Today's program is a conversation between Buffalo attorney Alice Kryzan and UB Law Clinical Instructor Lauren Breen.* Lauren works with the Community Economic Development Law Clinic, where she supervises second
and third year law students in providing transactional legal assistance to business entities serving law income communities in western New York, particularly those engaged in child care policy and business tax training. For the last few years Lauren and the Clinic have been providing free tax preparation assistance in low income communities in Buffalo. Lauren talks about the growth of this project and its current efforts in the community.
Today's program is a conversation between UB Law Professor Susan Vivian Mangold and Professor Susan P. Sturm, the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School. Professor Sturm's principal areas of teaching and research include employment
discrimination, workplace regulation, race and gender, public law
remedies, and civil procedure.Her
current work focuses on rethinking employment discrimination
regulation, addressing complex forms of bias, conflict resolution and
systemic change, and examining sites for successful multiracial problem
solving. She is a founding member of Columbia University’s Presidential Advisory Committee on Diversity Initiatives.Her recent publications include Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach, 101 Columbia L. Rev. 458 (2001). She also has developed a website with Lani Guinier, www.racetalks.org, on building multiracial learning communities.
Today's program is a conversation between UB Law Professor Errol Meidinger and visiting scholar Maria Tysiachniouk. Ms. Tysiachniouk heads the Environmental Sociology Group at the Centre for Independent Social Research
in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has has authored over 120 publications
and taught at numerous institutions in Russia, Europe, and North
America. She is currently doing research on global forest governance
and on the role of non-profit organizations in social transformation.
Originally trained as a biologist, she is also completing a second
Ph.D. in sociology at Wagenening University, Netherlands. She recently
published a book, Ecological Modernization of the Forest Sector in Russia and the United States.
Today's program is a conversation with UB law
professors Susan Mangold, Teri Miller, and Johanna Oreskovic, and
Rutgers University School of Law professor Twila L. Perry*, on
transracial adoption and gentrification. See Professor Perry's
article, Transracial Adoption and Gentrification: An Essay on Race, Power, Family and Community, 26 B.C. Third World L.J. 25 (2006).
