Welcome
to UBLaw Conversations, a production of University at Buffalo Law
School, The State University of New York. Today is March 21, 2008,
and I'm Jim Milles, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library.
Our guests today are Isabel Marcus and Stephanie Phillips. Professor
Marcus' research interests have been in the area of family law,
domestic violence, and international women's human rights. Her current
research project is a comparative analysis of the implementation of
criminal code provisions regarding domestic violence in Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union. She has taught extensively in universities
in Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic) and
Asia (People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, and Thailand).
Professor Marcus currently teaches family law, international human
rights law, and feminist theory. She is interviewed here by Professor Stephanie Philllips.
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Welcome to UBLaw
Conversations, a production of University at Buffalo Law School, The
State University of New York. Today is February 16, 2008, and I'm Jim
Milles, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library.
Our guests today are
Samina Raja and Lauren Breen. Samina Raja is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in
the UB School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Clinical Professor
Lauren Breen is Director of the UB Law School Community Economic
Development Clinic. They will be discussing Professor Raja's paper, "Racial Disparities in Food Access: Lessons from Erie County, NY."
The
metaphor "food deserts," used to describe neighborhoods with few
supermarkets, has captured both public and academic attention in
recent years. Planning solutions designed to alleviate food insecurity
and promote food justice may be misguided without a nuanced
understanding of disparities in food environments. Professor Raja
empirically examines racial disparities in food environments. She
investigates how food access in neighborhoods of color differs from
those in other neighborhoods, using Erie County, New York as a case
study. Professor Raja tests the hypothesis that access to different
types of food retail destinations, located within a five minute travel
time, in predominantly black and mixed-race neighborhoods differs from
that in predominantly white neighborhoods, while controlling for other
factors such as income, population, and area. Raja finds an absence of
supermarkets in neighborhoods of color when compared to white
neighborhoods. However, the study reveals an extensive network of small
grocery stores in neighborhoods of color. Professor Raja's research
suggests that supporting small, high quality grocery stores, rather
than soliciting large supermarkets, may be a more effective strategy
for ensuring access to healthful foods in neighborhoods of color.
Trained
as a civil engineer and an urban planner, Professor Samina Raja's
research, teaching, and community engagement focuses on planning and
designing communities that promote food justice, and facilitate healthy
living for all residents. Her recent projects have examined racial
disparities in food environments and their implication on health
outcomes. Professor Raja works with local community groups to design,
implement, and evaluate strategies to strengthen Buffalo's community
food system. Her research is funded by the National Institute of Health
and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Welcome to UBLaw
Conversations, a production of University at Buffalo Law School, The
State University of New York. Today is February 11, 2008, and I'm Jim
Milles, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library.
Our guests today are Joshua Dyck and Jim Gardner. Joshua Dyck is Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo Department of Political Science. Jim Gardner is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Joseph
W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice at the
University at Buffalo Law School, and director of the Edwin F. Jaeckle Center for Law and Democracy. They will be discussing Professor Dyck's paper, "Who is Mobilized by Direct
Democracy?"
Abstract: A
number of recent studies find that direct democracy increases voter
turnout. Whom does direct democracy mobilize to vote? From one
perspective, voters mobilized by ballot initiative campaigns may
reflect the partisan tenor of many ballot initiative elections.
Alternatively, ballot initiatives might allow disaffected voters to
fully express their policy preferences. Using a unique research design
that incorporates neighborhood contextual variables with the California
registered voter list, Professor Dyck examines the strong partisan
effects that social context exerts on participation in ballot
initiative elections. Additionally, he clarifies the way citizens are
educated by initiatives. The findings demonstrate how partisan context
mitigates the potential for direct democracy to mobilize from the
middle.
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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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Our guest today is Allison Duwe, the Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) in Buffalo. Along with UB Law Professors Sara Faherty, Sam Magavern, and Martha McCluskey, she was a co-organizer of the recent conference, The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level. For more information on that event, see http://highroad.wikispaces.com. Duwe moderated the panel, New Frontiers for the Living Wage, and was a speaker on the panel Now Comes the Hard Part: Implementing and Enforcing Living Wage Ordinances and Worker Protection Laws.
