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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
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SUMMARY:2026 April New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Christopher W. Schmidt\, ABF Research Professor and Professor of Law; Co-Director of the Institute on the U.S Supreme Court\, Chicago-Kent College of Law. \n“The Supreme Court Under Fire: Lessons from History” \nFrom debates over executive power to battles over abortion and gun rights\, the United States Supreme Court features prominently in many of our most contentious political disputes. As a result\, it has been a frequent target of attack\, with critics accusing the Court of being captured by outside interests and of rulings that place ideology or even party above legal principle. In this presentation\, Professor Christopher Schmidt draws on material from his forthcoming book on the history of the Supreme Court to place today’s attacks on the Supreme Court into a broader historical context. He explores the circumstances surrounding past episodes when the Court has come under fire for its rulings\, showing how many of today’s attacks on the Court echo those of the past. He also identifies ways in which the present moment is distinct and argues that today’s Court may be more vulnerable than past Courts in the face of challenges to its authority.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-april-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260422T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T185133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T205736Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Deepa Das Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States\, The War on Tenure steps in to demystify what professors do and to explain the importance of tenure for their work. Deepa Das Acevedo takes readers on a backstage tour of tenure-stream academia to reveal hidden dynamics and obstacles. She challenges the common belief that tenure is only important for the protection of academic freedom. Instead\, she argues that the security and autonomy provided by tenure are also essential to the performance of work that students\, administrators\, parents\, politicians\, and taxpayers value. Going further\, Das Acevedo shows that tenure exists on a spectrum of comparable employment contracts and she debunks the notion that tenure warps the incentives of professors. Ultimately\, The War on Tenure demonstrates that the job security tenure provides is not nearly as unusual\, undesirable\, or unwarranted as critics claim. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nDeepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist. Her research blends ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with doctrinal and policy analysis to provide new insights about legal rules and institutions. She studies employment regulation (particularly faculty tenure as an employment protection)\, the law and politics of India (focusing on next-generation law & policy organizations)\, and methodological and theoretical developments in the anthropology of law. She is the Editor of the peer-reviewed journal PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review\, a past Trustee of the Law & Society Association\, and has held leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools\, the American Anthropological Association\, and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-deepa-das-acevedo/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
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SUMMARY:2026 April Maryland Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor and University of Chicago\, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science\, Tom Ginsburg. \n“The Rule of Law under Challenge: Maintaining Institutional Integrity” \nThe rule of law is under siege\, and the institutions meant to protect it are straining under the pressure. This talk wrestles with what it takes for courts\, legislatures\, and democratic norms to resist\, endure\, and emerge with their integrity intact. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-april-maryland-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260415T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260129T174720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T182555Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shari S. Diamond
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \n\n\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nShari Seidman Diamond (she/her) is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker Law School. An attorney and social psychologist\, she is one of the foremost empirical researchers on jury process and legal decision making\, including the use of science by the courts. She has authored or coauthored more than 150 publications in law reviews and behavioral science journals\, including the Reference Guide on Survey Research in the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (4th ed. in press) and The Multiple Dimensions of Trial by Jury: Studies of Jury Behavior (2016\, in Spanish)\, and is completing a book on juries based on a field experiment in which cameras recorded real jury deliberations.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shari-diamond-2/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260304T154926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T154926Z
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SUMMARY:2026 April New Jersey Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Lisa Rodriguez and Lynn Fontaine Newsome\, Co-Chairs of the New Jersey ABF Fellows\, for a New Jersey Fellows Dinner. \nJoin us for an evening of networking and celebration as we bring together the New Jersey ABF Fellows. Enjoy cocktails\, a fantastic dinner menu\, conversation\, and the opportunity to connect with old friends and new! \nMonday\, April 13\, 2026 \nStage Left Steak\n5 Livingston Avenue\nNew Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \n6:00 pm – Cocktail Reception\n6:30 pm – Dinner \n$200 per Person \nGuests Welcome \nCancellations cannot be refunded after April 6\, 2026
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-april-new-jersey-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260408T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T185010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T230043Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ashley Rubin
