Every Day is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities
7/19/25
November 14, 2025: Join us for the conference panel, Every Day is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities. Panelists Nellie Drew, Ken Belson, and Richard Tobe discuss the legal, political and business practices and policies that have driven massive public sector investment into facilities for privately owned professional sports teams.
Vibrant Research
4/28/22

The Baldy Center uses multiple means to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. These include small research grants to faculty, assistance with development of external research proposals, workshops, conferences, the Baldy Fellows program, and a globally accessible working paper series.

The Human Right to Truth and Truth Commissions
6/9/25

Conference participants examine how the emergence of the victim's right to the truth marks a revolution in the relationship between law and historical understanding. 

Reclaiming Constitutional Law: Limiting Executive Power Overreach, Expanding Shields
6/10/25

Participants gather at the workshop to explore and develop materials and insights for teaching constitutional law, including web-based materials, art, music and projects.

Illuminating
4/27/22

Environmental governance, legal geography, human rights, courts of law, international trade, intellectual property, social inequality, administrative regulation, state and urban government, the legal profession, family, religion, cultural understandings of law, and much more.

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NEWS AND NOTES

  • This Fall: Save the Dates
    7/30/25

    SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
    DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
     Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA Law)

    MONTHLY PAIR SPEAKER SERIES
    SEPT 8, OCT 1, NOV 3, DEC 1, 2025
     Prison and Incarceration Research

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
    DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
    Michalyn Steele (BYU Law)

    SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
    DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
    Dario Azzellini (Cornell)

    OCTOBER 3, 2025
    DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
    Carl Wilén (Lund University)

    OCTOBER 10, 2025
    DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
     Amna Akbar (U of Minnesota Law)

    NOVEMBER 14, 2025
    CONFERENCE PANEL
    Everyday is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities

  • 2025-2026 Grant Recipients
    5/8/25

    The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-2026 grants for conferences and research projects. We support academic work that advances our understanding of law, legal institutions, and social policy. The 2025-2026 grants will enable six conferences, eight faculty research projects, and three graduate student research projects. See the grant recipient listing here.

  • PAIR First Mondays Speakers
    7/29/25
    MONTHLY SPEAKERS: Join us for the Prison and Incarceration Research (PAIR) Interdisciplinary Work-In-Progress (WIP) Speaker Series. The speaker series is designed to strengthen campus research on one of the most pressing legal and social challenges of our time, mass incarceration. Each speaker offers unique perspectives on prisons, mass incarceration, and broader implications for legal institutions, society, and social policy.
Events
Event Listings

THE BALDY CENTER FELLOWS

  • Welcome New Fellows
    7/30/25
    The Baldy Center is pleased to welcome two fellows on campus in Fall 2025:
    —Whitney K. Taylor, Mid-Career Fellow, will work on a project that examines the politics of contemporary local prosecution in the United States. The project focuses on how prosecutors understand their role and the political landscape they find themselves in, as well the impact of the threat of removal on their work. 
    —Michael Gibson-Light, Mid-Career Fellow, will work on a project that investigates the rapid rise and eventual fall of prisoners’ labor unions. The project elevates the rhetorics and tactics of the imprisoned themselves by leveraging archival materials produced by those at the heart of the prison labor movement.
    Learn more about The Baldy Center Fellows.
  • Michael Gibson-Light
    7/29/25
    Michael Gibson-Light, Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminology from the University of Denver, is The Baldy Center Mid-Career Fellow for the 2025 Fall semester. Through his research, Gibson-Light investigates the often-obscured experiences and struggles of working American prisoners through ethnographic observations, interviews, and historical and archival analyses. He also engages with local and national advocacy groups to help improve prison policy. In the classroom, Gibson-Light has recently taught courses focused on U.S. prison labor, the sociology of punishment, criminology, and qualitative research methods.
  • Whitney K. Taylor
    7/29/25
    Whitney K. Taylor, The Baldy Center Mid-Career Fellow, Fall 2025, is an associate professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Taylor is the author of (which won the 2023 International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism Book Prize). She is co-author of and with Cambridge University Press, as well as articles on legal mobilization, legal consciousness, access to justice, and comparative constitutionalism.
SEE ALL FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS

FALL 2025 SPEAKERS

  • Hiroshi Motomura
    7/30/25
    SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
    Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA Law)     is a teacher and scholar of immigration and citizenship, with influence across a range of academic disciplines and in federal, state, and local policymaking. His book, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States (Oxford 2006) won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PROSE) Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year’s best book in Law and Legal Studies, and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for its Suggested Reading List for Foreign Service Officers. Motomura’s latest book is  (2025) is published by Oxford University Press.
  • Michalyn Steele
    7/30/25
    SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
    Michalyn Steele     is the BYU Marion G. Romney Professor of Law. Steele teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Indian Law, and Law and Leadership. After beginning her legal career with Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, a highly regarded D.C. firm specializing in the representation of Indian tribes, Professor Steele worked for six years as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division's Housing and Civil Enforcement section, where her work was honored with multiple Division awards. Beginning in late 2009, Professor Steele worked as a Counselor to the Assistant Secretary of Interior for Indian Affairs, Larry Echo Hawk. Professor Steele holds a B.A. ('92) and an M.A. ('94) in Humanities from BYU, with an emphasis in English literature and Native American studies.
  • Dario Azzellini
    7/30/25
    SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
    Dario Azzellini     is a political scientist (Ph.D. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 2010), a sociologist (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 2012), and a documentary film director. From September 2010 to February 2017, he worked as an assistant professor in Sociology at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and from August 2016 to May 2017, he was a visiting scholar in the Community and Worker Ownership Project at the Murphy Institute, City University of New York.
  • Carl Wilén (Lund University)
    7/30/25
    OCTOBER 3, 2025
    The Haitian Revolution and the Concept of the Legal Form:     Capitalism, Slavery and the Universality Paradigm 
    A widely recognized interpretation of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) posits that it played a central role in the genesis of human rights and universalism, owing to its unparalleled abolition of the foremost example of particularism: the institution of slavery. However, this interpretation, which may be referred to as the ‘universality paradigm,’ has prompted a wave of ‘sceptical responses’ that emphasize authoritarianism and inequality.
  • Amna Akbar
    7/30/25
    OCTOBER 10, 2025
    Amna A. Akbar     (Minnesota Law) is a scholar of contemporary social movements, policing, race, capitalism, and inequality. With a focus on protest and organizing, she is interested in understanding law as a dynamic terrain of social, economic, and political contestation, and in how institutions and discourses of law define and delimit possibilities of emancipation. She was most recently the Charles W. Ebersold & Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of Law at The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. Akbar's research has appeared in prestigious legal and social science journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Harvard Law Review Forum, California Law Review, and NOMOS. She serves on the editorial board of the Law and Political Economy Blog and regularly writes for popular audiences in outlets like The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, and N+1.
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The Baldy Center Podcast

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The Baldy Center Blog

  • Claudia Villegas Ramos: Can Guaranteed Income help America be more innovative?
    5/8/25
    Stephanie Plamondon (Brigham Young University) uses insights from social science, psychology, and law to examine how public policies that aim to alleviate poverty can have a positive impact on creativity and innovation. Plamondon's thesis is that providing a guaranteed monthly income to low-income families in the U.S. could lead to more and better innovation results.
  • AI's Role in Law — Assistance Not Replacement
    5/14/25
    Prior to the widespread use of calculators, “Computer” was an occupation filled by humans. The accuracy and ease of use of calculators made such occupations moot. There were concerns over whether students would understand mathematics as well as they had prior to the use of calculators. There were not, however, concerns over whether calculators could be trusted.
  • Tanya J. Monestier: What You Don’t Know About Your Amazon Purchases
    12/18/24
    You probably consider yourself a savvy online shopper. Perhaps you’ve shopped on Amazon dozens, if not hundreds, of times and believe you have a good handle on how it works. You likely know that Amazon sells goods itself and provides a platform for third parties to sell their goods. Many of these third parties warehouse their goods with Amazon, so that when you place an order, that order is “Fulfilled by Amazon.” You probably also know that some third-party sellers on Amazon may be less-than-legitimate, with names like JKUYIO and KYMMOOO. It’s likely that you avoid these sellers at all costs and stick with goods that are “Sold by Amazon,” which you trust. But beneath the surface lurks a hidden truth, one that could change everything you thought you knew about Amazon. Prepare to have your trust shaken by Amazon’s dirty little secret.
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The Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN

The Baldy Center Conferences — 2016 to present

  • Prison and Incarceration Research
    7/29/25
    MONTHLY SPEAKERS: Join us for the Prison and Incarceration Research (PAIR) Interdisciplinary Work-In-Progress (WIP) Speaker Series. The speaker series is designed to strengthen campus research on one of the most pressing legal and social challenges of our time, mass incarceration. Each speaker offers unique perspectives on prisons, mass incarceration, and broader implications for legal institutions, society, and social policy.
  • Every Day is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities
    7/19/25
    November 14, 2025: Join us for the conference panel, Every Day is Sunday: Exploring Public Sector Policy Investment Choices in Pro Sports Facilities. Panelists Nellie Drew, Ken Belson, and Richard Tobe discuss the legal, political and business practices and policies that have driven massive public sector investment into facilities for privately owned professional sports teams.
  • Reclaiming Constitutional Law: Limiting Executive Power Overreach, Expanding Shields
    6/16/25
    May 30 and 31, 2025 CLC workshop: Reclaiming Constitutional Law: Limiting Executive Power Overreach, Expanding Shields. This is the second of a three-part series on Teaching Constitutional Law in a Time of Retrenchment. The series goal is to explore and develop materials and insights for teaching constitutional law, including web-based materials, art, music and projects.
  • The Human Right to Truth and Truth Commissions
    6/16/25
    June 6 and 7, 2025 Conference: The Human Right to Truth and Truth Commissions. The event examines how the emergence of the victim's right to the truth marks a revolution in the relationship between law and historical understanding. Per the traditional conception, the legal truth was to be determined in judicial procedures governed by rigid rules, whose main goal was to safeguard the rights of the accused. An alternative conception emerged with the Nunca Mas (Never Again) Report from September 1984 drafted by the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP) - the first successful truth commission in history.
  • Mapping Scholarly Communications in Law Libraries
    5/9/25
    MAY 23, 2025: Scholarly communications work is an emerging area in law school libraries in the United States. The conference, Mapping Scholarly Communications in Law Libraries, will present a keynote about the first major survey describing the extent of scholarly communications work being performed in academic law libraries in the United States. The program will consist of presentations of papers written by members of the study team and other scholars.
  • Alison Des Forges International Symposium
    7/29/25
    Symposium April 3, 2025: The Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee presents its annual symposium, Israel and Palestine: Human Rights and Configurations for the Future. This symposium addresses the human rights implications raised by the current conflict between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. It will examine the limitations of the international system that has sustained the conflict. We ask what alternative configurations can be imagined to secure political and human rights for both Israelis and Palestinians? This symposium, honors the life and work of human rights activist Alison Des Forges (1942-2009). 
  • 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
    2/12/25
    To mark the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (BOE) in 2024, The Baldy Center sponsored a community forum organized by LaGarret King The event opened with Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo poet-laureate, performing a spoken-word poem commissioned for the occasion. The panel discussion, moderated by Anthony White, consisted of Kathleen “Kathy” Franklin Adams, Nanette Massey, Donette Ruffin and Mario Workman. Marcus Watson provided a forum summary with closing remarks.
  • Transnational Legal and Political Theory
    8/14/24
    May 17 and 18, 2024: The workshop, Transnational Legal and Political Theory, gathers leading legal scholars for an intensive discussion on original work about theoretical, doctrinal, and political issues created by putative forms of legal phenomena beyond the state, such as indigenous and customary law, international law, international and regional human rights law, the European Union, transnational legal orders, and global legal phenomena. Papers will be published in a special issue of the Buffalo Law Review. 
  • 8th Biennial Meeting of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society
    8/14/24
    RESEARCH NEWS:   Jacobs School to host international conference of Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Read the article by Bert Gambini, here.
  • Resilience Before Disaster
    8/14/24
