)
Adena R. Rissman, M. Rebecca
backbone of our conservation strategies, we elevate the role of the private landowner over community needs and desires.”
Shaw, Barton H. Thompson and
Exploiting Conservation Lands:
W. William Weeks) Denver Law
Can Hydrofracking Be Consistent
Review vol. 95: 727-779 (2018)
with Conservation Easements? (with Collin Doane) Kansas Law
Taking the Public out of Public Lands: Shifts in Coal-Extraction Policies in the Trump Administration, Florida International University Law Review vol. 13: 35-63 (2018)
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Review vol. 66: 93-148 (2017)
Mineral Estate Conservation
Cultural Heritage Conservation
Easements: A New Policy
Easements: The Problem of
Instrument to Address Hydraulic
Using Property Law Tools for
Fracturing and Resource Extraction
Heritage Protection, Land Use
(with Robert Jackson & James
Policy vol. 49: 177-182 (2015)
Salzman) Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis
From Vacant Lots to Full Pantries:
vol. 47: 10112-110120 (2017)
Urban Agriculture Programs and the
CHAPTERS The Endangered Species Act: An Environmentalist Prospective in Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives (3rd edition) (with Brett Hartl) (Don Baur & Ya-Wei Li, editors) (forthcoming, 2018)
American City (with Tonya Lewis)
Zero-Sum Land Conservation
Public Access to Spatial Data on
University of Detroit Mercy
in Beyond Zero-Sum
Private-Land Conservation (with
Law Review vol. 91: 233-258 (2015)
Environmentalism (Sarah
Adena R. Rissman, Andrew W.
Krakoff, Melisssa Powers,
L’Roe, Amy Wilson Morris and
Preservation is a Flawed
and Jonathan Rosenbloom,
Chloe B. Wardropper) Ecology
Mitigation Strategy, Ecology Law
editors) (forthcoming, 2018)
and Society vol. 22(2): 24 (2017)
Currents vol. 42: 1-14 (2015)
Enhancing Conservation Options: An
A Response to the IPCC Fifth
Argument for Statutory Recognition
Assessment (with Sarah Adams-
of Options to Purchase Conservation
Schoen, Deepa Badrinarayana,
Easements (OPCEs) (with Federico
Cinnamon Carlarne, Robin Kundis
Cheever) Harvard Environmental
Craig, John C. Dernbach, Keith H.
Law Review vol. 40: 1-45 (2016)
Hirokawa, Alexandra B. Klass, Katrina Kuh, Stephen Miller, Shannon Roesler,
Trends in Private Land
Jonathan Rosenbloom, Inara Scott
Conservation: Increasing
and David Takacs), Environmental
Complexity, Shifting Conservation
Law Reporter News & Analysis
Purposes and Allowable Private
vol. 45: 10027-10048 (2015)
Land Uses (with Adena Rissman) Land Use Policy vol. 51: 76-84 (2016)
Keeping Track of Conservation, Ecology Law Quarterly
Adapting Conservation Easements
vol. 42: 79-138 (2015)
The Use of Property Law Tools for Soil Protection in International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy (Harald Ginzky, Elizabeth Dooley, Irene Hauser, Till Markus and Tianbao Qin, editors) (Springer, 2018) (339-357) Flexible Conservation in Uncertain Times (with David Takacs) in Contemporary Issues in Climate Change Law and Policy: Essays Inspired at the IPCC (Robin Kundis Craig and Stephen R. Miller, editors) (Environmental Law Institute, 2016) (65-104) Sustainability Thinking for the
to Climate Change (with Adena R. Rissman, M. Rebecca Shaw and
Symbolic Politics for Disempowered
Climate Change Generation in
Barton H. Thompson), Conservation
Communities: State Environmental
Rethinking Sustainability
Letters vol. 8: 68-76 (2015)
Justice Policies (with Tonya Lewis)
to Meet the Climate Change
Brigham Young University
Challenge (with Keith H. Hirokawa,
Journal of Public Law
editors) (Environmental Law
vol. 29: 183-240 (2015)
Institute Press, 2015) (5-21)
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Stephen J. Paskey L E C T U R E R I N L A W, L E G A L A N A LY S I S , WRITING AND RESEARCH JD, University of Maryland School of Law BA, Michigan State University (716) 645-5044
sjpaskey@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST LAW AND NARRATIVE LAW AND RHETORIC REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAW
We tend to think of law as a logical system of rules, but legal
ARTICLES
rules are ultimately made of
Telling Refugee Stories: Trauma,
words and the relationships
Credibility, and the Adversarial
between them. My work focuses
Adjudication of Claims for
on the implications of that
Asylum, Santa Clara Law
simple fact, using concepts from
Review vol. 56: 457-530 (2016)
