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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rashmee Singh
DESCRIPTION:Since 2010\, specialized dockets self-identifying as ‘human trafficking courts’ (HTC) have proliferated throughout the United States. These recent iterations of the problem-solving court movement surfaced in response to twenty-first-century anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution panics\, which conflate sex work and sex trafficking. Despite their name\, HTCs are not courts dedicated to prosecuting individuals charged with trafficking offences. Rather\, these dockets draw on the logic of therapeutic jurisprudence to prosecute those the legal system has deemed ‘trafficking victims’—cisgender women criminalized for a range of offences that typically include drug-related charges\, property crimes\, and prostitution. In lieu of pursuing traffickers\, HTCs require women to change themselves via court mandated substance abuse recovery programs\, trauma-based counselling\, and life skills counselling to ‘prevent their victimization.’ \nDrawing on her twelve-year\, multi-sited study encompassing six U.S. cities\, court observations\, and over 100 interviews\, this talk examines how anti-trafficking panics are impacting criminal legal responses to system-involved women. Dr. Singh argues that once the ‘sex worker as victim’ narrative drives the formation of problem-solving courts\, the concept of human trafficking victimization materializes as a proxy for a range of experiences that the law identifies as problematic and aims to correct. Dr. Singh’s findings suggest that while these imaginaries result in net-widening\, court actors are also mobilizing them in unexpected ways to mitigate punishment. This project contributes to socio-legal scholarship on the fractured and contradictory impacts of carceral institutions by illustrating how criminal legal actors differentially use legal fictions of ‘trafficking victimization’ to administer state power. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Rashmee Singh (she/her) was a 2025-26 Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include feminist legal theory\, feminist criminology\, specialized courts\, gender-based violence\, and the governance of sex work.   \nHer primary research project is a five-year comparative study examining the impact of criminal legal reforms on adult sex workers in the wake of anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution panics in the United States and Canada. The project\, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) examines specialized prostitution and human trafficking courts in multiple American cities and anti-trafficking movements in Southern Ontario.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-rashmee-singh/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261104T173000
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SUMMARY:2026 November Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Washington Fellows for a dinner and presentation by U.S. District Court Judge Robert S. Lasnik. \nWednesday\, November 4\, 2026\nThe Rainier Club\n820 4th Avenue\nSeattle\, WA 98104 \n5:30 PM PT Cocktail Reception\nDinner and Program to Follow \n$85 per person \nRefunds cannot be honored after October 28\, 2026 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Silver Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Bronze Sponsors:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-november-washington-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261104T133000
DTSTAMP:20261103T160817Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Camilo Arturo Leslie
DESCRIPTION:When the Stanford Financial Group imploded in 2009\, roughly 20\,000 depositors were left $7 billion poorer\, and the firm’s political\, corporate\, and celebrity backers were left with egg on their face. In the next year\, however\, crucial private and public regulators released mea culpas detailing their longstanding failures to diagnose and arrest the fraud. The fallout was severe\, with media figures\, defrauded investors\, and even members of congress accusing those regulators of complicity. Using internal SEC interview transcripts acquired via years of FOIA requests\, Dr. Leslie shows that the truth is both murkier and both revealing\, on two counts. First\, the Stanford fraud provides an emblematic case of “expert ignorance.” Second\, it makes the line between administrative discretion and corruption impossible to draw. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Camilo Arturo Leslie works in the areas of economic sociology and the sociology of law\, with a comparative focus on the U.S. and Latin America. Theoretically\, Leslie examines the institutional and ideational supports of legitimacy\, trust\, and ignorance. Leslie’s main line of research surveys the rise and fall of the Stanford Financial Group fraud\, a decades-long Ponzi scheme that left roughly 20\,000 victims with $7.2 billion in losses.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-camilo-arturo-leslie/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261028T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T212928Z
CREATED:20260629T192135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T212928Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Amy Stambach
DESCRIPTION:On October 9\, 2026\, Reuters reported that the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) intends to expand equity investments in Africa\, including in critical minerals projects. The announcement illustrates a consequential change in U.S. foreign policy: As grant-based assistance continues to contract\, federal authority to finance and acquire commercial interests in overseas enterprises is expanding. Congress established the legal basis for this expansion through the DFC Modernization Reauthorization Act of 2025\, enacted as part of the FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation increased DFC’s maximum contingent liability from $60 billion to $205 billion\, expanded country eligibility\, and authorized a $5 billion revolving equity fund. Investment proceeds retained by that fund support further transactions\, while the BUILD Act separately provides for conditional dividend payments to the U.S. Treasury. These authorities connect overseas development financing to potential financial benefits for private investors and the U.S. Treasury. \nDrawing on my work at USAID and on a Senate foreign policy team\, this talk examines how the DFC and congressional actors define and implement these authorities. Loans and political risk insurance place federal backing behind private ventures. Equity investments give the government an ownership interest in their commercial performance. Financing mineral extraction and related infrastructure can simultaneously secure supply chains\, create opportunities for American firms\, and strengthen relationships with partner governments. The central question\, however\, is how these transactions serve the national interest\, and who has authority to make that determination. Congressional disputes over investments in high-income countries reveal competing understandings of FC’s statutory purpose. Prioritizing commercially attractive or strategically designated transactions may divert financing form poorer countries whose development sustains long-term diplomatic relationships. The talk considers whether existing eligibility rules and oversight requirements adequately govern the relationship among private gain\, public financial exposure\, and national security. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nProfessor Amy Stambach is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines the production and mobilization of environmental knowledge. Her anthropological work began with studying Tanzanian education programs designed to build a post-colonial and post-socialist national citizenry. That work led to her interest in U.S. evangelical religious groups’ involvement in providing education to students in Kenya\, Tanzania\, and Uganda and\, more recently\, to the study of China-Africa educational programs as seen from the perspectives of Tanzanian\, Kenyan\, and Rwandan university students and higher education professionals. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-speaker-series-amy-stambach/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T213000
DTSTAMP:20260918T203730Z
CREATED:20260827T154729Z
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SUMMARY:2026 October New England Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New England Fellows for a dinner in conjunction with the New England Bar Association Annual Meeting. \nThursday\, October 22\, 2026 \nTIQA – Pan Mediterranean Dining\n327 Commercial Street\nPortland\, Maine 04101\n7:00 pm \nRefunds cannot be honored after October 15\, 2026 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize dinner Silver Sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-october-new-england-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261021T133000
DTSTAMP:20261006T202147Z
CREATED:20260629T190417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T202147Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Amelia Frank-Vitale
DESCRIPTION:Hondurans have been at the heart of some of the most visible migration phenomena in the last few years\, as well as the direct target of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. In Leave If You Can\, anthropologist Amelia Frank-Vitale offers a fine-grained portrait of the Honduran exodus and what it reveals about the broader consequences of changing US border enforcement policies. She highlights the stories of those who are often presented as unsympathetic: deported young men implicitly associated with the very violence they were trying to flee\, challenging underlying assumptions frequently held by policymakers and humanitarian agencies. \nConnecting overlapping regimes of mobility control\, from the invisible gangland borders within San Pedro Sula to the growing expansiveness of the US border’s reach\, this book shows how deportation does not deter migration but\, in fact\, keeps people moving\, and how U.S. policies fuel the migration “crisis” they claim to address. Drawing from her own accompaniment of migrant caravans over many years\, Frank-Vitale also explores how caravans emerge as both protest movement and migration tactic in response to this expanding border regime. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nAmelia Frank-Vitale studies how people manage and make sense of an ever-expanding US border regime in the Americas. Vitale’s body of work connects regional immigration and security policies\, organized crime\, state violence\, and strategic immobility as a survival strategy in Honduras and in migration. \nVitale’s research trajectory began with a focus on transit migration in and through Mexico. There\, they document the dangers facing mostly Central Americans who were attempting to migrate through an increasingly hostile landscape as immigration enforcement and collateral consequences of Mexico’s so-called drug war put migrants in the cross hairs of both legal and illicit authorities. As part of this research\, Vitale explored the various strategies that people employ to navigate this minefield\, including coming together to migrate en masse\, in the form of caravans\, and making use of smugglers.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-amelia-frank-vitale/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T193000
DTSTAMP:20260915T161427Z
CREATED:20260827T161759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T161427Z
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SUMMARY:2026 October New York Fellows Reception Honoring ABA President-Elect Laura V. Farber
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York Fellows for a reception honoring ABA President-Elect\, Laura V. Farber. \nMonday\, October 19\n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET \nOffices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\n51 W. 52nd Street\nNew York\, NY 10019 \nLaura Farber is the President-Elect of the American Bar Association (ABA) and will serve as President from August of 2027 until August of 2028. Laura has dedicated her legal career to employment and commercial litigation\, with a primary focus on counseling clients in employment disputes. A partner of the litigation and employment departments at Hahn & Hahn LLP in Pasadena\, CA\, Laura is an accomplished trial lawyer who has been recognized in the “Top 50 Women Lawyers in Los Angeles” list by the Los Angeles Business Journal\, the Daily Journal’s “Top Labor and Employment Lawyers\,” Los Angeles Magazine’s “Best of L.A. Legal: Top Attorneys in Employment Los Angeles\,” and “Leaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys” by the Los Angeles Business Journal. \nShe is the immediate past California State Delegate to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates\, a member of the ABA Day Planning Committee\, an advisory member of the Council for the Fund for Justice and Education\, a California Lawyers Association Delegate to the House of Delegates\, and has been actively involved in numerous leadership roles since 1994. Laura has also served as chair of the 2024–25 American Bar Foundation Fellows\, a global honorary society of attorneys\, judges\, law faculty\, and legal scholars dedicated to the highest principles of the legal profession and to supporting the research of the ABF focusing on how law and society intersect. She is a proud Patron Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. \nLaura also served as President of the Tournament of Roses Association overseeing the January 1\, 2020\, 131st Rose Parade and the 106th Rose Bowl Game. She also served as Chair of the Rose Bowl Management Committee\, overseeing and negotiating the Rose Bowl Game’s entry into the College Football Playoff. \nA native of Argentina\, Laura was honored as the recipient of the Mary V. Orozco Abriendo Caminos Award in 2023 by the Latina Lawyers Bar Association for her outstanding leadership\, excellence in the legal field\, and commitment to public service and to her communities. She has also been awarded the 2022 National Latina Woman of the Year by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF)\, the 2022 Woman of the Year selected by U.S. congressional Representative Judy Chu representing the 27th Congressional District of California\, the Power of Leadership Award from the League of Women Voters Pasadena Area in 2020\, Woman of the Year representing the 41st Assembly District of California in 2019\, KTLA’s 2019 Honoree in “Hispanic Heritage Month Visionaries\,” the NAACP Pasadena Branch President’s Award in 2019 at the Ruby McKnight Williams Awards Dinner\, the Judge Harry Pregerson Award at the 2019 Roybal Legacy Gala from the Edward Roybal Foundation\, the Aspires Role Model Award in 2020 from Aspires-West Pasadena\, and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s 2020 Trailblazer Award. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event host:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-october-new-york-fellows-reception-honoring-aba-president-elect-laura-v-farber/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261014T133000
DTSTAMP:20261005T234807Z
CREATED:20260629T185950Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Traci Burch
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Dr. Traci Burch uses the administrative burdens framework developed by Moynihan\, Herd\, and Harvey (2015) to identify and discuss the learning\, compliance\, and psychological burdens that decrease voting among people with felony convictions. Using a case study of Tennessee’s rights restoration process\, Dr. Burch shows how the compliance costs of voting after a felony conviction\, specifically\, paying legal financial obligations\, providing documentary proof of eligibility\, and submitting applications under rapidly changing rules\, can stymie re-enfranchisement even among people who qualify to vote. These difficulties are compounded by confusion brought about by continuous changes in rules and fear brought about by high-profile prosecutions of people with felony convictions.   \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Traci Burch (she/her) is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and a Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is the author of Trading Democracy for Justice: Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation (University of Chicago Press\, 2013)\, and coauthor of Creating a New Racial Order (Princeton University Press\, 2012). Trading Democracy for Justice won multiple awards\, including the American Political Science Association’s Ralph J. Bunche Award\, Urban Section Best Book Award\, and Law and Courts Section C. Herman Pritchett Award in 2014. Her work has also been featured in Political Behavior\, Law and Society Review\, and Criminology and Public Policy.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-traci-burch/
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:20261013T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261013T193000
DTSTAMP:20260821T163749Z
CREATED:20260821T163749Z
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SUMMARY:2026 October Louisiana Fellows Reception and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Louisiana Fellows for a reception and presentation of” The Crucial Question – Deny Legal Help or Allow Some Help by Non-Lawyers” by ABF Research Professor\, Emeritus\, Stephen Daniels. \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:30pm CT \nOffice of Breazeale Sachse\nOne American Place\n301 Main Street\, Suite 2300\nBaton Rouge\, LA 70801 \n\nLike Marely’s Ghost in A Christmas Carol\, with the chains and metal boxes of his economic past weighing on him\, the challenge of unmet civil legal needs haunts the American legal system to its core. Many Americans\, and not just the poor\, find it impossible to take advantage of the rights and remedies the law provides. This reflects a permanent tension within a legal system grounded in deeply held notions of justice and legitimacy. This Fellows program explores an evolving innovation in the states responding to that challenge. A bold and controversial innovation with far-reaching potential for the delivery of legal services. The innovation redefines who can deliver legal services if not licensed attorneys. The program is about states as laboratories for what is\, admittedly\, an access to justice experiment. As then Washington State Chief Justice Barbara Madsen said in the 2012 order creating the Limited License Legal Technician\, the first such non-lawyer program\, “No one has a crystal ball … There is simply no way to know the answer to this question without trying it.” In 2026\, the question now is what have we learned? \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-october-louisiana-fellows-reception-and-presentation-2/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T200000
DTSTAMP:20260802T170921Z
CREATED:20260609T191632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260802T170921Z
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SUMMARY:2026 October Connecticut Fellows Dinner and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Connecticut Fellows for a complimentary Connecticut Fellows dinner buffet and presentation by ABF Executive Director & Research Professor and Northwestern University Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair and Professor of Sociology\, Laura Beth Nielsen. \nHarris Beach Murtha\n280 Trumbull Street\, 12th Floor\nHartford\, CT 06103 \n6:00 PM ET – Networking Reception\n6:30 PM ET – 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 host:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-october-connecticut-fellows-dinner-and-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261007T133000
DTSTAMP:20260921T211256Z
CREATED:20260721T172626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T211256Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Pariroo Rattan
DESCRIPTION:After decades of mobilization by social movements in India\, the Street Vendors Act 2014 marked a historic shift by legally recognizing the right to vend and protect livelihoods. Yet even after a decade\, street vendors continue to face immense precarity and harassment. Why are progressive\, bottom-up laws unable to secure the transformations they promise\, and what forms of political order emerge through their limits? I argue that politics is refracted through the epistemic limits of law: the boundaries of what the law can know and render legible. Drawing on ethnography in Delhi\, I show how political and historical conditions shape the standards of legal evidence\, categorization\, procedure\, and closure that become authoritative. Simultaneously\, the epistemic limits of the law configure power by redirecting authority in the market and shaping the political registers through which vendors engage the state. Politics does not operate outside the law but is refracted by its categorical grids and evidentiary demands. Law and politics are\, therefore\, inseparable from struggles over knowledge-making. Attending to the epistemic limits of the law illuminates where legal instruments are (in)effective\, how politics is produced at the boundaries of legal procedure\, and the relationship between democratic ends and its institutional means. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Pariroo Rattan is a Weinberg College Postdoctoral Fellow in Science in Human Culture and the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. She will also be teaching at the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern. Pariroo is a recent PhD graduate from Harvard University\, where she was a long-standing Fellow at the HKS Science\, Technology and Society (STS) program and received a secondary field in Music. Her doctoral dissertation is titled “A Marketplace for Populism: The Moral Politics of Digitization in India’s Informal Economy” and studies the relationship of the digital economy with mediating state institutions and nation-building in India\, through an ethnography of street vendors in New Delhi using digital biometric ID Aadhaar and payment system Unified Payments Interface.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-pariroo-rattan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261002T100000
DTSTAMP:20260928T194818Z
CREATED:20260819T190148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T194818Z
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SUMMARY:People-Centered Justice\, Marginalization\, and Empowerment
DESCRIPTION:Failures of access to justice do more than just leave people’s legal problems unresolved. They also deny people the ability to exercise their rights and hold institutions accountable\, disproportionally burdening already marginalized communities. This webinar will consider legal empowerment as a people-centered justice framework\, exploring people-centered justice\, marginalization\, and empowerment through the justice experiences of children and people with disabilities. Panelists will discuss existing evidence as well as gaps in evidence that affect our understanding how people-centered justice can inform more effective approaches to justice policy and practice. \nPresenters:\nJennifer Davidson \nProfessor and Executive Director\, Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde \nProfessor Jennifer Davidson is the Executive Director of the award-winning Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland\, which works to reveal and help resolve the structural barriers to children in adversity reaching their potential. Jennifer seeks to drive meaningful and sustainable change with and for children\, supporting the implementation of effective government policy to reach children’s day-to-day lives. Drawing on children’s human rights and the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals\, she works closely with governments and international agencies\, most recently as lead of the Global Working Group on SDG 16 Justice for Children\, and as a member of the high-ambition multi-sectoral Justice Action Coalition. She was founder and Director of the Centre for Excellence on Children’s Care and Protection in Scotland\, she co-founded the Observatory of Children’s Rights\, and previously led a series of international projects implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children. \n  \nAbigail Moy \nManaging Director\, Namati \nAbigail Moy is Managing Director at Namati\, an international organization that advances justice by building a movement of people who know\, use\, and shape the law. At Namati\, Abigail led the launch and growth of the Grassroots Justice Network\, the world’s largest community of justice defenders\, representing 4000+ organizations from 190 countries. Prior to joining Namati\, Abigail worked with access to justice programs at the World Bank\, The Asia Foundation\, Fundación Soros-Guatemala\, and Timap for Justice. She clerked in the Northern District of Illinois\, served in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State\, and worked in the New York office of White & Case\, LLP. Abigail was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship\, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School\, and holds a master’s degree in law and development from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. \n  \nQudsiya Naqui \nAssistant Professor of Law\, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clark School of Law \nQudsiya Naqui is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. Her work aims to center disability justice as a tool to catalyze transformative cultural\, legal\, and policy change for a more just\, accessible\, and equitable society. Prior to joining UDC\, Professor Naqui served as Senior Counsel in the Office for Access to Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice\, where she developed the first-ever federal learning agenda on access to justice to drive evidence-based policymaking across federal agencies. Prior to federal service\, she was an Officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts Courts and Communities project\, where she led empirical research on the intersection of courts and technology. Professor Naqui also leverages media-making to advance civic engagement. She created\, produces and hosts Down to the Struts\, an acclaimed podcast about disability\, design\, and intersectionality. Professor Naqui was recently selected as a 2025-2026 USC Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellow. Her work has appeared in Vox\, Oxford University Press\, the UCLA Law Review\, and the Disability Visibility Project. She holds a JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law and a BA in political science and human rights from Barnard College. \n  \nModerator:\nMatthew Burnett \nDirector of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative\, American Bar Foundation \nMatthew Burnett is Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation (ABF)\, a visiting scholar with the Justice Futures Project at Arizona State University\, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the ABF\, Matthew was Senior Policy Officer at Open Society Foundations (OSF)\, where he worked to advance access to justice and legal empowerment through research\, advocacy\, litigation and grantmaking in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, Eastern Europe\, and the United States. Earlier in his career he helped to launch and led the Immigration Advocates Network and served as law clerk to Justice ZM Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Matthew’s research on access to justice has been funded by the National Science Foundation\, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics\, the World Bank\, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. He currently serves as an advisor to the National Center for Access to Justice and is co-founder\, with Rebecca Sandefur\, of Frontline Justice and the Justice Worker Lab.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/people-centered-justice-marginalization-and-empowerment/
