The Baldy Center Podcast

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....

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 s...

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

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, inequalit...

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 brutali...

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...

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,...

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 explain...

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...

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 sp...

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 action...

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 Westbroo...

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 cons...

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 pe...

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 co...

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...

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...

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 highlig...

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 poli...

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, Cu...

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 int...

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, Regulat...

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 produce...

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 you...

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, Co...