rhetorical theory, narrative theory, cognitive linguistics, and other disciplines to question the conventional understanding of what legal rules are, how they work, and how lawyers, judges, and juries reason in real-world cases.�
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Stephanie L. Phillips PROFESSOR JD, Harvard Law School BA, University at Buffalo (716) 645-2201
slp@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST MINDFULNESS AND LAW AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY CONFLICT OF LAWS
My current research
LAW AND RELIGION
encompasses three topics. First,
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
along with other innovators in the field of Mindfulness
ARTICLES
and Law, I have integrated
Mindfulness in Education: Tools
mindfulness meditation into
for Effective Conflict Resolution,
my substantive teaching
Journal of the Association
and plan to collaborate on
of Women in Colleges of
empirical research into
Education (Lagos, Nigeria, 2016)
the efficacy of mindfulness techniques for improved cognitive functioning, emotional regulation and stress management. Second, I am co-teaching a series of seminars in African-American legal history, with a related book project. Third, I continue to develop my expertise in theologies of religious pluralism, as applied to the constitutional framework for managing religious diversity.�
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John Henry Schlegel UB DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR F L OY D H . A N D H I L D A L . H U R S T F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R JD, University of Chicago Law School BA, Northwestern University (716) 645-2746
I am at work on a book about law and economy in the 1950s.
schlegel@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Sez Who?: Critical Legal History
LEGAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
without a Privileged Position in The
CORPORATE FINANCE
Legal Research (Chris Tomlins
ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT OF RUST BELT CITIES
and M. Dubber, editors) (Oxford
ARTICLES
. . . and Law? in Contemporary Legal
To Dress for Dinner: Teaching Law
Thought (Chris Tomlins and Justin
in a Bureaucratic Age, Buffalo Law
Desautels-Stein, editors) (Cambridge
Review vol. 66: 435-480 (2018)
University Press, 2017) (348-362)
On Absences as Material for
Legal Realism in International
Historical Study, Buffalo Law
Encyclopedia of the Social and
Review vol. 64: 141-59 (2016)
Behavioral Sciences (James D.
What fascinates about this now long passed time is that its understanding of what makes up a ‘good economy’ is so unlike our own, and yet, that lost understanding structures so much of the debate about today’s economy. Such nostalgia for an unrecoverable past is pathological, but there
Oxford Handbook of Historical
University Press, 2018) (561-576)
Wright, editor) (Elsiver, 2015) (772-775)
may be a theme here. Most of
Philosophical Inquiry and Social
my earlier work is directed toward recovering pasts that have been pathologically
Practice, Virginia Law Review
BOOK REVIEWS
vol. 101: 1197-1202 (2015)
American Historical Review vol. 121: 260-61 (2016) (reviewing
distorted in our presents.”
“The Three Globalizations”: An Essay
Herbert Hovenkamp’s The Opening
in Inquiry, Law and Contemporary
of American Law: Neoclassical
Problems vol. 78: 19-35 (2015)
Legal Thought 1870-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2014))
CHAPTERS Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld: On the
The New England Quarterly vol.
Difficulty of Becoming a Law Professor
89: 689-92 (2016) (reviewing Daniel
in the Legacy of Wesley Historical
Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball’s On
Legal Research (S. Balganesh,
the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard
T. Sichelman & H. Smith, editors)
Law School, the First Century
(Cambridge University Press,
(Harvard University Press, 2015))
forthcoming, 2019)
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Matthew Steilen PROFESSOR JD, Stanford Law School PhD, Northwestern University BA, Carleton College (716) 645-8966
mjsteile@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW LEGAL THEORY
I study the history and
THE COMMON LAW
development of AngloAmerican legal institutions. In
BOOKS
England, my primary interest
Constitutional Law: Sources
is the King’s Parliament.
and Problems (digital casebook)
In America, it is popular
(ChartaCourse, 2017)
assemblies and courts of law.”