    On April 19, 2024, the workshop, Resilience Before The Disaster Arrives: Deploying Inter-University Multisectoral Convergent Collaboration Toward a New Disaster Preparation and Response Ethic, will bring together academic and community-based experts with emerging scholars and storytellers, including a core who have been collaborating since before Hurricane Maria. 
  • Critical (Legal) Collective Inaugural Convening
    1/24/24
    NOVEMBER 10 to 12, 2023: The Baldy Center is pleased to co-sponsor the Critical (Legal) Collective's Inaugural Convening, “Organizing for Democracy and Liberation: The Right to Learn, The Right to Teach, The Right to Thrive”.  Hosted by Duke Law School's Center on Law, Race & Policy, conference organizers include , Professor, UB School of Law, a founding member of the Critical (Legal) Collective.
  • Reproductive Justice Conference Post Dobbs: It's Not Just Abortion
    1/24/24
    OCTOBER 20 & 21, 2023: Reproductive Justice Conference Post-Dobbs: It's Not Just Abortion, co-sponsored by: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy;  the UB School of Law; the UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; and, the WNY Coalition for Reproductive Justice. Facilitator: Lucinda Finley (UB School of Law). 
  • Buddhism and Law: Third International Conference
    1/24/24
    September 29, 30, and October 1, 2023: The Baldy Center sponsors the Third International Conference on Buddhism and Law. The conference, hosted by the journal, Buddhism, Law & Society, focuses on the many features of Buddhism, and how law and the state relate to Buddhist actors, institutions, and texts.
  • Critical Encounters with Habermas' Legal Theory
    8/30/23
    May 26 and 27,  2023: The Baldy Center conference, Critical Encounters with Habermas' Legal Theory in Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy is dedicated to re-examining the principal work on legal theory by the eminent German philosopher, Jürgen Habermas.
  • While Waiting for Rain: Community, Law and Economy in a Time of Change
    8/30/23
    April 28, 2023: The Baldy Center presents a conference discussing the book by John Henry Schlegel, While Waiting for Rain: Community, Law and Economy in a Time of Change. The book is about the economic history of the United States as well as that of Buffalo, New York: an appropriate stand-in for any city that may have seen its economy start to fall apart in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. 
  • Interventions in Social Reproduction: Labor, Social Justice, and the Value of Human Life
    7/25/23
    2022-23 Conference Events: Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) is the theme of the year-long conference hosted by the UB Gender Institute as a series of lectures, panel table discussions, and reading groups. The events will highlight the most recent feminist contributions and SRT developments as core concerns of political economy and social policy.
  • Alison Des Forges Annual Symposium
    8/8/23
    April 26, 2023: The Baldy Center is pleased to co-sponsor the 2023 Alison Des Forges Annual Symposium, “The Russo-Ukrainian War: Achievements and Limitations of Today’s International System". This symposium will examine the Russo-Ukrainian war and what it tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary international system. It will explore war crimes, crimes against humanity and alleged genocide arising from the conflict. It will also revisit the enduring dichotomy between Russian authoritarian imperialism and Ukrainian democratic nationalism. 
  • The State of Democracy and Rise of Autocracy
    3/1/23
    OCTOBER 28 and 29, 2022, join us for the conference, The State of Democracy and Rise of Autocracy in view of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. The event includes presentations on democracy, authoritarianism, law, and illiberalism. Participants aim to illuminate environmental policies and political problems of weakening democratic sustainability with the simultaneous growth of autocracies worldwide. 
  • Visionaries and Troublemakers: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 50
    3/1/23
    OCTOBER 28 and 29, 2022, join us for the workshop, "Visionaries and Troublemakers: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 50".  The event has the dual aim of critically reflecting on fifty years of women's studies at UB and examining how the teaching and research conducted by faculty and students has been part of broader struggles to promote the rights of women and sexual minorities.
  • Exploring The Law and Political Economy Difference
    6/5/22
    LPE Workshop, June 9 & 10, 2022:  Exploring The Law and Political Economy Difference. The multiple crises of the 21st century — covid, climate, financial instability, inequality, and rising authoritarianism – have spurred a new intellectual movement, Law and Political Economy (LPE).
  • Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
    7/19/22
