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    • November 11
    Speaker Series: Rashmee Singh
    Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
    The Fiction of the Trafficked Victim: Socio-Legal Imaginaries in Human Trafficking Courts
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    November 4
    Speaker Series: Camilo Arturo Leslie
    Sociology, Tulane University
    'Kind of a Goat Screw': The Regulatory Afterlives of a Major American Fraud
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

    • October 28
    Speaker Series: Amy Stambach
    Anthropology, American University (School of International Service)
    Critical Minerals and the Public Purposes of U.S. International Development Finance
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    October 21
    Speaker Series: Amelia Frank-Vitale
    Anthropology and International Affairs, Princeton University
    Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    October 14
    Speaker Series: Traci Burch
    Political Science, ABF and Northwestern University
    Voting After a Felony Conviction: A Case Study of Rights Restoration in Tennessee
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    October 7
    Speaker Series: Pariroo Rattan
    Sociology, Northwestern University
    The Epistemic Limits of the Law: How Progressive, Bottom-up Legislation Refracts Politics in the Streets of Delhi
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

    • September 30
    Speaker Series: 2026-28 Doctoral Fellows
    Daniela Juarez, Alisher Juzgenbayev, and Ana Vasilj
    Welcome 2026-28 ABF Doctoral Fellows
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    September 23
    Speaker Series: Genevieve Bates
    Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Racial Justice as Transitional Justice: Human Rights and Public Support for Police Reform in the United States
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    September 16
    Speaker Series: Maria-Fátima Santos
    Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Learning Interpretive Terrains: Legal Aid Workers and their Strategies to Mitigate Punishment
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
    September 9
    Speaker Series: Elizabeth Mertz
    Law, American Bar Foundation and University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Arc of Scholarship Talk: Directions, Inspirations, Obstacles, and Impasses
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

    • May 13
    Speaker Series: Cary Martin Shelby
    Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
    Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity
    Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)