Event Category: News

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)
September 10
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Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University Chicago; Criminal Justice, Governors State University
Skyscraper Jails in New York City
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

May 21
Law, The University of Hong Kong
Wu Jingxiong’s American Dilemma: Between Natural Law and Cold War Geopolitics
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)