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  • Errol E. Meidinger Appointed Director of Baldy Center
    5/27/10
    Errol E. Meidinger, professor and vice dean for research and faculty development in the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School, has been named director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
  • UB Law School's Sullivan Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
    5/19/10
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, associate professor of law at the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School, whose research on the intersection of religion and law has earned international recognition, has been named a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, one of the top academic honors available to researchers and academics of all disciplines.
  • Six Legal Stars to Receive UB's Distinguished Alumni Awards
    5/6/10
    The Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School will honor five accomplished alumni and an Erie County Court judge whose devotion has earned him "honorary alumnus" status at the UB Law Alumni Association's 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner to be held May 11 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • Faculty Experts Can Discuss Arizona Immigration Law, Tea Party and other topics
    5/4/10
    Â鶹´«Ã½o faculty experts are available to discuss the Arizona immigration law, the rise of the Tea Party and many other news topics.
  • UB Law Students of Color to Honor Alumni and Graduates
    4/14/10
    The Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School will honor its diversity in this year's Law School Student of Color Dinner April 15 at the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst.
  • UB Law School Students Propose Renewable Energy Solutions for Haiti
    4/13/10
    Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School students will suggest ways renewable energy resources can reshape Haiti's future in a free, public forum 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at the Cellino and Barnes Conference Center, 509 John Lord O'Brian Hall, on UB's North Campus.
  • UB Law School Dean Named to Elite Council on Foreign Relations
    3/2/10
    Makau W. Mutua, dean of the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School, has been elected to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a New York City-based think tank and membership organization that studies major international issues and publishes the influential journal Foreign Policy.
  • Law Dean to Speak Against Homophobia During Week-long African Trip
    2/12/10
    Internationally renowned human rights scholar and activist Makau W. Mutua, dean of the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School, will deliver public lectures on sexual orientation and human rights during a week-long trip to Africa. He will depart Saturday, Feb. 13, to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. He will return to the U.S. on Saturday, Feb. 20.
  • UB's Mangold Named Lead Academic to NIH/NIMH Research Team
    1/25/10
    Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School Professor Susan V. Mangold has been selected the leading academic for one of 15 teams accepted for a cooperative research conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health.
  • Behavioral identification can help stop terrorists like Abdul Mutallab, researcher says
    1/6/10
    The effective use of multiple layers of intelligence gathering, including existing behavioral identification programs, could have excluded the murderous Farouk Abdul Mutallab from travel before he got anywhere near Northwest Flight 253.