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260930T133000
DTSTAMP:20260918T185644Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2026-28 Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Organizational Responses to Political Pressures in Higher Education by Daniela Juarez \nUniversities are increasingly operating in politically contested environments where external actors are demanding them to change their organizational practices. This dissertation examines how educational organizations respond to these external pressures. It pays particular attention to how institutions interpret policies\, develop new strategies\, and negotiate tensions between external demands and internal institutional commitments. \nDaniela Juarez is an ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. \n\nChallenging the State: Administrative Justice and Legal Mobilization in Kazakhstan by Alisher Juzgenbayev \nHow do institutions that enable citizens to challenge state action emerge under authoritarian rule\, and how might they reshape citizens’ understandings of themselves and the state? My dissertation examines these questions through Kazakhstan’s recent introduction of specialized administrative courts and reforms to its public complaint system. Bringing together the politics of institutional reform in autocracies and the study of legal consciousness\, the project investigates both the construction of administrative justice and its implications for individual legal empowerment. \n\nThe dissertation consists of two connected parts. The first draws on court case data\, legislative history\, and interviews to explain the emergence and implementation of administrative justice. It examines how international legal assistance\, bureaucratic competition\, and inherited judicial roles shaped the reform’s trajectory and the practical possibilities for challenging public authorities. The second draws on interview data to develop a survey experiment that investigates how encounters with courts and administrative complaint mechanisms might affect citizens’ confidence in their ability to pursue claims\, expectations of institutional responsiveness\, and beliefs about their standing as rights holders and the state’s obligations toward them. It asks whether legal empowerment can coexist with disappointment in state institutions. \nAlisher Juzgenbayev is an ABF/Northwestern Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science. He is currently a J.D/Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. \n \nCash or Groceries? Leveraging Household Differences for Tax Design by Ana Vasilj \nWhy does the United States subsidize food? Thirty-two states exempt groceries from sales tax (roughly $50 billion a year foregone)\, and SNAP delivers another $100 billion a year in food benefits. These are very large programs\, and the usual rationales are that food is a necessity for poor families\, or that they should be nudged toward better nutrition. Yet standard economic theory says these programs shouldn’t exist: the government should just give these households cash and let them spend it as they choose. This prescription rests on an untested assumption that all households want the same things and differ only in how much they earn\,  so a food subsidy benefits everyone who buys food\, lower-income households no more than anyone else. Using new data on household spending\, I develop a method that tells apart what households can afford from what they actually prefer. If lower-earning households genuinely value grocery food relatively more—not just because they have less to spend—then food subsidies make sense under the standard theory itself. This would recast the existing programs as effective redistribution\, not mere paternalism—and point to ways of designing them better. I’ll also talk about where this fits in my broader empirical research on measuring differences across firms\, workers\, and households—and the theoretical work on how those differences can be leveraged for better tax design. \nAna Vasilj is an ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science. She is currently a J.D/Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.  \n____________________________________________________________ \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2026-28-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260924T140000
DTSTAMP:20260625T213051Z
CREATED:20260609T152408Z
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SUMMARY:2026 September Utah Fellows Lunch and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Utah Fellows for a lunch celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States featuring a presentation of “Forming a ‘More Perfect Union’ in a Polarized Time” by Honorable Thomas B. Griffith (Ret.). \nThursday\, September 24\, 2026 \n12:00 PM MT \nUtah Law and Justice Center\n645 S. 200 E\nSalt Lake City\, UT 84111 \n$25 per person \nGuests are welcome! \nCancellations cannot be refunded after September 17\, 2026.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-september-utah-fellows-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260923T133000
DTSTAMP:20261005T234904Z
CREATED:20260629T185202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261005T234904Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Genevieve Bates
DESCRIPTION:Human rights abuses by agents of the state security apparatus have sparked demands for reform globally. In this paper\, we explore how framing these reform policies directly as human rights issues affects public support for enacting reforms. We do so using a case study of the United States\, where state abuses are often committed by policing institutions and are disproportionately experienced by minority communities. We use a survey experiment to test whether framing police reform initiatives as part of an international movement to implement transitional justice affects support for these policies among the American public. Our results largely confirm that framing racial justice policies as transitional justice can increase support\, especially among non-Republicans. These findings have important implications for research on human rights promotion and transitional justice\, especially in places like the United States\, which have only recently become the focus of human rights scholarship. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Genevieve Bates is the Mary Herman Rubinstein Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously\, Bates was an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia\, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Bates received their PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2021.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-genevieve-bates/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260921T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260921T100000
DTSTAMP:20260918T190227Z
CREATED:20260819T185436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T190227Z
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SUMMARY:Why Does People-Centered Justice Matter?