ARTICLES The Security Court, Maryland Law Review Online (forthcoming, 2018) How to Think Constitutionally About Prerogative: A Study of Early American Usage, Buffalo Law Review vol. 66(3): 557-668 (2018) The Josiah Philips Attainder and the Institutional Structure of the American Revolution, Howard Law Journal vol. 60 (2): 413-458 (2017) Bills of Attainder, Houston Law Review vol. 53: 767-908 (2016) Due Process as Choice of Law, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal vol. 24: 1047–1106 (2016) On the Place of Judge-Made Law in a Government of Laws, Critical Analysis of Law vol. 3: 243–260 (2016)
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Rick Su PROFESSOR JD, Harvard Law School BA, Dartmouth College (716) 645-5134
ricksu@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST IMMIGRATION LAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW
Immigration has long been
ARTICLES
viewed as a quintessential
State Anti-Sanctuary and Immigration
national issue. At the same time,
Localism (with Pratheepan
it is becoming increasingly
Gulasekaram and Rose Cuison
apparent that the local
Villazor) Columbia Law Review
dimensions of immigration
vol. 118 (forthcoming, 2019)
play a significant role in not only the development of our
Making Room for Children: A
immigration policies, but also
Response to Professor Estin on
how immigrants are perceived
Immigration and Child Welfare,
in American society. My
Washington University Global
research aims to bridge this
Studies Law Review vol. 17: 633-
divide by exposing the intricate
644 (2018) (invited submission)
and complex relationship between immigration and
Have Cities Abandoned Home
local government law. I am
Rule?, Fordham Urban Law
currently examining how local
Journal vol. 44: 181-217 (2017)
government law’s systematic organization of space and
Intrastate Federalism,
community serves, in many
University of Pennsylvania
instances, as a ‘second order’
Journal of Constitutional
regulatory component of our
Law vol. 19: 191-270 (2016)
immigration regime, and questioning the manner in which legal doctrines frame our conceptualization of cities in the immigration context.”
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Cynthia G. Swann L E C T U R E R I N L A W , L E G A L A N A LY S I S , WRITING AND RESEARCH JD, Georgetown University Law Center MA, Georgetown University BA, University at Buffalo (716) 645-2073
cgswann@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST CONSTITUTIONAL LAW LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING
My interest lies in analyzing
BOOKS
the processes that courts and
The United States Supreme
legal readers and writers adopt
Court’s Assault on the
to shape the law and to create
Constitution, Democracy, and
meaning. With respect to
the Rule of Law (with Adam
the former, my work focuses
Lamparello) (Routledge, 2016)
on the integrity of the legal decision-making process and
ARTICLES
the relationship between the
Birchfield v. North Dakota: Why the
Supreme Court and coordinate
United States Supreme Court Should
branches, the federal
Rely on Riley v. California To Hold that
government and the states,
Criminalizing A Suspect’s Refusal to
and citizens and their elected
Consent to a Warrantless Blood Test
representatives. With respect
Violates the Fourth Amendment (with
to the latter, my interests lie in
Adam Lamparello), Washington and
the increasing use of images in
Lee Journal of Civil Rights and
legal text and what that means
Social Justice vol. 22: 107-121 (2016)
for how we write, understand, and deploy the law through
The New Affirmative Action
both a visual and written lens.”
After Fisher v. Texas: Achieving Educational Diversity through the Sixth Amendment’s Cross-Section Requirement (with Adam Lamparello), Southern Methodist University Law Review vol. 69: 387-404 (2016) Roe v. Wade: The Case That Changed Democracy (with Adam Lamparello), Tennessee Journal of Race Gender & Social Justice vol. 5: 196-206 (2016)
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Mateo Taussig-Rubbo PROFESSOR PhD, University of Chicago JD, Yale Law School MPhil, Cambridge University BA, University of Chicago (716) 645-5992
Interweaving my concerns as a legal scholar with my training
taussig@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
BOOKS
ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW
Contracting Warfare:
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Sacrifice, Law and State Violence
CRIMINAL LAW
in Neoliberal Times (Stanford
COMPARATIVE LAW
University Press, forthcoming)
CONTRACTS
in cultural anthropology,
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
my work has focused on a set of legal and theoretical
ARTICLES Appraising 9/11: Sacred Value and Heritage in Neoliberal Times,
challenges posed by changes in
University of Pennsylvania
the nature of state sovereignty
Journal of Constitutional
in an era of privatization
Law vol. 18(4): 1179-1230 (2016)
and globalization. In two geographical areas, I consider these changes by examining both institutional forms (law and policy) and moral, ethical and social values. In my U.S.focused work, and especially my work on the military, I examine what happens when the logic of market exchange collides with sectors of our society organized around such ideas as service, honor and sacrifice. In more recent work in East Africa, I examine the way that sovereignty is defined through relationships with external actors.�
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David A. Westbrook LOUIS A . DEL COTTO PROFESSOR DIREC TOR OF THE NE W YORK CIT Y PROGR A M ON FINANCE AND L AW JD, Harvard Law School BA, Emory University (716) 645-2490
dwestbro@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND GLOBALIZATION
Magical Contracts, Numinous
CORPORATE FINANCE
Capitalism in Magical Capitalism
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL THEORY
(Brian Moeran and Timothy Malefyt,
ARTICLES
Leaving Flatland: Planar Discourses
Unicorns, Guardians, and
and the Search for the G-Axis
the Concentration of the U.S.
