The Center was endowed by a bequest from Christopher Baldy, a prominent Buffalo attorney and UB School of Law graduate who died in 1959.
The Center additionally hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, speakers, consultants and conference participants.
Five years later, under then-Dean Thomas Headrick, the program in law and social policy was formalized into The Baldy Center.
[5] For much of its history, The Baldy Center’s activities were organized around working groups focused on specific research areas.
[6] After 2010, the Center retired the working groups model and instituted its fellowship program while continuing to focus on conferences, book manuscript workshops and supporting research.