UB Law School Meet-and-Greet

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: August 19, 2011
Tags: meet and greet, On the Town, UB Law

Area students getting ready to enter the UB Law School this semester were guests Wednesday at an annual reception luncheon hosted by state Supreme Court Justice Thomas M. Van Strydonck and other members of the Rochester Chapter of the University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association.

UB grads nominated for federal positions

By Todd Etshman
POSTED: June 10, 2011
Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Denise O'Donnell, federal government, Justice Department, UB Law, Virginia Seitz

Buffalo native and University at Buffalo Law School graduate Denise O’Donnell was sworn in last week as the Justice Department’s director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance by Attorney General Eric Holder. Meanwhile, another UB Law graduate, Virginia Seitz, awaits confirmation …

UB law and partners host medical-legal event

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 2, 2011
Tags: community services, Health care, hospitals, Law, low-income patients, medical-legal event, UB Law

In an effort to help navigate the gap between law, health care and community services for low-income patients and their hospitals, a consortium of Western New York schools and nonprofit agencies is bringing the Medical Legal Partnership to the Buffalo area.

UB Law dedicates new conference center

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 31, 2011
Tags: Cellino & Barnes, dedication, new conference center, UB Law

Two well-known names in the Buffalo legal community have a permanent home at the University at Buffalo Law School, which dedicated its Cellino and Barnes Conference Center on Thursday.

UB professor questions sex offender laws

By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: March 11, 2011
Tags: book, professor, sex offender laws, UB Law

Communities may not be getting the protection they hoped new sex offender laws would afford. They also may not be able to afford the costs of some of the solutions. The enactment and impacts of sex offender laws are explored in a new book …

Six to receive UB Law Alumni Awards

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 29, 2010
Tags: alumni awards, UB Law, UB Law Alumni Association

Five alumni of UB Law School and one non-alumnus with substantial ties to the school, will be honored May 11 at the UB Law Alumni Association’s 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner.

UB Law decries U.S. News rankings 

By Eric Walter
POSTED: April 15, 2010
Tags: rankings, school rankings, third tier, U.S. News and World Report, UB Law, University at Buffalo Law School

Officials with the University at Buffalo Law School are blasting U.S. News and World Report’s recently released 2010 law school rankings, which dropped the 123-year-old institution from its list of the top 100 schools to its list of third tier schools.

UB Law Students of Color to honor alumni

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 5, 2010
Tags: alumni, Students of Color Dinner, UB Law, University of Buffalo

Themed “Lifting as We Climb,” the University at Buffalo Law School’s annual Students of Color Dinner will bring together graduating and continuing students, faculty and a variety of alumni and friends to celebrate the year’s achievements.

Rochester Day in Buffalo

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 19, 2010
Tags: Rochester Day, UB Law

The Career Services Office and the Rochester Chapter of the UB Law Alumni Association hosted Rochester Day at the Law School on Feb. 12.

UB Law dean lectures in Africa

Speaks against homophobia, promotes human rights

By Brighid Leavy
POSTED: February 16, 2010
Tags: Dean Makau W. Mutua, human rights, Kenya, sexual orientation, UB Law

Dean of the University at Buffalo Law School Makau W. Mutua is delivering public lectures on sexual orientation and human rights in Africa this week. A Kenya native, Mutua is addressing these issues due to the current political climate in Africa.