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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kevin Kenny
DESCRIPTION:Today the United States considers immigration and border control a federal matter. Before the Civil War\, however\, the federal government played virtually no role in regulating immigration. \nIn this presentation\, based on his recently published book The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States\, (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, Kevin Kenny will demonstrate how the existence\, abolition\, and legacies of slavery shaped the emergence of a national immigration policy in the nineteenth century. For a century after the American Revolution\, states controlled mobility within and across their borders and set their own rules for community membership. Throughout the antebellum era\, defenders of slavery feared that\, if Congress gained control over immigration\, it could also regulate the movement of free black people and even the interstate slave trade. The Civil War and the abolition of slavery removed the political and constitutional obstacles to a national immigration policy\, yet they did not make that policy inevitable. The first national immigration controls were directed not at immigrants generally\, but at Chinese immigrants in particular. Admission remained the norm for Europeans; Chinese laborers were excluded through techniques of registration\, punishment\, and deportation first used against free black people in the antebellum South. The federal government continues to control admissions and exclusions today but tensions within federalism\, rooted in nineteenth-century history\, remain important to the lives of immigrants after arrival. Some states monitor and punish immigrants\, while others offer sanctuary and refuse to act as agents of federal law enforcement\, echoing the personal liberty laws passed in response to fugitive slave acts in the antebellum era. Revealing the tangled origins of border control\, incarceration\, and deportation\, this presentation sheds light on the history of race and belonging in America\, as well as ongoing conflicts between state and federal authority over immigration today. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nKevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (OUP\, 2013)\, Peaceable Kingdom Lost (OUP\, 2009)\, The American Irish: A History (Longman\, 2002)\, and Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (OUP\, 1998). Currently President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians\, Professor Kenny came to the United States as an immigrant in the 1980s.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/kevin-kenny-history-new-york-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230728T175003Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bryan Sykes
DESCRIPTION:Criminal justice contact is a key stratifying institution in American life. By the close of 2020\, almost 3.9 million non-incarcerated people were under community supervision (probation or parole)\, representing nearly 68% of the adult correctional population. Although the number of people incarcerated has declined since the Great Recession\, alternatives to incarceration may introduce new pathways to inequality because compliance with court-ordered diversionary and rehabilitation programs rely heavily on access to resources\, such as money\, information\, and time. While there has been a considerable expansion of literature on the consequences of monetary sanctions imposed at sentencing\, less is known about how alternatives to incarceration can produce other financial punishments that intersect and amplify inequality within the criminal legal system. In this paper\, we show how shadow costs – financial outlays and expenditures not immediately quantifiable by the state but nevertheless ordered as a part of a reentry or rehabilitation treatment program — financially burden defendants\, probationers\, and parolees beyond the monetary sanctions imposed by courts. Our findings reveal that these shadow costs structure a bifurcated system of justice that facilitates the creation of markets for freedom that are dependent on poverty and inequality. \nThis speaker will present in-person at the ABF\, with the option to view the presentation virtually. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nBryan Sykes is an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Society (and\, by courtesy\, Sociology and Public Health); a Faculty Affiliate in The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis (CDASA) and The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California-Irvine. \nHis research focuses on demography and criminology\, broadly defined\, with particular interests in population processes (e.g.\, fertility\, mortality\, enumeration)\, mass incarceration\, global population health\, social inequality\, law & society\, and research methodology. He applies and develops demographic\, statistical\, and mixed methodologies to understand changing patterns of inequality — nationally and abroad. His research has appeared in general and multidisciplinary science\, social science\, and medical journals.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/bryan-sykes-criminology-law-and-society-university-of-california-irvine/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230503T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ifeoma Ajunwa
DESCRIPTION:The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich historical sources and contemporary examples\, The Quantified Worker explores how the workforce science of today goes far beyond increasing efficiency and threatens to erase individual personhood. With exhaustive detail\, Ifeoma Ajunwa shows how different forms of worker quantification are enabled\, facilitated\, and driven by technological advances. Timely and eye-opening\, The Quantified Worker advocates for changes in the law that will mitigate the ill effects of the modern workplace. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\n  \nIfeoma Ajunwa (@iajunwa) J.D.\, Ph.D.\, is an award-winning tenured law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She is also the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program at UNC Law and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University since 2017. She was a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Dr. Ajunwa’s research interests are at the intersection of law and technology with a particular focus on the ethical governance of workplace technologies.  Dr. Ajunwa is a Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network which is an international group of scholars committed to the research of the ethics of AI used in the workplace and for labor. Dr. Ajunwa’s writing has also been published in the NY Times\, the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, and the Harvard Business Review\, among others. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/ifeoma-ajunwa-law-and-artificial-intelligence-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-school-of-law/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230426T203000
