Event Category: ABF Speaker Series

February 18
Law and Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University
“Is the Endowment for Us?”
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
February 11
Sociology, Northwestern University
Enduring Empire: U.S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
February 4
Sociology, American Bar Foundation and The University of Chicago
Arc of Scholarship Talk: Directions, Inspirations, Obstacles, and Impasses
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

January 28
Criminal Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
"Perceived Fairness and Excess in Asset Forfeiture"
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
January 21
Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
What is the Rule of Law and Can it be saved: Lessons from the European Court of Human Rights
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
January 14
ABF Interim Executive Director and Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at University of California, Irvine School of Law
Arc of Scholarship Talk: Directions, Inspirations, Obstacles, and Impasses
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

December 3
Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

November 19
Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Finding the Right Forum: Non-State Actor Engagement in International Organizations
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
November 12
Law, UC Irvine
Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

October 29
Law, University of Southern California
Abortion and American Exceptionalism
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
October 22
ABF/AccessLex Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education
Moot Jurisdiction: How Role-Play Courts Reshape the Authority of Law
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person
October 15
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ABF/Northwestern Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science, ABF/UChicago Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science
New 2025 ABF Doctoral Fellows
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person