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University at Buffalo Law School

January 05, 2023

The University at Buffalo School of Law (also known as State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, or SUNY Buffalo Law School) is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo. Founded in 1887 and affiliate with Niagara University until 1891, it is the State University of New York (SUNY) system's only law school. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University at Buffalo School of Law 94th (tied) in the nation for 2022.[5] The University at Buffalo School of Law is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter's "Super Lawyers" ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York, which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State. This is in addition to the UB Law School's 2010 national ranking, where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers, a measure which examines "twelve indicators of professional achievement".[6] Also, Malcolm Gladwell, in the New Yorker Magazine, devised a formula that ranks UB within the top 50 whereas Reuters ranks UB Law as 48th overall in the nation.[7]

University at Buffalo School of Law
Established1887; 136 years ago (1887)
School typePublic
DeanAviva Abramovsky
LocationAmherst, New York, U.S.
Enrollment446[1]
Faculty49 [2]
USNWR ranking94th (2023)[3]
Bar pass rate71.74%[4]
Websitewww.law.buffalo.edu
O'Brian Hall Law Building

According to the University at Buffalo School of Law's 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 69.2% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[8]

Background

The University at Buffalo School of Law has a favorable student-faculty ratio of 5.5:1. Currently, more than 75 percent of its upper division courses comprise fewer than 40 students. In addition, many of the 81 faculty members hold advanced degrees in the social sciences and other disciplines in conjunction with their law degrees.

The first-year program includes traditional legal courses in civil procedure, torts, contracts, property, criminal law, constitutional law, and ethics. In the second and third years students choose from a dozen curricular concentrations that allow for in-depth study. Each student has the opportunity to craft a custom-made curriculum, beyond the selected concentrations to build a personalized sequence of courses and experiences.

Under the Law School's Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (LAWR) program, all students complete a 10-credit, three-semester LAWR curriculum, with two semesters in their first year and a third semester during their second or third years. All three semesters are taught by full-time LAWR faculty. Throughout the LAWR program, students learn legal analysis and writing through immersion in the practice of writing, and through cycles of trial and error, feedback, and reflection. Because the courses are taught in small sections with an excellent instructor-to-student ratio, students are inspired to think critically and approach legal questions in a newly disciplined way.

Most students are part of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) program. Interdisciplinary dual degree programs permit J.D. students to seek other graduate degrees along with their J.D., including master's or doctoral degrees from the School of Management, School of Social Work, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Professions, or School of Architecture and Planning. UB Law also has the only post-professional Master of Laws (LL.M.) program in criminal law in the United States, and a general LL.M. program designed exclusively for international students.

The Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce is a joint program of UB Law with UB's business school. Named after Neil David Levin, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the September 11 attacks, the Levin Institute conducts an annual spring semester program in New York City for about 20 students, divided into five teams to work on projects sponsored by law firms and financial institutions. For example, in 2006 the teams were sponsored by CLSA, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, UBS, Credit Suisse, and M&T Bank.

The general law journal is the Buffalo Law Review, a student-run publication managed by 3L J.D. candidates. Founded in 1951, the Law Review currently publishes five issues per year (January, April, May, July and December), featuring full length articles by practitioners, professors and students in all areas of law. Each issue contains approximately four such articles and one student-authored comment.[9] Two other specialist journals are also based at the Law School: Buffalo Environmental Law Journal and Buffalo Human Rights Law Review. [10]

The student newspaper, The Opinion, has been in publication since November 29, 1949.[11]

UB's Clinical Legal Education program operate the school's legal clinics, which involve client service, impact litigation, transactional practice, and public policy development. Students participate in clinics throughout the school year and are given classroom credit for their work. The ten clinics are the Animal Law Clinic, Civil Rights and Transparency Clinic, Community Justice Clinic, Environmental Advocacy Clinic, Entrepreneurship Clinic, Family Violence and Women's Rights Clinic, Health Justice Clinic, Mediation Clinic, Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Clinic.

The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy is an institute that supports the interdisciplinary study of law, legal institutions, and social policy. Over 200 UB faculty members from various academic departments as well as graduate students participate in Baldy Center research and teaching activities. The Center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and co-sponsors 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.