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SUMMARY:Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$125 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nRegistration is now closed.  Cancellations will be honored through Wednesday\, April 19\, 2023. \nWe invite Washington Fellows and ABA Business Law Section members to join us for a cocktail reception\, dinner\, and keynote presentation at The Rainer Club on the evening of Wednesday\, April 26th. \nFeatured Keynote: “Join In! The Rise of Self-Governance and American Organizing from the Mayflower Compact to the Modern Day” with Professor Johann Neem \nJohann N. Neem is a historian of the early American republic. He is editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He is an active contributor to the conversation on higher education reform. His new book\,” What’s the Point of College?\,” seeks to answer that very question for our reform-minded era. His other recent book\, “Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America” examines the origins and purposes of American public education between the American Revolution and the Civil War. His first book\, Creating a Nation of Joiners\, published by Harvard University Press\, examines the development of civil society in Massachusetts after American independence. Neem received his BA in history from Brown University\, where he wrote his senior thesis on civic education under the guidance of Ted Sizer. He went on to complete his PhD at the University of Virginia under Peter Onuf. Neem is Professor of History at Western Washington University. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/washington-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:The Rainier Club\, Seattle\, WA\, 820 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230511T143925Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Desiree Fields
DESCRIPTION:“Robot landlords are buying up houses.” Headlines like this one are not unusual these days. What are we to make of digital experiments with landed property? These experiments are wide-ranging\, encompassing the sale of tokenized fractional interests in LLCs attached to rental properties\, the brokering of land sales via Facebook livestream\, and metaverse environments that can defy the laws of physics yet remain wedded to market rule. In this talk\, Fields works toward an analysis of digital experiments with landed property in terms of the global\, the historical\, and the geographical. The yoking of property to modernity and civilization makes technological progress a fundamental part of how relationships to land are constituted and reconstituted\, and in whose interests\, throughout global capitalism. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDesiree Fields is an Associate Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research revolves around the role of housing in capitalist urbanization. She studies how efforts to render immoveable property into liquid capital unevenly restructure urban space and social relations\, and the urban struggles for justice that arise to contest this process of financialization. She aims to challenge the storied complexity of finance and its tendency to obfuscate public understanding through demystifying and concretizing the operations of financial capitalism in urban housing markets. She has opened up what financialization means for rental housing\, showing how it has deepened\, diversified\, and expanded globally with the aid of a wave of advances in digital technology in the post-2008 era. At its core\, her work is about how these processes of economic and technological change unevenly restructure urban space and the social relations of housing. Her scholarship speaks to developments that are central to the future of cities: the growing importance of finance to capitalism\, the turn to increasingly market-driven approaches to housing and urbanization\, and the digital revolution. \nShe has published widely on the relationships among housing financialization\, movements for justice\, and digital platforms in journals like Progress in Human Geography; Economic Geography; Housing\, Theory\, and Society; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, and; Urban Studies.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/desiree-fields-political-economies-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T170000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T194533Z
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SUMMARY:National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \n11:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET \nFeatured Keynote: “Crisis in U.S. Immigration Adjudication”\nThe enforcement of immigration law and policy in the United States is a complex and much-debated topic. Join us for a panel discussion examining some of the most pressing challenges on this timely subject\, including the increasing court backlog\, the relationship between legal professionals\, detainees\, & interpreters\, and the need for qualified legal representation to ensure a more humane system and policies. \nFeaturing:  \nJojo Annobil – Executive Director\, Immigration Justice Corps \nSonya Rao – ABF/AccessLex Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow \nWendy S. Wayne – Life Fellow; Past Chair\, ABA Commission on Immigration; Director\, Immigration Impact Unit\, Committee for Public Counsel Services \nModerated by: \nJames R. Silkenant: Patron Fellow; Past President\, ABA; Director and Treasurer\, World Justice Project \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/national-fellows-webinar-8/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T175440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T194504Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Katrina Jagodinsky
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky will offer an overview of the database her NSF-funded team is building in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL to discern trends and patterns in marginalized people’s use of habeas in the American West over the long nineteenth century. ABF scholars will be invited to offer input regarding the encoding structure of the database\, and will be asked to contribute to a peer review and discussion of an in-progress article focused on early findings of women’s use of habeas. \nFor access to the related article draft\, please reach out to Sophie Kofman (skofman@abfn.org). \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nKatrina Jagodinsky is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History. She is a legal historian examining marginalized peoples’ engagement with nineteenth-century legal regimes and competing jurisdictions throughout the North American West. Jagodinsky’s first book Legal Codes & Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands\, 1854-1946 explains the strategies of six women seeking to protect their bodies\, lands\, and progeny from the whims of settler-colonists in the tumultuous process of westward expansion and conquest. \nJagodinsky has also published a number of articles and essays that examine the efforts of Indigenous and mixed-race women and children to leverage the American legal system in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. “A Testament to Power: Mary Woolsey and Dolores Rodriguez as Trial Witnesses in Arizona’s Early Statehood\,” won the 2012-2013 Jerome I. Braun Prize for Best Article in Western Legal History\, and “A Tale of Two Sisters: Family Histories from the Strait Salish Borderlands\,” won the 2017 Jensen-Miller Prize for Best Article in Western Women’s & Gender History from the Western History Association. \nHer current focus is on her role as Graduate Chair for the History department and her research project Petitioning For Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West\, which is a collaboration with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities that is funded by the National Science Foundation.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/katrina-jagodinsky-history-university-of-nebraska-lincoln/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230418T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230418T133000
