Our guests today are Nancy Reichman and Joseph Sanders. Nancy Reichman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University of Denver, and co-editor of the journal Law & Policy. Joseph Sanders is A.A. White Professor
of Law at the University of Houston. He holds a
J.D. and Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. Professor Sanders teaches
torts, products liability,
law and society, and scientific evidence. His scholarly interests include
research on
juries, the attribution of responsibility, mass torts, and scientific
evidence. He is
currently visiting professor at Florida State University College of
Law. They will be discussing Professor Sanders' article, “A Norms Approach to Jury ‘Nullification:’ Interests,
Values, and Scripts,” forthcoming in Volume 20, Issue 1 of Law & Policy 30(1):
12-45.
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Our guests today are Lynn Mather, Nancy Reichman, and Colin Scott.
Lynn Mather is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University
at Buffalo, and Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Nancy Reichman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University of Denver. Colin Scott is Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, University
College Dublin School of Law; Vice Principal for Research Innovation,
UCD College of Business and Law; Professor of Law College of Europe,
Bruges; and Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk
and Regulation, London School of Economics.
Professors Reichman and Scott, along with Professor Fiona Haines,
Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne, are are co-editors of the journal Law and Policy, and co-authors of the forthcoming article, "Problematizing Legitimacy and Authority in Law and Policy," to be published in Volume 30, Issue Number 1, of Law and Policy.
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Our guests today are
Trudi Renwick, senior economist with the Fiscal Policy Institute, and
Ron Deutsch of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness. Renwick and Deutsch
discuss the problems of New York’s Empire Zone program and
other subsidies for economic development, and explore some of the
possible solutions. They criticize the conventional wisdom that
cutting taxes and offering corporate subsidies are the most effective
way of promoting economic development, and they raise issues such as
the lack of transparency and the expansion of Empire Zone programs
into relatively wealthy areas at the expense of more impoverished
locations.
The occasion for this
discussion is our guests’ recent visit to Buffalo recently to
participate in the conference The High Road Runs Through the City:
Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level, organized by
UB Law Professors Sara Faherty, Sam Magavern, and Martha McCluskey,
and hosted by UB’s Baldy Center on Law and Social Policy,
Cornell University ILR School, and the Coalition for Economic
Justice. Ms. Renwick was a speaker on the panel, Who Benefits?
State and Local Subsidy Reform. Join us for a conversation with
Vineeta Baronos and Gal Shalev, students at the University at Buffalo
Law School, as they interview Trudi Renwick and Ron Deutsch.
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Our guest today is Peter Enrich, Professor of Law at Northeastern
University’s School of Law, where his teaching and research
focus on state and local fiscal policy. In 2006, Enrich argued a
pathbreaking case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Daimler-Chrysler
v. Cuno, in which he argued that the Constitution’s dormant
commerce clause prohibits tax breaks widely used by state and local
governments to compete for economic development in a “race to
the bottom.” The Supreme Court rejected the claim on procedural
grounds.
Professor
Enrich visited Buffalo to participate in the conference The High
Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the
Local Level, organized by UB Law Professors Sara Faherty, Sam
Magavern, and Martha McCluskey, and hosted by UB’s Baldy Center
on Law and Social Policy, Cornell University ILR School, and the
Coalition for Economic Justice. At the conference, he spoke on the
panel “Who Benefits: State and Local Subsidy Reform,”
moderated by James Magavern, of Magavern, Magavern & Grimm, and
joined by panelists Susan Jones of George Washington Law School,
Greg LeRoy of Good Jobs First; Sadaf Khatri of NYC Jobs with Justice;
and Trudi Renwick of the Fiscal Policy Institute. For more
information on that event, see http://highroad.wikispaces.com/.
Join us for a conversation with Professor Enrich and UB Law students
Tara Stahl and Suha Abilmona.
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Welcome to UBLaw
Conversations, a production of University at Buffalo Law School, The
State University of New York. Today is December 16, 2007, and I'm Jim
Milles, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library.
Our
guests today are Maia Jaliashvili and Eduardo Muchado. Maia is a lawyer
and activist from the Republic of Georgia, and Eduardo is a prosecutor
from Brazil. Both of them have spent the last semester in Buffalo as
the first participants in the new University at Buffalo Law School
international program intended to develop expertise
in identifying, preventing and prosecuting domestic violence. More information on Ms. Jaliashvili, Mr. Muchado, and the program is available here. They are interviewed here by UB Clinical Law Professor Suzanne Tomkins.
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