The Baldy Center Grants

Students study in the Charles B. Sears Law Library in O’Brian Hall in December 2021. Photographer: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki.

The Baldy Center fosters and supports scholars and UB faculty whose work bridges disciplines and contributes to the great and growing mosaic of law and society scholarship. Topics include human rights, courts, environmental governance, legal geography, international trade, intellectual property, social inequality, administrative regulation, state and urban government, the legal profession, family, religion, and cultural understandings of law.

This year's grant application portal is now closed. Winners to be announced later this Spring. See past listings of The Baldy Center grant recipients, here.

About our grants

Conference Grants
3/11/24
The Baldy Center sponsors several conferences and workshops each academic year on topics related to law, legal institutions, and social policy. Our conferences typically have thirty to fifty attendees, and include formal presentations by distinguished speakers. The Baldy Center workshops tend to be small, narrowly focused events aimed at intensive discussion.
Research Grants
3/25/25
The Baldy Center Faculty Research Grants support work by UB faculty members in the broad, interdisciplinary arena of law, legal institutions, and social policy. Grants are also available to ABD, rising 3L students, or near-final year professional school students who will be enrolled at UB during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Fellowships in Legal Studies
2/25/25
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law plans to award fellowships to scholars pursuing important topics in law, legal institutions, and social policy.
Book Manuscript Workshops
2/24/25
The Baldy Center supports book manuscript workshops as part of its mission to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. The workshops seek to help UB faculty members make their book manuscripts as strong as possible prior to submission for publication.
Event Co-Sponsorship
3/4/25
The Baldy Center provides modest co-sponsorship support for events sponsored by other units of the University. Co-sponsorship decisions are made at the discretion of The Baldy Center's director and associate director.

GRANT REPORTING BY AWARDEE

Each awardee agrees to provide The Baldy Center with a report on the findings and publications/products resulting from the project. This report is due three months after the award period ends, or after the award is expended. Please use this form to submit your report.

Awardees agree to acknowledge The Baldy Center support in publications and other resulting products and agree to forward pdfs of resulting publications to The Baldy Center.

THE GRANT REPORTING FORM IS HERE.

The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

Advancing Legal Scholarship, since 1978

The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law is an endowed academic center for interdisciplinary research on law and legal institutions. The mission of The Baldy Center is to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. It does so by supporting research projects, conferences, workshops, fellowships, visiting scholars, speakers, grant proposals, and other promising initiatives.

We fund academic research and events

The Baldy Center fosters and supports scholars whose work bridges disciplines and contributes to the great and growing mosaic of law and society scholarship. Events by Baldy affiliated faculty cover a broad array of topics including but not limited to human rights, courts, environmental governance, legal geography, international trade, intellectual property, social inequality, administrative regulation, state and urban government, the legal profession, family, religion, and cultural understandings of law.