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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rashmee Singh
DESCRIPTION:Since 2010\, specialized dockets self-identifying as ‘human trafficking courts’ (HTC) have proliferated throughout the United States. These recent iterations of the problem-solving court movement surfaced in response to twenty-first-century anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution panics\, which conflate sex work and sex trafficking. Despite their name\, HTCs are not courts dedicated to prosecuting individuals charged with trafficking offences. Rather\, these dockets draw on the logic of therapeutic jurisprudence to prosecute those the legal system has deemed ‘trafficking victims’—cisgender women criminalized for a range of offences that typically include drug-related charges\, property crimes\, and prostitution. In lieu of pursuing traffickers\, HTCs require women to change themselves via court mandated substance abuse recovery programs\, trauma-based counselling\, and life skills counselling to ‘prevent their victimization.’ \nDrawing on her twelve-year\, multi-sited study encompassing six U.S. cities\, court observations\, and over 100 interviews\, this talk examines how anti-trafficking panics are impacting criminal legal responses to system-involved women. Dr. Singh argues that once the ‘sex worker as victim’ narrative drives the formation of problem-solving courts\, the concept of human trafficking victimization materializes as a proxy for a range of experiences that the law identifies as problematic and aims to correct. Dr. Singh’s findings suggest that while these imaginaries result in net-widening\, court actors are also mobilizing them in unexpected ways to mitigate punishment. This project contributes to socio-legal scholarship on the fractured and contradictory impacts of carceral institutions by illustrating how criminal legal actors differentially use legal fictions of ‘trafficking victimization’ to administer state power. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Rashmee Singh (she/her) was a 2025-26 Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include feminist legal theory\, feminist criminology\, specialized courts\, gender-based violence\, and the governance of sex work.   \nHer primary research project is a five-year comparative study examining the impact of criminal legal reforms on adult sex workers in the wake of anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution panics in the United States and Canada. The project\, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) examines specialized prostitution and human trafficking courts in multiple American cities and anti-trafficking movements in Southern Ontario.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-rashmee-singh/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261118T133000
DTSTAMP:20261103T182706Z
CREATED:20260629T193057Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Janice Nadler
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Janice Nadler (she/her) is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and the Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Before joining the ABF as a Research Professor\, she was an American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellow from 1998 to 2000.   \nNadler’s scholarship and teaching focuses mainly on the intersection of law and psychology. Her current projects include the influence of emotionally evocative and gruesome visual evidence can have on the psychology of jurors’ decision-making processes\, as well as how public opinion is shaped in reaction to corporate adoption of practices that are the subject of political contestation.   \nHer research has appeared in journals such as Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy\, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies\, and Oxford Handbook on Law and Language.   \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-speaker-series-janice-nadler/
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:20261119T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T154522Z
CREATED:20261007T160526Z
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SUMMARY:2026 November New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York Fellows for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor Natacha Nsabimana. \n“On Gacaca Courts in Rwanda and Transitional Justice” \nBetween 2005-2012\, Rwandan Gacaca courts\, (a form of transitional justice) tried thousands of genocide perpetrators and offered sentence reductions in exchange for a guilty plea confession and a public apology to genocide survivors and the nation. This presentation\, based on ethnographic research conducted in the wake of these trials\, will reflect on the socio-political effects of enacting justice at this scale using this method.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-november-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T110000
DTSTAMP:20260826T192151Z
CREATED:20260819T190849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T192151Z
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SUMMARY:Making Justice Infrastructure More People-Centered
DESCRIPTION:Creating an enabling environment for justice systems that are accessible and effective for everyday people requires robust people-centered justice infrastructure. This includes approaches to justice data\, financing\, and technology that both reinforce and amplify people-centered justice. Panelists in this webinar will explore what we know and what remains to be understood about these core justice infrastructure needs\, including people-centered approaches to collecting and using justice data\, examples of effective and impactful justice financing\, and insights and innovative approaches to justice technology. \nPresenters:\nMartin Gramatikov \nDirector of Knowledge and Research\, HiiL \nDr Martin Gramatikov is an expert in empirical legal research\, with a focus on access to justice\, dispute resolution\, and human rights. He holds a law degree and a PhD in political science from Sofia University. His work centers on large-scale justice needs studies\, measuring public perceptions of justice\, and evaluating the impact of access to justice and dispute resolution programs. Dr Gramatikov develops and applies innovative quantitative and qualitative methods to measure justice as people experience it. His research is widely used to assess justice gaps and progress towards improving access