Welcome to the Spring 2022 edition of The Baldy Center magazine, where we highlight recent University at Buffalo research focusing on law and social policy themes. Research dialogues have flourished this semester with the return of faculty and students to campus, and the research highlighted in this issue is global in scope, spanning four continents and diverse disciplinary arenas. We present work that examines complexities in societal engagements with law, from the perspectives of those developing and enforcing law, and those responding to it. We invite you browse our virtual magazine.

FEATURE ARTICLES

Personhood, Agency, Law, and Justice

Forging Autonomy in West Africa

LEGACY CONFERENCES

Three photographic retrospectives look back
to legacy Baldy Center conferences.

NEW SCHOLAR PROFILES

The Baldy Center is proud to highlight University at Buffalo graduate students whose new research embodies an interdisciplinary approach to important issues in law and social policy. Here we profile three new scholars.

INSIGHTS

The Language of Law and Bureaucracy

Walter Halaka's project "Imperial Legitimation and the Vernacular Public Text in South Asia" traces the languages used to make public proclamations about law and policy among elites and non-elites in the 18th century Indian subcontinent.

Remote Technology and Drug Courts

Linda Kahn investigates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug treatment through the lens of court personnel and treatment providers. Her Baldy Center research project builds on a larger CDC-funded grant focused on the Opiod Intervention Court.

BALDY CENTER BLOG AND PODCAST

The Baldy Center Blog and The Baldy Center Podcast share new research on law and social policy topics and expert perspectives on current events from University at Buffalo faculty.
We invite you to listen and read.

THE BALDY CENTER PODCAST

THE BALDY CENTER BLOG

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