in Power, Policy and Profit:
Equity Markets (with Amy Deen
Corporate Engagement in
Westbrook) Nebraska Law
Politics and Governance
Review vol. 96 (3): 688-741 (2018)
(Christina Garsten and Adrienne
Now that the financial crisis
editors) (Palgrave, 2018) (45-63)
has settled and our wars have become interminable, I’m again taking a longer view. I am thinking about the possibilities for politics and social thought ‘After Globalization.’ Global capitalism has transformed our structures of meaning in
Sörbom, editors) (Edward Elgar The Paradigm Sways: Macroeconomics
deep ways, so I’m trying to get
Publishing, 2017) (208-222)
a handle on the contemporary
Turns to History, International Finance vol. 20(3): 317-324 (2017)
through a number of
Prolegomenon to a Defense of the
projects. I’m working with
City of Gold in Trumponomics: Governing International Finance after
Causes and Consequences (Edward
the Global Financial Crisis: Three
Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan,
Views of the Terrain, International
editors) (College Publications, 2017)
anthropologist Christina Garsten and her team on ‘Global Foresight’ within institutions; with computer scientist Perry
Finance vol. 19 (2): 230-243 (2016)
Alexander on what ‘computing’
Critical Issues for Qualitative Magical Contracts, Numinous
Research in The Sage Handbook of
Capitalism in Anthropology Today
Qualitative Research (Norman
vol. 32(6): 13-17 (December 2016)
Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln,
means as an intellectual enterprise; and I’ve written and spoken about the changing ontology of ‘the university.’ In
editors) (SAGE Publications, Who Are Our Allies? Who Are Our
addition, I’ve drafted a book
5th edition, 2016) (915-922)
about the rise of commercial
Customers?, World Economics
country music as an American
Association Newsletter
response to the contemporary.
vol. 5(3): 3-5 (June 2015)
More, and pictures, available at davidawestbrook.com.”
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James A. Wooten PROFESSOR PhD, Yale University MA, Yale University MPhil, Yale University JD, Yale Law School BA, Rice University (716) 645-2318
jwooten@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS LEGAL HISTORY LEGISLATION
My research focuses on
RETIREMENT POLICY
employee-benefits law and
TAXATION
policy and, especially, the regulatory regime created
ARTICLES
by the Employee Retirement
The Venue Shuffle: Forum Selection
Income Security Act of
Clauses & ERISA (with Christine P.
1974. ERISA is a large and
Bartholomew), UCLA Law Review
complicated statute that
vol. 66 (forthcoming, 2019)
governs private-sector pension and welfare plans. ERISA’s sweeping preemption clause has been particularly controversial. I am currently writing a series of articles that explain the political and policy concerns that led lawmakers to include broad preemption language in ERISA.”
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Baldy Center Fellows in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies OUR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
OUR 2018–19 SENIOR FELLOWS
Baldy Postdoctoral Fellows are highly promising scholars
Baldy Senior Fellows are accomplished
from a variety of disciplines who have completed or are
academics and professionals, usually faculty
pursuing their PhDs and/or JDs at other universities, but
members at other universities, who pursue
have not yet commenced tenure track positions. Chosen
intensive scholarly projects closely related to
in an extremely competitive process, they carry out their
the mission of the Baldy Center. They utilize
scholarly projects with the full array of UB research
UB’s extensive research resources, participate
resources and participate regularly in Baldy Center talks,
regularly in Baldy Center events, and share their
discussions, workshops, and conferences.
expertise with the larger Baldy community.