DESCRIPTION:The last twenty years have produced a growing evidence base about people-centered justice and its contributions to development\, poverty alleviation\, and democratic participation. This webinar will explore this evidence\, identify gaps\, and explore possible paths for new research and data collection. Presenters will also discuss how recent cuts to development funding\, stalled reductions in global poverty\, and democratic backsliding might shape a future people-centered justice research agenda. \nPresenters:\nAnne-Lise Bloch \nKnowledge Sharing Officer\, Democratic & Inclusive Governance\, International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada \nAnne-Lise Bloch is a Knowledge Sharing Officer at the International Development Research Centre\, where she works to amplify the impact of IDRC-supported research on grassroots justice strategies\, legal empowerment\, and promoting vibrant civic spaces. She works to translate research into action and ensure locally-led insights shape global policy debates – reinforcing that participation\, access to justice and inclusive governance form the foundation of all sustainable development. She has previously worked as a consultant and legal researcher specializing in international human rights law\, climate justice\, and corporate accountability. Her work is guided by a commitment to putting people at the heart of development\, ensuring their needs\, perspectives\, and rights lead decision-making. She holds a LLM in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute\, Switzerland\, and a JD from the University of Ottawa. \nMatthew Burnett \nDirector of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative\, American Bar Foundation \nMatthew Burnett is Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation (ABF)\, a visiting scholar with the Justice Futures Project at Arizona State University\, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the ABF\, Matthew was Senior Policy Officer at Open Society Foundations (OSF)\, where he worked to advance access to justice and legal empowerment through research\, advocacy\, litigation and grantmaking in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, Eastern Europe\, and the United States. Earlier in his career he helped to launch and led the Immigration Advocates Network and served as law clerk to Justice ZM Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Matthew’s research on access to justice has been funded by the National Science Foundation\, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics\, the World Bank\, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. He currently serves as an advisor to the National Center for Access to Justice and is co-founder\, with Rebecca Sandefur\, of Frontline Justice and the Justice Worker Lab. \n  \nAdrian Di Giovanni \nTeam Leader\, Democratic and Inclusive Governance\, International Development Research Centre (IDRC) \nAdrian Di Giovanni is the Team Leader for Democratic and Inclusive Governance at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC)\, where has worked since 2011. In his current role\, he oversees a portfolio of over 80 projects that seek to improve human rights\, justice and democracy across Asia\, Africa and the Americas. Prior to that at IDRC\, he spearheaded a stream of research on law and development\, focusing on public law\, human rights and legal empowerment. Past professional roles have included Counsel for the Department of Justice Canada’s Human Rights Law Section\, and for the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency. Adrian holds an LLM in international law from New York University and a JD from the University of Toronto. He occasionally teaches on justice\, human rights and development and has worked previously in Uganda and Tanzania. A proud dad of two inquisitive if mischievous boys. \n  \nPaul Prettitore \nSenior Specialist\, World Bank \nPaul is a Senior Specialist at The World Bank\, where he has led programs on access to justice\, land conflict\, anti-corruption and gender equality. Prior to joining The World Bank Paul was a Property Law Coordinator and Legal Advisor at the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a Refugee Affairs Specialist at the U.S. Department of State. Paul was also been a pro bono lawyer on domestic violence and as a Guardian ad litem for the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project and the Superior Court of Washington\, D.C. \n  \nModerator:\nRebecca Sandefur \nProfessor\, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics\, Arizona State University\nFaculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation \nRebecca L. Sandefur is Professor in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and (by courtesy) in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University\, where she previously served as Director of the Sanford School. Her research focuses on access to civil justice\, examining how legal services are delivered and experienced; how civil legal aid systems are organized; the role of pro bono; and the comparative effectiveness\, sustainability\, and scalability of lawyers\, helpers who are not licensed attorneys\, and digital tools. She also studies how ordinary people understand and attempt to resolve their justice problems. \nSandefur is a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation\, where she founded the Access to Justice Research Initiative in 2010. She serves on the Arizona Commission on Access to Justice by appointment of the Supreme Court of Arizona. She is co-founder\, with Matthew Burnett\, of Frontline Justice and the Justice Worker Lab\, initiatives dedicated to expanding access to civil legal help through community-based justice workers. \nHer honors include a MacArthur Fellowship (2018)\, the National Center for State Courts’ Warren E. Burger Award (2020)\, and election to the Sociological Research Association (2024). Born in Oklahoma\, she is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/why-does-people-centered-justice-matter/
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260916T133000
DTSTAMP:20261005T235125Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Maria-Fátima Santos
DESCRIPTION:How do legal aid professionals influence penal state administration? Through legal aid professionals’ strategies to mitigate punishment for their clients they may both reduce the harm individual clients face while also contributing to court routines that naturalize the selectivity of penal state practices. I dissect the work of public defenders who counsel poor people facing prosecution for drug trafficking in Brazil’s São Paulo city as a “critical case” to develop this argument. Drawing on multiple sources of data\, I elaborate public defenders’ strategies to instigate doubt\, contest\, or negotiate other court authorities’ interpretations of their client’s case by learning and navigating what I conceptualize as their courtroom’s interpretive terrain. First\, my analysis identifies horizontal and vertical dynamics that influence legal aid workers’ strategic decisions. Second\, my findings invite greater analytic scrutiny into the conditions and perceptions that influence how and why court cases are resolved either at trial or far before ever making it to that stage. Third\, I spotlight the probing of legal aid strategies as a useful analytic method to identify\, synthesize\, and compare the forces that shape penal court processes and outcomes in different contexts. I conclude with the study’s contributions to research on punishment and inequality\, law-in-action\, and state power. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nProfessor Santos’s current research examines public defenders who counsel poor people in Brazil’s penal courts to clarify key dynamics that shape legal aid professions in different contexts\, including their relationship to inequality\, racialized violence and state transformation. In other work\, Fátima examines how carceral administration connects to dynamics of social conflict and political legitimacy.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-speaker-series-maria-fatima-santos/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T133000
