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Issue 16 | May 2020
Advancing Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship since 1978
Greetings From The Baldy Center

The Baldy Center hosted esteemed speakers, conference participants, and scholars from four continents this past academic year, continuing our tradition of catalyzing innovative research focused on law, legal institutions, and social policy. Our events abruptly ended with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, but we hope that we will be able to reschedule these events in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Here, we present new and developing research from our fellows and visiting scholars. We offer several new publications resulting from Baldy Center research grants and conference grants. And, we are pleased to announce the 2020-2021 research and conference grant recipients. 

We invite you to read on and learn more about us and our support of interdisciplinary legal scholarship!
 
Samantha Barbas,
Director of the Baldy Center
Professor of Law, University at Buffalo School of Law
 
Caroline Funk,
Associate Director of the Baldy Center
Research Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo Department of Anthropology

 The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 Distinguished Speakers

In 2019-2020, we were fortunate to host six renowned scholars who presented their work in legal history and law and social policy.

Stuart Banner
Norman Abrams Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA Law


Title: Natural Law in the 19th-Century Legal System

Alexandra Natapoff
Chancellor's Professor of Law at UCI Law
Joint Appointment in Criminology, Law & Society
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture


Title: Criminal Municipal Courts

Janet Halley
Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School


Title: Towards the Liberal Family

Paul Gowder

Professor and O.K. Patton Fellow in Law at Iowa Law


Title: On Platforms and Polities

Christian Burset
Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame


Title: Redefining The Rule of Law in The Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Sam Erman

Professor of Law at USC Gould School of Law


Title: Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

Baldy Center Fellows in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies

Khohchahar Chuluu

(Spring 2020 Senior Fellow)

Chuluu's work at the Baldy Center includes a study of laws regulating hunts in Eurasian history, focusing specifically on the hunting institutions (organizations) and their associated rules, from northeast Asia to some kingdoms in Western Europe. Chuluu’s study aims to clarify how hunting laws related to laws in general and how they promoted socio-political order throughout history.

Marie Jauffret-Roustide

(Spring 2020 Senior Fellow)

Jauffret-Roustide's research focuses on drug policy and harm reduction paradigms, ethnicity and gender issues, laws, and regulations, structural inequalities in health and social policies, and patient groups’ and users’ involvement in drug policy changes, including analyses of the biomedicalization process of addiction.

Sarah Ludin

(2019-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow)

Ludin is a socio-legal historian of the early modern German-speaking lands, with a special interest in law and religion, secularity and secularism, legal phenomenology and difference, and law and language. Her dissertation, “The Reformation Suits: Litigation as Constitution-Making in a German Imperial Court, 1521-1555” reconsiders the role of civil litigation in the early Reformation in Germany, long regarded as an instance of the instrumentalization of law by “old-faith” authorities against the Protestants.

Daniel Platt

(2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow)

Platt continues his research on the law of personal debt in the United States between the Civil War and the New Deal. An article drawn from this work on married women and mortgage contracts in the nineteenth century, appeared in the journal History of the Present in fall 2019. Daniel planned to share new material on debt and the law of time at the annual meetings of the Organization of American Historians and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities in spring 2020.

Research Fellows

Matthew Bach

Bach researches the changing role of oil and gas firms in climate change governance with a focus on the factors driving their engagement, the positions that they are taking, and the mechanisms and pathways that they are deploying in relation to climate crisis governance.

Daniel Brantes Ferreira

As a Baldy Research Fellow, Ferreira has created the Brazilian Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution where he is also the Chief-Editor and has published several papers and book chapters in Brazil, Canada, and Europe on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Jennifer L. Gaynor

A scholar of Southeast Asia and its surrounding seas from the seventeenth century to the present, Gaynor has been building on her early modern findings through a series of European conferences and workshops, largely on the history of slavery in Asia. At the same time, she is also engaged in a second book project, on contemporary history, that crosses archipelagos and ocean basins to examine land reclamation for strategic reasons and capitalist gain.

Rachael K. Hinkle

Hinkle's research agenda focuses on judicial politics with particular attention to gleaning insights into legal development from the content of judicial opinions through the use of computational text analytic techniques. This work is informed by her experience clerking for the Honorable David W. McKeague in the U.S. Court of Appeals and the Honorable Robert C. Broomfield in the U.S District Court.

Paul Linden-Retek

 
Linden-Retek will be joining the UB School of Law Faculty in the fall as a Lecturer in Law & Society and a Research Fellow at the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy. Paul earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2018 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2012. He is currently a Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Yale University. In 2019-20, Paul was a Post-doctoral Emile Noël Global Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University School of Law. 