Amanda Hughett
Nancy S. Marder
2017-19 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
2018-19 SENIOR FELLOW
PHD, DUKE UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR OF LAW
MA, Duke University BA, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
IIT CHICAGOKENT COLLEGE OF LAW
hughett@buffalo.edu
JD, Yale Law School
HUGHETT’S RESEARCH DOCUMENTS THE EFFORTS OF CIVIL liberties lawyers to secure procedural protections for inmates during the 1970s. Her work illuminates the limitations of individual rights claims in the postwar era while helping to explain why American prisons continue to punish more harshly than their counterparts in any Western country.
David McNamee 2017-19 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW PHD CANDIDATE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY JD, Yale Law School BA, Brown University
MPhil, University of Cambridge BA, Yale University nmarder@kentlaw.iit.edu MARDER’S RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE BOOK, The Power of the Jury: Transforming Citizens into Jurors, which examines how every stage of the jury process helps to transform ordinary citizens into responsible jurors. Marder’s theory starts from the premise that citizens can be complicated and have biases, as all people do, rather than assuming a simplistic model of jurors who are either biased or unbiased, as the traditional view does. This new theory nonetheless allows for understanding the creation of impartial jurors through the jury process.
davidmcn@buffalo.edu
Werner Reutter
MCNAMEE’S SCHOLARSHIP, TITLED THE CITIZENS’ CONSTITUTION, asserts that it is the responsibility of the citizens to directly participate in constitutional interpretation in certain roles—as voters and jurors, litigants and disobedients, partisans and deliberators. This theory sheds new light on the old idea of the Constitution as fundamental law.
2018-19 SENIOR FELLOW RESEARCH FELLOW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, GERMANY
Daniel Platt
PhD, Free University of Berlin MA, The London School of Economics and Political Science
2018-20 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW PHD, BROWN UNIVERSITY MA, University of Connecticut
BPA, University of Applied Sciences, Kehl/Rhine
BA, Loyola University Chicago
wernerre@buffalo.edu
danielpl@buffalo.edu PLATT’S RESEARCH RECONSIDERS THE GROWTH OF household credit in the American economy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by focusing on legal contests over the rights of debtors and creditors. Such disputes routinely turned on the appeal of the contention that ungoverned finance threatened the integrity of both racial hierarchy and the patriarchal household. Platt’s work traces the initial vitality and gradual waning of this argument and the consequential freeing of household credit from traditional legal restraints that followed.
Learn more about our Baldy Fellows at baldycenter.info
REUTTER’S PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE BOOKS AND ARTICLES on interest groups, international trade union politics, constitutional politics, German federalism, and state constitutional courts. He will explore whether, and to what extent, decisions of a German subnational constitutional court and an American state supreme court infringe on the competencies of state legislatures.
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Areas of Scholarly Interest Page numbers for faculty profiles by area of interest are indicated by ( ).
Administrative Law — Bernstein (6), Connolly (14),
Disability Law — McCluskey (26)
Meidinger (28), Owley (32)
Domestic Violence — Marcus (25)
Administrative Practice in Democracies — Bernstein (6)
Economic Redevelopment of Rust Belt Cities —
Advertising Law — Bartholomew, M. (5)
Schlegel (36)