The Charles B. Sears Law Library is UB's law library. It is named for Charles Brown Sears and occupies six floors in the center of the Law School. The Law Library contains 300,000 bound volumes and over 221,000 volumes in microform. Included within the Federal, New York, and State Core Collections are basic legal research tools: court reporters and digests, session laws and codes, rules and regulations, attorney general reports, jurisdictional encyclopedias and citators. The Law Library's special collection includes the Howard R. Berman Collection, Iroquois Books of Marilyn L. Haas, John Lord O'Brian Papers, Law Library Archives, Law School Archives, Morris L. Cohen Rare Book Collection, Onondaga Nation Land Claims Records, Seneca Land Claims Records, Tibetan Legal Manuscripts, and Watergate Collection.

The University at Buffalo School of Law is located on the university's North Campus in O'Brian Hall, which was named after notable alumnus John Lord O'Brian.

Admissions

The class of 2021 had a median LSAT of 154. The median GPA was 3.49. Out of 859 applications, 402 were accepted for a 46.8% acceptance rate, with 137 enrolled. 11% were from out of state.[12]

Employment

According to the University at Buffalo School of Law's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 69.2% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[8] The University at Buffalo School of Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 17.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2018 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.[13]

Costs

Tuition and fees for the 2019-20 academic year will be $25,410 for in-state residents with a $2,069 comprehensive fee and a $393 "academic excellence fee." Total for New York State residents is $46,746 with an additional $4,090 for out-of-state residents. 80% of the student body received grants and scholarships. The school does not award scholarships that may be reduced or eliminated based on law school academic performance other than failure to maintain good academic standing.[14]

Notable people

Main article: List of University at Buffalo people

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ "ABA 509 Consumer Information Report" (PDF).
  2. ^ "UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO-SUNY - 2019 Standard 509 Information Report". abarequireddisclosures.org. American Bar Association. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  3. ^ "University at Buffalo—SUNY". U.S. News & World Report – Best Law Schools. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ^ "UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO-SUNY - 2020". abarequireddisclosures.org. American Bar Association. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  5. ^ "SUNY Buffalo Law School". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  6. ^ "UB Number One in Super Lawyers". University at Buffalo Law School. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  7. ^ "UB Law New Rankings". University at Buffalo Law School. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  8. ^ a b "SUNY Buffalo Profile".
  9. ^ "Buffalo Law Review website". Buffalo Law Review. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  10. ^ "SUNY Buffalo Law School Law Journals". SUNY Buffalo Law School. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  11. ^ "The Opinion Digital Archives". University at Buffalo Libraries. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  12. ^ "UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO-SUNY - 2019 Standard 509 Information Report". abarequireddisclosures.org. American Bar Association. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  13. ^ "SUNY Buffalo Profile".
  14. ^ "2014 ABA 509 Consumer Information".