DESCRIPTION:Socio-legal studies has grown rapidly over the last six decades. As the field has expanded\, however\, it seems the pace of field-defining research (most notably\, high-quality theoretical work\, especially with aspirations toward grand or general theorizing) has waned\, and a regime of normal science currently dominates. For some scholars\, this state of affairs gives the impression of treading water\, an incoherent field\, or even theoretical stagnation. Using the subfield of punishment and society as a case study\, we argue that the field suffers from a kind of stalled academic dialecticism. We argue that various factors have worked together to impede a standard dialectical process of theoretical growth by dissuading scholars from moving onto a new stage of innovative research and incentivizing them to continue to pursue smaller-scale\, less innovative studies. However\, precisely because the field has a rich\, diverse array of scholarship available to glean\, synthesize\, and use to make next-generation insights\, the field is poised for breakthrough research—particularly\, generalizable theories of legal phenomena—if only scholars are willing to pursue them. (Paper published in Law & Social Inquiry (2025) and was coauthored with Alena K. Shalaby.) \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nDr. Ashley Rubin is an interdisciplinary social scientist specializing in the study of criminal punishment as a social phenomenon; their work\, described more below\, sits at the intersections of criminology\, history\, sociology\, and sociolegal studies. Dr. Rubin is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley\, where she graduated in 2013. Dr. Rubin’s primary intellectual homes are the interdisciplinary fields of law and society and punishment and society. From 2023 to 2026\, she is co-editor (with Shauhin Talesh and Katharina Heyer) of the Law & Society Review\, the flagship journal of the Law and Society Association. In an effort to generate more locally relevant research\, Dr. Rubin founded the Hawai‘i Crime Lab\, which uses social science to provide useful information to Hawai‘i’s residents\, visitors\, and policymakers about crime and criminal justice on O‘ahu.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-ashley-rubin/
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:20260401T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T184857Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Soledad Álvarez Velasco
DESCRIPTION:Transborder migrant transits through the Americas have become a prominent and deeply political phenomenon. This talk examines the contemporary condition of inhabiting transit—the experience of being forced to restart journeys and to dwell in a geography of uncertainty\, living in a permanent state of (im)mobility while searching for safety. Drawing on digital and multi-sited ethnography\, historical research\, and a migrant-centered approach\, it reconstructs the journeys of fourteen migrants from Syria\, Iraq\, Nigeria\, Zimbabwe\, Haiti\, Cuba\, and Venezuela\, whom I met in Quito\, Metetí\, and Houston between 2016 and 2022. Their trajectories from their countries of origin to Ecuador\, Colombia\, and Brazil transformed into prolonged\, repeated transit across South American cities and borders before heading toward the U.S.—and\, in some cases\, back south as part of contemporary reverse transit. The talk analyzes how these South–South\, South–North\, and North–South movements are shaped by and collide with violence\, uneven geographical development\, and racialized\, exclusionary border regimes. At its core\, it centers migrants’ flights and fights—their struggles for movement\, survival\, and belonging. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nDr. Soledad Álvarez Velasco is a social anthropologist and human geographer whose research analyzes the interrelationship between mobility\, control\, and spatial transformations across the Americas. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from King’s College London. Before joining the University of Illinois Chicago in January 2023 as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies\, she was an Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University. She is the author of Frontera sur chiapaneca: El muro humano de la violencia (Mexico: CIESAS-UIA\, 2016). Her research has been published in Geopolitics\, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology\, Studies in Social Justice\, Antipode\, Migration and Society\, the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science\, and other academic journals in both English and Spanish. In the 2025–26 academic year\, she is a Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at UIC\, where she is completing her second manuscript\, Inhabiting Transit: Migrant Struggles from Global South America to the U.S. and Back Again.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-soledad-alvarez-velasco/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260225T200026Z
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SUMMARY:2026 March San Diego Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Stephen S. Korniczky and Anna Romanskaya\, Co-Chairs of the California (San Diego) Fellows for an evening of networking and celebration as we gather the San Diego area California Fellows community. This reception provides a wonderful opportunity to welcome our newest Fellows and offers longtime Fellows the chance to reconnect with friends and colleagues. Guests will also hear briefly about the meaningful impact that being a Fellow has on supporting and advancing ABF research from ABF Interim Executive Director & Research Professor Emeritus\, Bryant Garth. \nHosted heavy appetizers will be served\, along with beer and wine. \nThursday\, March 26\, 2026 \nIl Fornaio Del Mar\n1555 Camino Del Mar\, Suite 301\nDel Mar\, CA\, 92014 \n6:00 PM PT \n$45 per Person \nRegistrations must be received by Monday\, March 16. Cancellations will be honored through Monday\, March 16. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Bronze Sponsors:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-march-san-diego-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260218T180229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T202129Z
