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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Veena Dubal
DESCRIPTION:How much does an Uber driver make per hour? Workers’ groups\, economists\, and corporate-sponsored researchers have all calculated dramatically different numbers. Why has answering this question been so fraught\, and what can we learn about the value of quantitative and qualitative research from reflecting on this question? \nIn this article\, Veena Dubal argues that rather than reflecting a “natural labor price\,” calculated via a digital assessment of supply and demand\, variable wages allocated algorithmically to individual workers are better understood as part of a new digitalized labor management practice\, what she has called algorithmic wage discrimination. By design\, algorithmic wage discrimination formulates hourly wages that are highly variable\, using data and insights about worker behavior to set labor prices differentially. Quantitative studies of wage-earning at the aggregate level thus obscure what qualitative research makes evident: wages for platform-controlled workers not only often fall below subsistence levels\, but the very methods and practices of wage-setting generate novel forms of economic suffering. Regulatory interventions\, then\, should be attendant not just to the average wage price\, which tends to disguise new harms and buttress corporate myths about the nature of digital labor management\, but also to the many problems engendered by digitalized wage allocation\, thereby heeding the demands of worker groups to intervene in the relational process of wage-determination. These qualitative findings are especially important to understanding and regulating the “future of work\,” as algorithmic wage discrimination is quickly moving from the ride-hail and food-delivery industry to the labor economy writ large. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nVeena Dubal is a Professor of Law at the University of California\, Irvine School of Law. Her research focuses broadly on law\, technology\, and precarious workers\, combining legal and empirical analysis to explore issues of labor and inequality. Her work encompasses a range of topics\, including the impact of digital technologies and emerging legal frameworks on workers’ lives\, the interplay between law\, work\, and identity\, and the role of law and lawyers in solidarity movements. \nDubal has written numerous articles in top law and social science journals and published essays in the popular press. Her research has been cited internationally in legal decisions\, including by the California Supreme Court\, and her research and commentary are regularly featured in media outlets\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Los Angeles Times\, NPR\, CNN\, etc. TechCrunch has called Dubal an “unlikely star in the tech world\,” and her expertise is frequently sought by regulatory bodies\, legislators\, judges\, workers\, and unions in the U.S. and Europe. Dubal is completing a book manuscript that presents a theoretical reappraisal of how low-income immigrant and racial minority workers experience and respond to shifting technologies and regulatory regimes. The manuscript draws upon a decade of interdisciplinary ethnographic research on taxi and ride-hail regulations and worker organizing and advocacy in San Francisco. \nDubal received a B.A. from Stanford University and holds J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she conducted an ethnography of the San Francisco taxi industry. The subject of her doctoral research arose from her work as a public interest attorney and Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow at the Asian Law Caucus where she founded a taxi worker project and represented Muslim Americans in civil rights cases. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at her alma mater\, Stanford University. She returned to Stanford again in 2022 as a Residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Dubal is the recipient of numerous awards and grants\, including the Fulbright\, for her scholarship and previous work as a public interest lawyer.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-veena-dubal/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
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SUMMARY:Emerging Insights from Access to Justice Research
DESCRIPTION:The United States faces an access to civil justice crisis of extraordinary scale. According to the latest Legal Services Corporation Justice Gap Report\, 92% of low-income Americans with civil needs cannot find adequate help to resolve their civil legal problems. Hosted by the American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice Research Initiative and Wayne State University Law School\, this conference offers a unique opportunity for access to justice researchers\, policy makers\, and practitioners to critically examine how empirical research and evidence might provide answers. \nThere is no cost to attend this conference\, but registration is required. Space is limited.  \nEvent Schedule:\nWelcome and Opening Remarks | 9:00 – 9:15 am\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nRichard Bierschbach\, Dean and John W. Reed Professor of Law\, Wayne State University Law School\nRebecca Sandefur\, Director and Professor\, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics\, Arizona State University; Faculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation\nHarold D. Pope\, American Bar Foundation Board Member and Sustaining Life Fellow \nSession 1: Research-Practice Partnerships | 9:15 – 10:45 am \nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC\n \nMargaret Hagan (Stanford University)\nClaire Johnson Raba (UIC Law)\nKirsten Matoy Carlson (Wayne State University Law School)\nNeel Sukhatme (Georgetown University Law Center) \nRespondent: Nikole Nelson (Frontline Justice)\nModerator: Matthew Burnett (American Bar Foundation) \nBreak | 10:45 – 11:00 am \nSession 2: Exploring the Nexus of Civil and Criminal Law | 11:00 – 12:30 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nBrittany Friedman (University of Southern California)\nSarah Lageson (Rutgers University)\nKarin Martin (University of Washington)\nMaureen Waller (Cornell University) \nRespondent: Ed Wunch (Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma)\nModerator: Robin Bartram (University of Chicago) \nLunch | 12:30 – 1:30 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nLunchtime remarks by Richard Bierschbach\, Dean and John W. Reed Professor of Law\, Wayne State University Law School\n \nSession 3: Data for Achieving Better Justice Outcomes | 1:30 – 3:00 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nChiara Galli (University of Chicago)\nRebecca Johnson (Georgetown University)\nAmy Widman (Rutgers Law School) \nRespondent: Holly Stevens (Legal Services Corporation)\nModerator: Nicole Summers (Georgetown University Law Center) \nBreak | 3:00 – 3:15 pm \nSession 4: Housing and Environmental Justice | 3:15 – 4:45 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nRobin Bartram (University of Chicago)\nAlyse Bertenthal (Wake Forest Law)\nNicole Summers (Georgetown University Law Center) \nRespondent: David Neumeyer (Virginia Legal Aid Society)\nModerator: Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State University) \nClosing Remarks | 4:45 – 5:00 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nReception | 5:00 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room FGH
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/emerging-insights-from-access-to-justice-research/
LOCATION:McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Wayne State University\, 495 Gilmour Mall\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48202
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hiroshi Motomura
DESCRIPTION:Hiroshi Motomura will share key lessons from his forthcoming book\, Borders and Belonging. The book shows how new immigration policy insights emerge from combining approaches that are seldom adopted together. This broader inquiry reveals conceptual obstacles to finding sound responses to migration. First is a tendency to apply a simplistic single framework for evaluating migrants’ claims. In fact\, some claims invoke shared humanity\, while other claims draw on belonging to a national community. Second is a false assumption that immigration laws govern the boundary between insiders and outsiders. In fact\, immigration laws empower some insiders while silencing others. Third is a deceptive distinction between “refugees” and “migrants.” In fact\, refugees work\, and many migrants flee dire conditions. Fourth is a misleading choice between “temporary” and “permanent” migration. In fact\, the line between them is blurred. Moving beyond these (and other) conceptual obstacles is essential for developing sound responses to human migration. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nHiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the University of California\, Los Angeles School of Law. Motomura is a teacher and scholar of immigration and citizenship\, with influence across a range of academic disciplines and in federal\, state\, and local policymaking. \nHis book\, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States (Oxford 2006) won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PROSE) Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year’s best book in Law and Legal Studies\, and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for its Suggested Reading List for Foreign Service Officers. He is a co-author of two immigration-related casebooks: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (9th ed. West 2021) and Forced Migration: Law and Policy (2d ed. West 2013)\, and he has published many widely cited articles on immigration and citizenship. His most recent book\, Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford 2014)\, won the Association of American Publishers’ Law and Legal Studies 2015 PROSE Award and was chosen by the Association of College and Research Libraries as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. \nIn 1997\, Professor Motomura was named President’s Teaching Scholar\, which is the highest teaching distinction at the University of Colorado\, and he has won several other teaching awards\, including the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, and the 2013 Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award from the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF). He was one of just 26 law professors nationwide profiled in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard 2013)\, and he received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014 and the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence in 2021. He teaches Immigration Law\, Immigrants’ Rights\, and the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic\, and he is the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. \nProfessor Motomura was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018 to work on a book\, Borders and Belonging: Can Immigration Policy Be Ethical?\, now under contract with Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2024). A preliminary partial version of the project was published as “The New Migration Law” in the 2020 Cornell Law Review.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-hiroshi-motomura/
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:20240424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240424T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shayak Sarkar
DESCRIPTION:Shayak Sarkar’s talk discusses the experience of taxation for domestic workers\, particularly childcare workers in private households. Drawing upon an original survey\, expert interviews\, and online forums\, he documents new observations of the employee-employer relationship and tax decision-making. Surveyed “nannies” express a strong preference for formal employment and tax reporting. Nannies also report tax ignorance and evasion by some educated household employers; others forge unique tax arrangements\, including by strategically placing some income on the books and some off-the-books. Finally\, payroll companies play a surprising role in educating and supporting workers in navigating tax- and formality-hesitant employers. In addition to presenting these preliminary results\, Sarkar discusses further work to unpack domestic worker-employer negotiations. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nShayak Sarkar is a Professor of Law at the University of California\, Davis School of Law. Sarkar’s scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation\, employment law\, immigration\, and taxation. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. \nSarkar clerked for the Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to his clerkship\, he practiced as an employment attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services\, where he focused on domestic workers’ rights. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School\, where he was active in the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. He also served as a Coker Fellow in Contracts and received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Before law school\, he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford\, where he earned Masters’ Degrees\, with distinction\, in Social Work and Development Economics. \nHis research has appeared or is forthcoming in academic journals including the California Law Review\, Georgetown Law Journal\, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review\, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender\, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism\, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shayak-sarkar/
