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Jun 1, 2023
Jorge Farinacci-Fernós discusses Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Paradox
In Episode 33 of The Baldy Center Podcast, Jorge M. Farinacci-Fernós speaks about his background, as well as his 2023 book, Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Paradox: Colonial Subordination, Democratic Tension, and Promise of Progressive Transformation. For transcript, please visit: Podcast_Baldy Center_University at Buffalo
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Apr 4, 2023
Shaun Anderson speaks to the current nature of Title IX
In Episode 32 of The Baldy Center Podcast, Shaun Anderson opines on both the public and scholarly perceptions of Title IX, in addition to how media and the court of public opinion have the power to challenge and improve the power and application of this law. For transcript, please visit: Podcast_Baldy Center_University at Buffalo
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Jan 19, 2023
Claire Cameron examines the challenge of implementing Erin’s Law
The Baldy Center Podcast, Episode 31, presents Claire Cameron, PhD, Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction at the UB Graduate School of Education. Her research involves early childhood education and development. She observes that the challenge of implementing Erin’s Law involves the difficulty of having conversations about domestic violence and the sexual abuse of women and children. Dr. Cameron suggests that conversations about Erin's Law can become a way to heal the wounds of domestic violence. For transcript, please visit: Podcast_Baldy Center_University at Buffalo
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Oct 20, 2022
Judith Olin discusses Erin’s Law, its implications in New York State, and the broader topic of child abuse education.
Episode 30 of The Baldy Center Podcast features Judith Olin, Clinical Professor of Law in the University at Buffalo’s School of Law. Olin discusses Erin’s Law, which mandates child sexual abuse prevention curricula in schools. She discusses the weaknesses in the implementation of Erin’s Law in New York and the critical need for training school professionals in responding to children who disclose sexual abuse. For transcript please visit: Podcast - Baldy Center - University at Buffalo
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May 3, 2022
Anya Bernstein discusses judicial populism and the cultures of bureaucracy
Episode 29 features Anya Bernstein, Professor of Law in the University at Buffalo’s School of Law. Bernstein discusses judicial populism, the bureaucratic role of law clerks, and the dangers of exclusionary worldviews in law and society.
Keywords: populism, judicial review, bureaucracy, bureaucrats, authoritarian populism, democracy
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Apr 5, 2022
Matthew Dimick discusses income inequality, wealth redistribution, income tax, economics, Pareto optimality, and Marxism
Episode 28 features Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law in the University at Buffalo’s School of Law. Dimick explains Pareto optimality and the differences between income taxation and legal rules for wealth redistribution. He discusses capitalism, Marxism, and how economists measure the effects various methods of redistribution may have on the economy.
Keywords: wealth redistribution, inequality, income tax, taxation, disparity, Marxism, capitalism, economics, taxation, minimum wage
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Mar 15, 2022
Seth Parker Woods discusses the positioning of the cello, oral and written histories, Classical music, Black composers, and performance installations
Episode 27 features Seth Parker Woods, a University at Buffalo Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Dr. Woods speaks about the cello and its use in classical music and performance pieces, including the ice cello. He discusses the Fluxus movement, Black composers, and using music and performance to create pieces that reflect events and social issues such as police brutality and the emotions they cause. This episode includes two pieces at the end - Bach’s Allemande, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay’s asinglewordisnotenough - performed by Dr. Woods.
Keywords: cello, music, performance art, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, classical music, Black composers, Fluxus, ice cello, contemporary classical music, Seth Parker Woods
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Mar 1, 2022
Rachael K. Hinkle discusses briefs, lawyer experience, and the influence they have on Supreme Court decisions
Episode 26 features Rachael K. Hinkle, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Hinkle speaks about her forthcoming book, co-authored by Morgan Hazelton (St. Louis University), Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision Making. She discusses the process of analyzing tens of thousands of briefs, who’s allowed to submit these briefs, and how these documents and who wrote them can influence Supreme Court decisions.
Keywords: Supreme Court, brief, amicus brief, Brandeis brief, court ruling, court decision, judicial decision
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Feb 15, 2022
Victoria Wolcott discusses the Long Civil Rights Movement and utopianism
Episode 25 features Victoria Wolcott, a professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Wolcott speaks about her upcoming book, Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement(University of Chicago Press, 2022), and her research on utopian thought and communities. She discusses Civil Rights Movement activists like Martin Luther King Jr., Father Divine, and Howard Thurman, and how their shared belief in radical pacifism holds utopian yearnings.
