Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy is an endowed institute at the SUNY Buffalo School of Law that sponsors interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions and social policy.
More than 200 faculty members from numerous departments participate in Baldy Center research, conferences, consortia, and publications. The Center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and co-sponsors a network of socio-legal scholars in the Great Lakes region. The Center also hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, fellows, speakers, and conference participants.
Research projects and events organized by UB faculty members cover a broad array of topics including but not limited to human rights, courts, environmental governance, legal geography, social inequality, the legal profession, religion, and cultural understandings of law. The Center fosters and supports scholars whose work bridges disciplines and contributes to the broad picture of law and society research and scholarship.
History
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy was created in 1978 under a bequest from Buffalo attorney Christopher Baldy, a 1910 alumnus of the law school.