DTSTAMP:20260821T142951Z
CREATED:20260609T164423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T142951Z
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SUMMARY:2026 September New York Fellows Lunch and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York Fellows for a lunch and remarks by Honorable Debra Ann Livingston Former Chief Judge\, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. \nTuesday\, September 15\, 2026 \nIn-Person Lunch – 12:00 pm\nProgram – 12:30 pm \nOffice of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\n51 W. 52nd Street\nNew York\, NY 10019 \nJudge Livingston was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit on May 17\, 2007\, entered on duty June 1\, 2007\, and served as Chief Judge from September 1\, 2020\, to June 30\, 2026. She received her B.A.\, magna cum laude\, in 1980 from Princeton University\, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D.\, magna cum laude\, in 1984 from Harvard Law School\, where she was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. Following law school\, she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. \nJudge Livingston was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1986 to 1991\, where she served as a Deputy Chief of Appeals in the Criminal Division. She was an associate with the New York law firm of Paul\, Weiss\, Rifkind\, Wharton & Garrison from 1985 to 1986 and again from 1991 to 1992\, when she elected to pursue an academic career. Judge Livingston was a member of the University of Michigan’s Law School faculty from 1992 until 1994 and was there awarded the L. Hart Wright Award for excellence in teaching. \nJudge Livingston joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1994 and has taught there since. At the time of her appointment to the Second Circuit\, she was the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia\, where she also served as Vice Dean. Judge Livingston is a co-author of the casebook\, Comprehensive Criminal Procedure\, and has published numerous academic articles on legal topics. She has taught courses in evidence\, criminal law and procedure\, and national security and terrorism. \nJudge Livingston served on the Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence and\, from October 2017 to October 2020\, she chaired the Advisory Committee. Judge Livingston also served on the Executive Committee of the United States Judicial Conference\, upon appointment by the Chief Justice. From 1994 to 2003\, Judge Livingston was a Commissioner on New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. Judge Livingston is a recipient of Columbia’s Wien Prize for Social Responsibility. She received the Federal Bar Council’s Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence in 2021. In 2025\, she received the Stanley Fuld Award\, the highest honor of the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section\, and the Edward Weinfeld Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Administration of Justice from the New York County Lawyers Association. In 2026\, she received the Judith S. Kaye Award from the Historical Society of the New York Courts. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event host:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-september-new-york-fellows-lunch-and-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260909T133000
DTSTAMP:20261005T235325Z
CREATED:20260629T184702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261005T235325Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Elizabeth Mertz
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n \nDr. Elizabeth Mertz (she/her) is a Research Professor at the ABF and the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law Emerita at University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is a leading legal anthropologist and pioneer in the study of legal language in the United States\, with a special focus on law school education. Mertz’s research has also played a major role in developing interdisciplinary approaches to the empirical study of law within the field of New Legal Realism.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-elizabeth-mertz/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTSTAMP:20260615T145128Z
CREATED:20260609T141529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T145128Z
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SUMMARY:New Programs and Events are on the Way
DESCRIPTION:The American Bar Foundation hosts educational events designed to advance legal scholarship and practice. Our programming includes guest speaker series\, book launches\, legal conferences\, and specialized seminars on emerging legal topics. Explore our upcoming events to discover more! \n\nFor questions about future ABF events\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-event-break/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Placeholder
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260818T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260818T140000
DTSTAMP:20260819T163122Z
CREATED:20260715T152438Z
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SUMMARY:2026 August National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTuesday\, August 18\, 2026 \n11:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET \n“Diversity in the Law: How Race and Gender Shape Legal Careers” \nThis program presents the latest research on how race and gender shape legal careers–from law school to leadership in the profession. Aaron Taylor\, Executive Director of the AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence\, will present findings on the challenges faced by aspiring attorneys from underrepresented backgrounds as they navigate law school and the bar exam. Professor Robert Nelson\, of the American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University\, will share insights from the “After the JD” study\, a 20-year-long investigation tracking a national sample of lawyers from bar admission in 2000 to the peak of their careers. This research reveals stark divisions by client type and practice setting\, as well as persistent barriers to equal opportunity across the decades. Focusing in on public interest law\, Professor Atinuke Adediran of Fordham University will explore the striking lack of diversity both among the leaders of legal nonprofits and among pro bono partners in private law firms. Moderated by ABF Board Member Harold Pope\, the presentations and discussion will illuminate the pathways and pitfalls that attorneys of color traverse as they pursue a life in the law. \nFeaturing:\nRobert Nelson\nResearch Professor\, American Bar Foundation\nProfessor of Sociology and Law\, Northwestern University \nAaron N. Taylor\nSenior Vice President\, AccessLex Institute\nExecutive Director\, AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence\n \nAtinuke Adediran\nProfessor of Law\, Fordham University School of Law\nFellow\, American Bar Foundation \n \nModerated by:\nHarold D. Pope\nBoard Member and Patron Fellow\, American Bar Foundation \n\n\nEvent Video Recording Now Available:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-august-national-fellows-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260729