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SUMMARY:2026 March New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Laura Beth Nielsen\, ABF Research Professor and Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair and Professor of Sociology\, Northwestern University. \n“Representations of Vengeance\, Justice\, Expertise\, and Emotion in True Crime Podcasts” \nTrue crime podcasts rank among the most-consumed digital media\, with millions of weekly downloads. More than entertainment\, they function as vernacular trials that invite audiences to deliberate on crime\, culpability\, and punishment. Analyzing 30 episodes (~36 hours) from five top podcasts in 2022 (Crime Junkie\, Morbid\, Dateline\, Small Town Murder\, Sword & Scale)\, Professor Nielsen identifies three patterns. First\, persona-driven storytelling shifts attention from “whodunit” to what kind of person could do this. Second\, hosts place perpetrators on a moral spectrum progressing from weird to creepy to evil to monster. The spectrum naturalizes dehumanization. Third\, gestures toward mitigation (psychosis\, intellectual disability\, trauma\, youth) typically collapse into demands for harsh punishment. This presentation will document the punitive turn within sympathetic narration and argue that these podcasts both reflect and produce legal consciousness: they teach listeners how to evaluate culpability\, weigh mitigation\, and imagine justice.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-march-new-york-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260311T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260305T180621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T202742Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Natasha Strassfeld
DESCRIPTION:This talk will offer a comprehensive overview of the laws that govern service delivery to juvenile youth within the juvenile legal system\, while also exploring the limitations of these established legal safeguards. Second\, this talk will center youth with disabilities—who constitute an overwhelming majority of the population of youth in the juvenile legal system—within the national conversation on addressing systemic disparities\, such as disproportionate recidivism rates for racialized and ethnic minority youth and the school-to-prison pipeline phenomenon. Finally\, this talk will detail the disproportionate representation of system-involved youth with disabilities\, critically examine how law and policy shape youth transition from the juvenile legal system to community release\, and will review current\, inclusive research methodologies for working with and studying this population. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nNatasha Strassfeld is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin faculty\, she was an assistant professor of special education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU and associated assistant professor of public service at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin School of Law and her Ph.D. in Special Education from the Pennsylvania State University.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-natasha-strassfeld/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260211T164828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T191413Z
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SUMMARY:2026 March Utah Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Keith Call\, Chair of the ABF Utah Fellows\, for a Utah Fellows dinner and presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Emeritus\, Terence Halliday. Professor Halliday will present his work “Criminal Defense in China.” \nThursday\, March 5\, 2026\nThe Alta Club\n100 E. Temple Street\nSalt Lake City\, UT 84111 \n6:00 pm – Cocktail Reception \n6:45 pm – Dinner and Presentation \nRefunds for cancellations cannot be honored after February 26\, 2026
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-march-utah-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260304T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T184326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T163828Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Atinuke Adediran
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, when it was economically beneficial to do so\, companies proclaimed the importance of equity and diversity. But as Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran shows in her book DISCLOSURELAND: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress (Cambridge University Press\, January 2026)\, five years later and with Trump back in office\, those recent promises have significantly softened or been eliminated altogether. Adediran examines why this type of lip service surged\, why the commitments crumbled\, and what their unraveling means for shareholders\, employees\, customers and for the future of racial fairness in the corporate world.  \nAnalyzing data from more than 2\,000 companies—including Amazon and Walmart\, the two largest corporate employers in the world—Adediran explores the issue from three angles. First\, she illustrates how business pledges are opportunistic when they’re not grounded in historical facts about past corporate inequality. Second\, she reveals how companies use public statements to deflect accusations of racial inequality in their businesses. And third\, she highlights how under the Trump administration\, many companies choose one of two paths: softening their progressive language or scrubbing race from their messaging entirely. All of these approaches reflect the same calculation: how to protect their reputation with politicians\, shareholders\, customers\, and employees today\, while hedging against financial and reputational risks down the road. Nowhere in this equation are genuine concerns about how race intersects with their business practices and the lives of the employees and customers they depend on. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nProfessor Atinuke Adediran uses empirical sociological methods to study the relationship between business\, law\, and society. Her work spans a range of ideas with reputational\, financial\, social\, and political consequences for the private sector and society\, including environmental and social issues\, stakeholder welfare\, diversity and inclusion\, race relations\, philanthropy\, corporate social responsibility\, and pro bono legal services. \nIn addition to Disclosureland\, she has published articles and essays in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals\, including the California Law Review\, Columbia Law Review\, Law and Social Inquiry\, Northwestern Law Review\, Virginia Law Review\, and UCLA Law Review. Her work has also been featured in popular outlets like Agenda (Financial Times)\, Bloomberg Law\, Fortune\, and The Wall Street Journal. \nProfessor Adediran’s work has won many awards\, including from the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, the Ford Foundation\, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2023\, she received the university-wide Distinguished Research Award for Interdisciplinary Studies at Fordham University. \nBefore joining Fordham\, Professor Adediran was the David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor of Business Law at Boston College Law School\, and an Earl B. Dickerson Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago. Prior to entering academia\, she was an Associate in the New York office of Cadwalader\, Wickersham & Taft LLP\, where she represented clients in complex commercial business disputes with a focus on securities litigation and maintained active pro bono practice. \nProfessor Adediran holds Ph.D. and MA degrees in Sociology from Northwestern University and received her JD degree from Columbia Law School.