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:20240417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lucius Couloute
DESCRIPTION:Roughly 600\,000 people are released from prison each year. Contemporary reentry systems\, or webs of post-incarceration services\, are typically organized around transforming this population into law-abiding\, productive\, and responsible citizens. Lucius Couloute’s talk examines how formerly incarcerated people conceptualize reentry services amid severe structural barriers to (re)integration. In particular\, Couloute will link narratives of individualism to the various forms of exclusion and “support” described by a sample of formally criminalized people. The cleavages between post-imprisonment needs and available resources begs a critical evaluation of both existing interventions and potential alternatives. As such\, Couloute will also explore a somewhat novel (re)integrative support – direct cash transfers – for their capacity to promote post-incarceration success. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLucius Couloute is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Suffolk University. He came to Suffolk University in the summer of 2019. Previously\, Couloute worked as a policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative where he produced policy reports using Bureau of Justice Statistics data and advocated for criminal justice reform. \nCouloute’s primary research interests involve the practices\, processes\, and impacts of criminalization. His current research investigates the structural barriers and cultural ideas that permeate a northeastern prisoner reentry system. His work also examines how organizations produce\, mediate\, or experience systems of inequality.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-lucius-couloute/
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:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Susan Bibler Coutin
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Susan Bibler Coutin provides an overview of her draft book manuscript\, On the Record: Papers\, Immigration\, and Legal Advocacy.  Based on 2011-2015 ethnographic fieldwork in the legal department of an immigrant-serving nonprofit in Southern California\, On the Record analyzes how immigrant residents and the attorneys and paralegals who represent them attempt to surmount documentary challenges\, deploying papers as a form of advocacy.  Undocumented residents who seek legal status in the United States face a potentially insurmountable challenge: to obtain status\, they have to document lives that they were forbidden to live. The records that applicants must present to US immigration officials may be the very things that their lives as undocumented individuals fail to produce: bank records\, check stubs from their employers\, contracts in their own names. Sometimes\, records can result in unexpected opportunities\, while other times they eliminate all hope of legalizing. The documentation requirements associated with immigration cases also have risen in recent years\, as US officials have increasingly come to see immigration as a security issue and immigrants as a potential threat. On the Record examines how broader trends in enforcement and securitization are embedded in the forms that immigrants have to complete\, the documentary expertise that service providers and immigrants have developed\, the materiality and legal significance of papers\, and the sorts of state-noncitizen relationships that emerge in the interstices of form completion. By analyzing the mundane workings of an extraordinary area of law\, On the Record argues that gathering and submitting records as part of immigration claims is a way of “documenting back” to a state that views immigrant residents as suspect. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nSusan Bibler Coutin is a Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society\, and Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and is a professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law\, and Society and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine.  Her research has examined social\, political\, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues\, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States. \nHer most recent book Documenting the Impossible Realities: Ethnography\, Memory\, and the As If\, coauthored with Barbara Yngvesson\, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023.  She recently completed NSF-funded research regarding how the production\, retrieval\, and circulation of records and files figures in immigrants’ efforts to secure legal status in the United States.  In collaboration with Sameer Ashar\, Jennifer Chacón\, and Stephen Lee\, she is completing a book project based on research entitled\, “Navigating Liminal Legalities along Pathways to Citizenship: Immigrant Vulnerability and the Role of Mediating Institutions.” Their co-authored book Legal Phantoms: Executive Relief and the Haunting Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.  With Walter Nicholls\, she is currently carrying out an NSF-funded project entitled\, “Immigration Dimensions of Local Governance: Municipalities\, Neighborhoods\, and Citizenship.”
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-susan-bibler-coutin/
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:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sara Sternberg Greene
DESCRIPTION:One of the most basic assumptions of our legal system is that when two parties face off in court\, the case will be adjudicated before a judge who is trained in the law. Sara Sternberg Greene’s research shows that\, empirically\, the assumption that most judges have legal training does not hold true for many low-level state courts. Using data compiled from all fifty states and the District of Columbia\, Greene finds that thirty-two states allow at least some low-level state court judges to adjudicate without a law degree\, and seventeen states do not require judges who adjudicate eviction cases to have law degrees. Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases\, this sets up an almost Kafkaesque scene in courtrooms across the country: Legal cases that have a profound effect on poor families\, such as whether they will lose their home to eviction\, are argued in courtrooms where either no one knows the law or only one party—the attorney for the more powerful party—does. \nConsidering data collected from a case study of North Carolina\, where over 80% of magistrates do not have J.D.s\, Greene argues that allowing a system of nonlawyer judges perpetuates long-standing inequalities in our courts. She further argues that the phenomenon of lay judges is a symptom of a much larger problem in our justice system: the devaluation of the legal problems of the poor\, who are disproportionately Black and Latinx. This devaluation stems in part from an enduring cultural history in the United States of blaming the poor for their poverty and its associated problems. A change is in order\, one that intentionally considers the expertise of judges and adopts creative solutions to incentivize specially qualified adjudicators to serve as low-level state court judges. \nTo register\, or for access to the related paper\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSara Sternberg Green is a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. She is a sociologist and legal scholar whose teaching and research interests include poverty law\, housing law\, consumer law\, bankruptcy\, family law\, contracts\, qualitative research methods\, and law and sociology. Greene uses primarily qualitative empirical methods to study the relationship between law\, poverty\, and inequality. \nHer work focuses on how low-income families understand\, experience\, and interact with the law\, how legal institutions may inadvertently perpetuate poverty and inequality\, and how structural conditions create barriers to accessing law and justice for low-income families. Greene’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review\, the New York University Law Review\, the Duke Law Journal\, and the Minnesota Law Review\, among others. She has also published work in popular outlets such as The New York Times\, Politico\, and The Hill. \nGreene received her B.A. in 2002 from Yale University\, magna cum laude and with distinction. She received her J.D. in 2005 from Yale Law School\, where she received the Stephen J. Massey Prize for excellence in advocacy and served as notes editor for the Yale Law Journal and articles editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review. She also served as chair of the student board of directors for the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization and as student director in the Housing and Community Development Clinic. After clerking for Judge Richard Cudahy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit\, Greene focused on housing law and tax credit matters at the law firm Klein Hornig in Boston before beginning a Ph.D. program. She received her Ph.D. in social policy and sociology from Harvard University in 2014.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-sara-sternberg-greene/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240327T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Leisy J. Abrego
DESCRIPTION:Having accompanied the immigrant youth movement in the United States\, we witnessed the leadership\, relationality\, and transformative capacities of undocumented youth who fought for access to legalization. Leisy J. Abrego will highlight undocumented youth-led practices of healing as inspiring examples of kinship\, community care\, and transformation in the face of legal violence. Reframing notions of undocumented youth in the U.S. as ‘good neoliberal subjects’ as was required for public-facing activism (Pallares\, 2014)\, the talk instead centers their communal embeddedness. Undocumented youth were able to collectively organize and heal some of the harm caused by the legal violence (Menjívar and Abrego\, 2012) of the citizenship regime by going through an affective and cognitive (personal and political) transformation process in which their subjectivities were reconstituted. Shame turned into pride\, and a sense of isolation was met with a sense of kinship and belonging. Relying on humbled scholarship and participatory (co-creative) research\, Abrego takes seriously the messiness of life and the complex personhood (Gordon\, 2008) of immigrants without romanticizing their agency\, nor underestimating the embodied effects of legal violence. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLeisy J. Abrego is a Professor in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is a member of the first large wave of Salvadoran immigrants who arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. \nHer research and teaching interests – inspired in great part by her family’s experiences – are in Central American immigration\, Latina/o families\, the inequalities created by gender\, and the production of “illegality” through U.S. immigration laws. Her award-winning first book\, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws\, Labor\, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press\, 2014)\, examines the well-being of Salvadorian immigrants and their families – both in the United States and in El Salvador – as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations. Her early research examines how immigration and educational policies shape the educational trajectories of undocumented students. Her second book\, Immigrant Families (Polity Press\, 2016)\, is co-authored with Cecilia Menjívar and Leah Schmalzbauer and delves deeply into the structural conditions contextualizing the diverse experiences of contemporary immigrant families in the United States. \nMore recently\, Abrego has been writing about how different subsectors of Latino immigrants internalize immigration policies differently and how this shapes their willingness to make claims in the United States. Her current project examines the day-to-day lives of mixed status families after DACA. Her scholarship analyzing legal consciousness\, illegality\, and legal violence has garnered numerous national awards. She also dedicates much of her time to supporting and advocating for refugees and immigrants by writing editorials and pro-bono expert declarations in asylum cases.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-leisy-j-abrego/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240319T110000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