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260803
DTSTAMP:20260807T183904Z
CREATED:20260609T160116Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2026 ABA Annual Conference in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Fellows Registration Hours:\nHyatt Regency Chicago\n151 East Wacker \nPlease stop by the Fellows registration desk to pick up your tickets\, complimentary Fellows ribbons\, and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\nWednesday\, July 29: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, July 30: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, July 31: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm\nSaturday\, August 1: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSunday\, August 2: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm\n\nFriday\, July 31\nFellows CLE Program – “The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration” (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM)\nHyatt Regency Chicago \nRegistration not required to attend event \nFocused around the work of ABF Research Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller and his book\, Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\, this panel will explore life before\, during\, and after incarceration\, and the ways that criminal law and the public shape social and civic trajectories of people who have done time. \nPanelists:  \nReuben Jonathan Miller\nResearch Professor\, American Bar Foundation;\nChancellor’s Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, Berkeley \nCalvin Duncan\nAuthor of The Jailhouse Lawyer;\nFounder and Director of Light of Justice \nModerator:\nJennifer L. Parent\nDirector at McLane Middleton and National ABF Fellows Chair \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Conference to receive CLE credit) \nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/7-26-CLE.mp3\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM)\nNorthwestern Pritzker School of Law – McCormick Hall Courtyard\n357 E. Chicago\n \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 17\, 2026 \nJoin us for our Opening Reception in the beautiful courtyard of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law\, located in the heart of Chicago just steps from Lake Michigan and the Magnificent Mile. Surrounded by the Law School’s historic Gothic-inspired architecture\, the courtyard offers a unique blend of collegiate charm\, lush greenery\, and timeless elegance. \nRoundtrip shuttle service will be provided from the Hyatt Regency Chicago \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Bronze Sponsor: \n \nSaturday\, August 1\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (8:30 AM – 10:30 AM)\nHyatt Regency Chicago \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 17\, 2026 \nJoin us for a breakfast buffet and program\, where we will discuss important Fellows business\, recognize outgoing leaders and hear keynote remarks from ABF Fellow and Wall Street Journal bestselling author\, Robert Bailey\, renowned for his gripping legal thrillers that draw on his decades of experience as a civil defense trial lawyer. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Gold Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Silver Sponsor: \nJo Ann Engelhardt \nABF Board Member and Visionary Fellow \nSunday\, August 2\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – 11:30 PM)\nHyatt Regency Chicago \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring some friends and enjoy! Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Sing-along Sponsor: \nJo Ann Engelhardt \nABF Board Member and Visionary Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2026-aba-annual-conference-in-chicago/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260728T170000
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SUMMARY:Fellows Reception at the NBA Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an ABF Fellows Cocktail Reception at the Annual National Bar Association Convention in Nashville\, Tennessee. \nGaylord Opryland & Convention Center\n2800 Opryland Drive\nNashville\, TN 37214 \nRoom – Magnolia Mezzanine 2-4 \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-reception-at-the-nba-annual-conference-2/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T140000
DTSTAMP:20260708T193750Z
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SUMMARY:2026 July West Virginia Fellows Event
DESCRIPTION:Join the West Virginia Fellows for a special celebration to honor both the 2025 and 2026 classes with a luncheon and program consisting of brief statements by each new ABF Fellow\, a short video by Jennifer Parent\, National Chair of the Fellows\, and the highly anticipated conversation with Chief Judge Tom Kleeh and Judge Irene Berger\, moderated by WVU College of Law Dean Susan Brewer. \nFriday\, July 17\n12:30 PM to 2:00 PM \nFour Points by Sheraton Charleston\n600 Kanawha Blvd E\nCharleston\, WV 25301 \nThere will also be the opportunity to participate virtually by Zoom. For more information on how to register\, please email FellowsEvents@abfn.org.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-july-west-virginia-fellows-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T080000
DTSTAMP:20260616T192827Z
CREATED:20260616T192801Z
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SUMMARY:2026 June South Dakota Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Please join the South Dakota Fellows for breakfast at the 2026 State Bar Convention. \nFriday\, June 26\, 2026 \n7:00 AM\nSheraton Hotel\nJohn Q. Hammons Room\n1211 W. Avenue\, N.\nSioux Falls\, SD \nFellows will gather for networking and community while enjoying a self-pay breakfast.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/15498/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T130000
DTSTAMP:20260610T145043Z
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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:20260505T144101Z
CREATED:20260505T143948Z
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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:20260511T204230Z
CREATED:20260226T180011Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T133000
DTSTAMP:20261005T235615Z
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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:20260409T202324Z
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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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