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-atinuke-adediran/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251208T203840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T214126Z
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SUMMARY:2026 February Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Kari Petrasek and the Hon. Dean Lum\, Co-Chairs of the ABF Washington Fellows\, for a Washington Fellows Dinner featuring a presentation by ABF Research Professor Christopher W. Schmidt. \nSeattle University School of Law\nSullivan Hall\n901 12th Avenue\nSeattle\, WA 98122\n5:30 PM PT – Cocktail Reception\n6:00 PM PT – Dinner and Program\nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsors: \nGold Sponsor \n \nBronze Sponsors
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-february-washington-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20260121T191446Z
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SUMMARY:2026 February New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Alana Ackerman\, ABF Research Professor. \n“Crip Images Against the Disabling of Asylum: Lessons from Two Protests at the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois”\nIn this presentation\, Professor Ackerman will reflect on preliminary research she has begun related to the “disabling of asylum” by the current US administration. The presentation will focus on a set of photographs and videos recorded during two protests in Fall 2025 outside of Broadview Detention Center in Illinois. These recordings were taken in the context of “Operation Midway Blitz\,” an ongoing militarized attack by the US government against migrant\, refugee\, and related racialized communities in the Chicago area\, part of a broader project of white nationalism and a “thickening” borderlands condition (Rosas 2006). These recordings are “crip” in that they center disability and disablement\, and they challenge the status quo of state power. Professor Ackerman will argue that crip images\, and crip protesting\, represent one way to witness and confront contemporary state violence.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-february-new-york-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T222754Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jill Horwitz
DESCRIPTION:Recent crises—the pandemic\, natural disasters\, and political targeting—have caused enormous suffering\, sparing no one\, including charities. Even over the past few years\, they have faced extreme revenue losses\, leading to reductions in programming that advance their purposes\, staff layoffs\, and bankruptcy. Amid these crises\, a lot of money has sat in endowments. It has been largely unavailable to alleviate harms to charities\, their beneficiaries\, employees\, and their purposes. During the pandemic\, for example\, regulators across the country reminded charities that legal constraints on the use of endowment funds still applied\, including restrictions mandating that assets be held for investment\, as well as other specific spending restrictions. Charities must observe restrictions on charitable assets\, even during a crisis. \nDo these rather inflexible restrictions make sense? Using the pandemic and other recent crises as examples\, this article examines the question and\, largely\, answers it in the affirmative. In doing so\, it engages decades of scholarly debate on the justification for adhering to restrictions in general\, with particular attention to endowment restrictions\, and uses the most recent crises as a stress test of the law. It considers the wisdom of changing rules during crises more generally. In a discussion of the legal concept of waste\, it concludes that\, possibly excepting the most extreme cases\, both practical evidence and theory point towards maintaining restrictions. It re-examines traditional arguments for allowing donors to restrict the use of donations as applied in the context of emergencies. \nThe article concludes that the arguments for granting charities unilateral ability to release restrictions\, even during a crisis\, are largely wanting. Existing law almost always provides sufficient tools for charities to respond to needs\, even to crises. Understanding that the goal of charities law is to protect specified charitable purposes rather than particular charities\, the case for upholding restrictions becomes even stronger. Nevertheless\, there are exceptions. The article suggests that the Trump administration’s targeting of some charities\, particularly universities\, may well be one of them. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nJill Horwitz previously served as the David Sanders Professor in Law and Medicine at UCLA School of Law and Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She was the Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life at UCLA School of Law for the academic years 2019-2021. Professor Horwitz holds appointments as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria Department of Economics in British Columbia\, Canada. Prior to joining UCLA in 2012\, she was on the law faculty at the University of Michigan\, where she was the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law and Co-Director of Law and Economics. She also held joint appointments at Michigan with the School of Public Health and the Ford School of Public Policy.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jill-horwitz/
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:20260211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T184222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T234952Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: katrina quisumbing king
