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SUMMARY:2026 June Illinois Fellows Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Illinois Fellows State Chair Michael J. Hernandez for a complimentary Illinois Fellows lunch and presentation by ABF Research Professor and Northwestern University Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair and Professor of Sociology\, Laura Beth Nielsen. \nThursday\, June 11\, 2026 \nFranczek P.C.\n300 South Wacker\, Suite 3400\nChicago\, Il 60606 \n11:30 AM CT – Networking Lunch\n12:00 PM CT – Presentation \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. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-june-illinois-fellows-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
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SUMMARY:2026 June New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Swethaa Ballakrishnen\, ABF 2025-26 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. \n“Giving More\, Feeling Worse: Familial Support Exchanges and Mental Health Among Law Students”\nResearch on intergenerational transfer of capital has focused primarily on the downward movement of resources to heirs and dependents. This focus is crucial given the range of systemic advantages that generational privilege can offer\, especially for those seeking access into already elite institutions. Still\, it is an incomplete portrayal of inequality because it obscures the more relational and recursive nature of how support flows from heirs to their previous generations\, especially for populations whose mobility is not buttressed by generational advantage. In this talk\, Professor Ballakrishnen will make the case\, drawing from their collaborative research\, that paying attention to the ways in which support is received and given to older generations can be instrumental to understanding the layers of inequality that buttress individual experience within professional sites. \nFocusing on new longitudinal mixed-methods social network data on law students\, we find that multi-directional structures of support are particularly common for law students from marginalized backgrounds (and in particular\, Black law students and students who parents did not complete their bachelor’s degrees)\, and that this inverse relationship to support has implications for students’ mental health. Particularly\, our data show that students’ potential for depressive symptoms were not moderated by receiving support from their parental figures. Instead\, regardless of support received\, those who gave more support were more likely to experience depressive symptoms. The association between giving support to parents and depression was partially mediated\, or explained\, by differences in law students’ locus of control\, satisfaction with law school\, GPA\, and quality of relationships with other students. Together\, these findings have implications for our understanding of generational privilege and the ways in which historical social advantage can buffer and burden mobility.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/15201/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T160000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
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SUMMARY:2026 May Oregon/Washington Fellows Event
DESCRIPTION:Kari Petrasek\, ABA Washington State Membership Chair & ABF Washington Fellows Co-Chair\, and Judge Dean Lum\, ABF Washington Fellows Co-Chair\, in partnership with Shayda Z. Le\, Chair of the ABF Oregon Fellows\, and Marilyn J. Harbur and Leslie S. Johnson\, ABA Oregon State Membership Co-Chairs invite you to a joint Oregon & Washington Fellows Lunch and Day of Programming – Open to All Fellows Nationwide. \nApproved for CLE Credit* \nFriday\, May 29\, 2026 \nOffices of Miller Nash\, LLP\n1140 SW Washington Street\nPortland\, OR 987205 \n12:00-1:00 PM PT – Lunch \n1:00-4:30 PM PT – Program Sessions Featuring: \n1:00 PM PT – A panel discussion of “The View of Three Justices: Their Path to the Court\, the Similarities and Differences in the Two Courts\, and their Work in Addition to Deciding Cases” with: \n\nOregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Meagan Aileen Flynn\nWashington Supreme Court Chief Justice Debra L. Stephens\nWashington Supreme Court Justice Salvador A. Mungia\n\nThe Justices will discuss their paths to the court\, the similarities and differences in Washington and Oregon State Courts\, and their work in addition to deciding cases. \nPresentation by ABF Research Professor William H. J. Hubbard of: \n3:00 PM PT – “Justice for Sale: Exposing the Hidden Markets in Civil Procedure and Finding Ways to Regulate Them Sensibly” \n4:30-5:30 PM PT – Reception to Follow Program \nThis program and lunch are presented in collaboration with the American Bar Association\, whose members are integral to the ABF Fellows community. \nIn addition to attending the lunch & program\, the State Chairs encourage all attendees to join the group for an informal dinner that evening. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Venue and Reception Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Bronze Sponsors: \n \n \n*The ABA will seek 2.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states\, and 2.8 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 the program website at 2026 May Oregon/Washington Fellows Event – ABF for program CLE details or visit www.americanbar.org/mcle for general information on CLE at the ABA. \nIn accordance with MCLE requirements\, the American Bar Association offers financial hardship scholarships for live\, in-person and multi-session virtual CLE programs. If you would like to apply\, please review our Scholarship Policy and Application at https://ambar.org/cle-scholarship.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-may-oregon-washington-fellows-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Cary Martin Shelby
