Rebuild Puerto Rico – UB School of Law Responds

“Resiliency is the Governance of Uncertainty”

A powerful statement was made at the opening of the 2019 RISE Conference, a conference dedicated to Transforming University Engagement

By Octavio Villegas, Staff Attorney for the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic I

By Alex Bakke, University at Buffalo PhD student in Spanish Literature & Language Upon arriving in Puerto Rico to join the

The recent clusters of earthquakes along the southern coast of Puerto Rico have added immense chaos to an already unstable

As our team entered the beautiful legal clinic, one of the very first things the Director said to us was

“Somos dueños de un país sin dueño” We are the owners of a country without a Master (René Juan Pérez)

Most of our #UBLawResponds team felt the first earthquake. We were doing a short refresher on trauma-informed lawyering and service

Puerto Rico’s War of Information… I am a student attorney in the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico

Cancer survivor, abuse survivor, murder victim, and amputee victim. Now imagine these phrases: Cancer victim, abuse victim, murder survivor, amputee

I write this at the end of the first full day of my sixth trip to Puerto Rico since Hurricane