Engel Named President of Law And Society Association

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- David M. Engel, professor of law and director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo, has been elected president of the 1,400 member Law and Society Association (LSA).

Engel will be installed as president at the group's annual meeting in St. Louis in June.

Members of the LSA, founded in 1965, include U.S. and international scholars from the fields of law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics and history.

Concerned with the role of law in social, political, economic and cultural life, a major aim of LSA is to encourage input from a variety of disciplines into the study of sociolegal topics.

A UB faculty member since 1985, Engel teaches courses in law, culture and society, and law and social science. A book he co-authored, "Law and Community in Three American Towns," won LSA's book award in 1996. He is associate editor of Law & Society Review, the LSA journal.

Before joining the UB faculty, he served as a research attorney and project director for the American Bar Foundation and a Peace Corps volunteer, teacher and educational supervisor working in Songkhla, Thailand.

He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and master's and law degrees from the University of Michigan.

Engel lives in Amherst.