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The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is an endowed, internationally recognized institute that advances interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. More than 130 UB faculty members from 17 academic departments participate in Baldy Center research, conferences, working groups, and publications. The center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and co-sponsors a network of socio-legal scholars in the Great Lakes Region.

The Law and Society Association, founded in 1964, is a group of scholars from many fields and countries, interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life.
Members bring training in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas to the study of sociolegal phenomena.