    April 29 and 30:  The University at Buffalo is proud to present the 2022 Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia by reflecting upon the rich history of South Asia and its connection to present-day conditions.
  • Legacies of Suffrage: Women's Activism, Then and Now
    2/26/22
    Friday, March 6, 2020:  The symposium, Legacies of Suffrage: Women's Activism Then and Now, marks the ratification centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Organized by Carrie Bramen, the symposium brings 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.
  • Looking Back, Moving Forward: Law, Policy and Environmental Justice
    7/19/22
    April 22 and 23, 2022: Join us online for the conference, Looking Back, Moving Forward: Law, Policy and Environmental Justice. The two-day virtual event critically examines the past, present, and potential future roles of the law and legal strategies to advance environmental justice (EJ) policy and action.
  • Workshop on Marx, Law, and the Administrative State
    5/18/21
    June 25, 2021, Marx, Law, and the Administrative State, workshop organized by .  The online event is sponsored, in part, by: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the University at Buffalo School of Law; and .
  • Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human
    4/11/23
    April 14, 15 & 16, 2021: While medical humanities have tended to focus almost exclusively on humans, a medical posthumanities, by contrast, would take seriously the role of "more-than-human" actors to explore the complex entanglements of human, animal, and ecological health.
  • Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!
    7/6/21
    The Del Cotto Professorship, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and the Buffalo Law Review are pleased to announce publication of the symposium issue Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!  Essays focus on legal and economic history, legal scholarship, and teaching. Serious Fun is being planned. The 2021 symposium issue is .
  • The Second International Conference on Buddhism and Law
    8/30/24
    September 26 to 28, 2019: The Second International Conference on Buddhism and Law. Hosted by the journal Buddhism, Law & Society, this conference focuses on the many legal features of Buddhism, and how law and the state relate to Buddhist actors, institutions and texts.
  • Journal of Law and Political Economy: Developing the Field
    4/30/24
    The Baldy Center Workshop, October 11 & 12, 2019, marks the launch of  The Journal of Law and Political Economy  (JLPE).  The 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.
  • Environmental Justice in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank
    12/29/20
    Workshop: Environmental Justice in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Fifty years into the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, it is important to understand the lesser known aspects of this apparatus. The focus of the workshop is on the administration of environmental injustice in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Dates: February 7 and 8, 2019. 
  • Tempering Power
    8/30/24
    On November 10, 2018, we hosted "Tempering Power", The Baldy Center's 40th Anniversary Conference held in conjunction with the Mitchell Lecture. On November 9, the Mitchell Lecture was delivered by John Braithwaite, the prolific and highly distinguished professor at Australian National University. His working title is “Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law and Society”.  The talk was complemented by the Baldy Center's day-long conference.
  • Addiction as a chronic illness? Promises and perils of a new drug policy paradigm
    4/30/21
    On September 21 and 22, 2018, we hosted the symposium, Addiction as a chronic illness? Promises and perils of a new drug policy paradigm. Activists and physicians have worked hard to end punitive responses to addiction and recast it as a chronic illness treatable, in part, with medications like buprenorphine. But the “chronic illness” paradigm raises new questions: How to avoid the stigma and social limitations associated with chronic illness? How to prevent pharmaceutical industry influence over medication assisted treatment (MAT)? This symposium brings together leading scholars of addiction, pharmaceuticals, and chronic illness to explore the promises and perils of applying this paradigm to drug dependence and addiction.
  • Universities, Innovation, and Development
    5/14/19
    This invited workshop will focus on the internal and external facilitators and barriers of the transactional, developmental, and hybrid roles of the research university, in an effort to address the absence of systematic quantifiable measures of university-based research that address broader developmental aspects. Participants in this workshop will share their current work on this topic as well as plan for future collaboration.