to justice and making justice more people centered. He currently serves as Director of Knowledge and Research at HiiL\, where he sets the organization’s research agenda and leads the internalization and externalization of knowledge on access to justice and people-centered justice. \n  \nClare Manuel \nSenior Research Associate\, ODI \nClare Manuel is a UK lawyer and Senior Research Associate for the Politics and Governance program at ODI. Her research focus is on financing and budgeting for access to justice. She has co-authored pioneering papers on domestic and external financing for justice\, costing SDG16.3\, scaling up innovative front-line approaches to delivering people centered justice for all\, and lessons from global funds. \nPrior to joining ODI\, Clare was founder and director of The Law & Development Partnership an international development consultancy firm which she ran for 20 years\, until the sale of the business. She led projects and provided policy advice for DFID\, World Bank\, EU and other donors on access justice\, business enabling environment\, women in business\, institutional strengthening\, legal reform and adaptive programming in the UK\, Africa\, Aisa\, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. She supported the Governments of Uganda\, Rwanda\, Kenya and Sierra Leone to develop cross-sectoral justice reform strategies. From 2015-2017 she was program director of DFID’s innovative LASER (Legal Assistance for Economic Reform) Program. \nClare previously worked as an embedded legal / justice adviser in Uganda and Fiji. Her career began as a commercial litigator in a city law firm\, and then a UK government lawyer specializing in company investigations\, policy work and legislative drafting. \n  \nMarcus Manuel \nSenior Research Associate\, ODI \nMarcus Manuel is a Senior Research Associate for ODI. His current research is on financing access to justice. He has published pioneering papers on domestic and external financing for justice\, costing SDG16.3 and scaling up innovative front-line approaches to delivering people centered justice for all. Previous research has also included addressing extreme poverty and financing development in fragile states and at sub-national level. Marcus Manuel’s former ODI roles advising on budget reforms. \nPrior to joining ODI\, Marcus held a number of senior management roles within the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) from 2002 to 2010 responsible for offices and program in Africa and Asia\, with annual budgets up to $400 million a year. \nBefore working at DFID\, Marcus worked at HM Treasury\, initially as macroeconomic adviser. His final role was head of the newly created department responsible for advice on all aspects of international development. Between 1996–2000\, Marcus was seconded to work as the Senior Adviser in the Ugandan Ministry of Finance\, Planning and Economic Development where he advised on the national budget\, taxation and sector spending strategies\, including the pioneering Justice\, Law and Order Strategy\, the first of its type in the world. \nMarcus has a MSc in Economics from London University\, after graduating from Oxford University. \n  \nJason Tashea \nFounding Director of the Judicial Innovation Fellowship\, Georgetown University Law Center \nJason Tashea is a writer and entrepreneur exploring justice and technology. A lawyer by training\, he is the court innovation fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy and the courts and AI fellow at Georgetown Law. He is also the co-founder of the Court Innovation Roundtable. \nHe was previously the founding director and a co-founder of the Judicial Innovation Fellowship program at Georgetown Law\, a consultant for the World Bank on access to justice and technology issues\, and a product manager at multiple justice technology startups. He’s also the author of the Justice Tech Download\, a weekly industry newsletter. He’s currently a member of the Legal Services Corporation’s Leaders Council and a senior advisor to the AI and Justice Consortium. He received his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law and has a BA in history from Linfield College. \nModerator:\nRebecca Sandefur \nProfessor\, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics\, Arizona State University\nFaculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation \nRebecca L. Sandefur is Professor in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and (by courtesy) in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University\, where she previously served as Director of the Sanford School. Her research focuses on access to civil justice\, examining how legal services are delivered and experienced; how civil legal aid systems are organized; the role of pro bono; and the comparative effectiveness\, sustainability\, and scalability of lawyers\, helpers who are not licensed attorneys\, and digital tools. She also studies how ordinary people understand and attempt to resolve their justice problems. \nSandefur is a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation\, where she founded the Access to Justice Research Initiative in 2010. She serves on the Arizona Commission on Access to Justice by appointment of the Supreme Court of Arizona. She is co-founder\, with Matthew Burnett\, of Frontline Justice and the Justice Worker Lab\, initiatives dedicated to expanding access to civil legal help through community-based justice workers. \nHer honors include a MacArthur Fellowship (2018)\, the National Center for State Courts’ Warren E. Burger Award (2020)\, and election to the Sociological Research Association (2024). Born in Oklahoma\, she is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/making-justice-infrastructure-more-people-centered/
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261201T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261201T100000
DTSTAMP:20260826T192254Z
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SUMMARY:What Works? Exploring the Evidence for People-Centered Justice Solutions