DESCRIPTION:In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands\, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later\, in 1946\, Philippine independence was recognized by the United States\, even as it continued to exert influence over the domestic and foreign affairs of the newly decolonized Republic. Despite some differences\, U.S. control remained racial and imperial. In this talk\, I show how U.S. federal state actors translated their ideas of race into state structures. Through innovating constitutional law\, bureaucratic administration\, and legislation\, state actors built a durable and flexible system of racial-imperial rule that not only lasted beyond the period of formal empire but continues to this day. I trace debates among U.S.  presidents\, federal legislators\, administrators\, and court justices about what kind of state the United States should be\, the place of nonwhite people in the polity\, and the best way to maintain U.S. white hegemony. in charting how state actors’ positions—some nativist\, isolationist\, and protectionist and others expansionist\, interventionist\, and imperialist—evolved\, I identify key moments when they cemented racial ideas into law and reshaped the terms of U.S. racial-imperial formation.  \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nkatrina quisumbing king studies racial classification and exclusion from a historical perspective that foregrounds the state’s authority to manage populations. She is particularly interested in the ways state actors conceive of and make decisions around race and citizenship. Her research recenters empire as a key political formation. In the U.S. context\, she focuses especially on how the state defines colonized populations and how these people fit into the U.S. racial order.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-katrina-quisumbing-king/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T184050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T211534Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Reuben Jonathan Miller
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nReuben Jonathan Miller (he/him) is an ABF Research Professor and an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work\, Policy\, and Practice and in the Department of Race\, Diaspora and Indigeneity. In 2022\, he was named a MacArthur Fellow for his work tracing the long-term consequences that incarceration and reentry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-reuben-j-miller/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251210T165832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T165449Z
UID:14225-1770163200-1770595199@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2026 Midyear Meeting in San Antonio
DESCRIPTION:A $30 registration fee is required and helps cover administrative costs associated with the Midyear Meeting \nEarly registration: Tickets are discounted through January 16 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours:\nGrand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk\n600 E. Market Street \n3:00PM – 5:30 PM (Wednesday\, February 4) \n7:30AM – 5:00PM (Thursday\, February 5 – Friday\, February 6) \n7:30 AM-5:00 PM (Saturday\, February 7) \n8:00 AM-2:00 PM (Sunday\, February 8) \nFriday\, February 6\nFellows CLE Program \n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\nHenry B. González Convention Center\n900 E. Market Street \n“The Supreme Court and the Second Trump Administration”\nThe ABA will seek 1.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states\, and 1.8 hours of CLE credit for this program in 50-minute states.. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. Please visit www.americanbar.org/mcle for general information on CLE at the ABA. (CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Midyear Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nThis program will examine the Supreme Court’s performance at the one-year mark of President Trump’s second term. The conversation will explore initial concerns regarding potential executive branch resistance to Court rulings and how those concerns have evolved. We will also consider the Court’s use of its “shadow docket\,” as well as several significant cases already before the Court\, including matters involving tariffs and the President’s removal of the heads of independent agencies. \nThis program will be moderated by Mario Barnes\, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Center on Law\, Equality and Race Director at UC Irvine School of Law\, and feature a panel discussion with: \n\nChristopher W. Schmidt – American Bar Foundation Research Professor\, Professor of Law\, Co-Director of the Institute on the U.S. Supreme Court\, Chicago-Kent College of Law\nPaul M. Smith – Senior Advisor\, Campaign Legal Center\n\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CLE-Audio-2026.mp3\n\n70th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet\n6:00 PM – 10:00 PM\nMission Concepción (807 Mission Road)\nRound Trip Shuttle from Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk \nFor information on table sponsorships or tribute advertisements in honor of our Award Winners\, please contact Julia Dombrowski at jdombrowski@abfn.org or 312-988-6547. \nJoin us for a festive evening as we celebrate and honor lawyers and scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and society. \nOutstanding Service Award: William C. Hubbard \nOutstanding Scholar Award: Rachel F. Moran \nOutstanding State Chair Award: Stephen A. Bain and Joi G. Kush\, Colorado State Chairs \nFeaturing keynote remarks from Innocence Project exoneree and author of\n“The Jailhouse Lawyer\,” Calvin Duncan\, Founder and Director of Light of Justice and Orleans Parish Criminal Clerk of Court\nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Awards Banquet Gold Sponsor \n \nand Awards Banquet Silver Sponsors \n \n \nand Awards Banquet Bronze Sponsor \n \n  \nSaturday\, February 7\nFellows Tour: Go Rio San Antonio River Cruise – SOLD OUT\nIf you would like to be added to the waitlist\, please email jdombrowski@abfn.org\n9:45 AM – 11:00 AM\nThis narrated cruise takes you on an enchanting journey through San Antonio’s rich history\, from La Villita\, the city’s first neighborhood past the Old Mill Crossing where Teddy Roosevelt led his Rough Riders. You’ll learn about the city’s architecture and points of interest such as Selena’s Bridge and The Briscoe Western Art Museum\, as well as fascinating facts about the city’s history. For instance\, did you know that the Hyatt Regency Hotel was designed so its height would not cast a shadow on the Alamo in the setting sun? Come along on the Fellows Tour to learn more about our host city! \nFellows Reception\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\nBoudro’s Texas Bistro on the Riverwalk (421 E. Commerce) \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends\, and fun on the iconic San Antonio Riverwalk. Guests will be greeted with margaritas and enjoy a menu featuring South Texas flavors while enjoying views overlooking the heart of the city’s most popular destination. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Fellows Reception Silver Sponsors \n \n \n \nSunday\, February 8\nFellows Sing-Along\n9:00 PM – 11:30 PM\nGrand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk  \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring a friend and enjoy this lively Fellows tradition. Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Sing-Along Event Sponsor \nJo Ann Engelhardt\, Benefactor Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2026-midyear-meeting-in-san-antonio/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260128T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T183955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T223113Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Stephanie Holmes Didwania
DESCRIPTION:Asset forfeiture laws allow law enforcement agencies to permanently take property that is thought to be connected to criminal activity. Every year\, federal and state governments acquire billions of dollars’ worth of property (such as cash\, electronics\, homes\, and vehicles) through asset fofeiture\, and often use this money and property to fund law enforcement activities. The Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment prevents the government from conducting an asset forfeiture that is grossly disproportional to the gravity of the defendant’s offense. However\, little case law clarifies what it means for a forfeiture to be excessive enough to violate the Eighth Amendment\, and\, in practice forfeitures are virtually never overturned on Eighth Amendment grounds. \nThis Article provides the first evidence of how ordinary people view the fairness of asset forfeiture across a variety of hypothetical scenarios motivated by real-life forfeiture practice. We find that the public’s perceptions of forfeiture converge in some ways and diverge in others from the approaches taken by law enforcement agencies and courts in conducting and evaluating asset forfeiture. We conclude by offering both concrete and broad guidance for courts\, advocates\, law enforcement agencies\, and property owners. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nStephanie Holmes Didwania writes and teaches about criminal law and criminal procedure. Her scholarship uses empirical methods to study the criminal legal system. She is primarily interested in understanding how prosecutors exercise discretion in criminal cases and in federal pretrial detention. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Law and Economics Review\, the Journal of Law and Economics\, and the Journal of Legal Studies\, as well as in student-edited law journals such as the Northwestern University Law Review\, the Southern California Law Review\, and the Stanford Law Review.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-stephanie-holmes-didwania/
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:20260121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T183832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T224640Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jessica Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:This talk draws from Greenberg’s recent ethnographic monograph: Justice in the Balance: Democracy\, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights. Greenberg will discuss the practices\, ideologies and normative frameworks that define the rule of law\, and whether and how these can weather a moment of profound crisis in Europe and beyond.  \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nJessica Greenberg is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Her first book\, After the Revolution: Youth\, Democracy\, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford University Press 2014) analyzes the temporal and affective experience of democracy in the shift from popular resistance to political institutionalization. Her most recent book\, Justice in the Balance: Democracy\, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights (Stanford 2025) asks why and how people channel visions of social change and justice through international legal institutions. In 2017\, Greenberg earned a Masters in Law as a University of Illinois Fellow for Study in a Second Discipline. She has served as co-editor of the Political and Legal anthropology review (PoLAR)\, and is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including two Fulbright Fellowships\, and an NSF in Law and Science.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jessica-greenberg/
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:20260114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251219T183012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T200733Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bryant Garth
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nBryant Garth (he/him) is an Affiliated Research Professor and the ABF’s Interim Executive Director\, beginning September 2\, 2025. He is a Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at University of California\, Irvine School of Law\, where he codirects the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession. He also served as University of California\, Irvine School of Law’s Interim Dean for the 2021–22 academic year. Previously\, Garth served as Interim Executive Director of the ABF from 2022 to 2023\, Dean of Southwestern Law School from 2005 to 2012\, Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation from 1990 to 2004\, and Dean of the Indiana University Bloomington School of Law from 1986 to 1990.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-bryant-garth/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251213T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251213T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251030T202134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T203450Z
UID:14092-1765625400-1765630800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 December Mississippi Fellows Lunch and Presentation - Postponed!