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests should be fully vaccinated.  \n“Trust me\, I’m a Lawyer!”\nFeaturing: \nNigel J. Balmer: Research Direcot\, Victoria Law Foundation; Honorary Professor of Laws\, University College London \nCatrina Denvir: Associate Professor\, Monash University \nIn 2002 the American Bar Association published research on consumer perceptions of lawyers.[1]. The findings did not make for easy reading: whilst knowledgeable about the law\, lawyers were seen by the American public as ‘greedy\, manipulative and corrupt’. Such views point to a fundamental mistrust of the legal profession that is not unique to America\, with the ‘Global Trust in Professions’ survey revealing that the majority (three-quarters) of respondents across the globe view lawyers as untrustworthy. Scandals involving high profile lawyers and law firms\, including that of ‘Lawyer X’ in Australia\, are all said to undermine public confidence. But is the outlook really so bad and can a few bad apples spoil the bunch? Using findings from a new large-scale survey with the public and an in-depth qualitative study with lawyers\, this presentation explores what we mean by trust\, what people think of lawyers if we ask better questions\, the role that costs play\, and how better lawyer-client communication may help turn the tide of public opinion. \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-8/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T080000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20230328T194738Z
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SUMMARY:DC Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:$35 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nDC Fellows and Fellows in town for the ABA Intellectual Property Law meeting are invited to meet for a social breakfast get together at Open City Restaurant near the Omni Hotel. \nMore information and registration coming soon.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/dc-fellows-breakfast/
LOCATION:Open City Restaurant\, Washington DC\, 2331 Calvert St NW\, Washington DC\, 20008\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Michael Ralph
DESCRIPTION:The resurgence of interest in the role chattel slavery has played in US capital growth has been marked by an abiding emphasis on the Cotton Kingdom. Highlighting the 19th century sector that arguably generated more wealth than any other—with enduring implications for governance and the management of difference—scholars have trained their emphasis on the Mississippi River Valley. One implication of this approach is that scholars have focused on the role between coercion and productivity\, generally arguing for a direct correlation. It is worth noting that the same period that witnessed tremendous brutality in the service of greater productivity in the US Cotton Kingdom witnessed unprecedented mobility and enhanced working conditions for enslaved workers in other industries\, namely those operating in hazardous enterprises\, artisanal professions\, and those working as bureaucrats. Violence constituted these dynamics\, especially the structural violence and intimate partner violence that social scientists tend to associate with freedom in capitalist societies and not merely the naked force they tend to associate with chattel slavery. In what follows\, I examine the distinct forms of intimacy and partnership that emerged during this period alongside economic transformations that changed how enslaved people experienced affinity and gained expertise\, besides shaping how they were used as capital. I use the term “commercial affinity” to explain how violence and social mobility became intertwined in unprecedented ways during the last few decades of legalized slavery. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nMichael Ralph is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard Univeristy. Dr. Ralph’s research integrates political science\, economics\, history\, and medical anthropology through an explicit focus on debt\, slavery\, insurance\, forensics\, and incarceration. He is currently at work on two books that center on slavery\, insurance\, and incarceration.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/michael-ralph-afro-american-studies-howard-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T133000
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CREATED:20221123T175010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T200936Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Philip Thai
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after intervening in the Korean War (1950–53)\, the People’s Republic of China faced an array of economic sanctions by the United States and the United Nations. The nascent regime vowed to “oppose the American imperialist policy of economic blockade against our country\,” and it sought to break what it denounced as an illegal and illegitimate embargo by any means necessary. One front in this campaign was the British colony of Hong Kong\, where the People’s Republic hired a lawyer by the name of Percy Chen to work with its many front companies and file lawsuit after lawsuit challenging the U.S. embargo. At first glance\, Chen seemed an unlikely figure to serve as legal counsel for Communist China. An Afro-Asian anglophile and a thoroughly bourgeois barrister who lived on the margins of the British empire\, Chen found himself at the center of China’s legal offensive during a critical moment in the Cold War. This talk looks at Chen’s life and legal work during the early 1950s\, retracing how he wielded colonial law as a weapon to chip away at the U.S. embargo and thereby circumscribe its reach. More broadly\, it situates Chen’s role within the vast shadow economies of Greater China during the Cold War and explores the creative ways assorted actors leveraged the legacies of empire for survival and profit. The presentation is based on a draft chapter of Professor Thai’s forthcoming book\, In the Shadows of the Bamboo Curtain. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n______________________________________________________________________________________________ \nPhilip Thai is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies\, as well as the Director of Asian Studies\, in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Thai is a historian of Modern China and East Asia with research and teaching interests that include legal history\, economic history\, and diplomatic history. He is the author of China’s War on Smuggling: Law\, Economic Life\, and the Making of the Modern State\, 1842-1965 (Columbia University Press and a Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, 2018). During the 2022-23 academic year\, he will be in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Fellow working on his new project\, “In the Shadows of the Bamboo Curtain: Underground Economies across Greater China during the Cold War.” At the core of Professor Thai’s inquiries is understanding the complex interplay between law\, society\, and economy. His interdisciplinary work has been supported by a number of organizations\, including the ACLS\, American Philosophical Society (APS)\, Fulbright-Hays Program\, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, among others.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/philip-thai-history-and-asian-studies-northeastern-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230316T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230316T140000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
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SUMMARY:Exclusive Fellows Tour - Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula\, MS