African-American Legal History — Phillips (35)
Election Law — Gardner (20)
Animal Cruelty Laws — Chiesa (13)
Employee Benefit Plans — Wooten (42)
Animal Studies — Braverman (10)
Employment Law — Dimick (15), McCluskey (26)
Anthropology of Law — French (19), Taussig-Rubbo (40)
Energy Law — McCluskey (26)
Antitrust — Bartholomew, C. (4)
Environmental Law — Connolly (14), Meidinger (28),
Asian Legal Cultures — Bernstein (6), Engel (16)
Owley (32)
Bankruptcy — Brown (12)
Equal Protection Law and Equality Theory — Finley (18)
Buddhism and Law — French (19)
Evidence — Bartholomew, C. (4)
Business Law — Brown (12)
Family Law — Boucai (8), Marcus (25), McCluskey (26)
Civil Procedure — Bartholomew, C. (4), Bernstein (6)
Federal Indian Law — Owley (32)
Civil Rights Law — Hallett (21), Manes (24),
Federal Jurisdiction — Bernstein (6)
McCluskey (26), Mutua, A. (29)
Federalism — Gardner (20)
Climate Change — Owley (32)
Feminist Legal Theory — Finley (18), Mutua, A. (29)
Clinical Legal Education — Connolly (14)
Finance — McCluskey (26), Westbrook (41)
Commercial Law — Abramovsky (2)
First Amendment — Barbas (3), Finley (18)
Common Law, History of — Steilen (37)
Free Trade Agreements — Lewis (22)
Comparative Administrative Law — Bernstein (6)
Freedom of Speech — Manes (24)
Comparative Law — French (19), Taussig-Rubbo (40)
Gender and Law — Finley (18), Marcus (25),
Conflict of Laws — Phillips (35)
McCluskey (26), Mutua, A. (29)
Constitutional History — Steilen (37)
Government Ethics — McCluskey (26)
Constitutional Law — Boucai (8), Mutua, A. (29),
Health Law — McCluskey (26)
O’Rourke (31), Steilen (37), Swann (39), Taussig-Rubbo (40)
Higher Education Law — McCluskey (26)
Constitutional Structure of Politics — Gardner (20)
Human Rights — Marcus (25), Mutua, M. (30)
Constitution-Making — Mutua, M. (30)
Immigration Law — Hallett (21), Su (38)
Consumer Protection — Bartholomew, C. (4)
Income Tax — Dimick (15)
Contracts — Taussig-Rubbo (40)
Indigenous Peoples’ Law — Meidinger (28)
Corporate Finance — Schlegel (36), Westbrook (41)
Information Privacy — Manes (24)
Corporate Law — Mutua, A. (29), Westbrook (41)
Insurance Law — Abramovsky (2), McCluskey (26)
Criminal Law — Binder (7), Boucai (8), Chiesa (13),
Intellectual Property — Bartholomew, M. (5)
O’Rourke (31), Taussig-Rubbo (40)
International Business Transactions — Meidinger (28),
Criminal Procedure — Chiesa (13), O’Rourke (31)
Mutua, M. (30)
Critical Legal Studies — McCluskey (26)
International Dispute Settlement — Lewis (22)
Critical Race Theory — Mutua, A. (29), Phillips (35)
International Economic Law — Lewis (22)
Cyberlaw — Bartholomew, M. (5)
International Environmental Law — Meidinger (28)
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International Human Rights —Marcus (25),
Mindfulness and Law — Phillips (35)
Mutua, M. (30)
National Security Law — Manes (24)
International Law and Globalization — Connolly (14),
Natural Resources Law — Braverman (10), Connolly (14),
Meidinger (28), Mutua, M. (30), Westbrook (41)
Meidinger (28), Owley (32)
International Trade and Environment — Meidinger (28)
Occupational Safety and Health — McCluskey (26)
International Trade Law — Lewis (22)
Political Economy and Social Theory — Westbrook (41)
International Women’s Human Rights — Marcus (25)
Post-Colonialism — Mutua, M. (30)
Israel /Palestine — Braverman (10)
Post-Conflict Societies — Mutua, M. (30)
Jurisdiction — Bernstein (6)
Property Law — French (19), Owley (32)
Jurisprudence — Binder (7), Chiesa (13)
Protest Activity — Finley (18)
Labor and Employment Law — Dimick (15)
Public International Law — Mutua, M. (30)
Law and Democratic Theory — Gardner (20)
Race and the Law — McCluskey (26)
Law and Economics — Dimick (15), McCluskey (26)
Refugee and Asylum Law — Paskey (34)
Law and Genetics — Braverman (10)
Regulation — McCluskey (26), Mutua, A. (29)
