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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Susan Bibler Coutin
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Susan Bibler Coutin provides an overview of her draft book manuscript\, On the Record: Papers\, Immigration\, and Legal Advocacy.  Based on 2011-2015 ethnographic fieldwork in the legal department of an immigrant-serving nonprofit in Southern California\, On the Record analyzes how immigrant residents and the attorneys and paralegals who represent them attempt to surmount documentary challenges\, deploying papers as a form of advocacy.  Undocumented residents who seek legal status in the United States face a potentially insurmountable challenge: to obtain status\, they have to document lives that they were forbidden to live. The records that applicants must present to US immigration officials may be the very things that their lives as undocumented individuals fail to produce: bank records\, check stubs from their employers\, contracts in their own names. Sometimes\, records can result in unexpected opportunities\, while other times they eliminate all hope of legalizing. The documentation requirements associated with immigration cases also have risen in recent years\, as US officials have increasingly come to see immigration as a security issue and immigrants as a potential threat. On the Record examines how broader trends in enforcement and securitization are embedded in the forms that immigrants have to complete\, the documentary expertise that service providers and immigrants have developed\, the materiality and legal significance of papers\, and the sorts of state-noncitizen relationships that emerge in the interstices of form completion. By analyzing the mundane workings of an extraordinary area of law\, On the Record argues that gathering and submitting records as part of immigration claims is a way of “documenting back” to a state that views immigrant residents as suspect. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nSusan Bibler Coutin is a Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society\, and Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and is a professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law\, and Society and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine.  Her research has examined social\, political\, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues\, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States. \nHer most recent book Documenting the Impossible Realities: Ethnography\, Memory\, and the As If\, coauthored with Barbara Yngvesson\, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023.  She recently completed NSF-funded research regarding how the production\, retrieval\, and circulation of records and files figures in immigrants’ efforts to secure legal status in the United States.  In collaboration with Sameer Ashar\, Jennifer Chacón\, and Stephen Lee\, she is completing a book project based on research entitled\, “Navigating Liminal Legalities along Pathways to Citizenship: Immigrant Vulnerability and the Role of Mediating Institutions.” Their co-authored book Legal Phantoms: Executive Relief and the Haunting Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.  With Walter Nicholls\, she is currently carrying out an NSF-funded project entitled\, “Immigration Dimensions of Local Governance: Municipalities\, Neighborhoods\, and Citizenship.”
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-susan-bibler-coutin/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sara Sternberg Greene
DESCRIPTION:One of the most basic assumptions of our legal system is that when two parties face off in court\, the case will be adjudicated before a judge who is trained in the law. Sara Sternberg Greene’s research shows that\, empirically\, the assumption that most judges have legal training does not hold true for many low-level state courts. Using data compiled from all fifty states and the District of Columbia\, Greene finds that thirty-two states allow at least some low-level state court judges to adjudicate without a law degree\, and seventeen states do not require judges who adjudicate eviction cases to have law degrees. Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases\, this sets up an almost Kafkaesque scene in courtrooms across the country: Legal cases that have a profound effect on poor families\, such as whether they will lose their home to eviction\, are argued in courtrooms where either no one knows the law or only one party—the attorney for the more powerful party—does. \nConsidering data collected from a case study of North Carolina\, where over 80% of magistrates do not have J.D.s\, Greene argues that allowing a system of nonlawyer judges perpetuates long-standing inequalities in our courts. She further argues that the phenomenon of lay judges is a symptom of a much larger problem in our justice system: the devaluation of the legal problems of the poor\, who are disproportionately Black and Latinx. This devaluation stems in part from an enduring cultural history in the United States of blaming the poor for their poverty and its associated problems. A change is in order\, one that intentionally considers the expertise of judges and adopts creative solutions to incentivize specially qualified adjudicators to serve as low-level state court judges. \nTo register\, or for access to the related paper\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSara Sternberg Green is a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. She is a sociologist and legal scholar whose teaching and research interests include poverty law\, housing law\, consumer law\, bankruptcy\, family law\, contracts\, qualitative research methods\, and law and sociology. Greene uses primarily qualitative empirical methods to study the relationship between law\, poverty\, and inequality. \nHer work focuses on how low-income families understand\, experience\, and interact with the law\, how legal institutions may inadvertently perpetuate poverty and inequality\, and how structural conditions create barriers to accessing law and justice for low-income families. Greene’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review\, the