Ms. Duwe has been a leader in CEJ’s effort to pass and enforce Buffalo's living wage ordinance. Currently the Coalition is also working to reform economic development subsidies, advocating for legislation to improve transparency and fairness in New York State’s Empire Zone programs and Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs). Join us for a conversation with Allison Duwe as she talks about her work in the CEJ with UB law students Jose Velez, Emily Dillon, and Eduardo Machado.
Our guest today
is Joel Rogers, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of COWS (Center on
Wisconsin Strategy). Rogers is the author of numerous books,
including Metro Futures: Economic Solutions for Cities and Their
Suburbs (1999, with Daniel D. Luria and Joshua Cohen), The Forgotton
Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (2001, with Ruy
A. Tuixiera; On Democracy (1983, with Joshua Cohen). Rogers also is
a contributing editor at The Nation and Boston Review and writes
widely for popular media on questions of economic policy. He has
helped create numerous public interest organizations, including
Center for State Innovation and the Apollo Alliance, and was honored
with a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship.
Professor Rogers
visited 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. Rogers, who developed the concept of
“high road” economic development spoke about changing
economic policy on the panel, Making it Last: Building Progressive
Movements into Local Institutions. He also spoke as part of a
keynote address on Deep Economics, in response to author and
environmentalist Bill McKibben (author of Deep Economy: The Wealth
of Communities and a Durable Future). For more information on the
conference, see http://highroad.wikispaces.com/.
Join us for a
conversation with UB Law Professor Martha McCluskey and Joel Rogers
discussing his ideas and leadership in developing economic policies
that provide better jobs, better cities, and environmental
sustainability.
Our guest today is Lan Cao. Professor Cao, Boyd Fellow and Professor of Law at
the William & Mary School of Law, is a specialist in the areas of
international business and trade, international law, and law and development. In
addition to her many scholarly articles, she is author of a novel,
Monkey
Bridge (Viking Penguin, 1997), and co-author of
Everything
You Need to Know About Asian American History (Penguin Plume, 1996; 2nd
edition, 2004). She visited UB Law School to present her paper on "Gender-Based
Barriers to Economic International Development." Join us for a conversation with
Professor Lan Cao and UB Law Professor Martha McCluskey.
Welcome to UBLaw Podcasts
Faculty Conversations, a production of University at Buffalo Law
School, The State University of New York. Today is May 12, 2007, and
I'm Jim Milles, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library.
Our guest today is ElizabethKim.
Dr. Kim works in the Oceans and Coastal Protection Division of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, where she leads
EPA’s programs on cruise ship discharges and ocean dumping management. Dr. Kim
holds a Ph.D. in marine ecology and is a lawyer admitted to the Bars of
New York and the District of Columbia. Join us for a conversation with
Dr. Kim and UB Law Professor Barry Boyer.
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Our guest today is Niagara County District Attorney Matthew J. Murphy
III.
As District Attorney, Matt helped to develop a model domestic violence
program
that has been set a new standard for the rest of New York State. He is
joined today by UB Clinical Professor Suzanne Tomkins to talk about his
work in domestic violence.
Matt's efforts have resulted in his presentation of the program to a seminar at the
National District Attorney's Association in Arlington, Virginia, in May 1996. He
also served on a New York State Task Force that developed a Model Domestic
Violence Policy for Counties. He also created the first Criminal Environmental
Task Force in Upstate New York in 1995.
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Baja
Taxi by Brain
Buckit, and is available through the
Podsafe
Music Network. Please join
us again next time for another faculty conversation from University at Buffalo Law School.
Today's guest is Northeastern University Law School Professor Lucy
Williams. She spoke yesterday with UB Law Professors Martha McCluskey and Lauren Breen about
her chapter, "Poor
Women's Work Experience: Gaps in the 'Work/Family'
Discussion," from Labour Law, Work, and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich (Oxford University Press 2005).
Thank you for joining us
today. The theme music is
Baja
Taxi by Brain
Buckit, and is available through the
Podsafe
Music Network. Please join us again
next time for another faculty conversation from University at Buffalo Law
School.
