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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Elizabeth Mertz
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. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nDr. Elizabeth Mertz (she/her) is a Research Professor at the ABF and the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law Emerita at University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is a leading legal anthropologist and pioneer in the study of legal language in the United States\, with a special focus on law school education. Mertz’s research has also played a major role in developing interdisciplinary approaches to the empirical study of law within the field of New Legal Realism.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-elizabeth-mertz/
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:20260916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260916T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Maria-Fátima Santos
DESCRIPTION:Professor Santos’s current research examines public defenders who counsel poor people in Brazil’s penal courts to clarify key dynamics that shape legal aid professions in different contexts\, including their relationship to inequality\, racialized violence and state transformation. In other work\, Fátima examines how carceral administration connects to dynamics of social conflict and political legitimacy. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-speaker-series-maria-fatima-santos/
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:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260923T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T185214Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Genevieve Bates
DESCRIPTION:Genevieve Bates is the Mary Herman Rubinstein Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously\, Bates was an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia\, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Bates received their PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2021. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-genevieve-bates/
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:20260930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260930T133000
DTSTAMP:20260723T211628Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2026-28 Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Daniela Juarez\n \nAna Vasij is an ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. \n____________________________________________________________ \nAlisher Juzgenbayev\n \nAlisher Juzgenbayev is an ABF/Northwestern Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science. He is currently a J.D/Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. \n____________________________________________________________ \nAna Vasilj\n \nAna Vasilj is an ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science. She is currently a J.D/Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.  \n____________________________________________________________ \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2026-28-doctoral-fellows/
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:20261007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261007T133000
DTSTAMP:20260721T172626Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Pariroo Rattan
DESCRIPTION:Pariroo Rattan is a Weinberg College Postdoctoral Fellow in Science in Human Culture and the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. She will also be teaching at the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern. Pariroo is a recent PhD graduate from Harvard University\, where she was a long-standing Fellow at the HKS Science\, Technology and Society (STS) program and received a secondary field in Music. Her doctoral dissertation is titled “A Marketplace for Populism: The Moral Politics of Digitization in India’s Informal Economy” and studies the relationship of the digital economy with mediating state institutions and nation-building in India\, through an ethnography of street vendors in New Delhi using digital biometric ID Aadhaar and payment system Unified Payments Interface. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-pariroo-rattan/
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:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261021T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T190453Z
CREATED:20260629T190417Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Amelia Frank-Vitale
DESCRIPTION:Amelia Frank-Vitale studies how people manage and make sense of an ever-expanding US border regime in the Americas. Vitale’s body of work connects regional immigration and security policies\, organized crime\, state violence\, and strategic immobility as a survival strategy in Honduras and in migration. \nVitale’s research trajectory began with a focus on transit migration in and through Mexico. There\, they document the dangers facing mostly Central Americans who were attempting to migrate through an increasingly hostile landscape as immigration enforcement and collateral consequences of Mexico’s so-called drug war put migrants in the cross hairs of both legal and illicit authorities. As part of this research\, Vitale explored the various strategies that people employ to navigate this minefield\, including coming together to migrate en masse\, in the form of caravans\, and making use of smugglers. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-amelia-frank-vitale/
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:20261028T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Amy Stambach
DESCRIPTION:Professor Stambach is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines the production and mobilization of environmental knowledge. Her anthropological work began with studying Tanzanian education programs designed to build a post-colonial and post-socialist national citizenry. That work led to her interest in U.S. evangelical religious groups’ involvement in providing education to students in Kenya\, Tanzania\, and Uganda and\, more recently\, to the study of China-Africa educational programs as seen from the perspectives of Tanzanian\, Kenyan\, and Rwandan university students and higher education professionals. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-speaker-series-amy-stambach/
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:20261104T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Camilo Arturo Leslie
DESCRIPTION:Camilo Arturo Leslie works in the areas of economic sociology and the sociology of law\, with a comparative focus on the U.S. and Latin America. Theoretically\, Leslie examines the institutional and ideational supports of legitimacy\, trust\, and ignorance. Leslie’s main line of research surveys the rise and fall of the Stanford Financial Group fraud\, a decades-long Ponzi scheme that left roughly 20\,000 victims with $7.2 billion in losses. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-camilo-arturo-leslie/
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:20261111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261111T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T192856Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rashmee Singh
DESCRIPTION:Rashmee Singh (she/her) is a 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.   \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
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:20260721T173310Z
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/Chicago:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261202T133000
DTSTAMP:20260721T172850Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aviv Caspi
DESCRIPTION: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:20260629T193530Z
CREATED:20260629T193251Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rahim Kurwa
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
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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