Event Category: News

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
October 8
ABF/AccessLex Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education
Pathways to Justice Work: Nonlawyer Educational Choices, Identities, and Professionalization in the U.S.
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person

September 24
History, University of Chicago
Fissures in the Welfare State: Rethinking the Weaknesses of the New Deal
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
September 17
Sociology and Law, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Border Skirmishes in Indian Country: McGirt, The Settler Carceral State, and Abolition Geographies
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)