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SUMMARY:Hubbard Conference on Law & Education: National Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The American Bar Foundation invites you to join a free one-hour virtual webinar:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemocracy at Risk: Can Understanding Our Past Protect Our Future?\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 19\, 2024\nVirtual\n11:00 am ET / 10:00 am CT / 9:00 am MT / 8:00 am PT\nJoin us for a provocative discussion about the role of education and critical thinking in safeguarding democracy. With our constitution and democratic principles at risk\, we bring together three prominent voices to discuss how we might take lessons from history to guard against further peril. This event was inspired by a powerful op-ed written by LA Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg\, who will be joined by political scientist Margaret Levi and constitutional scholar Tom Ginsburg. Moderated by Dean William C. Hubbard\, and featuring introductory remarks from Bill Neukom\, the conversation will explore what we can do now to shape the future of democracy. We invite you to participate with your questions and comments. \nThis webinar is a production of the William Hubbard Conferences on Law & Education. For more information about the Hubbard Conferences and to donate to the endowment supporting them\, visit the William C. Hubbard Law & Education Conference Endowment page. \nView a Recording of the Webinar Here:\n \nFeaturing: \nTom Ginsburg is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago\, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He currently codirects the Comparative Constitutions Project\, a National Science Foundation–⁠funded data set cataloging the world’s constitutions since 1789. \nHis latest book is Democracies and International Law. Earlier books include Judicial Review in New Democracies\, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions\, which also won a best book prize from APSA; Judicial Reputation; and How to Save a Constitutional Democracy\, with coauthor Aziz Z. Huq\, winner of the best book prize from the International Society for Constitutional Law. He has edited or coedited twenty-five other books. \nHe has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo\, Kyushu University\, Seoul National University\, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya\, Harvard University\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and the University of Trento. Before teaching\, he served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal\, The Hague\, Netherlands\, and he has consulted with numerous international development agencies and governments on legal and constitutional reform. \nNicholas Goldberg is an American journalist\, most recently with the Los Angeles Times\, where he was associate editor and Op-Ed columnist. He previously served 11 years as editor of the editorial page and was also a former editor of the Op-Ed page and the Sunday Opinion section. While at New York Newsday in the 1980s and 1990s\, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent and political reporter. His writing has been published in the New Republic\, New York Times\, Vanity Fair\, the Nation\, Sunday Times of London and Washington Monthly\, among other places. He is a graduate of Harvard University. \n  \nMargaret Levi\, Stanford University\, is Professor of Political Science\, co-director of the Stanford Ethics\, Society and Technology Hub\, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy\, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL)\, and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)\, which she previously directed. She is Bacharach Professor Emerita\, University of Washington\, and holds an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Winner of the Skytte Prize and Falling Walls Breakthrough\, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences\, the British Academy\, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, American Philosophical Society\, and American Association of Political and Social Sciences. She is past president of the American Political Science Association. \nLevi authored or coauthored numerous articles and books\, including: Of Rule and Revenue (1988); Consent\, Dissent\, and Patriotism (1997); Analytic Narratives (1998); Cooperation Without Trust? (2005); In the Interest of Others (2013); A Moral Political Economy (2021). She co-edited Creating a New Moral Political Economy for Daedalus (2023). She is co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Levi and her husband\, Robert Kaplan\, collect Australian Aboriginal art and have gifted pieces to the Seattle\, Metropolitan\, and Nevada Museums of Art. \nModerated by: \nWilliam C. Hubbard is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 2014–2015. He previously served a two-year term as chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. Hubbard is a past president of the American Bar Foundation and a past president of the American Bar Endowment. \nHubbard is co-founder and chair of the board of the World Justice Project\, a multinational\, multidisciplinary initiative to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. \nIn 2023\, Hubbard was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute (emeritus)\, as well as the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation. He is an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple in London. \nIn 2002\, Hubbard was presented the Order of the Palmetto\, the highest civilian award presented by a South Carolina governor. In 2007\, he received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the United States Court of Appeals\, Fourth Circuit. In 2016\, the Burton Foundation\, in collaboration with the Library of Congress\, named Hubbard the recipient of its inaugural “Leadership in Law” award. \nHubbard served on the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina from 1986–2020 and served as chairman of the board from 1996–2000. In 2009\, he received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010\, the university awarded him its highest recognition\, the Honorary Doctor of Laws. He earned a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina. After law school\, Hubbard was law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert F. Chapman. He is a former partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Columbia\, SC. \nIntroductory Remarks From: \nWilliam “Bill” Neukom is the founder and chief executive officer of the World Justice Project\, an organization devoted to promoting the rule of law throughout the world. He is a retired partner in the Seattle office of the international law firm K&L Gates\, and is a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches a seminar on the rule of law. \nBill was the lead lawyer for Microsoft for nearly 25 years\, managing its legal\, government and industry affairs\, and philanthropic activities. He retired from Microsoft as its executive vice president of law and corporate affairs in 2002\, and returned to his law firm and served as its chair from 2003 to 2007. He was president of the American Bar Association from 2007 to 2008 and received the ABA Medal in 2020. He was the chief executive office of the San Francisco Giants baseball team from 2008 to 2011. He joined the board of directors of Fortinet\, Inc. in 2013 and currently serves as its lead independent director. \nHe is a trustee emeritus of University of Puget Sound and Dartmouth College\, where he served as chair of the board from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Stanford Law School and served as its chair from 2012 – 2015. He is chair of the External Advisory Board of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington. \nHe earned his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his LL.B. from Stanford University and has honorary degrees from Dartmouth College\, Gonzaga University\, the University of Puget Sound\, and the University of South Carolina. \nIn 1995\, Bill and his children founded the Neukom Family Foundation\, which supports nonprofit organizations in the fields of education\, the environment\, health\, human services\, and justice. \nHe and his wife\, Sally\, live in Seattle and together have five children and sixteen grandchildren. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/hubbard-conference-on-law-education-national-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: John Doering-White
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, record-breaking numbers of young people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border have entered U.S. government custody as unaccompanied children (UC). Whereas prior research has focused on UC’s experiences while in custody and following release to a sponsor—usually a family member—limited scholarship has examined the experiences of human service professionals working within programs that are contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to care for UC. In these programs\, social workers\, mental health clinicians\, medical providers\, educators\, and transitional foster parents collaborate to provide care for UC while assessing the safety and suitability of the sponsoring context. \nThis presentation draws on 65 in-depth interviews with human service workers in ORR-contracted programs across four states to examine how they conceptualize care for UC during this transitional period. John Doering-White focuses on how two legal and policy frameworks—the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008—refract through highly politicized and mediatized bureaucracies of care and control to structure how human service providers care for UC. He suggests institutional pressures to accelerate time to release are often at odds with professional care ethics\, and that this tension risks compromising care for UC as well as the sustainability of the human service workforce in mission-driven organizations contracted by ORR. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJohn Doering-White is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on undocumented immigration and humanitarianism. His ethnographic work has focused on grassroots shelters that assist Central Americans migrating through Mexico. He is interested in how organizations can best assist undocumented communities considering shifting immigration enforcement trends between the United States\, Mexico\, and Central America. As part of this work\, Doering-White served as co-producer on Border South\, a feature documentary film that premiered to national and international audiences in June 2019. \nDoering-White is also actively conducting research in his hometown of Detroit in partnership with organizations that support immigrant and minority entrepreneurs navigating a gentrifying city. Data collection for this project has taken place in partnership with undergraduate students participating in a summer field school that trains students in qualitative and community-engaged methods. \nDoering-White’s research has been funded by the Fulbright Garcia-Robles program\, the Wenner Gren Foundation\, and the Institute for Field Research. His scholarship appears in Social Service Review\, Children and Youth Services Review\, the Journal of Social Work Education\, the Journal of Community Practice\, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration. He has also presented nationally and internationally on various topics\, including undocumented migration\, unaccompanied minors\, language interpretation\, and ethnographic approaches. \nDoering-White is a graduate of the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan\, where he also earned his MSW. He received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Human Development Social Relations from Earlham College in Richmond\, Indiana.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-john-doering-white/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jaeeun Kim