    Dates: April 7 and 8, 2018
  • Disability and Higher Education
    12/29/20
    For most people familiar with the process of seeking accommodations through institutional channels, we know that there is often a disconnect between following the letter of the law and maximizing the learning experience for everyone involved. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires us to provide reasonable accommodations for students and workers with disabilities. When is it not enough? What can universities do better? This discussion will bring together scholars, students, and advocates to discuss the particulars of succeeding as a student, teacher, and researcher while disabled. Date: April 11, 2018
  • Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene
    8/30/24
    November 11 & 12, 2021: Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene. 
  • Buffaronto Sociolegal Conversations
    12/29/20
    Join us on Saturday, September 23, 2017, for Buffaronto Sociolegal Conversations. The event will bring together scholars from Buffalo and Toronto for informal, wide-ranging discussion of pressing issues in sociolegal research. We invite you to participate in this conversation, which we hope will be the first of an ongoing series.
  • Trump and the Law Speaker Series
    3/10/25
    Fall 2017: The Trump and the Law speaker series seeks to create a space for discussion, inquiry, and action as we enter new and ever more turbulent legal and political waters. To that end, we are hosting a series of speakers who will engage in public discussions of the policies and politics of the current administration. The talks are organized around particular policy or legal issues and bring to campus distinguished scholars, lawyers, and others engaged with the issues of the day. 
  • The Changing Climate: Reflections on Current Law, Policy, Justice, and Regulation
    12/29/20
    Join us, March 10 and 11, 2017, for a conference that explores the legal challenges for climate change advocacy, alternative policy approaches, and the stumbling blocks for existing and proposed legal theories.
  • Ocean Legalities: The Law and Life of the Sea
    12/17/20
    February 23 and 24, 2017, join us for a two-day workshop that examines the limits of legal frameworks rooted in humanistic and terrestrial assumptions. The event brings together legal scholars, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, environmental scholars, and historians to expose the biopolitical hierarchies naturalized through modes of classification and operation by exploring a new subject of inquiry: ocean legalities.
  • From Protest to Politics: Women's Movements and Strengthening Democracies
    4/30/21
    Conference: “From Protest to Politics: Women’s Movements and Strengthening Democracies.” For the last sixty years, there has been a consistent pattern of the growth of democratic governments produced by engaged citizens working together in social movements. Often led by diverse women, these social movements won the expansion of civil rights, political participation, and new laws to ensure equality. However, we now face a global rise in authoritarian politics and a rising concern over the future of liberal democracies. Our conference brings together scholars to analyze the current moment. Dates: April 11 & 12, 2019.
  • Global Governance and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
    4/30/21
    Join us on Saturday, November 5, 2016, for Global Governance and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Symposium. The goal of this one-day symposium is to critically evaluate the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Billed as a “21st century trade agreement,” this far-reaching accord seeks to harmonize and, in some instances, to deepen the transnational governance of labor, the environment, and intellectual property, among other areas.
  • Gene Editing: Life and Law Beyond the Human
    12/29/20
    October 21 and 22, 2016, join us for a groundbreaking workshop that will bring together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to contemplate the cultural, scientific, regulatory, and normative implications of gene editing technologies for the future of life.
  • Buddhist Law and State Law in Comparative Perspective
    2/15/24
    Sept 30 and Oct 1, 2016: The two-day conference, builds on the edited collection, Buddhism and Law: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2014) by Rebecca French and Mark Nathan. It will also serve as the official launch of the first issue of the new peer-reviewed, academic journal,   (William S. Hein Publishing).
  • Redistribution: Politics, Law, and Policy
    3/1/23
    Spring 2016 workshop: Redistribution: Politics, Law, and Policy. The theme of this gathering is the redistribution of income, with particular focus on questions that concern preferences, taxation, and state capacity.