Keywords: civil rights, civil rights movement, BLM, Martin Luther King, activism, Black activism, utopia, utopianism, Marxism, socialism
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Feb 1, 2022
Daniel Brantes Ferreira discusses sports betting and arbitration in Brazil
Episode 24 features Daniel Brantes Ferreira, a 2021-2022 Baldy Research Fellow, a professor at Universidade Cândido Mendes, and Vice-President for Academic affairs at the Brazilian Center of Arbitration and Mediation (CBMA). Dr. Ferreira discusses his research on sports betting and arbitration in Brazil, including arbitration clauses in the terms and services of online betting websites. He explains the process of arbitration and what can happen when the arbitration company listed in the terms and services is in another country entirely, speaking another language, causing difficulty for those with disputes.
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Jan 20, 2022
Baldy Center Season 4 Trailer
Welcome to season 4 of the podcast of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, produced at the University at Buffalo.
In Spring 2022, we are back with new episodes about Marxism and the civil rights movement, music and the great migration, the supreme court, sports betting and arbitration, and more.
The season continues with host and producer, Edgar Girtain. Check out our old and new episodes at buffalo.edu/baldycenter and baldycenterpodcast.podbean.com.
And don't forget to follow our Twitter, @baldycenter.
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Nov 30, 2021
Devonya Havis discusses the nature of truth and community practices for resistance
Episode 23 features Devonya Havis, a 2021-2022 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Scholar and associate professor in Philosophy at Canisius College. Dr. Havis discusses her research examining the nature of truth and the importance of broadening the field of philosophy to include the ways in which people encountering struggle engage in critical engagement about their condition. She specifically explores community practices, black ancestral practices, as an archive or guide for practice on how to push back.
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Nov 15, 2021
Jordan Fox Besek on climate change and life finding a way
Episode 22 of The Baldy Center Podcast features Department of Sociology Assistant Professor Jordan Fox Besek. Besek discusses his new project with Brooklyn College professor Daniel Shtob, humanity’s relationship with nature, and climate change. He explores the ways in which humans effect the environment, sometimes producing poor outcomes despite green intentions, and the ripple effect those actions have.
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Nov 5, 2021
John Henry Schlegel and David A. Westbrook discuss “the adventure of thinking”
From the heights of his long tenure at the University at Buffalo School of Law, in Episode 21 of The Baldy Center Podcast, Distinguished Professor John Schlegel discusses US economic history, American Legal Realism, and his lived experience with legal education over the last half century, in particular, Critical Legal Studies. In this extemporaneous conversation, Del Cotto Professor David Westbrook affectionately provokes Schlegel to grapple with the necessary and complex ongoing negotiations between our concepts of adventure and stability, serious and fun, the endeavor of intellectual freedom... and the Borg.
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Oct 22, 2021
David Herzberg discusses how the politics of whiteness has shaped the history of opioids, opioid addiction, and drug policy
Episode 20 features David Herzberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History, University at Buffalo. Herzberg discusses repeated waves of addiction to pharmaceutical opioids and other medicines in the 20th and 21st century U.S. Among other things, he examines how the predominantly white consumers labeled as “patients” were understood as innocent victims when they became addicted, while consumers who became addicted outside of medical channels were portrayed as dangerous criminals. Herzberg is the author of a history of addictive pharmaceuticals titled White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction, and co-author of a forthcoming book with Helena Hansen and Jules Netherland about how the politics of whiteness has shaped the history of opioids, opioid addiction, and drug policy in the United States.
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Sep 23, 2021
Episode 19 Helen Drew and Marissa Egloff discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion in major sports leagues
Episode 19 features Helen Drew, Professor of Law, and Marissa Egloff, a third year JD candidate, in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Drew and Ms. Egloff discuss their research examining the number of women and minorities in executive or coaching positions in professional sports. They are exploring why, even with proactive policies such as The Rooney Rule in the NFL, women and people of color find it difficult to obtain these “front office” positions. They are also exploring how nondiverse work environments can become toxic.