DESCRIPTION:A critical — and perennial — question for people-centered justice policy and practice is\, what works? Through the lens of promising approaches like alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and health justice partnerships\, as well as human-centered approaches to researching and designing solutions\, panelists will explore both the knowledge we have and the data we need for effective people-centered justice solutions. \nPresenters:\nMaurits Barendrecht \nProfessor of Innovation of Justice Systems(Emeritus)\, Tilburg University\nR&D Advisor\, Hague Institute for the Innovation of Law \nProf. Maurits Barendrecht is Professor Innovation of Justice Systems (emeritus) at Tilburg University (Netherlands) and R&D advisor at the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law. He specializes in evidence-based innovation in the justice sector. His work focuses on integrating interdisciplinary know how on dispute resolution in formal\, mandatory legal procedures. He worked on innovating resolution pathways for divorce\, personal injury\, day to day crime\, disputes with government agencies and more. He published extensively on outcome metrics\, regulation and financing of justice pathways\, using a people-centered perspective. Most of his work is internationally comparative. He holds a PhD in Law from Tilburg University. \n  \nMichele Leering \nVisiting Scholar\, Queen’s University Faculty of Law \nMichele Leering (PhD\, CM) is a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Canada. As the former Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre\, she practiced as a community lawyer and over three decades led numerous participatory action research projects to tackle issues of local poverty\, homelessness\, unmet civil legal needs\, and rural and remote access to justice. Her work focused on transforming legal services to be more holistic and evidence-based\, addressing the multifaceted and intersecting needs of clients and marginalized communities. Michele promotes a diversity \nof legal service delivery approaches\, including early intervention and prevention\, proactive and systemic advocacy\, and robust community legal education initiatives. Her research contributes to building a people-centered justice ecosystem that values legal literacy\, capability\, and empowerment; and the contributions of trusted intermediaries\, paralegals\, and community justice workers. Her recent research includes health justice partnerships\, imperatives for legal education reform (reflective practice as meta-competency)\, and designing more robust professional competency frameworks. She has collaborated with organizations like Namati and the Open Society Foundations to advance community-based legal clinics as a vibrant model for enhancing access to justice and legal empowerment globally. \n  \nZainab Malik \nSenior Policy and Advocacy Advisor\, The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) \nZainab Z. Malik is a human rights lawyer and international development professional with over 15 years of experience driving transformative change in the global justice landscape. She currently serves as a Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser at The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)\, where she leads the development of global policy and advocacy strategies to advance people-centered justice and strengthen justice systems worldwide. \nHer work has focused on expanding access to justice and addressing critical human rights issues\, including sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)\, fair trial rights\, and the abolition of capital punishment and torture. Previously\, Zainab was Head of Policy and Advocacy at Justice Project Pakistan (JPP). \nZainab also brings international program experience from her role as a Program Development Specialist at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO)\, where she designed rule of law and access to justice initiatives across Africa and the MENA region. An LL.M. graduate of Harvard Law School and an experienced litigator\, she has represented survivors of SGBV\, police torture\, and prisoners with mental illness. She has also trained lawyers and judges on defending vulnerable clients and applying international law in domestic litigation. Zainab remains deeply committed to justice systems that are inclusive\, humane\, and responsive to people’s needs. \n  \nModerator:\nMatthew Burnett \nDirector of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative\, American Bar Foundation \nMatthew Burnett is Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation (ABF)\, a visiting scholar with the Justice Futures Project at Arizona State University\, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the ABF\, Matthew was Senior Policy Officer at Open Society Foundations (OSF)\, where he worked to advance access to justice and legal empowerment through research\, advocacy\, litigation and grantmaking in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, Eastern Europe\, and the United States. Earlier in his career he helped to launch and led the Immigration Advocates Network and served as law clerk to Justice ZM Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Matthew’s research on access to justice has been funded by the National Science Foundation\, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics\, the World Bank\, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. He currently serves as an advisor to the National Center for Access to Justice and is co-founder\, with Rebecca Sandefur\, of Frontline Justice and the Justice Worker Lab.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/what-works-exploring-the-evidence-for-people-centered-justice-solutions/
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261202T133000
DTSTAMP:20260804T204054Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aviv Caspi
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Aviv Caspi is a Research Lead at the Rhode Center and Wachtell Fellow of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. \nAviv was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Regulation\, Evaluation\, and Governance Lab (RegLab). He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University and a Master of Legal Studies from the University of Chicago Law School. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-aviv-caspi/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261209T133000
DTSTAMP:20261103T183302Z
CREATED:20260629T193251Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rahim Kurwa