DESCRIPTION:Professor Shelby will discuss several chapters of her upcoming book\, Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity\, which introduces “Markets for Black Pain” as a novel theoretical construct contending that for-profit companies commodify Black Pain in ways that can lead to additional cycles of harm that spread to surrounding communities. Black Pain\, the foundation of this construct\, encompasses the multitude of individual and collective harms that Black people experience due to racism. Black Pain is its own distinct commodity\, Shelby argues\, given the ways in which it can be transformed into quantifiable and profitable units by for-profit companies. While the United States has historically relied on Black Pain to develop core aspects of its economy\, this book provides a taxonomy of modern commodifiers of Black Pain that stem from privatization becoming a preferred public policy solution to the ongoing plight of racism. Black Pain\, for example\, can manifest itself through “food deserts\,” experienced by predominantly Black communities enduring limited access to healthy food options. Market-based solutions invite private-sector participants to transform these food deserts into profitable units by receiving government subsidies in exchange for investing in grocery stores and other healthy food options within Black communities. \nAlthough market-based solutions for the ongoing plight of Black Pain can be successful\, they frequently create more of the same\, particularly when community investment leads to community displacement in the form of gentrification. The “Markets for Black Pain” construct thus uniquely categorizes these additional harms as negative externalities\, as they can cycle through entire communities despite community members themselves being excluded as direct participants within such transactions. While it might be assumed that these additional harms are exclusively borne by Black communities\, this construct challenges this assumption by exploring how the resulting market failures can threaten financial stability for the broader economy and serve as catalysts for a range of systemic disruptions. \nThe theory introduced in this book as “Markets for Black Pain” builds on a rich discourse of scholarly works that integrate economic analysis into the ways in which race is defined and categorized within hierarchical structures. It further revolutionizes the operation of the law in numerous contexts by introducing market failures as an entirely new category of harm that can emanate from racism. Potential market failures of this kind are not recognized within the panoply of civil rights legislation designed to redress the harms arising from direct and systemic forms of racism. They are similarly missing from the additional federal and state laws that regulate commodifiers of Black Pain by managing internal governance conflicts and protecting external stakeholders. Markets for Black Pain therefore compels us to consider a more expansive list of regulatory solutions that move beyond the prevailing goal of making a damaged party whole. This book offers timely and compelling suggestions for preventing the systemic harms arising from these market failures\, including strategic reparations and regulatory reforms based on pillars of transparency\, access\, diversity\, and accountability. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nCary Martin Shelby joined Chicago-Kent College of Law as the Ralph Brill Endowed Chair Professor of Law in July 2023. She specializes in corporate and securities law and teaches a variety of courses such as Contracts\, Business Associations\, Securities Regulation\, Corporate Finance\, and a seminar on Investment Funds. Shelby was previously a professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law and served as a visiting associate professor of law with The George Washington University Law School during the spring 2021 semester. She was also the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law during the 2022–2023 academic year. \nHer research generally encompasses regulatory issues related to hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles. It has utilized a range of theoretical frameworks to scrutinize the blurred distinctions between public and private investment funds resulting from financial innovation\, retailization\, and systemic risk. Her research has since expanded to explore intersections between race and systemic risk by examining the extent to which racism poses a threat to financial stability in ways that should be recognized by financial regulators. Shelby has published articles in Northwestern University Law Review\, California Law Review\, The Business Lawyer\, Boston College Law Review\, among other journals and periodicals. Shelby is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press for her forthcoming book project\, Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-cary-martin-shelby/
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:20260511T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T200000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
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SUMMARY:2026 May Washington\, D.C. Fellows Reception and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Washington\, D.C. Fellows for a reception and presentation of “Weaponizing Immigration Detention” by ABF Affiliated Scholar Emily Ryo. This reception is being held in conjunction with the ABA International Law Section Annual Conference \nMonday\, May 11\, 2026 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM ET \nReception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and hosted bar. Presentation to start around 6:45 pm. \nOffices of Cozen O’Connor \n2001 M Street NW\, Suite 500\nWashington\, D.C. \n$75 per Person\nGuests Welcome\nCancellations cannot be refunded after May 4\, 2026 \nImmigrants\, like all individuals\, exist within networks of social relationships that shape their identities\, inform their decision-making\, and guide their behavior. Certain areas of substantive U.S. immigration law—the body of law governing who may enter or remain in the United States—explicitly acknowledge this social embeddedness by protecting or privileging valued social relationships. In contrast\, procedural immigration law—the set of rules governing how substantive immigration law is implemented and enforced—undermines or destroys those very relationships. The U.S. government’s practice of transferring immigrant detainees across multiple detention facilities and confining them in remote locations is a paradigmatic example of such destructive procedural immigration law in action. This presentation will present the first systematic empirical analysis of interfacility transfers and remote detention in the U.S. immigration detention system. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event hosts:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-washington-d-c-fellows-reception-and-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T200000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260324T203113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T210142Z
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SUMMARY:Ruth Bader Ginsburg Endowed Fund for Research in Civil Rights & Gender Equality Reception
