Robert Reis
Robert I. Reis came to Buffalo in 1968 from the University of Connecticut, School of Law where he taught in the land use, resources allocation, and business areas. He authored a book while at Connecticut on Connecticut Water Law published by the University Press. Professor Reis has pursued his broad range of environment, land use and development, finance and technology interests since coming to Buffalo.
In the later part of the 1970s and early part of the 1980s he taught a graduate course in the Post Doctoral Program at the University of Rochester in Environmental Law and Policy. He was a Director of the New York State Sea Grant Law Program from the early 1970s well into the 1980s. Professor Reis has participated as an Administrative Hearing Officer for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and as a Alternative Dispute Resolution officer in technology based controversies.
Professor Reis was previously the Director of the Government Law Program and has encouraged widening the scope of program coverage to include municipal law, state and local government and taxation, education law, environmental law and law and technology.
He currently is teaching Law and Technology: Computers, Cyberspace and Policy, Municipal Law, Real Estate Transactions and Commercial Real Estate Development and Land Use. Professor Reis is the Co-Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Concentration at the Law School, and the Director of UB Law's Technology Transfer Program. Professor Reis' current research is focused primarily in the areas of Law and Technology with special emphasis on the impact of technology as it relates to Intellectual Property, economic, legal and social structures. He is actively engaged in the use of technology based teaching through the delivery of enhanced educational opportunities and content to students.
Courses:
AAP568: Law, Policy, and Intellectual Property: Arts Management