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Rahim Kurwa (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law\, and Justice and the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nKurwa’s research is focused on how municipalities use policing to reproduce racial segregation in an era governed by fair housing law. His work explores the history and consequences of the policing of subsidized housing\, and the work of tenants and legal advocates to resist that policing. He is currently writing a manuscript exploring these topics\, titled Apartheid’s Afterlives: Policing Black Life in the Antelope Valley.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-speaker-series-rahim-kurwa/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270113T133000
DTSTAMP:20261104T191106Z
CREATED:20261104T191106Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shaun Ossei-Owusu
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nShaun Ossei-Owusu is the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law for the 2026–27 academic year. He is a Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School\, where he teaches courses on criminal law\, the legal profession\, antidiscrimination law\, the welfare state\, and the business of law firms.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shaun-ossei-owusu/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270120T133000
DTSTAMP:20261104T191840Z
CREATED:20261104T191744Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nWinnifred Fallers Sullivan is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. She is the Provost Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Sullivan is also an Affiliate Professor of Law Emeritus at Maurer School of Law\, and the former Director of the IU Center for Religion and the Human. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-winnifred-fallers-sullivan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270127T133000
DTSTAMP:20261104T192355Z
CREATED:20261104T192355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T192355Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kathleen (Katy) Arnold
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Kathleen Arnold teaches courses on political theory (specializing in contemporary theory)\, immigration law\, human rights\, and political development and political economy in the Department of Political Science. She is committed to teaching from an intersectional perspective\, including assigning texts that are critical of the philosophical canon\, and centrist and/or “realist” approaches to international organizations. She often works with students on justice-oriented projects and is engaged in grassroots activity in the Chicago area\, as well as serving as an expert witness in asylum cases.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kathleen-katy-arnold/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270203T133000
DTSTAMP:20261104T192727Z
CREATED:20261104T192727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T192727Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Evelyn Smith
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Evelyn Smith is a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation and Postdoctoral Affiliate with Stanford Reglab and the Mansueto Institute at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2024\, and her B.A. in Economics\, summa cum laude\, from Georgetown University in 2014. She is an applied microeconomist\, and her research focuses on applications of AI to help diagnose and address systemic disparities in tax administration and enforcement.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-evelyn-smith/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270210T133000
DTSTAMP:20261104T205834Z
CREATED:20261104T193541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T205834Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sharese King
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Sharese King is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago\, formerly named The Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in 2020. As a sociolinguist\, King examines the relationship between race and language. Drawing on both ethnographic and experimental techniques\, her research explores how African Americans use language to construct multidimensional identities\, how linguistic styles come to be racialized as Black\, and the social and political consequences of this racialization.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-sharese-king/
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270217T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T214506Z
CREATED:20261106T214506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T214506Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kathryn Takabvirwa
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Kathryn Takabvirwa is a social and cultural anthropologist. Her research centers on policing\, citizenship\, migration and mobility\, governance\, and the state in Southern Africa. She is interested in the ways people reconcile themselves to the idea of the state and of citizenship in light of histories of state violence. She is currently working on a book manuscript on police roadblocks in Zimbabwe. The ethnography presents a close examination of encounters between the police and those they stopped along Zimbabwe’s roads between 2012 and 2017\, the period during which official police roadblocks proliferated throughout the country. Tentatively titled How to Ask for a Bribe\, the book also explores experiences of commuting\, as well as the policing of street vendors.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kathryn-takabvirwa/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270224T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Patrisia Macías-Rojas
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Patrisia Macías-Rojas received her PhD in Sociology from The University of California\, Berkeley. She is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Latin American and Latin Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Broadly\, her research focuses on 1) race and immigration after the civil rights movement; 2) the global and racial politics of migration and border controls; 3) the merger of the immigration and criminal legal systems and the criminalization of long-term residents in US-Mexico border communities.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-patrisia-macias-rojas/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270303T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270303T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T215717Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kumar Ramanathan