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Sep 7, 2021
Samantha Barbas discusses her new book The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade
Episode 18 features Samantha Barbas, Professor of Law and Director of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Barbas discusses her new book from University of Chicago Press (2021) The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade. In the 1930s and ’40s, Morris Ernst was one of America’s best-known liberal lawyers. The ACLU’s general counsel for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against artistic censorship. He successfully defended Ulysses against obscenity charges, litigated groundbreaking reproductive rights cases, and supported the widespread expansion of protections for sexual expression, union organizing, and public speech. Yet Ernst was also a man of stark contradictions, waging a personal battle against Communism, defending an autocrat, and aligning himself with J. Edgar Hoover’s inflammatory crusades.
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May 4, 2021
Athena Mutua discusses the origins and goals of ClassCrits.
Episode 15 features Athena Mutua, Professor and Law and Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Mutua discusses the origins and goals of ClassCrits, which focuses on the heterodox, or political economy approach in law. She presents the new online journal, The Journal of Law and Political Economy and discusses ways in which ClassCrits engages with ongoing and on the ground activist work in significant social issues.
Keywords: ClassCrits; Gender, Law, and Society; Inequality; Law and Economics; Law and Society; Race, Law, and Policy
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Apr 21, 2021
The Alison L. Des Forges memorial committee members discuss the history of the Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee, and its international symposia on human rights held at the University at Buffalo.
Episode 14 is about the work of the Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee, and its international symposia on human rights held at the University at Buffalo. Beginning in 2012, each symposium has been annually sponsored, in part, by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. This podcast features Roger Des Forges, the group's co-founder. He is joined in discussion the committee co-chairs, Ellen Dussourd and Shaun Irlam. Together, they offer insight on aspects of sustaining the annual Alison Des Forges International Symposia on Human Rights. The ninth annual event takes place April 30, 2021.
Keywords: Human Rights, Des Forges, Rwanda, Africa, genocide, regime change, Covid-19, China.
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Mar 22, 2021
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian discusses her sculptural work “The Republic of Unknown Territory” and immigration.
Episode 13 features Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, interdisciplinary artist and University at Buffalo Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art. Udondian discusses her new sculptural work “The Republic of Unknown Territory) in the UB Arts Collaboratory until March 27, 2021, focused on immigrants’ experiences in migrating and building society. She highlights her study of the politics of the post-colonial global market in second-hand clothing, and her use of second-hand clothing in her art.
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Art and Politics, Narrative Studies, Immigration Studies, Post-colonialism, Global Trade Systems
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Mar 8, 2021
Marie Jauffret-Roustide discusses harm reduction as an effective response to the opioid overdose crisis.
Episode 12 features Marie Jauffret-Roustide, Senior Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and research fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, France. Jauffret-Roustide discusses the effectiveness of drug policies that are embedded in human rights and harm reduction, and compares them to repressive drug policies that are ineffective in protecting vulnerable people and the communities in which they live.
Keywords: Health and Society, Drug Policy, Law and Society, Harm Reduction, Health and Social Policy
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Feb 22, 2021
Erkin Özay discusses his new book, Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore.
Episode 11 features Erkin Özay, assistant professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning. Özay discusses his new book “Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore: Rethinking the 21st Century Public School” (Routledge 2021), and his holistic approach to the relationships among urban development, urban design, and schools.
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Culture and Society, Education Policy, Urban Design, Urban Studies
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Feb 8, 2021
Waverly Duck and Anne Rawls discuss their new book, Tacit Racism.
Episode 10 features Waverly Duck, a 20-21 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar from the Department of Sociology at University of Pittsburgh and Anne Rawls, Professor of Sociology at Bentley University. They discuss their new book, Tacit Racism (University of Chicago Press) and their research focused on understanding how centuries of institutional racism have shaped interactions between white people and Black Americans into patterns of implicit bias and tacit racism.
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Jan 26, 2021
Jessica Castner discusses “Nurse-Initiated Protocols in Emergency Departments.”
Episode 9 features Jessica Castner, a board-certified emergency nurse and emergency nurse scientist, and a 2013-2014 Baldy Center research grant recipient. She discusses her current research and recent publication on nurse-initiated protocols in emergency departments. Caster discusses policy and protocol impacts on pandemic emergency room care.
Keywords: Health and Society, Health Policy, Regulation, Emergency Nursing, COVID-19, pandemic
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Jan 26, 2021
Baldy Center Podcast Season 2 Trailer
Welcome to season 2 of the podcast of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, produced at the University at Buffalo.
