Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law

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The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is an internationally recognized institute that supports the interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions. Over 100 University at Buffalo faculty members from more than 30 academic departments participate in Baldy Center research and teaching activities as do an increasing number of graduate students. The center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and cosponsors a regional network of sociolegal scholars in New York and Canada. The Baldy Center hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, consultants, and conference participants. For more information, see http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter

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Episodes of Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law

    • Play Frederick Schauer, "Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence? Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection" Part 1 - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Frederick Schauer, "Can Bad Science Be Good Evid...

      Frederick Schauer, "Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence? Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms"

      • Release date
        Nov 14, 2009
      • Runtime
        43:13
    • Play Bozena Uminska, University of Warsaw: "Homogeneous Society, Exclusions, Dissent" - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Bozena Uminska, University of Warsaw: "Homogeneo...

      Presented by the Gender, Law & Social Policy Working Group. Dr. Uminska is a faculty member of the Institute of Applied Social Science at the University of Warsaw and at the Jewish Historical Institute. She also lectures on Gender Studies and History of Philosophy at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She is also a poet whose work has been translated into English and German languages, as well as a freelance writer whose articles on film, literature, art and culture have appea...

      • Release date
        Nov 12, 2009
      • Runtime
        47:25
    • Play Harvey Molotch, New York University: "Subway to Security" - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Harvey Molotch, New York University: "Subway to ...

      Harvey Molotch, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Sociology, New York University: "Subway to Security: Encounters, Worries, and Their Devices," November 6, 2009. Sponsored by the Working Group on Law, Place, and Space.

      • Release date
        Nov 7, 2009
      • Runtime
        50:41
    • Play Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Change and Constitutionalism, Part 2 - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Ch...

      "Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Change and Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective," by Tom Ginsburg, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Professor Ginsburg addresses significant shifts in legal institutions in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Two decades ago, legal systems in the three countries were very similar, and featured a combination of a small private bar, high quality but politically constrained judges, and an insulated administrative state. Since roughly 1990, these...

      • Release date
        Nov 5, 2009
      • Runtime
        43:50
    • Play Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Change and Constitutionalism, Part 1 - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Ch...

      "Legal Reform in Northeast Asia: Institutional Change and Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective," by Tom Ginsburg, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Professor Ginsburg addresses significant shifts in legal institutions in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Two decades ago, legal systems in the three countries were very similar, and featured a combination of a small private bar, high quality but politically constrained judges, and an insulated administrative state. Since roughly 1990, these...

      • Release date
        Nov 5, 2009
      • Runtime
        40:41
    • Play John Comaroff, Theorists & Jurists Series: "Detective Fictions and Sovereign Pursuits: Further Adventures in Policing the Postcolony" - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      John Comaroff, Theorists & Jurists Series: "Dete...

      John L. Comaroff (PhD, London School of Economics 1973), Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, does research in southern Africa, concentrating on the Tswana peoples. He is interested in colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, neoliberalism, social theory, and the history of consciousness; in politics, law, and historical anthropology.

      • Release date
        Nov 3, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:24:01
    • Play Charles Halpern on Empathy, Meditation, and the Practice of Law - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Charles Halpern on Empathy, Meditation, and the ...

      During the past decade a number of lawyers, judges and law professors have begun to explore the relevance of meditation and other contemplative practices to legal education and the work of lawyers. Courses have been offered in law schools around the country, and lawyers and judges have participated in retreats and workshops. The benefits range from managing stress at a difficult time in a high stress profession to sharpening lawyers? skills, such as negotiation, client interviewing and trial a...

      • Release date
        Sep 26, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:49:07
    • Play Announcing the Christopher Baldy Prizes in Law and Social Policy - Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law on Blip Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law episodes on Blip

      Announcing the Christopher Baldy Prizes in Law a...

      The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York, is pleased to announce The Christopher Baldy Prizes for Innovation in Law and Social Policy. Professor Rebecca French, Director of the Baldy Center, talks here about the prizes. For more information, see http://law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/

      • Release date
        Aug 17, 2009
      • Runtime
        05:01
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