Law

University at Buffalo Law Professor Rebecca Redwood French, a Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar, has been named director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the UB Law School, Dean Makau W. Mutua announced today.

In recognition of a $250,000 gift to the University at Buffalo Law School, one of the school's most-used lecture halls will become known as the Gordon and Gretchen Gross Classroom following dedication ceremonies on July 1.

Two University at Buffalo Law School professors have taken steps to make the school a world-renowned center for confronting what they call the epidemic of domestic-violence crimes, locally and internationally, using their teaching positions to coordinate a network of domestic violence advocacy that so far reaches from the classrooms of UB's O'Brian Hall to at least two other continents.

New York State should take advantage of a golden opportunity to become a leader in developing clean, renewable offshore wind power, an alternative energy source that could trigger an economic renaissance and a greener image for the Western New York community, according to a report by a University at Buffalo Law School clinic.

Makau W. Mutua, recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities in the area of human rights law, has been named dean of the University at Buffalo Law School.

Three University at Buffalo Law School professors -- one per volume -- are represented in a project its publisher calls "the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of the history of American law."

The University at Buffalo Law School will honor five graduates and Interim Dean Makau Mutua with Distinguished Alumni Awards at its 46th annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner at 6 p.m. May 1 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

National and local experts on providing legal services to those unable to afford high lawyer bills will convene in Buffalo this month for a three-day pro bono conference sponsored by the University at Buffalo's Law School, the Department of Sociology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and local judicial organizations.

Teresa Miller, a professor in the University at Buffalo Law School specializing in criminal punishment, is working with law school students to create a documentary film, "Encountering Attica," that focuses on prison inmates while demonstrating how new media can be used in the study of legal issues.

Charles Patrick Ewing, the University at Buffalo Law School professor considered one of the country's leading experts on the insanity defense, takes readers into the minds of David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy and other notorious murderers in his new book of chilling insights into some of the most well-known murder trials in recent memory.