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event is being postponed until after the holiday season.  \nPlease join Robert E. Hauberg\, Jr.\, Esq.\, Chair of the ABF Mississippi Fellows\, for a Mississippi Fellows lunch featuring Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald (Ret.) \nFriday\, December 12\, 2025\n11:30 AM CT\n\nThe Inn at Ole Miss\n120 Alumni Drive\nOxford\, MS \n$45 per Person\nGuests Welcome
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-december-mississippi-fellows-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251006T210549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T070238Z
UID:13950-1764763200-1764768600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 December New York Fellows Lunch and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a networking lunch and presentation with Jeh Johnson. \nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 \n12:00 pm – Lunch \n12:30 pm – Presentation \nLocation:\nWachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\n51 W. 52nd Street\nNew York\, NY \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-december-new-york-fellows-lunch-and-presentation/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20250618T150655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T153954Z
UID:13173-1764763200-1764768600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jose Atiles
DESCRIPTION:Crisis by Design offers an interdisciplinary sociolegal analysis of the role of law\, emergency powers\, and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico’s ongoing multilayered crisis. From the 2006 public debt crisis and the government’s bankruptcy in 2016 to the devastation of Hurricanes Irma\, María\, and Fiona\, the 2020 earthquakes\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, and the anticorruption uprisings of 2019\, Puerto Rico’s recent history has been shaped by overlapping crises that have deepened inequality and citizen vulnerability. Rather than viewing these crises as isolated events\, this talk argues that they are integral to the legal structure of colonialism\, which actively produces and sustains disaster conditions. \nDrawing on eight years of qualitative research—including ethnography\, semi-structured interviews\, archival analysis\, and policy review—Crisis by Design examines the legal and political mechanisms that manufacture and manage crisis in Puerto Rico. The book introduces three key concepts: the colonial state of exception\, which frames US colonialism as a permanent legal structure of inclusion/exclusion; colonial legality\, which captures the legal practices\, policies\, and economic frameworks sustaining Puerto Rico’s crisis management; and legal interruptions\, which describes civil society efforts to mobilize transparency laws and accountability measures as a form of resistance. These mobilizations\, together with grassroots demonstrations\, or what I term colonial ruptures\, challenge the repetitive temporality of colonial legality\, underscoring a radical possibility for rendering the colonial legal structure in Puerto Rico ineffective. \nBy critically engaging with law\, power\, and resistance in Puerto Rico\, Crisis by Design contributes to global debates on colonialism\, legal governance\, and crisis management in the Global South. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nJose Atiles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and College of Law (by courtesy) at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. His sociolegal and criminological research focuses on the colonial context of Puerto Rico\, aiming to elucidate the role of state and corporate crimes\, law\, and emergency powers during periods of crisis. He is the author of Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico (Stanford University Press\, 2024)\, and Islands of Exception: Law\, Empire\, and Offshore Finance in the Caribbean (Cambridge University Press\, 2026). Atiles currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crimes and is a member of various other editorial boards. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jose-atiles/
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:20251119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20250618T150359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T213033Z
UID:13168-1763553600-1763559000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gino Pauselli
DESCRIPTION:How does institutional design affect non-state actors’ preferences for international organizations (IOs)? We develop a theory of strategic forum shopping\, where non-state actors choose the most advantageous venue for litigation. While existing research highlights the importance of IO activity\, it often treats non-state actors as exogenous and their involvement as given. In contrast\, our approach considers these actors as strategic decision-makers\, choosing where to engage based on the costs and benefits associated with institutional design. We compare the Inter-American and the UN human rights treaty systems. Our findings show that actors are more likely to file petitions with organizations offering legally binding decisions and less likely with alternatives. Non-governmental organizations weigh time differently than individual petitioners and are more willing to wait for a binding decision. However\, longer wait times deter individual petitioners from filing complaints. This research shows the importance of considering outside options in regimes with overlapping institutions. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nGino Pauselli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, specializing in the intersection of human rights\, global governance\, and transnational advocacy. Previously\, Pauselli was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University (2023-2024). \n\n\n\n\nPauselli’s research uses rigorous statistical methods to analyze the dynamics of norms adoption and resistance within global governance systems\, with a focus on how international actors (including NGOs\, intergovernmental organizations\, and transnational networks) shape policy reform and accountability mechanisms.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-gino-pauselli/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251006T153551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T153551Z