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nKumar Ramanathan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UIC. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University\, and previously held positions as a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago. \nHis research explores the relationships between law\, public policy\, and inequality in the United States. This includes projects on American political development\, urban politics\, and democratic accountability. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics\, Studies in American Political Development\, Urban Affairs Review\, Political Research Quarterly\, the Journal of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Politics\, Cleveland State Law Review\, and The Forum. \nHis book manuscript\, tentatively titled Building a Civil Rights Agenda: The Democratic Party and the Origins of Racial Liberalism\, explores how party politics during the 1930s-60s shaped the content of landmark civil rights legislation. The dissertation on which the book manuscript is based received an honorable mention from the American Political Science Association’s Politics and History Section.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kumar-ramanathan/
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:20270304T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270304T133000
DTSTAMP:20261021T190658Z
CREATED:20261021T190553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T190658Z
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SUMMARY:2027 March Oregon Fellows Hybrid Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date to join the Oregon Fellows for a hybrid lunch event featuring ABF Affiliated Scholar and University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance Associate Professor\, Karin D. Martin. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2027-march-oregon-fellows-hybrid-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270310T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T220123Z
CREATED:20261106T220040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T220123Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jinee Lokaneeta
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Jinee Lokaneeta is a Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Drew University\, Madison\, NJ. Jinee received her PhD from the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to USC\, she taught Political Science at Kirori Mal College\, Delhi University\, India. Jinee completed her Bachelors\, Masters and Mphil in Political Science at Delhi University. Her areas of interest include Law and Violence\, Critical Political and Legal Theory\, Human Rights\, Law in South Asia\, & Interdisciplinary Legal Studies. She joined Drew University in 2006. She is also affiliated with the Womens and Gender Studies Program at Drew.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jinee-lokaneeta/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270331T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T220535Z
CREATED:20261106T220351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T220535Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Nurfadzilah Yahaya
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Nurfadzilah Yahaya traces how colonial institutional frameworks built enduring juridical\, territorial\, and extractive architectures that decisively transformed societies and still influence contemporary relations between communities\, resource access\, and state power.  \nHer first book\, Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and the Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press\, 2020)\, examines how Arab commercial elites maneuvering within British and Dutch legal frameworks helped define imperial sovereignty. Their strategies to safeguard international family estates through colonial judicial systems dissolved boundaries between private agreements and public law\, creating jurisdictional spillover where subjects pursuing legal security unintentionally expanded imperial control.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-nurfadzilah-yahaya/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270407T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T225035Z
CREATED:20261106T225035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T225035Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Eve Darian-Smith
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Eve Darian-Smith is a Distinguished Professor and the founding chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at UC Irvine. Before coming to UC Irvine in 2017\, Dr. Darian-Smith was a professor at UC Santa Barbara where she was chair of the Global Studies Department and prior to that chair of the Law & Society Program.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-eve-darian-smith/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270421T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T225706Z
CREATED:20261106T225706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T225706Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Keally McBride
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Keally McBride is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and is interested in issues of power and social change. Her recent research has focused on the dynamics of information technology within contemporary capitalism\, but she has published books on punishment and policing\, movements of decolonization\, and colonialism and the rule of law. She teaches a broad array of courses that investigate local public policy\, European politics\, political economy\, peace and conflict\, and revolution.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-keally-mcbride/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270428T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T230018Z
CREATED:20261106T230018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T230018Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Netina Tan
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Netina Tan is a professor of Political Science at McMaster University\, ON Canada. Dr. Tan’s research focuses on the sources of authoritarian resilience and political representation of ethnic minorities and women in East and Southeast Asia. Currently\, she is working on the politics of ethnic quota\, gerrymandering and a SSHRC grant project on online harms against women’s political participation in Asia.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-netina-tan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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