The Baldy Center Magazine.

Volume 1, Issue 1, Fall 2020

The Baldy Center Magazine

A Double Pandemic: Domestic Violence During COVID-19
9/23/20
Keywords: Cultural Studies, COVID-19, Culture and Society, Gender, Law and Society, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Inequality, Social Justice and Social Change.
Podcast, Blog and more
8/8/23
The Baldy Center Blog and The Baldy Center Podcast share exciting new law and social policy research, and expert perspectives on current events from UB faculty. Our community of scholars is actively engaged in research and writing even if social distancing and travel restrictions have interrupted our normal dynamic of in-person talks, workshops, and conferences for the foreseeable future. All are welcome to read, listen, and comment.
From ‘Sight’ to ‘Site’: Wading the Waters of the Niagara River Corridor Ramsar Designation
9/23/20
Keywords: Environmental Law, Ramsar, International Wetlands, Wetlands Policy, Environmental Studies, 
Morris Ernst – Civil Liberties Pioneer
9/16/20
Keywords: Culture and Society, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Social Justice and Social Change
Living with Pervasive Agrichemicals
9/23/20
Keywords: Environmental Studies, Health and Society, Regulation
True Cost of a Pandemic: Bursting the Neoliberalist Bubble
9/23/20
Keywords: Employment and Labor Law, Labor Markets and Work Policy, Inequality, Law and Economics
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Message from Samantha Barbas, Director

Samantha Barbas.

Samantha Barbas

Welcome to the Fall 2020 edition of The Baldy Center Magazine, our inaugural issue. The Baldy Center, along with many others around the world, shifted to remote work in March 2020. The months since have offered challenges to us all, as we adapt to virtual research, online engagement, and socially distanced lives. The Baldy Center's past and present fellows and grant recipients have demonstrated their resilience throughout, adapting and advancing their important research in these changing and unusual times. We invite you to learn about their cutting-edge work at the intersection of law, legal institutions, and social policy in our virtual magazine.

We welcome your comments.

FEATURES

Domestic Violence and COVID-19

#metoo.

Baldy Center Blog and Podcast

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Living with Pervasive Agrichemicals

Living with Pervasive Agrichemicals.

Morris Ernst – Civil Liberties Pioneer

Morris Ernst.

Niagara River Corridor Ramsar Designation

A bird's eye view of Niagara Falls.

True Cost of a Pandemic

True Cost of a Pandemic: Bursting the Neoliberalist Bubble.

INSIGHT

FALL 2020 MULTIMEDIA

  • Multimedia
    12/10/24
    We invite you to engage with UB’s dynamic interdisciplinary scholars focused on critical law and social policy issues. Our blog, podcast, and virtual magazines share the perspectives of faculty and visiting fellows.
  • Blog
    10/27/22
    The Baldy Center Blog features interdisciplinary perspectives on research and current events from interdisciplinary UB scholars whose work intersects with law, legal institutions, and social policy. New blogs are generally released twice a month during each semester.
  • Episode 1: Mark Bartholomew discusses contact tracing
    7/28/20
    Episode 1 of the podcast features UB School of Law professor Mark Bartholomew. Professor Bartholomew discusses the pandemic, contact tracing, and the tension between public health security and privacy in using technology to track the coronavirus. Mark Bartholomew received a 2018-2019 research grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy to help support his research, “The Law of Advertising Outrage.” 
  • Episode 2: Irus Braverman discusses medical posthumanities
    8/7/20
    Episode 2 of the podcast features UB School of Law professor Irus Braverman discussing her upcoming workshop, Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human. Braverman's work explores holistic approaches to health that include scientific, natural science discussions between ecologists and virologists that also takes into consideration social and cultural understandings and also legal norms.
  • Episode 3: New book by David Westbrook and Mark Maguire
    9/9/20
    Episode 3 of the podcast features David A. Westbrook, UB School of Law and Mark Maguire, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Professors Westbrook and Maguire discuss airport security and counterterrorism, and their new book, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge, 2020).
  • Episode 4: Amanda Hughett discusses the history of prisoner labor unions
    9/23/20
    Episode 4 of the podcast features Amanda Hughett discussing the history of prisoner labor unions. The work examines how efforts to litigate around prison conditions in the 1970s unintentionally cut against imprisoned people’s efforts to mobilize at the grassroots level.
  • Episode 5: Jennifer Gaynor discusses maritime Southeast Asia
    9/23/20
    In Episode 5 of the podcast Jennifer Gaynor discusses her current research and her previous book, Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia, which drew on European and Southeast Asian sources, as well as four years in Indonesia, where she worked with rare Bugis language manuscripts and lived in communities of Sama sea people.
  • Episode 6: David Gerber and Bruce Dierenfield discuss disability rights and religious freedom
    9/21/20
    Episode 6 of the podcast features David Gerber, emeritus professor of history at UB and Bruce Dierenfield of Canisius College. Professors Gerber and Dierenfield discuss their new book, focused on the Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District case at the crossroads of disability rights and church-state separation.
  • Episode 7: Daniel Platt discusses “The Domestication of Credit.”
    11/3/20
    Episode 7 features Daniel Platt, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Springfield and former Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor Platt discusses his recent article “The Domestication of Credit,” focused on the moral politics of personal finance in 19th and 20th century U.S., paying specific attention to women’s contributions to household finances, to credit, debt, and financial institutions, and to the roles of coercion and discrimination in a debt economy.
  • Episode 8: Sarah Ludin discusses the socio-legal history of the Early Reformation in Germany
    11/18/20
    In episode 8 of the podcast Sarah Ludin discusses her developing book manuscript focused on the socio-legal history of the Early Reformation in Germany, which relies on close readings of 1521-1555 C.E. case files in the Holy Roman Empire to understand the historiography of secularism and the definition and significance of religion as a modern secular legal category.

SPRING 2021

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Feature Articles

Insight Articles

Multimedia Production Team

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Summer/Fall 2020 Multimedia ProducTION TEAM at The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

Aldiama Anthony, BS
UB School of Law JD expected 2021
Blog Producer, magazine writer

Rebecca Dingle
UB College of Arts & Sciences Honors College, BA expected 2021
Social Media producer, magazine writer

Caroline Funk, PhD
Associate Director of The Baldy Center

Cecilia Meyer, BA
UB School of Law, JD expected 2021
Magazine writer and editorial staff, podcast transcriber

Azalia Muchransyah
PhD Candidate, UB Department of Media Study
Podcast producer

Laura Wirth, MS
Assistant Director of The Baldy Center

 

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