Advisory Council

Aerial photo of UB North Campus, December 2021. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

Aerial photo of North Campus. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

Published August 9, 2024

The Baldy Center Advisory Council works with the Director to develop policy for The Center—its vision, mission and operational guidelines. The Council also reviews The Baldy Center programs and makes recommendations for their improvement. Council members are accomplished scholars who represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives in socio-legal studies.

Current Advisory Council

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Guyora Binder (Law)

Research Focus: Legal theory, criminal law, constitutional history, and international law.

Michael Boucai (Law)

Research Focus: Gender, Sexuality & Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Legal History.

Irus Braverman (Law)

Research Focus: Animal Studies, Nature and Conservation Biology, Law and Geography, Legal Ethnography, Law and Society, Science and Technology Studies.

Trina Hamilton (Geography)

Research Focus: Corporate social and environmental responsibility, global governance.

Rachael Hinkle (Political Science)

Research Focus: Public law; judicial politics; constitutional law; computational text analysis; quantitative methods. .

Joanne Song McLaughlin (Economics)

Research Focus: Impact of public policies related to the labor market.

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo (Law)

Research Focus: Anthropology of Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Social and Political Theory; State Sovereignty.