New York University Law Review\, the Duke Law Journal\, and the Minnesota Law Review\, among others. She has also published work in popular outlets such as The New York Times\, Politico\, and The Hill. \nGreene received her B.A. in 2002 from Yale University\, magna cum laude and with distinction. She received her J.D. in 2005 from Yale Law School\, where she received the Stephen J. Massey Prize for excellence in advocacy and served as notes editor for the Yale Law Journal and articles editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review. She also served as chair of the student board of directors for the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization and as student director in the Housing and Community Development Clinic. After clerking for Judge Richard Cudahy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit\, Greene focused on housing law and tax credit matters at the law firm Klein Hornig in Boston before beginning a Ph.D. program. She received her Ph.D. in social policy and sociology from Harvard University in 2014.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-sara-sternberg-greene/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Leisy J. Abrego
DESCRIPTION:Having accompanied the immigrant youth movement in the United States\, we witnessed the leadership\, relationality\, and transformative capacities of undocumented youth who fought for access to legalization. Leisy J. Abrego will highlight undocumented youth-led practices of healing as inspiring examples of kinship\, community care\, and transformation in the face of legal violence. Reframing notions of undocumented youth in the U.S. as ‘good neoliberal subjects’ as was required for public-facing activism (Pallares\, 2014)\, the talk instead centers their communal embeddedness. Undocumented youth were able to collectively organize and heal some of the harm caused by the legal violence (Menjívar and Abrego\, 2012) of the citizenship regime by going through an affective and cognitive (personal and political) transformation process in which their subjectivities were reconstituted. Shame turned into pride\, and a sense of isolation was met with a sense of kinship and belonging. Relying on humbled scholarship and participatory (co-creative) research\, Abrego takes seriously the messiness of life and the complex personhood (Gordon\, 2008) of immigrants without romanticizing their agency\, nor underestimating the embodied effects of legal violence. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLeisy J. Abrego is a Professor in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is a member of the first large wave of Salvadoran immigrants who arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. \nHer research and teaching interests – inspired in great part by her family’s experiences – are in Central American immigration\, Latina/o families\, the inequalities created by gender\, and the production of “illegality” through U.S. immigration laws. Her award-winning first book\, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws\, Labor\, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press\, 2014)\, examines the well-being of Salvadorian immigrants and their families – both in the United States and in El Salvador – as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations. Her early research examines how immigration and educational policies shape the educational trajectories of undocumented students. Her second book\, Immigrant Families (Polity Press\, 2016)\, is co-authored with Cecilia Menjívar and Leah Schmalzbauer and delves deeply into the structural conditions contextualizing the diverse experiences of contemporary immigrant families in the United States. \nMore recently\, Abrego has been writing about how different subsectors of Latino immigrants internalize immigration policies differently and how this shapes their willingness to make claims in the United States. Her current project examines the day-to-day lives of mixed status families after DACA. Her scholarship analyzing legal consciousness\, illegality\, and legal violence has garnered numerous national awards. She also dedicates much of her time to supporting and advocating for refugees and immigrants by writing editorials and pro-bono expert declarations in asylum cases.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-leisy-j-abrego/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240319T100000
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SUMMARY:Hubbard Conference on Law & Education: National Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The American Bar Foundation invites you to join a free one-hour virtual webinar:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemocracy at Risk: Can Understanding Our Past Protect Our Future?\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 19\, 2024\nVirtual\n11:00 am ET / 10:00 am CT / 9:00 am MT / 8:00 am PT\nJoin us for a provocative discussion about the role of education and critical thinking in safeguarding democracy. With our constitution and democratic principles at risk\, we bring together three prominent voices to discuss how we might take lessons from history to guard against further peril. This event was inspired by a powerful op-ed written by LA Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg\, who will be joined by political scientist Margaret Levi and constitutional scholar Tom Ginsburg. Moderated by Dean William C. Hubbard\, and featuring introductory remarks from Bill Neukom\, the conversation will explore what we can do now to shape the future of democracy. We invite you to participate with your questions and comments. \nThis webinar is a production of the William Hubbard Conferences on Law & Education. For more information about the Hubbard Conferences and to donate to the endowment supporting them\, visit the William C. Hubbard Law & Education Conference Endowment page. \nView a Recording of the Webinar Here:\n \nFeaturing: \nTom Ginsburg is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago\, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He currently codirects the Comparative Constitutions Project\, a National Science Foundation–⁠funded data set cataloging the world’s constitutions since 