DESCRIPTION:This tour is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease note: this event is only open to US citizens and attendees will need to provide appropriate ID information in advance. \nAs America’s largest shipbuilder\, Ingalls is the largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants having built nearly 70% of the U.S. Navy fleet of warships. \nJoin us for a private one-hour bus tour of the shipyard followed by a light lunch. We’ll also learn more about the current legal issues handled by the in-house law department from: \nGeorge M. Simmerman\, Jr.\nChief Counsel\, Huntington Ingalls Industries\nABF Patron Fellow \nJulie J. Gresham\nDeputy Chief Counsel\, Huntington Ingalls Industries\nABF Life Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/exclusive-fellows-tour-ingalls-shipbuilding-in-pascagoula-ms/
LOCATION:Ingalls Shipyard\, Pascagoula\, MS\, 1000 Access Road West\, Pascagoula\, MS\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T174628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140554Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Tabitha Bonilla
DESCRIPTION:Despite theory that contrasts substantive and descriptive representation\, the measurement of descriptive representation almost always invokes substantive representation to determine if policy focuses are more likely to shift the status quo of a district to policies that favor particular groups. While it is clear that descriptive representation has a complicated relationship with producing policy shifts\, it is nevertheless important for redirecting policy under certain circumstances and for mobilizing Black and Latine communities. We believe that colloquially\, unlike in academic treatments of representation\, voters describe a more complex web of representation. Here\, we examine descriptive representation as a component of substantive representation. To test this hypothesis\, we use interviews\, descriptive survey data\, and a survey experiment to demonstrate how descriptive and substantive representation work in tandem. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nTabitha Bonilla studies political behavior and communication and broadly examines how elite communication influences voter opinions of candidates and political policies. In particular\, her work focuses on how messaging polarizes attitudes or can bridge attitudinal divides with substantive focuses on important topics in American politics ranging from gun control to human trafficking and immigration. Her work incorporates a range of quantitative methods including experiments and text analysis. \nBonilla earned her Ph.D. in political science in 2015 from Stanford University. She then worked as a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow in the political science department at the University of Southern California through 2016.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/tabitha-bonilla-policy-research-institute-for-policy-research-at-northwestern-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20230215T194214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T134912Z
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nFeatured Keynote: “Experts in Court: The Challenges for Science in Litigation” with Shari Seidman Diamond (ABF Research Professor\, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law\, Northwestern Law School) \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T174446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140740Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Linda Zhao
DESCRIPTION:Although it is frequently argued that recruiting minority officers can improve policing by fostering positive contact and collaborations between minority and white officers\, officer diversity could in theory also produce more racially polarized networks and thus have the opposite of the intended effect. Few studies so far consider how officer networks differ across policing contexts\, and little is known about the link between the diversity of police workforces\, the structure of officer networks\, and policing outcomes. In this study\, I use data from the second-largest police agency in the United States to analyze joint implications of officer diversity and racial homophily\, defined as barriers to racial mixing in officer co-arrest networks\, for police misconduct. Results show that levels of racial homophily are higher in districts with more diverse officer workforces\, and that the combination of homophily and diversity is linked to an elevated risk of police misconduct\, even after controlling for other explanations of misconduct at both the officer and district level. These patterns contradict the idea that diversifying police forces necessarily improves the internal dynamics of police forces and is consistent with the broader sociological insight that the benefits of diversity are challenged by racial homophily within social networks. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLinda Zhao’s research focuses on how social contexts (such as levels of diversity or inequality in a population) can shape intergroup dynamics in social networks\, how social networks and social contexts are linked to our behaviors and decisions\, and how such networks can generate inequality. Her projects investigate intergroup dynamics\, inequality\, and social influence in networks within the areas of immigrant integration\, policing\, and public health. Zhao’s current work leverages data from a range of contexts such as adolescent friendships in classrooms\, officer networks in police departments\, as well as quasi-experimental settings using computational models. Prior to joining the University of Chicago\, Zhao was a Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/linda-zhao-sociology-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T203000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20230214T215754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T195531Z
UID:3286-1677780000-1677789000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Utah ABF Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$125 per person. Guests of Fellows and nominees are welcome. \nBusiness/Country Club casual attire \nFeatured Keynote: “SCOTUS and the Pressure to Politicize State Supreme Courts” with Justice Christine Durham (Former Chief Justice\, Utah Supreme Court; Life Fellow\, American Bar Foundation; Senior Of Counsel\, Wilson Sonsini)  \n6:00 pm – 7:00 pm:  Cocktail and Networking Reception\n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm:  Dinner and Presentation
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/utah-abf-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Salt Lake Country Club\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 2400 Country Club Drive\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230301T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T174251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140756Z
UID:1987-1677672000-1677677400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Amalia Kessler
DESCRIPTION:Although arbitration has deep roots in the United States\, the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable surge of enthusiasm for this extrajudicial dispute-resolution procedure\, giving rise to legislative and institutional experiments at multiple levels of government. A broad range of actors and interests embraced arbitration as key to the revitalization of American democracy in a modern age beset by pressing new challenges of industrialization\, urbanization\, and immigration. Arbitration\, they argued\, facilitated new forms of private/public partnership that would enable expanded\, lawyer-free access to justice and give voice to disempowered groups—ranging from small-scale business organizations and labor unions to Jewish communal minorities. The end result\, they hoped\, would be to generate a more socially expansive and culturally pluralist society\, refashioning American democracy for the modern industrial era. \nRecovering this forgotten history of arbitration reveals the surprising role that this seemingly technical and abstruse procedure played in two key developments that profoundly transformed the United States roughly a century ago and whose legacies remain with us to this day—namely\, the rise of the modern administrative state and the emergence of cultural pluralism as a defining\, though contested feature of American society. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n______________________________________________________________________________________ \nAmalia Kessler is the Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies\, the Associate Dean for Advanced Degree Programs\, a Professor\, by courtesy\, of History\, and the Director of Stanford Center for Law and History at Stanford Law School. \nA scholar whose research focuses on the evolution of commercial law and civil procedure\,  Kessler seeks to explore the intersections between law\, markets and dispute resolution—with a particular focus on the forces that have shaped the nature and origins of modern capitalism.  She is currently working on a new book\, tentatively entitled “The Public Roots of Private Ordering: Arbitration and the Remaking of the Modern American State\,” the research for which is supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies\, as well as a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.  In 2018\, her book\, Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture\, 1800-1877 (Yale University Press\, 2017) received the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Award for the best English-language monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar on Anglo-American legal history.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/amalia-kessler-international-legal-studies-and-history-stanford-law-school/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T174007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T194644Z
UID:1984-1677067200-1677072600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Michael Jin
DESCRIPTION:February 19\, 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind\, which followed Ozawa v. United States. This talk honors the history of Asian Americans and their struggle for US citizenship amid pervasive anti-Asian xenophobia in the early twentieth century.\nThe landmark 1922 Supreme Course case Ozawa v. United States stamped the legal status of immigrants from Japan as “aliens ineligible for citizenship\,” bolstering the intense exclusion movement based on the powerful Orientalist representation of Asians as unassimilable foreigners. This movement to police the racial boundaries of citizenship not only excluded Asian immigrants from American citizenry\, but also threatened the citizenship rights of U.S.-born Asian Americans. In their concerted effort to strip Asian Americans’ birthright citizenship\, leading anti-immigrant agitators deployed the same xenophobic rhetoric to argue that U.S.-born Japanese Americans should be treated as Japanese nationals. Japanese Americans’ struggles to protect the integrity of their birthright citizenship demonstrate that exclusionary legal measures designed to stop the influx of Asians did not simply affect the immigrant generation. Focusing on the experiences of Japanese Americans throughout the 1920s\, 1930s\, and 1940s\, this talk explores the complex and bizarre consequences of the pervasive anti-Asian xenophobia in the American West that rendered many Americans of Japanese ancestry stateless and subject to legal exclusion as “aliens ineligible for citizens.” \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nMichael R. Jin is an Associate Professor of History and Global Asian Studies. His areas of specialization include migration and diaspora studies\, Asian American history\, transnational Asia and the Pacific world\, critical race and ethnic studies\, and the history of the American West. \nHis book\, Citizens\, Immigrants\, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific (Stanford University Press)\, uncovers the stories of more than 50\,000 U.S.-born Japanese Americans in the former Japanese colonial world in Asia who drew the U.S. West into the larger histories of nations and empires in the Pacific before\, during\, and after World War II.  \nHis current research documents the experiences of Korean survivors of the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that illuminate the legacies of Japanese colonialism\, shifting geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War U.S. nuclear umbrella\, and the postcolonial politics of redress across the Pacific. His second book project opens a window into the lives of Iranians and Koreans in diaspora and the transnational circuits of change in multiple regions that intersected in their lives. This project explores the unexpected convergence of national histories\, shifting immigration policies\, and volatile geopolitical upheavals across West Asia\, East Asia\, and North America.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/michael-jin-history-university-of-illinois-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T190000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20230214T222639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T195156Z
UID:3294-1676566800-1676574000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Florida Fellows Hybrid Cocktail Reception & Presentation
DESCRIPTION:$30 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeaturing Keynote: “The Future of Legal Education” \nJoin leading professionals in the field for a presentation on the changing role of the legal profession and legal education in the United States. Featuring \n\nBryant Garth: Interim Director\, American Bar Foundation | Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, UC-Irvine\nStephen Daniels: Research Professor\, American Bar Foundation\nNick Allard: Founding Dean\, Jacksonville University College of Law | Life Fellow\n\nIn-person \nOpen bar and light hors d’oeuvres begin at 5:00 pm. Presentation begins at 6:00 pm \nVirtual \nRegister virtually and receive a Zoom link to join the presentation from 6:00 – 7:00 pm. \n  \nThe Fellows Gratefully Recognize:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/florida-fellows-hybrid-cocktail-reception-presentation/
LOCATION:Jacksonville University College of Law Building\, Vystar Tower\, 18th Floor\, 76 S. Laura St.\, Jacksonville\, FL\, 32202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T173845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140824Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kathryn Takabvirwa
DESCRIPTION:My talk examines policing in Zimbabwe\, with particular focus on encounters between police officers and people they pull over along the country’s roads. It centers on a five-year period during which Zimbabwean police mounted semi-permanent official roadblocks on roads throughout the country\, such that to be on the road was to be stopped and inspected\, repeatedly\, by the police. Through a close examination of experiences at these roadblocks\, I ask how people’s conceptions of themselves are reconfigured by intensive policing. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nKathryn Takabvirwa is a social and cultural anthropologist. Her research centers on policing\, citizenship\, migration and mobility\, governance\, and the state in Southern Africa. She is interested in the ways people reconcile themselves to the idea of the state and of citizenship in light of histories of state violence. She is currently working on a book manuscript on police roadblocks in Zimbabwe. The ethnography presents a close examination of encounters between the police and those they stopped along Zimbabwe’s roads between 2012 and 2017\, the period during which official police roadblocks proliferated throughout the country. Tentatively titled How to Ask for a Bribe\, the book also explores experiences of commuting\, as well as the policing of street vendors. \nShe is also interested in the politics of representation\, and in the role of African fiction in interrogating and generating Africanist theories of power\, intimacy\, and citizenship. This summer\, she will begin preliminary fieldwork on her second project\, on marriage and mobility in contemporary Southern Africa. \nTakabvirwa has also written on xenophobic violence in South Africa\, following research on local governance and migration with scholars at the African Center for Migration and Society\, in Johannesburg.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/kathryn-takabvirwa-anthropology-and-social-sciences-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20221123T173620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140836Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Nayan Shah