DESCRIPTION:How does immigration law shape migrant subjectivities? This article examines whether and how migrants’ engagement with the asylum institution brings about changes in their religious practices and self-understandings\, drawing on ethnographic research among ethnic Korean migrants from mainland China applying for asylum in the U.S. as Christians fearing persecution. Through a critical engagement with the interdisciplinary scholarship on migration and waiting and sociology of future\, Jaeeun Kim develops a theory of migrants’ future-making and aspiration formation to unpack the black box through which immigration law shapes migrant subjectivities in variable and dynamic ways. Kim pays attention to the interplay between immigration law\, non-state intermediaries\, and transnational social fields\, especially how the interplay shapes migrants’ approach toward the legally sanctioned status passage as well as their future imagination and aspirational horizon. She argues that the production and coordination of competing futures and aspirations in the context of involuntary waiting should be central to our analysis of immigration law and migrant subjectivities. This article further contributes to the literatures on therapeutic governance and legal consciousness by complementing a Foucauldian conceptualization of governance with a robust theory of future-oriented action and offering fruitful ways to study temporality in relation to law’s hegemony and inequality. \nTo register for the event\, or to access the related paper draft\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nJaeeun Kim is the Korea Foundation Endowed Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Law\, by courtesy\, at the University of Michigan. She is a political sociologist and law and society scholar interested in questions of human mobility\, inequality\, power\, and agency. She seeks to develop a relational\, processual\, and agentic account of categorization and identification\, particularly in contexts in which such practices have significant implications for inequality at local\, national\, and global levels. Her research takes a transnational and global perspective\, and systematically considers sending and transit contexts in studying international migration by adopting a multi-sited approach to research. \nKim’s work\, generously supported by the Social Science Research Council\, the Wenner-Gren Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Academy of Korean Studies\, has been published in journals in sociological theory\, law and society\, race/ethnicity/migration\, and historical sociology. Her first monograph\, based on her award-winning dissertation (2013 Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association)\, was published at Stanford University Press in 2016 and won three book prizes and one honorable mention from the American Sociological Association\, the Social Science History Association\, and the Association for Asian Studies. Kim’s recent article published in Sociological Theory\, titled “Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration\,” also received the 2019 Theory Prize from the ASA Theory Section. \nKim is currently working on her second book project about the asylum-seeking of unauthorized migrants on religious grounds\, based on her ongoing multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. Before joining the University of Michigan\, she received her Ph.D. degree from UCLA\, was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Stanford\, and taught at George Mason University for a year. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Social Science) in Princeton during 2016–2017\, and a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berllin (Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin) during 2020–2021.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jaeeun-kim/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Demar F. Lewis IV
DESCRIPTION:The senseless murders of Breonna Taylor\, George Floyd\, and countless other Black Americans in 2020 brought unprecedented and polarized attention to the mandate to “defund the police.” Despite the centrality of this debate to discussions of community safety in recent years\, few studies document the nuanced perspectives that undergird Black Americans’ evaluations of this mandate. Drawing on interviews and surveys with an age-diverse sample of 83 Black people living in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, this article shows that there are generational differences in participants’ evaluations of “defunding the police” as an outcome or process of change that do not neatly transfer to universal support or opposition for the mandate. While respondents of all ages generally agree that policing is needed to co-produce safety in Black communities\, Demar F. Lewis finds that they also believe that policing’s operational structure and daily practices must evolve to better meet unmet local needs\, supporting calls for institutional divestment. \nTo register for the event\, or to access the related paper draft\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDemar F. Lewis IV is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of African American and Africana Studies. Lewis is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of African American Studies. He is a sociologist and critical criminologist trained in Black Studies and public policy whose research examines how historical and contemporary notions of safety influence the ways that Black people organize their lives. This has led Lewis to develop multiple research studies to advance understandings of how racial violence\, police violence\, and resource deprivation influence perceptions of safety in the United States. \nHis current projects examine (1) the influence of gentrification and resource deprivation on policing practices and Black Americans’ perceptions of community safety in Cincinnati\, (2) the evolution of the “defund” mandate in U.S. politics\, (3) the health consequences of carceral violence and racism in the U.S.\, and (4) the causes and consequences of U.S. lynchings. To pursue his research agenda\, Lewis uses historical methods\, qualitative interviews\, statistical analyses\, and computational methods.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-demar-f-lewis-iv/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Susila Gurusami
DESCRIPTION:For the last few decades\, “gender responsiveness”— policies meant to help address the supposedly “unique needs and circumstances” of women under carceral supervision and control—has dominated reforms aimed at improving the experiences and outcomes of incarcerated women and is often hailed as an important feminist intervention. However\, abolitionists have long identified such policies as problematic in how they essentialize gender and women’s needs while contributing to the expansion of carceral power. Yet\, rather than understanding the failures to create “kinder\, gentler\, gender-responsive [women’s] cages” as an indicator that carceral institutions have not meaningfully implemented gender responsive policies\, Susila Gurusami argues that carceral institutions have always been gender responsive institutions. \nGurusami contends that the recent turn towards what is labeled as gender responsive carceral policy obscures how carceral institutions actually respond to gender. Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with formerly incarcerated Black women\, Gurusami shows how carceral institutions respond to\, construct\, and govern gender through a process that she calls “reproductive warfare”: carceral institutions’ mobilization of racial-sexual power meant to deny Black women reproductive and sexual self-determination. \nShe documents how carceral institutions wage “reproductive warfare” in two ways: by (1) explicitly invoking gender responsive carceral policies as legitimate\, therapeutic\, and protective for criminalized women; and (2) blatantly violating the legal reproductive and sexual rights of incarcerated people\, but referencing stated or implied commitments to gender responsive policies to dismiss such violations as accidental and/or further evidence of the need for gender responsive carceral policies. Ultimately\, Gurusami argues that these findings should push us towards abolition feminism as a strategy that meaningfully responds to the gendered needs of all criminalized people. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSusila Gurusami is an Assistant Professor of Criminology\, Law\, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a sociologist of race\, gender\, labor\, and politics\, with particular interests in carceral governance and abolition. \nGurusami is also a former UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow and received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2017. Her work has been published in Gender & Society\, Societal Problems and Punishment and Society. Recognitions for this scholarship include funding and awards from the American Sociological Association\, Sociologist for Women in Society\, Society for the Study of Social Problems\, and the Racial Democracy\, Crime\, and Justice Network. \nGurusami is currently working on a book manuscript investigating how Black women navigate state surveillance\, regulation\, and punishment in their everyday lives after returning home from prison and jail.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-susila-gurusami/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Access To Justice Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The last two decades have seen a new stream of empirical access to justice research that focuses on the justice experiences of ordinary people\, and a corresponding shift in people-centered policy and practice. Fueling much of this work are people-centered data generated by legal needs surveys and related justice measurement strategies. This webinar will feature leading researchers working in this field and focus on emerging research\, methods\, and analysis\, including the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) to understand how people see\, understand and engage with the law\, and new statistical analysis based on the World Justice Project Global Legal Needs Survey. \n  \nSpeakers \nRebecca Sandefur\, Arizona State University/American Bar Foundation\nNigel Balmer\, Victoria Law Foundation\nAlejandro Ponce and Daniela Barba\, World Justice Project\nModerator: Matthew Burnett\, American Bar Foundation
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/access-to-justice-webinar-global-trends-in-people-centered-justice-measurement/
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Eva Rosen
DESCRIPTION:An extensive literature documents racial discrimination in housing\, focusing on its prevalence and effect on non-White populations. This article studies how such discrimination operates\, and the intermediaries who engage in it: landlords. A fundamental assumption of racial discrimination research is that gatekeepers such as landlords are confronted with a racially heterogeneous applicant pool. The reality of urban housing markets\, however\, is that historical patterns of residential segregation intersect with other structural barriers to drive selection into the applicant pool\, such that landlords are more often selecting between same-race applicants. \nUsing interviews and observations with 157 landlords in four cities\, we ask: how do landlords construct their tenants’ race within racially segmented housing markets\, and how does this factor into their screening processes? We find that landlords distinguish between tenants based on the degree to which their behavior conforms to insidious cultural narratives at the intersection of race\, gender\, and class. Landlords with large portfolios rely on screening algorithms\, whereas mom-and-pop landlords make decisions based on informal mechanisms such as “gut feelings\,” home visits\, and the presentation of children. Landlords may put aside certain racial prejudices when they have the right financial incentives\, but only when the tenant also defies stereotypes. In this way\, landlords’ intersectional construction of race—even within a predominantly Black or Latino tenant pool—limits residential options for low-income\, subsidized tenants of color\, burdening their search process. These findings have implications for how we understand racial discrimination within racially homogenous social spheres. Examining landlords’ screening practices offers insight into the role housing plays in how racism continues to shape life outcomes—both explicitly through overt racial bias\, and increasingly more covertly\, through algorithmic automation and digital technologies. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nEva Rosen is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy\, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Sociology. Her research is focused on social inequality in the urban context. In particular\, she studies the intersection between poverty and American housing policy. Rosen was on research leave during the academic year 2022-2023 as a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. \nRosen received her doctorate in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University. In 2018\, she was named one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received their 40 for 40 Fellowship. Rosen is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network. She has published papers in academic journals including the American Sociological Review\, City & Community\, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography\, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Rosen’s work has been funded by: The National Science Foundation\, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)\, The Joint Center for Housing Studies\, The Furman Center\, The Meyer Foundation\, and The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy\, among others. \nRosen’s recent book\, The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” Housing and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, is the winner of the Inequality\, Poverty\, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award from the ASA and the Paul Davidoff Award from the ACSP. The book examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program\, colloquially known as “Section 8\,” and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners\, voucher holders\, renters who receive no housing assistance\, and the landlords who provide housing.  \nHer new edited volume\, with Brian McCabe\, called The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives\, will be released in fall 2023 with Chicago University Press. With this volume\, the editors and contributors solidify the importance of housing studies within the discipline of sociology by tackling topics like racial segregation\, housing instability\, the supply of affordable housing\, and the process of eviction. \nCurrent work examines low-income housing and the role that landlords play in four urban housing markets. Another ongoing project maps eviction trends in the District of Columbia with sociology professor Brian McCabe.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-eva-rosen/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Chiara Galli
