The New York state budget includes $50 million to develop law schools in Binghamton, Long Island, and Rochester (ABA Journal & Newsday):

The Rochester school would be affiliated with St. John Fisher College, a private school in suburban Pittsford, while the SUNY system’s Binghamton and Stony Brook universities would get their own law schools. …

"There’s no question that we simply have a glut of law schools," said Makau Mutua, interim dean of the University at Buffalo Law School. "There’s no shortage of access to legal education for New Yorkers who want to go to law school." …

Mutua said the state hasn’t done enough to support UB’s law school and doesn’t need to spend taxpayer dollars studying whether to establish more state-run law schools, let alone one that would be affiliated with a private college.

"It’s mind-boggling for the state to contemplate giving money to start up a private law school," said Mutua, a UB law faculty member for nearly a dozen years before being named interim dean in December. The state would be better off investing in UB to hire more faculty and recruit students for its law school, where about 800 students must share a 35-year-old building with undergraduates, Mutua said. "We need a completely new building," he said. "We’re squeezed for space."