1789. \nHis latest book is Democracies and International Law. Earlier books include Judicial Review in New Democracies\, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions\, which also won a best book prize from APSA; Judicial Reputation; and How to Save a Constitutional Democracy\, with coauthor Aziz Z. Huq\, winner of the best book prize from the International Society for Constitutional Law. He has edited or coedited twenty-five other books. \nHe has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo\, Kyushu University\, Seoul National University\, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya\, Harvard University\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and the University of Trento. Before teaching\, he served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal\, The Hague\, Netherlands\, and he has consulted with numerous international development agencies and governments on legal and constitutional reform. \nNicholas Goldberg is an American journalist\, most recently with the Los Angeles Times\, where he was associate editor and Op-Ed columnist. He previously served 11 years as editor of the editorial page and was also a former editor of the Op-Ed page and the Sunday Opinion section. While at New York Newsday in the 1980s and 1990s\, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent and political reporter. His writing has been published in the New Republic\, New York Times\, Vanity Fair\, the Nation\, Sunday Times of London and Washington Monthly\, among other places. He is a graduate of Harvard University. \n  \nMargaret Levi\, Stanford University\, is Professor of Political Science\, co-director of the Stanford Ethics\, Society and Technology Hub\, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy\, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL)\, and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)\, which she previously directed. She is Bacharach Professor Emerita\, University of Washington\, and holds an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Winner of the Skytte Prize and Falling Walls Breakthrough\, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences\, the British Academy\, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, American Philosophical Society\, and American Association of Political and Social Sciences. She is past president of the American Political Science Association. \nLevi authored or coauthored numerous articles and books\, including: Of Rule and Revenue (1988); Consent\, Dissent\, and Patriotism (1997); Analytic Narratives (1998); Cooperation Without Trust? (2005); In the Interest of Others (2013); A Moral Political Economy (2021). She co-edited Creating a New Moral Political Economy for Daedalus (2023). She is co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Levi and her husband\, Robert Kaplan\, collect Australian Aboriginal art and have gifted pieces to the Seattle\, Metropolitan\, and Nevada Museums of Art. \nModerated by: \nWilliam C. Hubbard is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 2014–2015. He previously served a two-year term as chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. Hubbard is a past president of the American Bar Foundation and a past president of the American Bar Endowment. \nHubbard is co-founder and chair of the board of the World Justice Project\, a multinational\, multidisciplinary initiative to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. \nIn 2023\, Hubbard was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute (emeritus)\, as well as the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation. He is an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple in London. \nIn 2002\, Hubbard was presented the Order of the Palmetto\, the highest civilian award presented by a South Carolina governor. In 2007\, he received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the United States Court of Appeals\, Fourth Circuit. In 2016\, the Burton Foundation\, in collaboration with the Library of Congress\, named Hubbard the recipient of its inaugural “Leadership in Law” award. \nHubbard served on the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina from 1986–2020 and served as chairman of the board from 1996–2000. In 2009\, he received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010\, the university awarded him its highest recognition\, the Honorary Doctor of Laws. He earned a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina. After law school\, Hubbard was law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert F. Chapman. He is a former partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Columbia\, SC. \nIntroductory Remarks From: \nWilliam “Bill” Neukom is the founder and chief executive officer of the World Justice Project\, an organization devoted to promoting the rule of law throughout the world. He is a retired partner in the Seattle office of the international law firm K&L Gates\, and is a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches a seminar on the rule of law. \nBill was the lead lawyer for Microsoft for nearly 25 years\, managing its legal\, government and industry affairs\, and philanthropic activities. He retired from Microsoft as its executive vice president of law and corporate affairs in 2002\, and returned to his law firm and served as its chair from 2003 to 2007. He was president of the American Bar Association from 2007 to 2008 and received the ABA Medal in 2020. He was the chief executive office of the San Francisco Giants baseball team from 2008 to 2011. He joined the board of directors of Fortinet\, Inc. in 2013 and currently serves as its lead independent director. \nHe is a trustee emeritus of University of Puget Sound and Dartmouth College\, where he served as chair of the board from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Stanford Law School and served as its chair from 2012 – 2015. He is chair of the External Advisory Board of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington. \nHe earned his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his LL.B. from Stanford University and has honorary degrees from Dartmouth College\, Gonzaga University\, the University of Puget Sound\, and the University of South Carolina. \nIn 1995\, Bill and his children founded the Neukom Family Foundation\, which supports nonprofit organizations in the fields of education\, the environment\, health\, human services\, and justice. \nHe and his wife\, Sally\, live in Seattle and together have five children and sixteen grandchildren. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/hubbard-conference-on-law-education-national-webinar/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Fellows,News
