The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy - University at Buffalo

05/18/2026

Join us in congratulating the UB faculty and graduate student recipients of our 2026-2027 research and conference grant awards! A full list with titles and abstracts can be found on our website:

The Baldy Center proudly supports conferences, workshops and research projects that advance our understanding of law, legal institutions, and social policy. On this page you will find the listings of current grant recipients, as well as past recipients of grants awarded since 2006.

05/12/2026

Podcast Ep 55 is out now! Listen as César Rosado Marzán and Matthew Dimick discuss how worker centers are constructing a new moral economy. Listen here, on Podbean, Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you stream: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/multimedia/podcast/podcast-25-26/rosado-marzan.html

04/29/2026

Join us in-person or via Zoom Friday May 1 12:30- 2pm for Joshua Cherniss' (Georgetown) presentation "Another Liberalism of Rights: Judith Shklar on Rights, Citizenship, and Conscience." For more info visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -3

04/22/2026

Podcast Episode 54 with Judith Resnik (Yale), John Giammatteo, and Alexandra Harrington is out now! Listen on Podbean or wherever you stream:

Judith Resnik, John Giammatteo, and Alexandra Harrington come together in Episode 54 to discuss Resnik's book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy. Their conversation is about how prisons evolved as institutions shaped by democratic ideals while simultaneously underm...

04/16/2026

Join us in-person or via Zoom Friday April 17 12:30pm- 2pm for César F. Rosado Marzán's (Iowa Law) presentation "A Baseline of Decency: Social Capital, Symbolic Capital, and The Moral Economy of Alt-labor and Worker Centers." For more info visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -3

04/10/2026

Join us Thursday April 16 for the Alison L. Des Forges Symposium. For more information and to register visit: https://www.alisondesforges.org/upcoming-events/2026/2/13/how-to-maintain-peace-and-secure-justice-in-the-strait-of-taiwan

04/03/2026

Join us Monday April 6 from 12pm- 1:30pm for PAIR speaker Joshua R. Coene's presentation "Between Rights and Work: The Prisoners' Rights Council Employment Project." To access the paper using your UB credentials visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/conferences/prison.html

03/10/2026

Read Baldy Center postdoctoral fellow Meghan Dawe's recent publication in Fordham Law Review "Lawyers' Career Aspirations in Canada and the United States":

By Meghan Dawe and Ronit Dinovitzer, Published on 03/01/26

03/06/2026

Join us in-person or via Zoom Friday March 27 12:30pm- 2pm for Judith Resnik's (Yale) book talk "Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy." For more info and to register visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html -1

03/04/2026

UB faculty and graduate student research and conference grant applications are open until 11:59p.m. (EST) Sunday, March 29, 2026. For more info and to apply visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/research/grant-applications.html