Charles J. Whalen

During his appointment as a Baldy visiting scholar, Whalen has been active in the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE). Last year, Charles's AFEE presidential address on reclaiming the right to work as a progressive cause appeared in the Journal of Economic Issues, and Challenge. He is the author of “Understanding Financialization,” a chapter in Alternative Approaches to Economic Theory (Routledge, 2020); and co-author, with Katherine Whalen, of a critique of “sustainable” business models, highlighting the need for regulation and other public action, (forthcoming in Journal of Economic Issues).

Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 Conferences

This academic year, we co-sponsored four significant academic conferences in the area of law and social policy.

 

Legacies of Suffrage: Women's Activism, Then and Now

March 6, 2020

The event marked the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Organized by Carrie Bramen, the symposium brought together scholars to explore the lessons of hard-won voting rights, the need for civic engagement, and the role of trailblazers in the suffrage movement.


Journal of Law and Political Economy: Developing the Field

October 11-12, 2019

The conference marked the launch of The Journal of Law and Political Economy (JLPE). This peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary online publication seeks to promote multi- and interdisciplinary analyses of the mutually constitutive interactions among law, society, institutions, and politics. Its central goal is to explore power in all its manifestations (race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, global inequality, etc.) and the relationship of law to power.


Learning from the Ramsar Designation of the Niagara River Corridor

October 2, 2019

With the theme "Honoring the International and Local Importance of Environmental and Cultural Treasures," this Continuing Legal Education conference was held in conjunction with October 3, 2019, Ramsar Designation Ceremony of the Niagara River Corridor. It was co-sponsored with UB School of Law Clinical Legal Education Program.


The Second International Conference on Buddhism and Law

September 26-28, 2019

Hosted by the journal Buddhism, Law & Society, this conference focused on the many legal features of Buddhism, and how law and the state relate to Buddhist actors, institutions, and texts. The conference covered themes related to Buddhism and current issues such as politics, legal systems, law and constitutionalism in emerging democracies, social policy, religious education, colonialism, and Buddhist legal processes, among many others.

Baldy Supported Research Publications

The Baldy Center aims to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. These are some of the latest research outcomes that we've supported.

Baldy Center 2020-2021 Grant Recipients

The Baldy Center fosters and supports scholars and affiliated faculty whose work bridges disciplines and contributes to the growing mosaic of law and society scholarship. Topics include human rights, courts, environmental governance, legal geography, international trade, intellectual property, social inequality, administrative regulation, state and urban government, the legal profession, family, religion, and cultural understandings of law. Two ways we support research are the annual conference grants and research grants, available to University at Buffalo faculty. We are pleased to announce the 2020-2021 grant recipients:
 
2020-2021 Conference Grants
Irus Braverman, (UB School of Law), Jim Bono (UB History), Paul Vanouse (UB Art), and Lucinda Cole (University of Illinois, English)
Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human

Matthew Dimick, (UB School of Law)
Marx and Legal Theory

2020-2021 Research Grants
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (UB Geography)
Contextualizing shrinking places within the broader U.S. economy 

Anya Bernstein (UB School of Law) 
The Human State: Making Regulation and Policy in Germany

Irus Braverman (UB School of Law) 
Beastly Legalities: Wild Life and Law in Palestine/Israel

Filomena Critelli (UB School of Social Work) 
#Me Too and the Implementation of Sexual Harassment Legislation in Pakistan: Moving from Law to Practice

Rebecca French (UB School of Law) 
Buddhism and Law Reader

Upcoming Events

Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene
(Rescheduled to November 12 & 13, 2020)


Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, offers a window into the problematic of pervasive chemical compounds as agents in the Anthropocene, the geologic epoch in which humans have permanently changed the planet. Scholars will offer comparative, interdisciplinary, conceptually-related engagements with glyphosate in order to grasp and deepen the Anthropocene perspective and, by extension, to consider the ecological, economic and regulatory implications of the chemicalization of life. Space is limited. Workshop registration is required.

Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!
(Rescheduled to the Academic Year of 2020/2021)


The Del Cotto Professorship and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy are pleased to sponsor Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel! The morning conversation will be on legal and economic history, moderated by Samantha Barbas, Director of the Baldy Center. The afternoon conversation will be on legal scholarship and teaching, with Guyora Binder, Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development, as moderator.

Book Talk: Hadar Aviram
(Rescheduled to the Academic Year of 2020/2021)


Hadar Aviram (Thomas Miller '73 Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law) specializes in criminal justice, civil rights, law and politics, and social movements, and her research employs socio-legal perspectives and methodologies. She will talk about her book, “Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole,” published by the University of California Press, which opens a window into the little-known world of the California parole process.
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Phone: 716-645-2102
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