In Spring 2021, we are back with new episodes about Nurse-Initiated Protocols in Emergency Departments, Tacit Racism, Urban Renewal and School Reform, Harm Reduction, Law, Class and Racial Capitalism on ClassCrits, and more.
With me, Azalia Muchransyah, as your host and producer. Check out our old and new episodes at buffalo.edu/baldycenter and baldycenterpodcast.podbean.com.
And don't forget to follow our Twitter, @baldycenter.
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Jan 25, 2021
Baldy Center Podcast Season 1 Trailer
From the tension between contact tracing and privacy to the concept of One Health and zoonotic diseases. From prison labor to airport security. From pirates of Southeast Asia to the legal history of the Holy Roman Empire. They are all coming your way in the first podcast season of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, produced at the University at Buffalo. With me, Azalia Muchransyah, as your host and producer.
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Jan 25, 2021
Sarah Ludin discusses the socio-legal history of the Early Reformation in Germany.
In episode 8 of the podcast, Sarah Ludin discusses her developing book manuscript focused on the socio-legal history of the Early Reformation in Germany, which relies on close readings of 1521-1555 C.E. case files in the Holy Roman Empire to understand the historiography of secularism and the definition and significance of religion as a modern secular legal category.
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Constitutional Law, European Cultural Studies, Law and Society, Legal History, Legal Research
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Jan 25, 2021
Daniel Platt discusses “The Domestication of Credit.”
Episode 7 features Daniel Platt, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Springfield and former Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor Platt discusses his recent article “The Domestication of Credit,” focused on the moral politics of personal finance in 19th and 20th century U.S., paying specific attention to women’s contributions to household finances, to credit, debt, and financial institutions, and to the roles of coercion and discrimination in a debt economy.
Keywords: Finance and Finance Law, Legal History, Politics, Cultural History
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Jan 25, 2021
David Gerber and Bruce Dierenfield discuss disability rights and religious freedom.
Episode 6 of the podcast features David Gerber, emeritus professor of history at UB and Bruce Dierenfield of Canisius College. Professors Gerber and Dierenfield discuss their new book, focused on the Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District case at the crossroads of disability rights and church-state separation.
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Education Policy, Legal History, Disability Rights, Church-State Separation.
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Jan 21, 2021
Jennifer L. Gaynor discusses maritime Southeast Asia.
In Episode 5 of the podcast Jennifer Gaynor, a Baldy Center research fellow, discusses her current research and her previous book, Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia, which drew on European and Southeast Asian sources, as well as four years in Indonesia, where she worked with rare Bugis language manuscripts and lived in communities of Sama sea people.
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Asian Studies Culture and Law, Culture and Society, Maritime Law, Law and Social Science, Legal History, History.
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Jan 21, 2021
Amanda Hughett discusses the history of prisoner labor unions.
Episode 4 of the podcast features Amanda Hughett, a former Baldy Center fellow, discussing the history of prisoner labor unions. The work examines how efforts to litigate around prison conditions in the 1970s unintentionally cut against imprisoned people’s efforts to mobilize at the grassroots level.
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Employment and Labor Law, Labor Markets and Work Policy, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Race, Law and Policy, Social Justice and Social Change
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Jan 21, 2021
David Westbrook and Mark Maguire discuss airport security and counterterrorism.
Episode 3 of the podcast features David A. Westbrook, UB School of Law and Mark Maguire, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Professors Westbrook and Maguire discuss airport security and counterterrorism, and their new book, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge, 2020).
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Culture and Society, Law and Social Science, Law and Society, Counterterrorism, Ethnography, Political Economy.
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Jan 21, 2021
Irus Braverman discusses medical posthumanities.
Episode 2 of the podcast features UB School of Law professor Irus Braverman discussing her upcoming workshop, Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human. Braverman's work explores holistic approaches to health that include scientific, natural science discussions between ecologists and virologists that also takes into consideration social and cultural understandings and also legal norms.
Keywords: Health and Society, Legal Geographies, Social Justice and Social Change, Environmental Studies Law and Policy, Culture and Society.
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Jan 21, 2021
Mark Bartholomew discusses contact tracing.
Episode 1 of the podcast features UB School of Law professor Mark Bartholomew. Professor Bartholomew discusses the pandemic, contact tracing, and the tension between public health security and privacy in using technology to track the coronavirus.
Keywords: COVID-19, Health and Society
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