DESCRIPTION:The presentation examines how and when U.S. Federal Courts intervene in the treatment of hunger strikers in Guantanamo\, California State Prison\, and Immigrant Detention. In each instance\, defense attorneys and prosecutors debate prisoner protest and prison policy that justifies forcible intervention. Legal processes provide an airing of prisoner grievances and public communication of concealed prison struggles. However\, the outcomes of judicial decision-making\, lean heavily on medical expertise and biopolitical measures in ways that foreclose prisoner rights and consent and dodge the causes of conflict. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nNayan Shah’s research examines historical struggles over bodies\, space and the exercise of state power from the mid- 19th to the 21st century.His scholarship advances our understanding of comparative race and ethnic studies\, LGBTQ studies\, and to the history of migration\, public health\, law\, and incarceration. Shah is the author of two award-winning books – Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race\, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press\, 2011) and Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press\, 2001). His new book\, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons\, conflicts and movements around the world. (University of California Press\, 2022).  \nShah is at work on two long-term book projects. The first is a comparative study of transnational spiritual migrations\, gender and intimacy in the early twentieth century United States that examines Muslim\, Catholic and Hindu missions and the development of interracial spiritual communities in Los Angeles\, Detroit\, Chicago and Seattle. The second examines migration and art-making and examines the ways that Asian\, Indigenous and Latin American diasporic artists forge relationships of belonging\, refuge and vulnerability with physical landscape and the built environment through art practices of photography\, installation\, archive and performance. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/nayan-shah-american-studies-and-ethnicity-and-history-university-of-southern-california-dornsife/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230203T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230205T170000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123419
CREATED:20230215T192835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230317T195425Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2023 ABA Midyear Meeting in New Orleans
DESCRIPTION:A $30 registration fee is required and helps cover administrative costs associated with the Midyear Meeting \nEarly registration: Tickets are 15% off through January 20 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours: \nSheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \nPlease stop by The Fellows registration desk to pick up your complimentary Fellows ribbons and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\n3:00 PM – 5:30 PM      Wednesday\, February 1\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Thursday\, February 2\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Friday\, February 3\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Saturday\, February 4\n\n  \nFriday\, February 3\nFellows CLE Program – “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM)\nSheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \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 including 1.5 hours of CLE Elimination of Bias/Diversity and Inclusion credit in 60-minute states and 1.8 hours of CLE Elimination of Bias/Diversity and Inclusion credit in 50-minute states as needed. 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 present material from the forthcoming capstone book of the ABF’s After the JD project\, “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” by Nelson\, Dinovitzer\, Garth\, Sterling\, Wilkins\, Dawe\, and Michelson (University of Chicago Press 2023).  The book presents a definitive study of lawyers’ careers based on 20 years of research on a national sample of lawyers who passed the bar in 2000. It follows these lawyers through a combination of survey data and in-depth interviews that show how lawyers make meaning in their personal and professional lives. Although all American lawyers belong to one profession\, the book demonstrates that there are deep divisions by client type and practice setting and that women and lawyers of color continue to face barriers to equal opportunity. \nModerated By: \n\nDarrell Mottley — National Fellows Chair | Attorney\, Banner-Witcoff\n\nPanelists: \n\nBryant Garth— ABF Interim Executive Director | Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, UC-Irvine\nRobert L. Nelson — ABF Director Emeritus | Professor of Sociology\, Northwestern University\nRonit Dinovitzer— ABF Faculty Fellow | Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nThe Cabildo 701 Chartres St\, New Orleans\, LA \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends and fun at the historic venue\, The Cabildo! The Cabildo was the seat of Spanish colonial city hall of New Orleans\, Louisiana\, and is now the Louisiana State Museum Cabildo\, overlooking Jackson Square. The Cabildo was the site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer in 1803 and served as the center of New Orleans government until 1853\, when it became the headquarters of the Louisiana State Supreme Court\, where the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision originated in 1892. Today\, the Cabildo showcases the rich and colorful history of New Orleans and Louisiana. The region’s unique cultural blend is reflected in the Cabildo’s permanent and changing exhibits\, which include both famous historical figures and ordinary inhabitants. There are more than five hundred artifacts and original works of art in the building including The Battle of New Orleans\, Eugene Louis Lami’s huge 1839 painting depicting the final battle of the War of 1812. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsor:  \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsor: \nSandra Chan and Gary Yoshimura\n  \nSaturday\, February 4\nFellows Tour: New Orleans City Bus Tour (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM)\nplease email fellowsevents@abfn.org to be added to the waitlist.  \nRound trip bus tour from Sheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \nThis 2-hour private Fellows expedition through the Big Easy takes in some of the major points of interest\, including the French Quarter\, City Park\, the Esplanade\, and the Garden District\, to name a few. Relax in air-conditioned minibus comfort and listen as a guide leads you through one of America’s most historic cities. The bus will stop at the famous Cafe Du Monde and at various points along the way for photo opportunities. \n67th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM) \nThe Gallery 755 Tchoupitoulas St\, New Orleans\, LA \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. Robert Jones\, Innocence Project New Orleans exoneree\, will deliver keynote remarks. Round trip shuttle bus provided from Sheraton New Orleans. \n\nOutstanding Service Award: Norma Cantú\nOutstanding Scholar Awards: Professor Kaaryn Gustafson & Professor Mario Barnes\nOutstanding State Chair Award: Andrew M. Schpak\, Oregon \nDistinguished Life Fellow Award: Carolyn Witherspoon\n\n  \nSunday\, February 5\nFellows Sing-Along (9:00 PM –  ??)\nSheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \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 ABF Benefactor Fellow Jo Ann Engelhardt for the generous sponsorship of the Fellows Sing-Along.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2023-aba-midyear-meeting-in-new-orleans/
