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  • Scholar, Former Law and Society President to Head UB Law School's Interdisciplinary Baldy Center
    12/6/02
    A distinguished Dartmouth College scholar and former president of the Law and Society Association has been named director of the UB's Baldy Center, an internationally recognized center for interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions.
  • Workshop on Funding Community Development Projects to be Sponsored by UB Law School
    10/11/02
    Obtaining funding for community development projects and programs will be the subject of a workshop on Oct. 17 and 18 to be sponsored by UB's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the UB Law School Development Clinics.
  • Political and Cultural Consequences of Incarceration to be Topic of Baldy Center Conference
    10/11/02
    One of the nation's most influential historians and political interpreters of the African-American experience will present the keynote address as part of a conference on the effects of incarceration on individual constitutional rights to be sponsored by the UB Law School's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
  • William R. Greiner to Receive Jaeckle Award from UB Law School, UB Law Alumni Association
    10/11/02
    University at Buffalo President William R. Greiner, who began his 35-year career at UB as a member of its Law School faculty in 1967, has been selected to receive the 2002 Jaeckle Award, the highest honor bestowed by the UB Law School and its Alumni Association.
  • To Detect Cyberattacks, New Software System Developed at UB Profiles 'Normal' Computer Habits
    10/10/02
    An early version of a new software system developed by University at Buffalo researchers that detects cyberattacks while they are in progress by drawing highly personalized profiles of users has proven successful 94 percent of the time in simulated attacks.
  • Family Violence Clinic to Cosponsor Domestic Violence Training Conference
    9/24/02
    The UB Law School's Family Violence Clinic will cosponsor a training conference for professionals who work with the victims of abuse and domestic violence.
  • Baldy Center to Sponsor Presentation on Refugee and Asylum Policy by Humanitarian Arthur Helton
    9/20/02
    Arthur C. Helton, internationally renowned author and expert in human rights and the complexities of refugee and asylum policy, will discuss the new realities in international and humanitarian affairs in a talk to be presented by the UB Law School on Sept. 24.
  • Handwriting Recognition Workshop Sponsored by UB to Focus on Forensic Uses, Including Anti-Terrorism
    7/17/02
    Investigators working to identify the source of the anthrax-containing envelopes that terrorized the American public last fall concluded they were hand-addressed by the same person. Messages penned in Urdu that allegedly belonged to Daniel Pearl's kidnappers were introduced by prosecutors during their trial. Expanding the forensic use of computer processing of handwriting to solve such high-profile criminal cases will be among the topics discussed at the Eighth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, sponsored by the University at Buffalo.
  • True Test of Catholic Bishops' Directives on Abuse Will Come at Diocesan Level, UB Law Professor Says
    7/1/02
    While the recent gathering of the Catholic Church's United States Conference of Bishops in Dallas provides a national framework for the reporting sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, the true test of the church's position on the issue and the effectiveness of the policy is likely to play out on the local level, according to a University at Buffalo expert in child advocacy and law.
  • UB to Offer Collaborative Graduate Program in Law and Applied Economics
    6/18/02
    The University at Buffalo will offer a graduate level program in law and applied economics, a collaborative effort between the UB Law School and the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning with the Fall 2002 semester.