DESCRIPTION:More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to seek asylum worldwide. In the past decade\, over a half million children have fled from Central America to the United States\, seeking safety and a chance to continue lives halted by violence. Yet upon their arrival\, they fail to find the protection that our laws promise\, based on the broadly shared belief that children should be safeguarded. A meticulously researched ethnography\, Precarious Protections chronicles the experiences and perspectives of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the U.S. asylum process. Chiara Galli debunks assumptions about asylum\, including the idea that people are being denied protection because they file bogus claims. In practice\, the United States interprets asylum law far more narrowly than what is necessary to recognize real-world experiences of escape from life-threatening violence. This is especially true for children from Central America. Galli reveals the formidable challenges of lawyering with children and exposes the human toll of the U.S. immigration bureaucracy. \nTo register for this event\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nChiara Galli is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago and an ABF/JPB Access to Justice Scholar for 2022-23. She studies the profession of public interest immigration lawyering and the effects of the law on the lives of vulnerable groups of undocumented immigrants\, including children and asylum-seekers. \nHer book\, Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the U.S. (University of California Press\, 2023)\, is based on ethnographic research that she conducted in legal clinics in Los Angeles during the Obama and Trump administrations and chronicles the experiences and perspectives of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the U.S. asylum process.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-chiara-galli/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jamelia Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Quality-of-life offenses\, or municipal and state criminal laws that purport to regulate social and physical disorder\, regularly target people who violate those laws because they engage in routine activities of daily living in public spaces.  Most notably\, these laws target unsheltered individuals and include a litany of offenses prohibiting activities like public camping\, sleeping in public spaces\, and disorderly conduct. Plaintiffs challenging these offenses and critics of these laws have labeled these laws “status crimes\,” or status offenses\, because these laws criminalize behaviors inextricably linked with status or derivative of status. Proponents of these laws argue that they serve to promote the general welfare of the community and that they reduce incidents of physical and social disorders.  They argue that the enforcement of quality-of-life offenses furthers what has long been recognized as a legitimate exercise of state police powers. \nThis framing by proponents paints an incomplete picture of the nature and function of quality-of-life offenses that target individuals engaged in routine activities of daily living in public spaces. Quality-of-life offenses are by their nature exclusionary devices; the enforcement of these laws leads to the removal of offending individuals whose conduct (allegedly) produces or contributes to social and physical disorder. Viewed in this vein\, it becomes clear to see that the function of these quality-of-life offenses is not solely to reduce or eliminate disorders or even promote the general welfare of the community; these laws also function to exclude certain individuals from the community. \nThis exclusionary function of these quality-of-life laws poses serious constitutional concerns. Through community exclusion\, and the stigma and costs that attach to those who are targeted under enforcement regimes\, these laws are also status-enforcing. Through the stigmatizing effects of criminalization\, and the economic losses that criminal legal system involvement produces\, the enforcement of quality-of-life offenses in particular serves to reinforce the social position of marginalized groups.  After all\, these laws target for removal\, citation\, and arrests individuals whose life-sustaining conduct must take place in public spaces because they have nowhere else to go. If laws regulating disorder target for enforcement—including removal\, citation\, arrest\, and detention— individuals whose conduct is inextricably linked with their status or identity\, then what’s at stake is more than solely the criminalization of status per se but rather criminalization that contributes to the continued subordination of that group\, or groups\, within society. \nThe status-enforcing effects of criminalization stem not only from the meaning of status vis-à-vis criminal sanction itself\, but also from the interaction between the status and the broader political economy. Where these laws criminalize conduct based on necessary activities of daily living\, these laws locate the harms of enforcement within a largely sociopolitical setting\, one that may render conduct practically compulsory (though factually voluntary) only insofar as the state and local jurisdiction have failed to adequately fund social services and programs\, whether affordable and accessible housing\, medical and mental health care\, and other supports.  Framed in this way\, the status offenses at issue in contemporary cases are of a different nature from the status crimes at issue in Robinson and Powell.  Yet\, the “new” status crimes still fall under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. As a constitutional matter\, the punishing of status today is much more about the lack of social investments than it is about the culpability\, precise conduct\, or volitional capabilities posed by the specific “offender.” \nDespite extensive scholarly discussions on the constitutional regime governing the criminalization of status\, the exclusionary and subordinating features of these laws punishing violations of quality-of-life offenses and other disorders have been largely ignored. Indeed\, most scholarly discussions debate how to define constitutionally prohibited status crimes. Primarily\, scholars focus on such questions as whether certain conditions\, like homelessness\, count as statuses\, and how to delineate the boundaries that govern which kind involuntary acts fall within the scope of prohibited status crimes when the individual (arguably) lacks the choice to restrain from violating the law. \nJamelia Morgan’s article proposes a more expansive\, yet still practical\, reading of Robinson and Powell that better aligns with a textualist and historical understanding of the Eighth Amendment. It also deploys an intertextual approach to propose a reading more aligned with an antisubordination reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. This reading also better aligns with the precise constitutional injuries that status offenses pose to individuals targeted by jurisdictions for quality-of-life policing specifically. Through providing a structural analysis of quality-of-life policing\, the article both defines status-based crimes and explains why many of these laws should be viewed as constitutionally prohibited status-based offenses. Ultimately\, relying on Robinson and Powell\, this article calls for these opinions to be applied to the current social context where political and economic factors drive mass criminalization\, and identifies new frameworks for understanding status crimes. \nTo register for this event\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nJamelia Morgan is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She is an award-winning and acclaimed scholar and teacher focusing on issues at the intersections of race\, gender\, disability\, and criminal law and punishment. Her scholarship and teaching examine the development of disability as a legal category in American law; disability and policing; overcriminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder; and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status. \nMorgan received a B.A. in Political Science and a M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University\, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. \nPrior to law school\, she served as Associate Director of the African American Policy Forum\, a social justice think tank that works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse related to affirmative action\, structural racism\, and gender inequality.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jamelia-morgan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Felipe Ford Cole and Brittany Farr
DESCRIPTION:This paper revises histories of nineteenth century capitalism by attending to the continuities between public and private debt in antebellum Mississippi. The conceptual distinction between public and private debt has long reigned over the financial and legal history of the midcentury Antebellum south. To historians\, public debt appears in this period as the brief and contentious subject of politics\, enlivening the rise of the Democratic party and transformation of state constitutions. Private debt takes shape as the antecedent condition to the planter foreclosures that sharpened the reasoning for secession. \nBy contrast\, the paper traverses the conceptual boundaries of public and private debt in this era. Cole and Farr begin with a series of public debts—issued in the form of state bonds to agricultural banks—that were used to support and expand the private credit of planters. When the Mississippi state government refused to repay these bonds during the economic depression of 1837-42\, it forced many planters into insolvency\, transforming them into delinquent debtors to the state. In the ensuing foreclosures\, creditor banks auctioned off many enslaved women\, men\, and children\, causing enslaved families to be torn apart and scattered to satisfy debts. \nThe history that they trace points toward a direct connection between debt and racial harm. Mississippi’s mismanaged public debt exacted the greatest cost from enslaved Black families\, who were separated to satisfy private debts to state creditors. The violence of this family separation benefitted enslavers by reducing morale and discouraging resistance\, which in turn benefitted a state whose economy relied upon slave labor. By drawing out the connection between Mississippi’s public and private debt\, and between this debt and family separation\, Cole and Farr show one of the ways in which debt and racial violence are intimately intertwined\, a relationship that they contend is central to racial capitalism. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nFelipe Ford Cole joined Boston College Law School as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2022. He studies how the law shapes the balance between sovereign power and the power conferred to private capital in local\, national\, and international contexts. As a comparative legal historian\, Professor Cole’s research focuses on the historical evolution of this balance in the U.S. and Latin America. \nCole’s current research explores the evolution of public debt markets and the theory of sovereignty in the U.S. and Latin America and reexamines the origins of the core doctrines of international investment law. Professor Cole’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review and in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. \nBefore coming to Boston College Law\, Cole was a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Professor Cole earned a J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and is completing a Ph.D. in History at Northwestern University. He also earned an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in History from New York University. \nBrittany Farr is an Assistant Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She joined NYU from the University of Pennsylvania Law School\, where she was a Sharswood Fellow. \nFarr is a scholar of private law and race. With more than a decade of interdisciplinary training\, her research draws on history\, legal theory\, and cultural studies to theorize how marginalized populations have availed themselves of otherwise inhospitable legal regimes. In particular\, her research focuses on enslaved and free African Americans’ use of contract law during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and interrogates the ways in which contract law mediated African Americans’ relationship to bodily autonomy\, economic freedom\, and legal agency both during and after slavery. Her writing has appeared in UCLA Law Review\, University of Chicago Law Review Online\, and many other academic publications. Farr has also co-authored policy reports on mental health and banking\, as well as on gender and mass incarceration. \nFarr earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2019 and was a recipient of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund’s Earl Warren Scholarship\, which is awarded to law students with a demonstrated commitment to racial justice. Prior to law school\, Farr earned a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation\, “Reproducing Fear Amid Fears of Reproduction: The Black Maternal Body in U.S. Law\, Media\, and Policy\,” examined how persistent fears about Black motherhood and reproduction have shaped certain laws\, public health campaigns\, and popular culture. Her first chapter\, which theorizes slavery as a reproductive technology\, received the Louise Kerckhoff Prize for Best Graduate Paper from USC’s Center for Feminist Research. \nFarr’s interest in the interplay between law and culture was sparked as a Folklore & Mythology major while an undergraduate at Harvard College.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-felipe-ford-cole-and-brittany-farr/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Making of Lawyers' Careers
DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Bar Foundation (ABF) for a reception and hybrid book talk for The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession\, the culmination of a 20-year study conducted by the Foundation’s After the JD research cohort. \nReception 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. CT*                        Book Talk 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. CT\n*The reception is in-person only at the ABF (750 N. Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago IL). Wine and light snacks will be provided.  \nFeatured Presenters: \nRobert L. Nelson\, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University \nRonit Dinovitzer\, American Bar Foundation and University of Toronto \nBryant Garth\, American Bar Foundation and University of California-Irvine \nDavid B. Wilkins\, Harvard Law School \n  \nAdditional Authors in Attendance: \nJoyce S. Sterling\, University of Denver College of Law \nMeghan Dawe\, American Bar Foundation\, Harvard Law School \nEthan Michelson\, Indiana University \n  \nSpecial Guest: \nJohn P. Heinz\, American Bar Foundation\, Northwestern Law \nAbout the Book:\nHow do race\, class\, gender\, and law school status condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do professionals then navigate these parameters? \nThe Making of Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last two decades of the legal profession in the US\, offering a data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race\, gender\, and class distinctions. Starting in 2000\, the authors collected over 10\,000 survey responses from more than 5\,000 lawyers\, following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their careers. They also interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and drew insights from their individual stories\, contextualizing data with theory and close attention to the features of a market-driven legal profession. \nTheir findings show that lawyers’ careers both reflect and reproduce inequalities within society writ large. They also reveal how individuals exercise agency despite these constraints. \nSave 30% on book purchases from University of Chicago Press with promo code LAWYERS2023 \nAbout the Authors\nRobert L. Nelson is the MacCrate Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University. The author or editor of 10 books\, his works include Rights on Trial: How Anti-discrimination Law Perpetuates Workplace Inequality (2017)\, with Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen; Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar (2005)\, with John P. Heinz\, Rebecca L. Sandefur\, and Edward O. Laumann; and Legalizing Gender Inequality (1999)\, with William P. Bridges (Winner of Distinguished Publication Prize of the American Sociological Association). \nRonit Dinovitzer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago and Affiliated Faculty in Harvard’s Center on the Legal Profession. Ronit’s research on the legal profession includes the After the JD project\, the first national longitudinal study of law graduates in the US\, and the Law and Beyond Study\, the first national study of law graduates in Canada.  \nBryant Garth is an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California-Irvine School of Law\, and co-director\, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession\, University of California-Irvine. His scholarship focuses on the legal profession\, the sociology of law\, globalization\, and legal education.  \nJoyce Sterling is Professor Emeriti of Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Professor Sterling’s research has focused on the legal profession and in particular\, she has emphasized studying problems faced by women in their legal careers compared to men.  \nDavid B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law\, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession\, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also the co-founder of Harvard Law School Executive Education\, a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics\, and founder and Executive Editor of The Practice. \nMeghan Dawe is a Resident Research Fellow in the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School and a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation. \nEthan Michelson is Professor of Sociology and Law at Indiana University Bloomington\, where he has been teaching courses on Law and Society\, Law and Authoritarianism\, and Contemporary Chinese Society since 2003. He has won several awards for his published research on China’s legal system. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/book-launch-the-making-of-lawyers-careers/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T133000
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CREATED:20230706T163724Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Asad L. Asad
DESCRIPTION:Some eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States\, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presence. Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex dynamics of surveillance and punishment\, providing an extraordinary portrait of fear and hope on the margins. \nAsad L. Asad brings together a wealth of research\, from intimate interviews and detailed surveys with Latino immigrants and their families to up-close observations of immigration officials\, to offer a rare perspective on the surveillance that undocumented immigrants encounter daily. He describes how and why these immigrants engage with various institutions—for example\, by registering with the IRS or enrolling their kids in public health insurance programs—that the government can use to monitor them. This institutional surveillance feels both necessary and coercive\, with undocumented immigrants worrying that evasion will give the government cause to deport them. Even so\, they hope their record of engagement will one day help them prove to immigration officials that they deserve societal membership. Asad uncovers how these efforts do not always meet immigration officials’ high expectations\, and how surveillance is as much about the threat of exclusion as the promise of inclusion. \nCalling attention to the fraught lives of undocumented immigrants and their families\, this superbly written and compassionately argued book proposes wide-ranging\, actionable reforms to achieve societal inclusion for all. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAsad L. Asad is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His scholarly interests encompass social stratification; race\, ethnicity\, and immigration; surveillance and social control; and health. Asad’s current research agenda considers how institutional categories—in particular\, legal status—matter for multiple forms of inequality. His forthcoming book\, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press)\, examines how and why undocumented immigrants worried about deportation nonetheless engage with institutions whose records the government can use to monitor them. Additional research projects focus on the effects of immigration enforcement on health\, the role of the federal judiciary in immigration enforcement\, and the capacity of immigrant-serving organizations to counter the inequalities of the U.S. immigration system. \nAsad’s research has been published in several outlets\, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, Law & Society Review\, International Migration Review\, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, and Social Science & Medicine. His work has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, including the Louis Wirth Award for Best Article given by the Section on International Migration\, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. Asad earned his B.A. in Political Science and Spanish Language and Culture from the University of Wisconsin\, and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-asad-l-asad/
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:20231018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231018T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
CREATED:20230829T150744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T162705Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Stefan Vogler
DESCRIPTION:Limited scholarship examines LGBTQ+ people’s willingness to report crime victimization to law enforcement\, even though LGBTQ+ people face disproportionate rates of violent victimization. Relatedly\, LGBTQ+ people also report higher levels of contact with the police and are incarcerated at three times the rate of the general population\, suggesting that\, like other minoritized groups\, LGBTQ+ people face the paradox of being “over-policed and under-protected.” \nIn this context\, Stefan Vogler asks what affects LGBTQ+ people’s willingness to report future crime victimization. He draws on a first-of-its-kind national probability sample of both LGBTQ+ (N=803) and non-LGBTQ+ (N=682) people to address these questions. Vogler finds that many drivers of willingness to report are common across the two groups\, including legal cynicism\, race\, and age. At the aggregate level\, LGBTQ+ people report significantly lower level of willingness to report than non-LGBTQ+ people. However\, when disaggregated\, he finds that transgender and nonbinary people drive this finding. Vogler considers what this means for existing understandings of crime reporting behaviors\, as well as why findings may differ across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nStefan Vogler is a sociologist who studies sexuality-and gender-related issues in law\, science\, and health. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Affiliated Scholar with the American Bar Foundation. Vogler previously was a Research Scientist with NORC at the University of Chicago and held postdoctoral positions at Northwestern University and the University of California\, Irvine.  \nHis research is centrally concerned with processes of legal and social classification and their relationship to social inequalities and social change. Vogler has been particularly interested in how practices of measurement and categorization vary across institutional settings and overlap and interlock with gender\, sexuality\, race\, and nationality.  \nIn his first book\, Sorting Sexualities\, Vogler unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and sexual offenders being evaluated for carceral placement – two situations where state actors must determine individuals’ sexualities. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed—one a punitive assessment\, the other a protective one—they present the same question: how do we know someone’s sexuality? Vogler reveals how different legal arenas take dramatically different approaches to classifying sexuality and use those classifications to legitimate different forms of social control. By delving into the histories behind these diverging classification practices and analyzing their contemporary reverberations\, Sorting Sexualities shows how the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-stefan-vogler/
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:20231011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T180000
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CREATED:20230927T140507Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join the American Bar Foundation (ABF) for a reception and hybrid book talk for Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law\, edited by Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal. \nReception 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. CT*                      Book Talk 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. CT\n*The reception is in-person only at the ABF (750 N. Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago IL). Wine and light snacks will be provided. \nFeatured Presenters: \n\nTom Ginsburg\, American Bar Foundation and University of Chicago\nBenjamin Schonthal\, University of Otago\, New Zealand\n\nDiscussants: \n\nErin F. Delaney\, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law\nJothie Rajah\, American Bar Foundation\n\nAbout the Book:\nBuddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in Sri Lanka\, Myanmar\, Thailand\, Cambodia\, Vietnam\, Tibet\, Bhutan\, China\, Mongolia\, Korea\, and Japan. It offers a complex portrait of “the Buddhist-constitutional complex\,” demonstrating the intricate and powerful ways in which Buddhist and constitutional ideas merged\, interacted and coevolved. The authors also highlight important ways in which Buddhist actors have (re)conceived Western liberal ideals such as constitutionalism\, rule of law\, and secularism. \nSave 25% on book purchases from Cambridge University Press with promo code BCCL22 \nAbout the Editors:\nTom Ginsburg is a Research Professor at the ABF and the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the Univeristy of Chicago. He also codirects the Comparative Constitutions Project. \nBenjamin Schonthal is Professor of Buddhist Studies and the Head of the Religion Programme at the University of Otago. He is the author of Buddhism\, Politics and the Limits of Law and articles in journals such as Modern Asian Studies\, Journal of Asian Studies\, and International Journal of Constitutional Law.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/book-launch-buddhism-and-comparative-constitutional-law/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
