Advisory Council

Aerial photo of UB North Campus, December 2021. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

Aerial photo of North Campus. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

Published August 9, 2024

The Baldy Center Advisory Council works with the Director to develop policy for The Center—its vision, mission and operational guidelines. The Council also reviews The Baldy Center programs and makes recommendations for their improvement. Council members are accomplished scholars who represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives in socio-legal studies.

Current Advisory Council

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Guyora Binder (Law)

Research Focus: Legal theory, criminal law, constitutional history, and international law. Faculty profile.

Michael Boucai (Law)

Research Focus: Gender, Sexuality & Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Legal History. Faculty profile.

Irus Braverman (Law)

Research Focus: Animal Studies, Nature and Conservation Biology, Law and Geography, Legal Ethnography, Law and Society, Science and Technology Studies.  Faculty profile.

Trina Hamilton (Geography)

Research Focus: Corporate social and environmental responsibility, global governance. Faculty profile.

Rachael Hinkle (Political Science)

Research Focus: Public law; judicial politics; constitutional law; computational text analysis; quantitative methods. Faculty profile.

Joanne Song McLaughlin (Economics)

Research Focus: Impact of public policies related to the labor market. Faculty profile.

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo (Law)

Research Focus: Anthropology of Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Social and Political Theory; State Sovereignty. Faculty profile.

Former members of The Baldy Center Advisory Council

The Baldy Center is grateful for the dedicated service of these former members of the Advisory Council:

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen.

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (Geography)

Anya Bernstein.

Anya Bernstein (Law)

Irus Braverman.

Irus Braverman (Law)

Matthew Dimick.

Matthew Dimick (Law)

Robert Granfield.

Robert Granfield (Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs)

Erin Hatton (Sociology).

Erin Hatton (Sociology)

Hal Langfur (History).

Hal Langfur (History)

Jonathan Manes.

Jonathan Manes
(Law)

Stephanie L. Phillips.

Stephanie L. Phillips (Law)

Kenneth Shockley.

Kenneth Shockley (Philosophy)

Mary Nell Trautner.

Mary Nell Trautner (Sociology)

David A. Westbrook.

David A. Westbrook (Law)

James A. Wooten.

James A. Wooten (Law)