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SUMMARY:2024 March New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Robert L. Nelson. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” \nThis program will present material from the 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.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-march-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240306T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: John Doering-White
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, record-breaking numbers of young people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border have entered U.S. government custody as unaccompanied children (UC). Whereas prior research has focused on UC’s experiences while in custody and following release to a sponsor—usually a family member—limited scholarship has examined the experiences of human service professionals working within programs that are contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to care for UC. In these programs\, social workers\, mental health clinicians\, medical providers\, educators\, and transitional foster parents collaborate to provide care for UC while assessing the safety and suitability of the sponsoring context. \nThis presentation draws on 65 in-depth interviews with human service workers in ORR-contracted programs across four states to examine how they conceptualize care for UC during this transitional period. John Doering-White focuses on how two legal and policy frameworks—the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008—refract through highly politicized and mediatized bureaucracies of care and control to structure how human service providers care for UC. He suggests institutional pressures to accelerate time to release are often at odds with professional care ethics\, and that this tension risks compromising care for UC as well as the sustainability of the human service workforce in mission-driven organizations contracted by ORR. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJohn Doering-White is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on undocumented immigration and humanitarianism. His ethnographic work has focused on grassroots shelters that assist Central Americans migrating through Mexico. He is interested in how organizations can best assist undocumented communities considering shifting immigration enforcement trends between the United States\, Mexico\, and Central America. As part of this work\, Doering-White served as co-producer on Border South\, a feature documentary film that premiered to national and international audiences in June 2019. \nDoering-White is also actively conducting research in his hometown of Detroit in partnership with organizations that support immigrant and minority entrepreneurs navigating a gentrifying city. Data collection for this project has taken place in partnership with undergraduate students participating in a summer field school that trains students in qualitative and community-engaged methods. \nDoering-White’s research has been funded by the Fulbright Garcia-Robles program\, the Wenner Gren Foundation\, and the Institute for Field Research. His scholarship appears in Social Service Review\, Children and Youth Services Review\, the Journal of Social Work Education\, the Journal of Community Practice\, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration. He has also presented nationally and internationally on various topics\, including undocumented migration\, unaccompanied minors\, language interpretation\, and ethnographic approaches. \nDoering-White is a graduate of the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan\, where he also earned his MSW. He received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Human Development Social Relations from Earlham College in Richmond\, Indiana.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-john-doering-white/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240228T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jaeeun Kim
DESCRIPTION:How does immigration law shape migrant subjectivities? This article examines whether and how migrants’ engagement with the asylum institution brings about changes in their religious practices and self-understandings\, drawing on ethnographic research among ethnic Korean migrants from mainland China applying for asylum in the U.S. as Christians fearing persecution. Through a critical engagement with the interdisciplinary scholarship on migration and waiting and sociology of future\, Jaeeun Kim develops a theory of migrants’ future-making and aspiration formation to unpack the black box through which immigration law shapes migrant subjectivities in variable and dynamic ways. Kim pays attention to the interplay between immigration law\, non-state intermediaries\, and transnational social fields\, especially how the interplay shapes migrants’ approach toward the legally sanctioned status passage as well as their future imagination and aspirational horizon. She argues that the production and coordination of competing futures and aspirations in the context of involuntary waiting should be central to our analysis of immigration law and migrant subjectivities. This article further contributes to the literatures on therapeutic governance and legal consciousness by complementing a Foucauldian conceptualization of governance with a robust theory of future-oriented action and offering fruitful ways to study temporality in relation to law’s hegemony and inequality. \nTo register for the event\, or to access the related paper draft\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nJaeeun Kim is the Korea Foundation Endowed Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Law\, by courtesy\, at