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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aziz Rana
DESCRIPTION:Scholars and commentators increasingly worry that the United States is facing a constitutional crisis\, but the exact contours of this crisis remain underspecified.  In this talk\, Aziz Rana argues that the present moment is best understood as marked by the collapse of a midcentury constitutional compact that was consolidated over the course of three critical decades\, from the 1930s to the 1960s.  This consolidation took place against the backdrop of Cold War dynamics and global decolonization.  Thus\, the American constitutional project was forged through and gained meaning from its antagonism with the Soviet Union.  Today\, the Soviet Union is long gone and the country has witnessed a steady defection from the terms of that past compact.  The result has been institutional breakdown\, without a clear pathway for reconstructing shared legal and political practices.  All of this suggests that democratic renewal will likely require more than simply restoration of a past settlement\, but a far more extensive undertaking in constitutional transformation. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nAziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan\, S.J.\, University Professor of Law and Government. He joins Boston College from Cornell Law School\, where he was the Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular\, Rana’s work focuses on how shifting notions of race\, citizenship\, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding of the country.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-aziz-rana/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T200000
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SUMMARY:Ruth Bader Ginsburg Endowed Fund for Research in Civil Rights & Gender Equality Reception
DESCRIPTION:As a tribute to its past Board member\, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, and the significant impact she had on the institution\, the American Bar Foundation (ABF) has established the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Endowed Fund for Research in Civil Rights & Gender Equality (RBG Fund). \nPlease join us in celebrating the late Justice Ginsburg and the RBG Fund with cocktails and abundant hors d’oeuvres in the city where the Justice began her career as a fierce advocate for equal justice under law. \nThursday\, May 7\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET \nNew York City Bar Association\n42 W. 44th Street\nNew York\, New York 10036 \nThe American Bar Foundation graciously recognizes event Platinum Sponsor: \nThe Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation \nThe American Bar Foundation graciously recognizes event Gold Sponsor: \n \n The American Bar Foundation graciously recognizes event Silver Sponsor: \n \nFor more information on event sponsorship\, contact Erla Teli\, ABF Director of Major Gifts and Grants\, at 312-988-6511 or eteli@abfn.org.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/ruth-bader-ginsburg-endowed-fund-for-research-in-civil-rights-gender-equality-reception/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T180000
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SUMMARY:2026 May Washington\, D.C. Fellows Reception and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Washington\, D.C. Fellows for a reception and presentation of “Weaponizing Immigration Detention” by ABF Affiliated Scholar Emily Ryo. This reception is being held in conjunction with the ABA International Law Section Annual Conference \nMonday\, May 11\, 2026 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM ET \nReception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and hosted bar. Presentation to start around 6:45 pm. \nOffices of Cozen O’Connor \n2001 M Street NW\, Suite 500\nWashington\, D.C. \n$75 per Person\nGuests Welcome\nCancellations cannot be refunded after May 4\, 2026 \nImmigrants\, like all individuals\, exist within networks of social relationships that shape their identities\, inform their decision-making\, and guide their behavior. Certain areas of substantive U.S. immigration law—the body of law governing who may enter or remain in the United States—explicitly acknowledge this social embeddedness by protecting or privileging valued social relationships. In contrast\, procedural immigration law—the set of rules governing how substantive immigration law is implemented and enforced—undermines or destroys those very relationships. The U.S. government’s practice of transferring immigrant detainees across multiple detention facilities and confining them in remote locations is a paradigmatic example of such destructive procedural immigration law in action. This presentation will present the first systematic empirical analysis of interfacility transfers and remote detention in the U.S. immigration detention system. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event hosts:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-washington-d-c-fellows-reception-and-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Cary Martin Shelby
DESCRIPTION:Professor Shelby will discuss several chapters of her upcoming book\, Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity\, which introduces “Markets for Black Pain” as a novel theoretical construct contending that for-profit companies commodify Black Pain in ways that can lead to additional cycles of harm that spread to surrounding communities. Black Pain\, the foundation of this construct\, encompasses the multitude of individual and collective harms that Black people experience due to racism. Black Pain is its own distinct commodity\, Shelby argues\, given the ways in which it can be transformed into quantifiable and profitable units by for-profit companies. While the United States has historically relied on Black Pain to develop core aspects of its economy\, this book provides a taxonomy of modern commodifiers of Black Pain that stem from privatization becoming a preferred public policy solution to the ongoing plight of racism. Black Pain\, for example\, can manifest itself through “food deserts\,” experienced by predominantly Black communities enduring limited access to healthy food options. Market-based solutions invite private-sector participants to transform these food deserts into profitable units by receiving government subsidies in exchange for investing in grocery stores and other healthy food options within Black communities. \nAlthough market-based solutions for the ongoing plight of Black Pain can be successful\, they frequently create more of the same\, particularly when community investment leads to community displacement in the form of gentrification. The “Markets for Black Pain” construct thus uniquely categorizes these additional harms as negative externalities\, as they can cycle through entire communities despite community members themselves being excluded as direct participants within such transactions. While it might be assumed that these additional harms are exclusively borne by Black communities\, this construct challenges this assumption by exploring how the resulting market failures can threaten financial stability for the broader economy and serve as catalysts for a range of systemic disruptions. \nThe theory introduced in this book as “Markets for Black Pain” builds on a rich discourse of scholarly works that integrate economic analysis into the ways in which race is defined and categorized within hierarchical structures. It further revolutionizes the operation of the law in numerous contexts by introducing market failures as an entirely new category of harm that can emanate from racism. Potential market failures of this kind are not recognized within the panoply of civil rights legislation designed to redress the harms arising from direct and systemic forms of racism. They are similarly missing from the additional federal and state laws that regulate commodifiers of Black Pain by managing internal governance conflicts and protecting external stakeholders. Markets for Black Pain therefore compels us to consider a more expansive list of regulatory solutions that move beyond the prevailing goal of making a damaged party whole. This book offers timely and compelling suggestions for preventing the systemic harms arising from these market failures\, including strategic reparations and regulatory reforms based on pillars of transparency\, access\, diversity\, and accountability. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nCary Martin Shelby joined Chicago-Kent College of Law as the Ralph Brill Endowed Chair Professor of Law in July 2023. She specializes in corporate and securities law and teaches a variety of courses such as Contracts\, Business Associations\, Securities Regulation\, Corporate Finance\, and a seminar on Investment Funds. Shelby was previously a professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law and served as a visiting associate professor of law with The George Washington University Law School during the spring 2021 semester. She was also the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law during the 2022–2023 academic year. \nHer research generally encompasses regulatory issues related to hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles. It has utilized a range of theoretical frameworks to scrutinize the blurred distinctions between public and private investment funds resulting from financial innovation\, retailization\, and systemic risk. Her research has since expanded to explore intersections between race and systemic risk by examining the extent to which racism poses a threat to financial stability in ways that should be recognized by financial regulators. Shelby has published articles in Northwestern University Law Review\, California Law Review\, The Business Lawyer\, Boston College Law Review\, among other journals and periodicals. Shelby is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press for her forthcoming book project\, Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-cary-martin-shelby/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T120000
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SUMMARY:2026 May Oregon/Washington Fellows Event
DESCRIPTION:Kari Petrasek\, ABA Washington State Membership Chair & ABF Washington Fellows Co-Chair\, and Judge Dean Lum\, ABF Washington Fellows Co-Chair\, in partnership with Shayda Z. Le\, Chair of the ABF Oregon Fellows\, and Marilyn J. Harbur and Leslie S. Johnson\, ABA Oregon State Membership Co-Chairs invite you to a joint Oregon & Washington Fellows Lunch and Day of Programming – Open to All Fellows Nationwide. \nFriday\, May 29\, 2026 \nOffices of Miller Nash\, LLP\n1140 SW Washington Street\nPortland\, OR 987205 \n12:00-1:00 PM PT – Lunch \n1:00-4:30 PM PT – Program Sessions Featuring: \nA panel discussion with: \n\nOregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Meagan Aileen Flynn\nWashington Supreme Court Chief Justice Debra L. Stephens\nWashington Supreme Court Justice Salvador A. Mungia\n\nPresentation by ABF Research Professor William H. J. Hubbard of: \n“Justice for Sale: Exposing the Hidden Markets in Civil Procedure and Finding Ways to Regulate Them Sensibly” \n4:30-5:30 PM PT – Reception to Follow Program \nThis program and lunch are presented in collaboration with the American Bar Association\, whose members are integral to the ABF Fellows community. \nCLE Requested \nIn addition to attending the lunch & program\, the State Chairs encourage all attendees to join the group for an informal dinner that evening. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Venue and Reception Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Bronze Sponsors:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-may-oregon-washington-fellows-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T133000
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SUMMARY:2026 June New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Swethaa Ballakrishnen\, ABF 2025-26 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. \n“Giving More\, Feeling Worse: Familial Support Exchanges and Mental Health Among Law Students”\nResearch on intergenerational transfer of capital has focused primarily on the downward movement of resources to heirs and dependents. This focus is crucial given the range of systemic advantages that generational privilege can offer\, especially for those seeking access into already elite institutions. Still\, it is an incomplete portrayal of inequality because it obscures the more relational and recursive nature of how support flows from heirs to their previous generations\, especially for populations whose mobility is not buttressed by generational advantage. In this talk\, Professor Ballakrishnen will make the case\, drawing from their collaborative research\, that paying attention to the ways in which support is received and given to older generations can be instrumental to understanding the layers of inequality that buttress individual experience within professional sites. \nFocusing on new longitudinal mixed-methods social network data on law students\, we find that multi-directional structures of support are particularly common for law students from marginalized backgrounds (and in particular\, Black law students and students who parents did not complete their bachelor’s degrees)\, and that this inverse relationship to support has implications for students’ mental health. Particularly\, our data show that students’ potential for depressive symptoms were not moderated by receiving support from their parental figures. Instead\, regardless of support received\, those who gave more support were more likely to experience depressive symptoms. The association between giving support to parents and depression was partially mediated\, or explained\, by differences in law students’ locus of control\, satisfaction with law school\, GPA\, and quality of relationships with other students. Together\, these findings have implications for our understanding of generational privilege and the ways in which historical social advantage can buffer and burden mobility.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/15201/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T234313
CREATED:20260402T185110Z
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SUMMARY:2026 June Illinois Fellows Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Illinois Fellows State Chair Michael J. Hernandez for a complimentary Illinois Fellows lunch and presentation by ABF Research Professor and Northwestern University Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair and Professor of Sociology\, Laura Beth Nielsen. \n“Representations of Vengeance\, Justice\, Expertise\, and Emotion in True Crime Podcasts” \nThursday\, June 11\, 2026 \nFranczek P.C.\n300 South Wacker\, Suite 3400\nChicago\, Il 60606 \n11:30 AM CT – Networking Lunch\n12:00 PM CT – Presentation \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-june-illinois-fellows-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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