CREATED:20230706T162715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T141413Z
UID:7799-1697025600-1697031000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kristina Shull
DESCRIPTION:The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980\, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers\, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration’s globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents\, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration\, it laid the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion. \nReagan’s war on immigrants also sowed seeds of mass resistance. Drawing on critical refugee studies\, community archives\, protest artifacts\, and oral histories\, Detention Empire also shows how migrants resisted state repression at every turn. People in detention and allies on the outside—including legal advocates\, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition\, and the Central American peace and Sanctuary movements—organized hunger strikes\, caravans\, and prison uprisings to counter the silencing effects of incarceration and speak truth to U.S. empire. As the United States remains committed to shoring up its borders in an era of unprecedented migration and climate crisis\, reckoning with these histories takes on new urgency. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nKristina Shull is an Assistant Professor and Director of Public History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include immigration history\, mass incarceration\, U.S. foreign relations\, social movements\, climate migration\, the Cold War\, and public history. \nShull’s first monograph\, Invisible Bodies: Immigration Crisis and Private Prisons Since the Reagan Era\, is currently under contract with UNC Press’s Justice\, Power\, and Politics series. It explores the rise of immigration detention in the United States in the early 1980s as a form of counter-insurgent warfare in Reagan’s Cold War on immigrants. \nShe also directs a digital humanities project titled “Climate Refugee Stories\,” about migration\, borders\, and the fight for climate justice. This multimedia archive and public education project employs Participatory Action Research methods and is built in collaboration with a global team of migrants and refugees\, students\, interdisciplinary scholars\, artists\, and non-profit organizations. \nShe has a forthcoming article in a special issue of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics on Abolitionist Feminisms titled\, “QTGNC Stories from Detention and Abolitionist Imaginaries\, 1980-Present\,” and she is also currently conducting research for a second book project titled\, Immigration Detention and Histories of Resistance.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kristina-shull/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231004T133000
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CREATED:20230706T161802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T192826Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Arzoo Osanloo
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Arzoo Osanloo will explore the persistence of the logic of mercy as a global zeitgeist. She will do so through two seemingly divergent\, yet overlapping and co-constituting prisms\, criminal sanctioning and humanitarianism. In doing so\, she aims to show how pardons and humanitarian care\, respectively\, construe mercy and\, she argues\, have overtaken the post-WWII initiative to expand human rights as a means to address inequity in social relations\, thus constituting one of the most enduring ideologies of our time. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nArzoo Osanloo is a Professor in the Department of Law\, Societies\, and Justice and the Director of the University of Washington’s Middle East Center. She also holds adjunct appointments in the School of Law and the Departments of Anthropology\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization\, Gender\, Women’s and Sexuality Studies\, and Comparative Religion. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University in 2002. Prior to that\, she practiced law\, having received a J.D. from The American University in 1993. \nAs a former immigration and asylum/refugee attorney\, Professor Osanloo became concerned with the fraught but often neglected relationship between ‘culture’ and ‘rights.’ As a legal anthropologist\, her research and teaching focus on the intersection of law\, culture\, and politics\, including human rights and humanitarianism. Her research explores the formations of women’s rights and human rights in cultural contexts and draws on continuing ethnographic fieldwork in Iran. Her first project explored the politicization of ‘rights talk’ and women’s subjectivities in post-revolutionary Iran\, and resulted in the book\, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press\, 2009). Her courses focus on human rights\, refugee rights and identity\, humanitarianism\, post-conflict reconciliation\, and women’s rights in Muslim societies. \nProfessor Osanloo is currently working on a new research project that examines the Islamic mandate of forgiveness\, compassion\, and mercy in Iran’s criminal sanctioning system\, jurisprudential scholarship\, and everyday acts among pious Muslims. This new research project considers the Muslim mandate of forgiveness or forbearance as a central ordering component of an Islamic way of life. Her interest is not simply in the texts of the sources\, Qur’an and Hadiths\, but also in how pious Muslims practice forgiveness\, forbearance\, mercy\, and compassion in everyday life. That is\, how does this compulsion to Muslims manifest through social interaction\, law\, and states politics? Iran’s criminal sanctioning laws are one specific focus of this work\, laws which permit individual forgiveness (not to be confused with the state pardon). One of the aims of this study will be to appraise the relationship between the legal and social manifestation of forgiveness to a certain understanding of human rights. In addition\, the work will assess how the Muslim compulsion to forgive and forbear may potentially play a role in reconciliation and transitional justice\, and how gender (symbolically and literally) figures into forgiveness. \nBesides working on book projects\, Professor Osanloo has published in numerous edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals\, including American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, Political and Legal Anthropology Review\, and Iranian Studies.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-arzoo-osanloo/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230927T013000
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CREATED:20230920T195826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T131857Z
UID:8422-1695772800-1695778200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2023-25 Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nReyna Hernandez: Bureaucracies of Innocence: Reentry and Remedy After Wrongful Conviction\nThe extant literature on life after wrongful conviction is foundational to examining how exonerees experience reentry. This scholarship primarily focuses on the social and psychological challenges exonerees face after wrongful incarceration\, including prolonged trauma and stigma\, and how they affect exonerees’ reentry processes. While offering essential insights into the effects of wrongful conviction and incarceration on exonerees’ personal lives\, this work only scratches the surface of exploring how criminal legal contact shapes exonerees’ everyday lives. As in life after incarceration for “rightfully” convicted people\, wrongfully convicted and exonerated individuals must interact with and incorporate themselves into institutions and organizations that become crucial to accessing the tangible and intangible resources and services they need through their transitions into the outside world. Moreover\, while law and policy are continually embedded into exonerees’ daily lives within and outside of these institutional and organizational contexts\, research on these relational dynamics is lacking. Reyna Hernandez’s research utilizes participant observation and in-depth interviews with exonerees\, innocence lawyers\, and innocence organization staff; content analysis; and visual methods (photo-elicitation) to triangulate exonerees’ experiences and organizational perspectives on facilitating and accessing exonerees’ post-incarceration needs. These include the legal and extralegal processes and mechanisms these actors might activate to advance remedies to wrongful conviction. Ultimately\, this work seeks to offer ways to improve and reimagine how best to compensate the wrongfully convicted by examining the bureaucracies that directly affect how exonerees access and receive reparations after wrongful incarceration\, further illustrating how entanglement with U.S. carceral institutions perpetually affect innocent people. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nBrandon Honoré: Land Use Regulations and the Racial Inequality of Institutionalized Trustworthiness  \nBrandon Honoré examines the socio-legal construction of racial wealth inequality by investigating the relationship between land use regulations and institutionalized indicators of trustworthiness. He hypothesizes that exclusionary zoning not only contributes to segregation\, but also racial wealth inequality\, by asymmetrically distributing risks across racial groups. The asymmetric distribution of risks—both environmental hazards and the hazards of social exclusion—consequently contribute to institutionalized wealth inequality. Honoré combines data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act\, Toxics Release Inventory\, American Community Survey\, and Chicago Metropolitan Area for Planning Land Use Survey to build models of the Chicago region. By examining a single metropolis\, he will track interdependencies among communities both within the urban core and across the suburban periphery as risk and institutional credibility are (re)allocated across spaces over time. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nPortia Xiong: Admitted but not Advanced: Diversity\, Minor Feelings and Asian and Asian American Law Students in the United States\nThis ethnographic project looks at why anti-Asian biases\, prejudices\, discriminations\, and violence still persist in legal education while Asian and Asian American presence is rapidly increasing by investigating three interconnected questions. First\, how does race impact Asian and Asian American law students’ everyday lives in white institutional spaces? It will compare and contrast the intergroup and intragroup dynamics of the Asian group and the Asian American group to explore how citizenship status stratifies their racialized law school experiences. Special attention will be paid to their experiences of racial biases\, prejudices\, and discriminations. Second\, how does racial identity intersect with other identities such as gender\, class\, sexual orientation\, religion\, and country of origin in each group? It will pay attention to how the Asian group and the Asian American group socialize with people from different racial backgrounds as an effort to refute the stereotype that Asians and Asian Americans are monolithic groups. For instance\, who do they make friends with at law schools? Who do they include in their study groups and recreational activities? Thirdly\, how do they respond\, resist\, or relate to marginalization and exclusion emotionally and cognitively in white institutional spaces like law schools? It will focus on their emotional labor and cognitive labor in dealing with racial oppression by documenting what Cathy Park Hong calls “minor feelings”: the emotions felt by marginalized minority groups in a predominantly white space\, feelings that are both ignored and considered excessive.