LOCATION:ABA Midyear Meeting\, New Orleans\, LA\, 500 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T120000
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CREATED:20221123T173439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140847Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hajin Kim
DESCRIPTION:A major critique of ESG and stakeholder capitalism is that corporate voluntary efforts to reduce environmental harms and help society will reduce public pressure for formal policy reform. Because companies are already working to solve their problems\, government regulation appears less necessary. Previous empirical studies have found mixed results on this question. Using real examples of firm efforts and proposed legislation\, we empirically test whether voluntary efforts in the real world crowd out support for government regulation. I will present one completed study and our design for a second. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nHajin Kim is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Law School. She uses principles from social psychology and economics to study environmental law. Her work examines how moral and social influence can shape environmental regulation and firm behavior. \nHajin received her BA in economics\, summa cum laude\, from Harvard\, her JD from Stanford Law School\, and her PhD from Stanford’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Before attending Stanford\, Hajin worked for the Boston Consulting Group. She also clerked for Judge Paul Watford of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/1974/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T090000
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CREATED:20230215T183100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135125Z
UID:3408-1674288000-1674291600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Fellows Breakfast at the Louisiana State Bar Midyear Meeting
DESCRIPTION:$30 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeatured Speaker: Innocence Project New Orleans Exoneree\, Robert Jones \nMore than 23 years ago\, Robert Jones was convicted of robbing\, kidnapping and raping a woman in 1992 in Orleans Parish and then soon after pleaded guilty to a pair of other crimes\, one of which included killing a tourist in New Orleans’ French Quarter in 1996. Thanks to the help of the Innocence Project New Orleans\, Jones was exonerated of those crimes. The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not retry him for the 1992 crimes and vacated the other charges to which he’d falsely pleaded guilty. \nThe Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) started working on Jones’ case seven years earlier. Over the course of those years\, attorneys there uncovered evidence which pointed to grave injustice in how then-prosecutors handled Jones’ case\, including loss of exculpatory DNA evidence and “steering of a witness” in the 1992 case\, writes the Advocate. IPNO also learned that there was absolutely no evidence linking Jones to the other cases to which he’d been advised by his attorney to plead guilty. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-breakfast-at-the-louisiana-state-bar-midyear-meeting/
LOCATION:The Renaissance Hotel\, Salon 4\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 7000 Bluebonnent Blvd\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 70810\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T090000
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CREATED:20230215T181910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135206Z
UID:3403-1674115200-1674118800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Alabama Fellows Breakfast at the State Bar Meeting
DESCRIPTION:$25/person. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nJoin Alabama State Chair\, Celia Collins\, for a Fellows networking breakfast to kick off the Thursday events at the Alabama State Bar Meeting.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/alabama-fellows-breakfast-at-the-state-bar-meeting/
LOCATION:The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel\, Ashland Parlors Room\, Mobile\, AL\, 26 North Royal Street\, Mobile\, AL\, 36602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T133000
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CREATED:20221123T173137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140858Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rahim Kurwa
DESCRIPTION:This talk argues for a re-consideration of policing as a key factor in the historic and contemporary production of racial residential segregation. Historical evidence suggests that policing has long been a substituting force among many modes of segregation which increased and decreased in use and effectiveness based on social and legal context. However\, in contemporary contexts\, policing not only substitutes for other mechanisms of segregation\, but also has become synthesized with them. Using a case study of crime-free and nuisance housing ordinances\, I suggest that policing has been metabolized into the everyday ways that residents reproduce hierarchy within neighborhoods. These ordinances encourage individuals to surveil their neighbors and file complaints with them through city bureaucracies and municipal police departments. These processes threaten and\, in many cases\, produce eviction\, which reproduces segregation in the context of whites policing Black neighbors. \nBuilding from Cheryl Harris’ work on whiteness as property\, I theorize policing as a form of property. I argue that to engage in neighborhood policing is to acquire social status and power through dispossession\, forms of social status unavailable to those vulnerable to such policing. As traditional mechanisms of racial segregation weaken or change\, seeing how policing functions as property reveals one way that whiteness is imbued with new meaning in the face of de-segregation. \nTo access the related paper draft\, please click here. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nRahim Kurwa is an ABF Visiting Scholar (September 2022- August 2023) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Justice and Department of Socioogy (by courtesy) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His research is at the intersection of race\, policing\, and residential segregation. His book project\, Apartheid’s Afterlives: Policing Black Life in the Antelope Valley\, documents how Los Angeles’ northernmost suburb used the criminalization and policing of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program to evict Black residents and re-segregate the region. Professor Kurwa’s work has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, Society for the Study of Social Problems\, and the Surveillance Studies Network. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/rahim-kurwa-abf-visiting-scholar-university-of-illinois-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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SUMMARY:Maine Fellows Cocktail Reception and Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$25 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeatured Presentation: “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era” with Christopher Schmidt (ABF Research Professor\, Professor of Law\, Chicago-Kent College of Law) \nJoin Christopher Schmidt for a keynote in reference to his published book\, The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era. \nOn February 1\, 1960\, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter\, like most in the American South\, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until the store closed. In the following days\, they returned\, joined by growing numbers of fellow students. These “sit-in” demonstrations soon spread to other southern cities\, drawing in thousands of students and coalescing into a protest movement that would transform the struggle for racial equality. \nThe Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet defiance at “whites only” lunch counters lies a series of underappreciated legal dilemmas—about the meaning of the Constitution\, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy different forms of injustice\, and the relationship between legal reform and social change. \nCopies of the book will be available for pre-order with registration and available for purchase on-site. \n5:30- Cocktail Hour \n6:30- Dinner \n7:30- Keynote Presentation \n  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/maine-fellows-cocktail-reception-and-dinner/
LOCATION:Cumberland Club\, Portland\, ME\, 116 High St\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bruce Greenhow Carruthers
DESCRIPTION:Today’s economy depends on promises as borrowers commit to repay their loans: people borrow to buy houses\, finance their education\, and support household spending. Firms borrow to fund investment\, finance inventory\, or bridge the gap between revenues and expenditures. How do lenders decide whose promises to believe? Lenders weigh their uncertainty about the borrower’s future with the extent of their own vulnerability. Initially\, lenders judged a borrower’s personal character and exploited the social ties that connected them for information and advantage. But starting in the 19th century\, lenders began to use a system of numerical scores and information provided by credit rating agencies. Ratings\, which spread from short-term business credit to long-term corporate bonds and eventually to individual consumers\, transformed the assessment of trustworthiness. Personal qualitative judgements were replaced by impersonal quantitative measurements\, making it possible to lend on a much greater scale. Americans were ambivalent about credit\, believing indebtedness to be a kind of subordination but also recognizing its usefulness. Nevertheless\, access to credit remained highly uneven. Widespread use of scores and ratings set the stage for current developments in “big data\,” and pose important questions about discrimination and algorithmic decision-making. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nBruce Greenhow Carruthers’ current research projects include a study of the historical evolution of credit as a problem in the sociology of trust\, regulatory arbitrage\, what modern derivatives markets reveal about the relationship between law and capitalism\, the adoption of “for-profit” features by U.S. museums\, and the regulation of credit for poor people in early 20th-century America. He has had visiting fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, the Library of Congress\, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study\, and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is methodologically agnostic\, and does not believe that the qualitative/quantitative distinction is worth fighting over. Northwestern is Carruthers’ first teaching position.  \nCarruthers has authored or co-authored five books\, City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton\, 1996)\, Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States (Oxford\, 1998)\, Economy/Society: Markets\, Meanings and  Social Structure (Pine Forge Press\, 2000)\, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (Stanford\, 2009)\, and Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach (Polity Press\, 2010).  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/bruce-greenhow-carruthers-sociology-northwestern-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to registerees. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nFeatured Presentation: “Portrait Project 2.0: Asian Americans in the Law” with: \n\nHon. Goodwin Liu\, ABF Affiliated Scholar | California Supreme Court\nProfessor Ajay K. Mehrotra\, ABF Research Professor | Professor of Law\, Northwestern University\n\nAsian Americans are a growing presence in all sectors of the legal profession. They work in Big Law and in smaller firms and solo practice\, and as government attorneys\, corporate counsel\, prosecutors\, public defenders\, judges\, and more. But they fall short in attaining leadership positions and have the highest attrition rates from major law firms. This ABF research project explores the empirical challenges and opportunities faced by Asian Americans in the legal profession.  During this NY Fellows presentation\, the co-Principal Investigators of this project (Hon. Goodwin Liu and ABF Research Professor/Former Executive Director\, Ajay K. Mehrotra) will discuss the overall aims of this project and a recently updated report chronicling Asian American identity and action during challenging times. \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-2/
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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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hokyu Hwang
DESCRIPTION:Impact investing\, globally hyped as a game-changing\, market-based funding solution to tackle social and environment problems\, promises an imagined future where the quest for social good can be readily combined with one for financial returns. This imagined future seems simply too good not to be true. However\, realizing the promise has been elusive. \nDrawing on a ten-year field-level case study of efforts to build an impact investing market in Australia\, we analyze how the pursuit of this imagined future is legitimated and sustained over a long period. We show how building a market for impact investing\, initially introduced as a means to an end\, becomes an end in itself\, revealing considerable shifts in the bases of legitimacy to sustain this pursuit. We theorize two distinct social mechanisms that account for such shifts. These mechanisms—the cultivation of institutional infrastructure and engagement in a form of cultural entrepreneurship that we dub ‘moral entrepreneurship’—are central to sustaining both belief and efforts to realize the imagined future promised by impact investing. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nHokyu Hwang is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation\, effecitve November through December\, 2022. He is an associate professor in the School of Management and Governance\, UNSW Business School\, UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University. His research examines the causes and consequences of organizational rationalization. \nHe is a two time recipient of the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant (2014-16\, 2018-2021). He has written a multitude of book chapters\, edited two books\, and has had research featured in publications such as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly\, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science\, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/hokyu-hwang-management-government-university-of-new-south-wales-business-school/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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