Law

News about UB’s legal programs and related insight into the law. (see all topics)

  • CSI UB
    10/13/08
    Think of Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School Professor Charles Patrick Ewing's newest book this way: Imagine a front-row seat to some of the country's most intriguing court cases, courtesy of Ewing, one of the country's leading experts on the criminal mind, who draws on up-close-and-personal details from his 30 years of experience.
  • 'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways
    10/9/08
    How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, according to a Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School professor who specializes in the regulation of retirement plans and other employee-benefit plans.
  • UB Law School Professor Says Beware of Common Misconceptions About the American Election Process
    10/3/08
    Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School Professor James A. Gardner today cautioned against giving too much importance to charges of voter fraud in American elections and supposed incompetence in administering elections. The process in the overwhelming majority of elections, he says, is working well.
  • Researchers Investigate Impact of Stress on Police Officers' Physical and Mental Health
    9/25/08
    Policing is dangerous work, and the danger lurks not on the streets alone. The pressures of law enforcement put officers at risk for high blood pressure, insomnia, increased levels of destructive stress hormones, heart problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, Âé¶¹´«Ã½o researchers have found through a decade of studies of police officers.
  • Transparency is Medicine to Marketplace Chaos, Says UB Law Scholar
    9/18/08
    Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School Professor David A. Westbrook specializes in "invisibles" that translate into rights that structure what Americans consider the pursuit of happiness. An expert on transparency in the marketplace, Westbrook has been in demand around the world and, in particular, in South America, where his message of greater accountability and public disclosure among financial markets and corporations has consistently struck a resonant chord with his audiences.
  • UB's Incoming Law School Class Among the Best Ever
    9/4/08
    The Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School this semester welcomes one of its most accomplished and selective classes in its 120-year history, a group of students Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua called a "breakthrough" for UB Law and the foundation on which to make UB one of the finest law schools in the country.
  • Dean Mutua Returns to Africa to Advocate Human Rights
    8/7/08
    Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua returns to Nairobi, Kenya, this month to deliver two keynote speeches on human rights and justice in African nations. Mutua's two latest policy speeches follow a similar appearance July 21 in Nairobi during which he addressed an international conference on bringing justice to those responsible for sexual and gender-based violence in countries going through conflict and civil unrest.
  • Rebecca French Named to Head Baldy Center at UB Law School
    7/18/08
    Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law Professor Rebecca Redwood French, a Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar, has been named director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the UB Law School, Dean Makau W. Mutua announced today.
  • UB Law School to Dedicate Gordon and Gretchen Gross Classroom
    6/25/08
    In recognition of a $250,000 gift to the Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School, one of the school's most-used lecture halls will become known as the Gordon and Gretchen Gross Classroom following dedication ceremonies on July 1.
  • Law School's International Network Fights Domestic Violence
    6/17/08
    Two Âé¶¹´«Ã½o Law School professors have taken steps to make the school a world-renowned center for confronting what they call the epidemic of domestic-violence crimes, locally and internationally, using their teaching positions to coordinate a network of domestic violence advocacy that so far reaches from the classrooms of UB's O'Brian Hall to at least two other continents.