DESCRIPTION:As a tribute to its past Board member\, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, and the significant impact she had on the institution\, the American Bar Foundation (ABF) has established the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Endowed Fund for Research in Civil Rights & Gender Equality (RBG Fund). \nPlease join us in celebrating the late Justice Ginsburg and the RBG Fund with cocktails and abundant hors d’oeuvres in the city where the Justice began her career as a fierce advocate for equal justice under law. \nThursday\, May 7\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET \nNew York City Bar Association\n42 W. 44th Street\nNew York\, New York 10036 \nThe American Bar Foundation graciously recognizes event Platinum Sponsor: \nThe Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation \nThe American Bar Foundation graciously recognizes event Gold Sponsor: \n \n The American Bar Foundation graciously recognizes event Silver Sponsor: \n \nFor more information on event sponsorship\, contact Erla Teli\, ABF Director of Major Gifts and Grants\, at 312-988-6511 or eteli@abfn.org.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/ruth-bader-ginsburg-endowed-fund-for-research-in-civil-rights-gender-equality-reception/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20251219T185252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T201619Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aziz Rana
DESCRIPTION:Scholars and commentators increasingly worry that the United States is facing a constitutional crisis\, but the exact contours of this crisis remain underspecified.  In this talk\, Aziz Rana argues that the present moment is best understood as marked by the collapse of a midcentury constitutional compact that was consolidated over the course of three critical decades\, from the 1930s to the 1960s.  This consolidation took place against the backdrop of Cold War dynamics and global decolonization.  Thus\, the American constitutional project was forged through and gained meaning from its antagonism with the Soviet Union.  Today\, the Soviet Union is long gone and the country has witnessed a steady defection from the terms of that past compact.  The result has been institutional breakdown\, without a clear pathway for reconstructing shared legal and political practices.  All of this suggests that democratic renewal will likely require more than simply restoration of a past settlement\, but a far more extensive undertaking in constitutional transformation. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nAziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan\, S.J.\, University Professor of Law and Government. He joins Boston College from Cornell Law School\, where he was the Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular\, Rana’s work focuses on how shifting notions of race\, citizenship\, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding of the country.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-aziz-rana/
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:20260423T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260401T145935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T150056Z
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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:20260618T094224
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:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260225T224858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T145437Z
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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:20260618T094224
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:20260618T094224
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:20260618T094224
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
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260401T130000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20251219T184857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260330T184842Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T200000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260225T200026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T202229Z
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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:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260218T180229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T202129Z
UID:14636-1773923400-1773927000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260305T180621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T202742Z
UID:14866-1773230400-1773235800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260211T164828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T191413Z
UID:14616-1772733600-1772740800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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:20260618T094224
CREATED:20251219T184326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T163828Z
UID:14305-1772625600-1772631000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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:20260618T094224
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260121T191446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T191446Z
UID:14500-1771504200-1771507800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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:20260618T094224
CREATED:20260114T191333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T222754Z
UID:14437-1771416000-1771421400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20251219T184222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T234952Z
UID:14302-1770811200-1770816600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T094224
CREATED:20251219T184050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T211534Z
UID:14300-1770206400-1770211800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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:20260618T094224
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/
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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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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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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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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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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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