Today's guest is UB Law Professor David M. Engel. He will be talking with UB Law
Professor Rebecca French about his current paper,
"Reading the Landscape of Injury: The Lost
Pathway to Law," taking a new look at legal pluralism in contemporary
Thailand.
Today's guest is Professor Elaine Chiu of St. John's University School
of Law. She will be talking with UB Law Professor Susan Vivian Mangold
about her current paper, "The Cultural Differential in Parental
Autonomy."The theme music is Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit, and is available through the Podsafe Music Network. Join us again next time for another faculty conversation from University at Buffalo Law School.
UB Law Professor Susan
Vivian Mangold recently presented a paper, "Poor Enough to be Eligible?
Child Abuse, Neglect, and the Poverty Requirement," at a Baldy Center
for Law and Social Policy faculty workshop. Today Professor Mangold
discussed the paper with Professor Martha McCluskey.
UB Law Professor Athena Mutua is the editor of the recently published collection of essays, Progressive Black Masculinities (2006). Last week Professor Mutua was joined by some of the other authors in the collection for a book signing at Talking Leaves Books: University at Buffalo professors Nathan Grant, Teresa Miller, and Stephanie Phillips, and Buffalo State University Professor Ron Stewart. This week's conversation was recorded at that book signing.
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).
Today's program is a conversation between UB law professor Martha McCluskey and Emory Law School professor Martha Fineman*, on class, inequality, and shifting constitutional legal analysis from protected classes to a guarantee of common benefits, and from an analysis of victimization to an inquiry into who is being privileged.
Today's program is a conversation between UB law professor Martha McCluskey and University of Miami law professor Ken Casebeer*, on Ken's work on class and labor in the United States. We hope you enjoy this discussion.
Thank you for joining us for this conversation with Martha McCluskey and Ken Casebeer. Our thanks to Tru-Teas Restaurant in Buffalo. The theme music is Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit, and is available through the Podsafe Music Network.
Today's program is a conversation between UB Law Professors Jim Wooten and Martha McCluskey, on Jim's paper in progress, "A Historical Perspective on the 'Crisis' of Pension Funding."
Most evidence suggests that tax expenditures for private health insurance in the U.S. perversely redistribute public resources for health care from low-waged, insecurely employed to high-waged, securely employed individuals. However, there is no inherent characteristic of tax mechanisms that precludes their use as a practical form of welfare to extend health insurance to more Americans. Tax expenditures and/or credits can be designed to effectively redistribute benefits to low income individuals, like the U .S. Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) which boosts incomes for low-income working families. In the realm of health insurance, tax expenditures can be used as a tool to extend coverage to low-income or other uninsured individuals, if program design takes such needs into account.
Debra Street’s interests are in the fields of public policy, particularly policies related to health/medicine and income security.
Brian Gran’s current research focuses on comparative social policy as it is formed in the intersection of the public and private sectors.
The current legal framework within which international adoptions are conducted lacks the capacity to ensure that the adoption process is transparent or ethical, or even that it comports with U.S. immigration law. Jurisdiction for international adoptions is split, in a haphazard fashion, between the Departments of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the individual states. Despite a number of highly publicized scandals involving the trafficking of children for international adoptions, there is no U.S. federal law that criminalizes human trafficking for purposes of adoption.
Johanna Oreskovic is director of Post-Professional Education at UB Law School. She has been interested in international adoption for a number of years and in particular, in issues of ethics and transparency in the international adoption process. She is a graduate of UB Law School and is admitted to practice in New York and the Western District of New York. She has previously published articles in American labor history and American labor law, most recently, “Capturing Volition Itself: Employee Involvement and the TEAM Act,” in the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Joseph L. Gerken, Reference Librarian, UB Law Library
This is an outline of the book titled, What Good Is Legislative History? Justice Scalia and the Federal Courts of Appeals, by Joseph L. Gerken. The book addresses Justice Antonin Scalia’s criticism of legislative history as a source for statutory interpretation. It focuses on how Federal courts of appeals have responded to Justice Scalia’s criticism.