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2023-24-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:20230920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230920T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Emily Rong Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Each redistricting cycle presents an opportunity for minority groups to translate demographic growth and changes in residential patterns into political power. That it occurs typically only once every ten years following each decennial census makes this opportunity all the more momentous. And for Native persons\, this opportunity has been hard-won: in some cases\, it has taken decades of litigation to challenge districts that diluted the Native vote\, either through cracking (fracturing the population across several districts) or packing (concentrating Native persons into a few districts with lopsided majorities). \nYet identifying redistricting opportunities\, seized or missed\, is not analytically straightforward. This project\, the first of its kind\, evaluates how Native persons fared in the last redistricting cycle (following the 2010 census) and in the latest redistricting cycle (following the 2020 census). I measure the spatial dispersion of Native populations in every state in which Native persons constitute a numerically significant minority (Alaska\, Arizona\, Montana\, New Mexico\, North Dakota\, South Dakota\, and Wyoming)\, analyzing the districting schemes of both lower and upper chambers of each state legislature. \nCombining census data with districting shapefile data\, and adapting a measure called “partisan dislocation” developed to assess partisan gerrymandering\, I measure Native dislocation: it is the difference between the racial composition of each district and that of each Native person’s geographic neighborhood. When that difference is large\, there are either proportionally more Native persons in the district than in their immediate neighborhood (an indication of concentration) or proportionally fewer (an indication of dispersion). \nThe analysis reveals both the enduring contribution and growing limitations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act\, which is responsible for the creation of many majority-Native districts\n(districts in which Native voters constitute more than a majority of the district’s population). While the Act is still responsible for the maintenance of historically majority-Native districts\, it is unable to translate increasing Native voting strength into electoral power beyond those districts. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nEmily Rong Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California\, Berkeley\, School of Law. She studies how the law can promote political participation and representation\, especially of individuals from historically disadvantaged communities. Before joining Berkeley\, she was a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Voting Rights Project.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-emily-rong-zhang/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230913T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
CREATED:20230706T153542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T201457Z
UID:7777-1694606400-1694611800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: K-Sue Park
DESCRIPTION:Dr. K-Sue Park will be presenting on her forthcoming law review article. This paper offers a history of the American title registry and its role in expanding the jurisdictional power of the English colonies in America\, and then the United States. It argues that the examination\, historical or theoretical\, of U.S. sovereignty and property institutions\, such as the registry\, must depart from and center the question of the prior and ongoing sovereignty of Native nations across this land. \nTo register for this event\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nK-Sue Park is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Her scholarship examines the development of American property law and the creation of the American real estate market through the histories of colonization and enslavement. She teaches first-year Property and a seminar entitled Land\, Dispossession\, and Displacement. Previously\, she was the Critical Race Studies Fellow at UCLA School of Law and an Equal Justice Works Fellow and staff attorney in El Paso\, where she investigated predatory mortgage lending schemes as part of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid’s foreclosure defense team. \nPark earned her B.A. summa cum laude\, Phi Beta Kappa honors from Cornell University\, where she was a College Scholar\, her M.Phil. with Distinction in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge\, her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School\, where she was a Presidential Scholar\, and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley\, where she was a Javits Fellow. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea in 2003. \nIn 2015\, her article\, “Money\, Mortgages\, and the Conquest of America\,” won the American Bar Foundation’s Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition and the Association for Law\, Culture and the Humanities’ Austin Sarat Award\, and was selected for the Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop. Her publications have appeared in the Harvard Law Review\, the Yale Law Journal\, The University of Chicago Law Review\, The History of the Present\, Law & Social Inquiry\, and the New York Times.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/7777/
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:20230906T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065507
CREATED:20230623T181817Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gregory Elinson
DESCRIPTION:“Over the past decade\, prominent progressive voices in the legal academy have reached a new consensus. Robust\, American-style\, judicial review is no balm to progressive causes — rather\, it is inherently anti-progressive. The judiciary\, they say\, has regularly interfered with legislative and executive efforts to protect minority rights and remedy economic inequality. Thus\, they conclude\, progressives ought to stop defending judicial review and instead devote their energies to eliminating (or limiting) it. Embedded in their critique are two related empirical claims: first\, that the judiciary in general and the Supreme Court in particular have been consistently less progressive than the other branches; and\, second\, that landmark progressive rulings in cases like Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade were not\, in and of themselves\, meaningful contributions to the progressive cause. \nThis Article considers the evidence in support of these claims and argues that judicial review’s progressive critics are wrong on both counts. For one\, we contend that critics underestimate just how anti-progressive American politics\, independent of judicial intervention\, have usually been. Revisiting the key cases on which the progressive critique is based\, we find little evidence for the proposition that the judiciary has consistently been more anti-progressive than the elected branches. Rather\, we suggest that few durable progressive coalitions have ever been latent such that we can say with any confidence that\, but for judicial intervention\, they would have surfaced in Congress or the executive. For another\, the Article finds little evidence that progressive judicial interventions have been mostly sizzle\, with little substance. To the contrary\, we find empirical support for the proposition that landmark progressive rulings in cases like Brown and Roe mattered quite a bit. Brown\, recent historiography makes clear\, eased passage of federal civil rights legislation\, while Roe established a far more permissive abortion regime than would have been feasible to achieve through the political process. \nStepping back from this empirical inquiry\, the Article takes an analytic turn. What is it about the judiciary’s role in American politics that judicial review’s progressive critics have missed? We have two answers. First\, we think that progressive critics offer a too-rosy account of the elected branches’ progressivism. Throughout American history\, both major political parties have effectively colluded to keep the rights of disfavored minorities off the political agenda. And drawing on an array of scholarship in law\, political science\, and history\, we find little evidence that electoral incentives consistently favor progressivism. Second\, we think there is better evidence to suggest that legal elites\, when freed of the pressures of coalition assembly and maintenance that constrain the elected branches\, have in fact been more progressive than Congress and the president. In earlier eras of American history\, we attribute this phenomenon to legal elites’ commitment to a stripped-down\, common-law constitutionalism. In more recent decades\, we attribute this phenomenon in large part to the role of educational polarization\, which has tended to make the elite bar—and thus the pool of actual and potential judges and justices—relatively more open to progressive arguments.” \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nGregory Elinson is an Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. He is a public law scholar with wide-ranging interests in constitutional and administrative law and legislative and judicial procedure. Much of his research concerns how partisan politics and political polarization have shaped the separation of powers. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Vanderbilt Law Review\, Emory Law Journal\, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law\, as well as several leading peer-reviewed social science journals\, including Law & Social Inquiry and Studies in American Political Development. \nBefore coming to NIU in 2022\, Professor Elinson was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office\, where his practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. Greg clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School\, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-gregory-elinson/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kalyani Ramnath
DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw from Dr. Ramnath’s forthcoming book Boats in a Storm: Law\, Migration\, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia 1942 – 1962 (Stanford University Press\, 2023). Migrant struggle with the law – in transnational disputes over taxation\, immigration\, and detention between 1940s and 1960s – form a lesser-known archive for decolonization. A critical reading of this archive offers insights into the contours of citizenship today and offers opportunities to reflect on continuities in conversations around belonging\, loyalty\, displacement\, and dispossession. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nKalyani Ramnath is an Assistant Professor in the department of History at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is a historian of modern South Asia\, with research and teaching interests in legal history\, histories of migration and displacement\, transnational history\, and questions of archival method. Her first book\, Boats in a Storm: Law\, Migration\, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia 1942 – 1962 is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in August 2023.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/kalyani-ramnath-history-university-of-georgia/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230517T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kevin Kenny
DESCRIPTION:Today the United States considers immigration and border control a federal matter. Before the Civil War\, however\, the federal government played virtually no role in regulating immigration. \nIn this presentation\, based on his recently published book The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States\, (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, Kevin Kenny will demonstrate how the existence\, abolition\, and legacies of slavery shaped the emergence of a national immigration policy in the nineteenth century. For a century after the American Revolution\, states controlled mobility within and across their borders and set their own rules for community membership. Throughout the antebellum era\, defenders of slavery feared that\, if Congress gained control over immigration\, it could also regulate the movement of free black people and even the interstate slave trade. The Civil War and the abolition of slavery removed the political and constitutional obstacles to a national immigration policy\, yet they did not make that policy inevitable. The first national immigration controls were directed not at immigrants generally\, but at Chinese immigrants in particular. Admission remained the norm for Europeans; Chinese laborers were excluded through techniques of registration\, punishment\, and deportation first used against free black people in the antebellum South. The federal government continues to control admissions and exclusions today but tensions within federalism\, rooted in nineteenth-century history\, remain important to the lives of immigrants after arrival. Some states monitor and punish immigrants\, while others offer sanctuary and refuse to act as agents of federal law enforcement\, echoing the personal liberty laws passed in response to fugitive slave acts in the antebellum era. Revealing the tangled origins of border control\, incarceration\, and deportation\, this presentation sheds light on the history of race and belonging in America\, as well as ongoing conflicts between state and federal authority over immigration today. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nKevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (OUP\, 2013)\, Peaceable Kingdom Lost (OUP\, 2009)\, The American Irish: A History (Longman\, 2002)\, and Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (OUP\, 1998). Currently President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians\, Professor Kenny came to the United States as an immigrant in the 1980s.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/kevin-kenny-history-new-york-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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