The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy - University at Buffalo

12/04/2025

Podcast Episode 51 is out! Listen to Fall 2025 Mid-Career Fellow Michael Gibson-Light (University of Denver) as he discusses prison labor, prisoners’ unions, and the politics of work behind bars.

In Episode 51 of The Baldy Center Podcast Michael Gibson-Light discusses his research on the 1970s prison labor movement in the United States. He details how incarcerated workers organized through underground newspapers like The Outlaw, the rise and fall of prisoners’ unions, and what this history...

11/24/2025

Join us Monday Dec 1 from 12pm- 1:30pm for PAIR speaker Kristen Cowan's presentation "Resilience in Action: Community-Engaged Disaster Preparedness Planning in Juvenile Detention Facilities." To access the paper using your UB credentials visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/prison.html

11/11/2025

If attending in-person, please register by Nov 13. Via zoom, register by Nov 14. The UB bookstore will be there selling Ken Belson's new book "Every Day is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut" for only $30!

Join us Friday November 14 12pm- 2:30pm in-person or via Zoom for Every Day Is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities with
Nellie Drew, Ken Belson , and Richard Tobe. To register, visit our webpage: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/sunday-investment.html

11/04/2025

This amazing event is fast approaching, make sure to register! If you are attending in-person, the UB bookstore will be there selling Ken Belson's new book "Every Day is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut"

Join us Friday November 14 12pm- 2:30pm in-person or via Zoom for Every Day Is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities with
Nellie Drew, Ken Belson , and Richard Tobe. To register, visit our webpage: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/sunday-investment.html

10/28/2025

Read our latest blog by Mekonnen Ayano (Associate Professor, School of Law) "Politics, Tradition, and Practice of Law and Rural Development: Observations from Fieldwork" https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/multimedia/blog/25-26-blog.html

10/27/2025

Join us Monday Nov 3 from 12pm- 1:30pm for PAIR speaker Allison Dwyer Emory's presentation "Testing Reciprocal Pathways Between Jails and Distress in Non-Metropolitan Counties." To access the paper using your UB credentials visit our webpage: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/prison.html

10/21/2025

Join us Friday November 14 12pm- 2:30pm in-person or via Zoom for Every Day Is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities with
Nellie Drew, Ken Belson , and Richard Tobe. To register, visit our webpage: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/sunday-investment.html

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