UID:13938-1763058600-1763065800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 November New Jersey Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Lisa Rodriguez and Lynn Fontaine Newsome\, Co-Chairs of the New Jersey ABF Fellows\, for a New Jersey Fellows Reception. \nThursday\, November 13\, 2025 \n6:30 pm – 8:30 pm \nRat’s Restaurant at Grounds for Sculpture\n16 Fairgrounds Road\nHamilton Township\, NJ 08619 \n$160 per Person\nGuests Welcome \nPlease RSVP by November 5
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-november-new-jersey-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20251112T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20251112T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20251006T154104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T154104Z
UID:13940-1762966800-1762974000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 Utah Fellows Reception with ABA President\, Michelle A. Behnke
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date to join the Utah Fellows for a reception with ABA President\, Michelle A. Behnke. \nParsons Behle & Latimer\n201 South Main Street\, Suite 1800\nSalt Lake City\, Utah
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-utah-fellows-reception-with-aba-president-michelle-a-behnke/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T224500
CREATED:20250618T150019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T154052Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shauhin Talesh
DESCRIPTION:Despite the massive costs associated with data breaches\, ransomware\, viruses\, and cyberattacks\, most organizations remain thoroughly unprepared to safeguard consumer data. Over the past two decades\, the insurance industry has begun offering cyber insurance to help organizations manage cybersecurity and privacy law compliance\, while also offering risk management services as part of their insurance packages. These insurers have thus effectively evolved into de facto regulators — yet at the same time\, they have failed to effectively curtail cybersecurity breaches. \nDrawing from interviews\, observations\, and extensive content analysis of the cyber insurance industry\, this book reveals how cyber insurers’ risk management services convey legitimacy to the public and to insureds but fall short of actually improving data security\, rendering them largely symbolic. Speaking directly to broader debates on regulatory delegation to nonstate actors\, Prof. Talesh proposes a new institutional theory of insurance to explain how insurers shape the content and meaning of privacy law and cybersecurity compliance\, offering policy recommendations for how insurers and governments can work together to improve cybersecurity and foster greater algorithmic justice. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nShauhin Talesh is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans law\, sociology\, and political science. His research interests include the empirical study of law and business organizations\, dispute resolution\, consumer protection\, insurance\, and the relationship between law and social inequality. Professor Talesh is considered one of the leading scholars on organizational responses to law and compliance and the relationship between insurance\, regulation and inequality. \nTalesh’s empirical research addresses the intersection between organizations\, risk\, and consumer protection laws\, focusing on private organizations’ responses to and constructions of laws designed to regulate them\, consumers’ mobilization of their legal rights and the legal cultures of private organizations. His most recent research focuses on how cyber insurance and insurance companies shape cybersecurity and privacy law compliance among private organizations. He previously published multiple articles on how insurance companies\, through employment practice liability insurance\, construct the meaning of compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shauhin-talesh/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:2025 November Maryland Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by author and professor of history at the University of Maryland\, Professor Richard Bell\, Professor Bell will present from his new book\, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. \nTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE FATE OF THE WORLD\nAn electrifying global history of a not-so local war. \nWhen we think of the American Revolution\, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. But this version of the story is only half the truth—and perhaps not even the most interesting half. In this riveting program\, historian and author Richard Bell invites audiences to rediscover the Revolution as a world war that unleashed chaos\, opportunity\, and transformation across six continents. From the sugar fields of the Caribbean to the court of the King of Mysore\, from refugee camps on the Canadian frontier to political uprisings in Sierra Leone and Peru\, the war that gave birth to the United States was never simply America’s own. It was a seismic global event that redrew maps\, toppled hierarchies\, catalyzed migration\, and accelerated new movements for liberty—and for empire. \nIn this program\, Bell traces the far-flung reverberations of the war through the lives of the people it displaced\, empowered\, or destroyed. Participants will encounter a Native matriarch struggling to preserve a transatlantic military alliance\, a Prussian officer reinventing himself in a foreign army\, and a Boston schoolteacher shipwrecked thousands of miles from home. Along the way\, the Bell explores how the Revolution stirred a transoceanic refugee crisis\, ignited antislavery activism\, and inspired uprisings from Ireland to India. The program offers a bold new framework for understanding the Revolutionary War not as a tidy founding moment but as a sprawling\, high-stakes struggle fought on land and sea\, shaped by commerce\, diplomacy\, propaganda\, and contingency. This is the American Revolution as you’ve never seen it before: complex\, global\, and astonishingly relevant to the modern world.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-november-maryland-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:ABF Reception at the 2025 NAPABA Convention
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a free ABF Reception at the 2025 NAPABA Convention in Denver\, CO! \nFriday\, November 7\, 2025\n7:30pm – 8:30pm MT \nRoom Director’s Row J\nSheraton Denver Downtown\n1550 Court Place\nDenver\, CO \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-reception-at-the-2025-napaba-convention/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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