Professor Kenneth F. Joyce to receive 2003 Jaeckle Award

Daily Record (Rochester, NY), Oct 15, 2003 by Staff

Professor Kenneth F. Joyce, one of the most popular and engaging faculty members to teach in the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, will receive the 2003 Jaeckle Award from UB Law School and the UB Law Alumni Association at a luncheon on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

The award, which is named for UB Law alumnus Edwin F. Jaeckle, class of 1915, is the highest honor the Law School and the Law Alumni Association can bestow. It is given annually to an individual who has distinguished himself or herself and has made significant contributions to the Law School and to the legal profession.

Prior Jaeckle Award winners include Judge Charles S. Desmond, Frank G. Raichle Jr., M. Robert Koren, Manly Fleischmann, Appellate Division, Fourth Department Presiding Justice M. Dolores Denman and UB President William R. Greiner.

The luncheon and award presentation will follow the morning-long UB Law Alumni Convocation, an annual continuing legal educational program whose topic this year is Buffalo, City on the Edge: Legal and Ethical Issues Facing Business in the Niagara Frontier. The first part will focus on Doing Business Across the Bridge. The second part will be a panel discussion on Buffalo's Control Board.

The Convocation will begin at 8:30 a.m. while the luncheon starts at 12:30 p.m.

According to UB Law Dean Nils Olsen, Throughout his illustrious career, Ken Joyce has brought honor to the law school and to the legal profession. He is an exceptionally worthy recipient of the Jaeckle Award.

A graduate of Boston College High School, Boston College and Boston College Law School, Joyce has lived in Buffalo for nearly two- thirds of his life, but he sounds as though he moved to Buffalo last week.

After earning his juris doctor degree in 1961, Joyce clerked for Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Judge Paul Kirk and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge John Danaher (in Washington, D.C.) garnering the experience to land a teaching job. In 1963 he began a yearlong LL.M. program at Harvard Law School, funded by a Ford Foundation fellowship in law teaching.

Except for one semester as a visiting professor at Cornell University Law School in 1971, and a brief stint at Albany Law School while serving as director of the Law Revision Commission in the late 1980s, Joyce has never left UB Law.

He has earned a reputation as one of the law school's most popular faculty members, teaching courses on tax administration and procedure, trusts and estates and administrative law. Named a State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1997, he has lost track of how often he has received the student-awarded Faculty Award at UB Law commencements, but guesses it is somewhere between 10 and 15 times.

The morning CLE program, will touch on several areas of the law ranging from international financial and transactional issues, including the North American Free Trade Agreement to employment and human resource issues, immigration issues, and criminal issues - especially the recent changes in Canadian laws regarding the effect of criminal convictions on entry into Canada. Speakers for this segment include Professor Amy Deen Westbrook, Roseanna Berardi, Rodney O. Personius and Joyce Cavanagh-Wood.

During the second part of the morning program four leading attorneys will discuss the new Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority Act. Speakers are James L. Magavern, Richard M. Tobe, Sean P. Beiter, and Michael B. Risman.

The full morning program is approved for three CLE credits: one credit for ethics and professionalism and two credits for professional practice.

The fee to attend both the Convocation and Jaeckle luncheon is $65 per person for Law Alumni Association members who have paid their dues for 2003 to 2004, and $75 per person for all others. Patron tickets are also available for an additional fee. Responses are requested by Friday, Nov. 7, 2003. Call the UB Law Alumni Office at (716) 645-2107 or mail a check made payable to the UB Law Alumni Association and send to UB Law Alumni Office, 312 O'Brian Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260.

Free parking is available in the Augspurger ramp.