Law and Geography — Braverman (10)
Regulation of Financial Entities — Abramovsky (2)
Law and Literature — Binder (7)
Remedies — Bartholomew, C. (4), Marcus (25)
Law and Narrative — Paskey (34)
Reproductive Rights — Finley (18)
Law and Religion — French (19), Phillips (35)
Retirement Policy — Wooten (42)
Law and Rhetoric — Paskey (34)
Rights Consciousness — Engel (16)
Law and Science — Braverman (10), Connolly (14)
Science and Technology — Braverman (10)
Law and Sexuality — Boucai (8)
Social and Political Theory — Taussig-Rubbo (40)
Law and Social Movements — Hallett (21)
Sociology of Law — Meidinger (28)
Law and Social Science — Braverman (10), Connolly (14),
State Constitutional Law — Gardner (20)
French (19)
State Reconstruction — Mutua, M. (30)
Law and Society — Bernstein (6), Braverman (10),
Statutory Interpretation — O’Rourke (31), Owley (32)
Engel (16), French (19) Legal Education — Connolly (14) Legal Ethics — Abramovsky (2) Legal Ethnography — Braverman (10), Engel (16) Legal History — Barbas (3), Bartholomew, M. (5), Boucai (8), Wooten (42) Legal History of the American Economy — Schlegel (36) Legal Research and Writing — Swann (39) Legal Theory — Meidinger (28), O’Rourke (31), Steilen (37) Legislation — Connolly (14), O’Rourke (31), Owley (32), Wooten (42) Local Government Law — Su (38) Mass Media Law — Barbas (3) Mass Tort — Brown (12)
Tax Policy — Dimick (15) Taxation — Dimick (15), Wooten (42) Technology Law — Manes (24) Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) — Mutua, M. (30) Tort Law— Chiesa (13), Engel (16), Finley (18) Transitional Justice — Mutua, M. (30) Transparency Law — Manes (24) Welfare Law — McCluskey (26) Women and the Law — Marcus (25), McCluskey (26), Mutua, A. (29) Workplace Law — Hallett (21) World Trade Organization Law — Lewis (22)
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Contact Information LUCINDA M. FINLEY
STEPHANIE L. PHILLIPS
(716) 645-3594
(716) 645-2201
finleylu@buffalo.edu
slp@buffalo.edu
REBECCA R. FRENCH
JOHN HENRY SCHLEGEL
(716) 645-2159
(716) 645-2746
rrfrench@buffalo.edu
schlegel@buffalo.edu
JAMES A. GARDNER
M AT TH E W S TE I LE N
(716) 645-3607
(716) 645-8966
jgard@buffalo.edu
mjsteile@buffalo.edu
NICOLE HALLETT
RICK SU
(716) 645-3193
(716) 645-5134
cpb6@buffalo.edu
nicole@buffalo.edu
ricksu@buffalo.edu
MARK BARTHOLOMEW
MEREDITH KOLSK Y LE WIS
CYNTHIA G. SWANN
(716) 645-1631
(716) 645-2073
bartholo@buffalo.edu
mlewis5@buffalo.edu
cgswann@buffalo.edu
A N YA B E R N S TE I N
J O N ATH A N M . M A N E S
M ATE O TAU S S I G - R U B B O
AVIVA ABR A MOVSK Y (716) 645-2052 aabramov@buffalo.edu SAMANTHA BARBAS (716) 645-6216 sbarbas@buffalo.edu C H R I S T I N E P. BARTHOLOMEW (716) 645-7399
(716) 645-5959
(716) 645-6222
(716) 645-5992
anyabern@buffalo.edu
jmmanes@buffalo.edu
taussig@buffalo.edu
GU YOR A BINDE R
ISABEL MARCUS
DAVID A .WE STB ROOK
(716) 645-3683
(716) 645-2108
(716) 645-2490
gbinder@buffalo.edu
imarcus@buffalo.edu
dwestbro@buffalo.edu
MICHAEL BOUCAI
M A R TH A T. M CC LU S K E Y
JAMES A. WOOTEN
(716) 645-2673
(716) 645-1743
(716) 645-2326
mboucai@buffalo.edu
mcclusk@buffalo.edu
IRUS BRAVERMAN
ERROL E. MEIDINGER
(716) 645-3030
(716) 645-6692
irusb@buffalo.edu
eemeid@buffalo.edu
S. TODD BROWN
ATH E N A D. M UTUA
(716) 645-2052
(716) 645-2873
stbrown2@buffalo.edu
admutua@buffalo.edu
LUIS E. CHIESA
M A K AU W. MUTUA
(716) 645-3152
(716) 645-2311
lechiesa@buffalo.edu
mutua@buffalo.edu
K I M D I A N A C O N N O L LY
ANTHONY O’ROURKE
(716) 645-2092
(716) 645-3097
kimconno@buffalo.edu
aorourke@buffalo.edu
M AT TH E W D I M I C K
JESSICA OWLEY
(716) 645-7968
(716) 645-8182
mdimick@buffalo.edu
jol@buffalo.edu
DAVID M. ENGEL
STEPHEN J. PASKEY
(716) 645-2514
(716) 645-5044
dmengel@buffalo.edu
sjpaskey@buffalo.edu
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