University at Buffalo Law School

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University at Buffalo Law School
Established: 1887
Type: Public
Dean: Makau W. Mutua
Location: Amherst, NY, New York, USA
Campus: Suburban
Website: www.law.buffalo.edu

Established in 1887, University at Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York (also known as UB Law, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law or SUNY at Buffalo School of Law) is a professional graduate school at the University at Buffalo, and is the State University of New York system's only law school.

The school has a low student-faculty ratio. Currently, more than 75 percent of its upper division courses comprise fewer than 40 students. Many of the 57 faculty members are prominently known and hold advanced degrees in the social sciences and other disciplines, in addition to their law degrees.

The first-year program includes traditional legal courses in civil procedure, torts, contracts, property, criminal law, constitutional law, and ethics. In the second and third years students can choose from a dozen curricular concentrations that allow for in-depth study. Each student has the opportunity to craft a custom-made curriculum, beyond the selected concentrations, drawing from numerous offerings to build a personalized sequence of courses and experiences.

Interdisciplinary and dual degree programs permit students to combine their legal studies with masters or doctoral programs through the UB School of Management, the School of Social Work, the School of Informatics and the School of Medicine. Also available are post-professional Master of Laws degree in Criminal Law, and a General LL.M. program designed exclusively for international students.

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[edit] University at Buffalo New York City Program in International Finance & Law

The Law School currently runs a joint program with UB's Business School each Spring in New York City. The Institute is named after Neil D. Levin, the former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Institute which ran its first complete program in 2006 focuses on international finance. It allows approximately 20 students from UB's Law and Business school to spend a semester studying and working in New York City. Students are divided into five teams to work on semester-long projects sponsored by law firms and financial institutions. Each team receives instruction and feedback from its sponsor in person, by teleconference and/or e-mail, and each team produces a substantial product. As the semester ends, teams present their work to their sponsors, as well as to their peers and the deans of both the Law School and the School of Management. The projects are an invaluable opportunity for the students to get an idea of some of the work that is done by, and useful to, their sponsors.

2006 Project Examples:

  • Project Sponsor: CLSA - Find private companies in China that are ripe for IPO and investment banking services (The deal size for an IPO should be between $100M and $400M.)
  • Project Sponsor: UBS - Analyze the issue of “unbundling” of client commissions by broker/dealers. Study the potential effects of unbundling on UBS’s business, Identify possible changes to the company’s current commission structure/business model
  • Project Sponsor: Credit Suisse - Study Pepsico’s business model. Analyze its decision to enter the fast food business and its subsequent decision to spin-off its restaurant chains, Analyze Pepsico’s current market position and devise a strategy moving forward
  • Project Sponsor: M&T Bank Corporation - Investigate trade financing opportunities in Ukraine, Locate Ukrainian companies potentially interested in financing the purchase of U.S.-produced goods

[edit] Clinical Legal Education

UB Law's Clinical Legal Education combines client service, impact litigation, transactional practice, and public policy development. Students participate in clinics throughout the school year and are given classroom credit for their work. Clinical programs include:

  • Affordable Housing Clinic
  • Community Economic Development Clinic
  • Environment and Development Clinic
  • Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
  • Law and Social Work Clinic
  • Mediation Clinic
  • William and Mary Foster Elder Law Clinic
  • Women, Children and Social Justice Clinic

[edit] Law Journals and Publications

Students of the Juris Doctor (JD) program are involved in preparing and publishing the Buffalo Law Review, a generalist law review that publishes articles by practitioners, professors, and students in all areas of the law, as well as a number of other law journals and an independent student newspaper.

The Buffalo Law Review was first published in 1951 and has been staffed and edited by some of the school's most notable alumni. It currently publishes five issues per year with each issue containing approximately four articles, one book review, and one member-written comment per issue.

The student newspaper, The Opinion, has been in publication since the 1950s, making it one of the oldest law school newspapers in the country.

The law journals are:

  • ABA Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law
  • Buffalo Environmental Law Journal
  • Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
  • Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal
  • Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy
  • Buffalo Law Review
  • Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal (BPILJ)

[edit] Baldy Center

The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is an institute that supports the interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions. Over 100 UB faculty members from 17 academic departments participate in Baldy Center research and teaching activities as do an increasing number of graduate students.

The center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and cosponsors a regional network of sociolegal scholars in New York and Canada. The Baldy Center hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, consultants, and conference participants. The Baldy Center and UB Law also publishes the journal Law & Policy.

[edit] Charles B. Sears Law Library

Named for the Honorable Charles Brown Sears, the Charles B. Sears Law Library occupies six floors in the center of the Law School. The Law Library contains 300,000 bound volumes and over 221,000 volumes in microform covering a wide variety of materials on law and law-related subjects. Included within the Federal, New York, and State Core Collections are basic legal research tools: court reporters and digests, session laws and codes, rules and regulations, attorney general reports, jurisdictional encyclopedias and citators.

The Law Library's special collection includes:

  • Howard R. Berman Collection
  • Iroquois Books of Marilyn L. Haas
  • John Lord O'Brian Papers
  • Law Library Archives
  • Law School Archives
  • Morris Cohen Rare Book Collection
  • Onondaga Nation Land Claims Records
  • Seneca Land Claims Records
  • Tibetan Legal Manuscripts
  • Watergate Collection

[edit] Administration

[edit] Student Bar Association

The Student Bar Association is the University at Buffalo Law School's student government. The Student Bar Association, through its committees and decision making ability, provides students with the opportunity to develop leadership and presentational skills. Student Bar Association decisions are made on a daily basis by the SBA Executive Board , elected by the entire student body every spring. It comprises the President, Vice President, Treasurer and Parliamentarian. Each fall 1L, 2L, 3L and LLM Class Directors are elected. They serve with the Executive Board and meet bi-weekly to represent student concerns.

Current President:

Past Presidents:

Current Vice President:

[edit] Notable Alumni and Faculty

[edit] University at Buffalo

The University at Buffalo is New York's premier public center for graduate and professional education and the state's largest and most comprehensive public university.

A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, the University at Buffalo stands in the first rank among the nation's research-intensive public universities. The university was founded as a private institution in 1846 and merged with the State University of New York in 1962.

UB's College of Arts and Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. The university also offers degree programs in schools of architecture and planning, dental medicine, education (graduate programs only), engineering, health-related professions, informatics, law, management, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work. Total enrollment is 24,000: two-thirds undergraduate and one-third graduate and professional.

As a research-intensive university, UB supports and houses a wide array of research institutes, centers, and laboratories. These organized units, and the research projects of individual faculty members, expended $142 million in grants from federal and state agencies, foundations, and industrial research partners in the year 2000 making UB the thirty-fourth-largest research campus in the nation in total annual expenditure of external funds.

The university's public mission of outreach to community, state, and nation ties a significant portion of its research and education efforts to the needs of society.

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