The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

10/16/2025

Listen to our latest podcast episode with Nellie Drew (School of Law) and Ken Belson (New York Times) as they discuss stadium financing, public subsidies, and the politics of pro sports. https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/multimedia/podcast/podcast-fall-2025/drew-and-belson.html
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vhp6y-1994506

10/06/2025

Join us Friday Oct 10 12:30pm- 2pm in-person or via Zoom for Amna Akbar's presentation "In Defense of Protest." For more information visit our website: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -5

10/01/2025

Join us this Friday Oct 3 at 12:30pm for Carl Wilén's (Lund University) presentation "The Haitian Revolution and the Concept of the Legal Form: Capitalism, Slavery and the Universality Paradigm." For more information, visit our website: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -4

09/29/2025

Join us Wednesday Oct 1 from 12pm- 1:30pm for PAIR speaker Alexandra Harrington's (UB School of Law) presentation "Broken Record: Revisiting the Crime in the Context of a Second Look." To access the paper using your UB credentials visit our webpage: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/prison.html

09/26/2025

Did you miss Distinguished Speaker Hiroshi Motomura's presentation earlier this month? Read our latest blog by Claudia B. Villegas Ramos (Cross Border LLM candidate UB School of Law) reflecting on the presentation. https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/multimedia/blog/25-26-blog.html

09/18/2025

Join us Friday Sept 26 12:30pm- 2pm in 509 O'Brian Hall or via Zoom for Dario Azzellini's presentation "Sustainability and socio-ecological transformation:
Why put work at the center of a Just Transition." For more information visit our website: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -3

09/16/2025

Listen to our new podcast with Baldy Center Mid-Career Fellow Whitney K. Taylor (San Francisco State University) discussing constitutions, social rights, and prosecutorial backlash. Stream on PodBean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and most any audio app https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/multimedia/podcast/podcast-fall-2025/whitney-taylor.html

09/15/2025

Check out the School of Law's Law Links article on what's happening at The Baldy Center!

As the new academic year gains traction, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is already in high gear.

09/10/2025

Join us Friday Sept 19 12:30pm-2pm in 509 O'Brian or via Zoom for Michalyn Steele's presentation "Social Dominance Theory and the Supreme Court’s Federal Indian Law Jurisprudence" Visit our website for more information and to register for Zoom: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html

09/02/2025

Join us Monday Sept 8 in 509 O'Brian at 12pm for Isabel Anadon's presentation "Profiting from Detention: Privatization and Immigrant Detention Facilities in the United States, 1980-2010." To access the paper using your UB credentials visit our webpage: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/prison.html

08/26/2025

Join us Friday Sept 5 12:30pm-2pm in 509 O'Brian or via Zoom for Hiroshi Motomura's presentation "Borders and Belonging: What Is Fair Immigration Policy in the Year 2025?" Visit our website for more information and to register for Zoom: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -1

08/22/2025

Join us in welcoming our new Mid-Career Fellows: Whitney K. Taylor (San Francisco State) and Michael Gibson-Light (University of Denver). Visit our website to learn more about them: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/people/fellows/s-fellows.html