External links

  • Official website

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The University at Buffalo School of Law also known as State University of New York at Buffalo Law School or SUNY Buffalo Law School is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo Founded in 1887 and affiliate with Niagara University until 1891 it is the State University of New York SUNY system s only law school U S News amp World Report ranks the University at Buffalo School of Law 94th tied in the nation for 2022 5 The University at Buffalo School of Law is No 1 in Thomson Reuter s Super Lawyers ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State This is in addition to the UB Law School s 2010 national ranking where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers a measure which examines twelve indicators of professional achievement 6 Also Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker Magazine devised a formula that ranks UB within the top 50 whereas Reuters ranks UB Law as 48th overall in the nation 7 University at Buffalo School of LawEstablished1887 136 years ago 1887 School typePublicDeanAviva AbramovskyLocationAmherst New York U S Enrollment446 1 Faculty49 2 USNWR ranking94th 2023 3 Bar pass rate71 74 4 Websitewww wbr law wbr buffalo wbr eduO Brian Hall Law Building According to the University at Buffalo School of Law s 2018 ABA required disclosures 69 2 of the Class of 2018 obtained full time long term JD required employment nine months after graduation 8 Contents 1 Background 2 Admissions 3 Employment 4 Costs 5 Notable people 5 1 Notable faculty 5 2 Notable alumni 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksBackground EditThe University at Buffalo School of Law has a favorable student faculty ratio of 5 5 1 Currently more than 75 percent of its upper division courses comprise fewer than 40 students In addition many of the 81 faculty members hold advanced degrees in the social sciences and other disciplines in conjunction with their law degrees The first year program includes traditional legal courses in civil procedure torts contracts property criminal law constitutional law and ethics In the second and third years students choose from a dozen curricular concentrations that allow for in depth study Each student has the opportunity to craft a custom made curriculum beyond the selected concentrations to build a personalized sequence of courses and experiences Under the Law School s Legal Analysis Writing and Research LAWR program all students complete a 10 credit three semester LAWR curriculum with two semesters in their first year and a third semester during their second or third years All three semesters are taught by full time LAWR faculty Throughout the LAWR program students learn legal analysis and writing through immersion in the practice of writing and through cycles of trial and error feedback and reflection Because the courses are taught in small sections with an excellent instructor to student ratio students are inspired to think critically and approach legal questions in a newly disciplined way Most students are part of the Juris Doctor J D program Interdisciplinary dual degree programs permit J D students to seek other graduate degrees along with their J D including master s or doctoral degrees from the School of Management School of Social Work School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Public Health and Health Professions or School of Architecture and Planning UB Law also has the only post professional Master of Laws LL M program in criminal law in the United States and a general LL M program designed exclusively for international students The Neil D Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce is a joint program of UB Law with UB s business school Named after Neil David Levin the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the September 11 attacks the Levin Institute conducts an annual spring semester program in New York City for about 20 students divided into five teams to work on projects sponsored by law firms and financial institutions For example in 2006 the teams were sponsored by CLSA Fried Frank Harris Shriver amp Jacobson UBS Credit Suisse and M amp T Bank The general law journal is the Buffalo Law Review a student run publication managed by 3L J D candidates Founded in 1951 the Law Review currently publishes five issues per year January April May July and December featuring full length articles by practitioners professors and students in all areas of law Each issue contains approximately four such articles and one student authored comment 9 Two other specialist journals are also based at the Law School Buffalo Environmental Law Journal and Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 10 The student newspaper The Opinion has been in publication since November 29 1949 11 UB s Clinical Legal Education program operate the school s legal clinics which involve client service impact litigation transactional practice and public policy development Students participate in clinics throughout the school year and are given classroom credit for their work The ten clinics are the Animal Law Clinic Civil Rights and Transparency Clinic Community Justice Clinic Environmental Advocacy Clinic Entrepreneurship Clinic Family Violence and Women s Rights Clinic Health Justice Clinic Mediation Clinic Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic and the U S Mexico Border Clinic The Baldy Center for Law amp Social Policy is an institute that supports the interdisciplinary study of law legal institutions and social policy Over 200 UB faculty members from various academic departments as well as graduate students participate in Baldy Center research and teaching activities The Center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and co sponsors 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 The Charles B Sears Law Library is UB s law library It is named for Charles Brown Sears and occupies six floors in the center of the Law School The Law Library contains 300 000 bound volumes and over 221 000 volumes in microform Included within the Federal New York and State Core Collections are basic legal research tools court reporters and digests session laws and codes rules and regulations attorney general reports jurisdictional encyclopedias and citators The Law Library s special collection includes the Howard R Berman Collection Iroquois Books of Marilyn L Haas John Lord O Brian Papers Law Library Archives Law School Archives Morris L Cohen Rare Book Collection Onondaga Nation Land Claims Records Seneca Land Claims Records Tibetan Legal Manuscripts and Watergate Collection The University at Buffalo School of Law is located on the university s North Campus in O Brian Hall which was named after notable alumnus John Lord O Brian Admissions EditThe class of 2021 had a median LSAT of 154 The median GPA was 3 49 Out of 859 applications 402 were accepted for a 46 8 acceptance rate with 137 enrolled 11 were from out of state 12 Employment EditAccording to the University at Buffalo School of Law s official 2018 ABA required disclosures 69 2 of the Class of 2018 obtained full time long term JD required employment nine months after graduation 8 The University at Buffalo School of Law s Law School Transparency under employment score is 17 8 indicating the percentage of the Class of 2018 unemployed pursuing an additional degree or working in a non professional short term or part time job nine months after graduation 13 Costs EditTuition and fees for the 2019 20 academic year will be 25 410 for in state residents with a 2 069 comprehensive fee and a 393 academic excellence fee Total for New York State residents is 46 746 with an additional 4 090 for out of state residents 80 of the student body received grants and scholarships The school does not award scholarships that may be reduced or eliminated based on law school academic performance other than failure to maintain good academic standing 14 Notable people EditMain article List of University at Buffalo people Notable faculty Edit Thomas Buergenthal judge International Court of Justice professor 1962 1975 William R Greiner former President of University at Buffalo 1991 2004 former professor provost and dean of the University at Buffalo Law School Jacob D Hyman former dean Muhammad Kenyatta visiting professor 1988 1992 David Riesman sociologist author of The Lonely Crowd professor 1937 1941 Clyde Summers 1918 2010 labor lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolNotable alumni Edit Judge Paul L Friedman Wallace Thayer New York State Assemblyman 1914 Michael A Battle 1984 director Executive Office for United States Attorneys 2005 2007 United States Attorney for the Western District of New York 2002 2005 Harry Bronson New York State Assemblyman Ronald Castorina Jr Former New York State Assemblyman 2016 2018 Former Commissioner NYC Board of Elections 2013 2015 Sara Horowitz Founder of Freelancers Union and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Eugene M Fahey Associate judge of New York State Court of Appeals Julio M Fuentes 1975 United States Circuit Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Newark New Jersey duty station Paul L Friedman 1968 United States District Judge United States District Court for the District of Columbia Cynthia M Rufe 1977 United States District Judge United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Benjamin Kallos lawyer and politician Nicole Lee Executive Director of TransAfrica Henry J Nowak U S Representative 1975 1993 John Lord O Brian United States Attorney for the Western District of New York 1909 1914 Special U S Assistant Attorney General War Emergency Division 1917 1919 U S Assistant Attorney General Antitrust Division 1929 1933 General Counsel of the War Production Board 1941 1944 Denise O Donnell Former United States Attorney for the Western District of New York New York State Attorney General Candidate and Senior Adviser to New York Governor David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer Eugene F Pigott Jr associate judge New York Court of Appeals 2006 2016 William J Hochul Jr 1984 United States Attorney for the Western District of New York 2010 2016 Jack Quinn III Former New York State Assembly Member 2004 2010 Hugh B Scott Magistrate Judge United States District Court for the Western District of New York first African American federal prosecutor Virginia A Seitz prominent attorney former law clerk to Justice William J Brennan Jr U S Supreme Court Michael A Telesca United States District Judge United States District Court for the Western District of New York Dennis Vacco New York State Attorney General 1994 1998 Dale Volker New York State Senator Raymond Walter New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey White Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of California Joseph S Forma Judge New York Supreme CourtSee also EditLaw of New YorkReferences Edit ABA 509 Consumer Information Report PDF UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO SUNY 2019 Standard 509 Information Report abarequireddisclosures org American Bar Association Retrieved 8 May 2020 University at Buffalo SUNY U S News amp World Report Best Law Schools Retrieved 29 March 2022 UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO SUNY 2020 abarequireddisclosures org American Bar Association Retrieved 8 May 2020 SUNY Buffalo Law School U S News amp World Report Retrieved 29 March 2022 UB Number One in Super Lawyers University at Buffalo Law School Retrieved 2011 10 14 UB Law New Rankings University at Buffalo Law School Retrieved 2011 10 14 a b SUNY Buffalo Profile Buffalo Law Review website Buffalo Law Review Retrieved 2015 01 11 SUNY Buffalo Law School Law Journals SUNY Buffalo Law School Retrieved 2015 01 11 The Opinion Digital Archives University at Buffalo Libraries Retrieved 2015 01 11 UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO SUNY 2019 Standard 509 Information Report abarequireddisclosures org American Bar Association Retrieved 8 May 2020 SUNY Buffalo Profile 2014 ABA 509 Consumer Information External links EditOfficial website Coordinates 43 00 02 N 78 47 17 W 43 000588 N 78 787943 W 43 000588 78 787943 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title University at Buffalo Law School amp oldid 1112164943, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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