the University of Michigan. She is a political sociologist and law and society scholar interested in questions of human mobility\, inequality\, power\, and agency. She seeks to develop a relational\, processual\, and agentic account of categorization and identification\, particularly in contexts in which such practices have significant implications for inequality at local\, national\, and global levels. Her research takes a transnational and global perspective\, and systematically considers sending and transit contexts in studying international migration by adopting a multi-sited approach to research. \nKim’s work\, generously supported by the Social Science Research Council\, the Wenner-Gren Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Academy of Korean Studies\, has been published in journals in sociological theory\, law and society\, race/ethnicity/migration\, and historical sociology. Her first monograph\, based on her award-winning dissertation (2013 Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association)\, was published at Stanford University Press in 2016 and won three book prizes and one honorable mention from the American Sociological Association\, the Social Science History Association\, and the Association for Asian Studies. Kim’s recent article published in Sociological Theory\, titled “Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration\,” also received the 2019 Theory Prize from the ASA Theory Section. \nKim is currently working on her second book project about the asylum-seeking of unauthorized migrants on religious grounds\, based on her ongoing multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. Before joining the University of Michigan\, she received her Ph.D. degree from UCLA\, was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Stanford\, and taught at George Mason University for a year. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Social Science) in Princeton during 2016–2017\, and a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berllin (Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin) during 2020–2021.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jaeeun-kim/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
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SUMMARY:2024 February Maryland Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Christopher W. Schmidt. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST. \nThe Defeat of John Parker and the Making of the Modern Supreme Court \nThe United States Supreme Court today occupies a place in American politics and culture more prominent and more contested than at any point in history. The overturning of Roe v. Wade dramatically raised the Court’s profile and further polarized public attitudes toward it. Recent Court vacancies have produced passionate ideological confrontations that have exploded long-established political norms and practices\, proposals to reform the Court have become debate points of mainstream politics\, and the ethics of the justices are now a regular topic of media coverage. For many Americans the Supreme Court has become a focal point for their hopes and fears and shaping its composition and direction a responsibility of democratic citizenship. A defining characteristic of the modern Supreme Court is this perceived connection between the American people and the Court. \nProfessor Schmidt’s research examines a key moment in the making of the modern Supreme Court: the failed appointment of John Parker to the Supreme Court in 1930. Prior to Parker\, no Supreme Court nominee had been voted down in the Senate for almost half a century\, and almost forty years would pass before it happened again. Schmidt argues that this event had lasting significance in the ways groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led the campaign to defeat Parker by using the Court to energize social movement activity and advance their political objectives. In making the case for active citizen oversight of the Court\, the NAACP\, with the support of allies in the press and in Congress\, forged new pathways connecting the Court and the American people.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-march-maryland-fellows-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240226T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20240110T155028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T163217Z
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SUMMARY:2024 February National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Please join the ABF Fellows for a National Webinar presentation by ABF Affiliated Research Professor\, Dylan C. Penningroth. \nComplimentary Webinar Event\, register to receive Webinar link. \n1:00-2:00 PM CT. \n“Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights” \nIn this webinar\, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth will present from his new book\, “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights.”  \nThe familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once\, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights\, their basic human dignity\, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered\, police and judges often closed their eyes\, if they didn’t join in. For Black people\, law was a hostile\, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then\, starting in the 1940s\, a few brave lawyers ventured south\, bent on changing the law. Soon\, ordinary African Americans\, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists\, launched the civil rights movement. \nIn Before the Movement\, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation\, Penningroth reveals that African Americans\, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century\, have thought about\, talked about\, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery. They dealt constantly with the laws of property\, contract\, inheritance\, marriage and divorce\, of associations (like churches and businesses and activist groups)\, and more. By exercising these “rights of everyday use\,” Penningroth demonstrates\, they made Black rights seem unremarkable. And in innumerable subtle ways\, they helped shape the law itself―the laws all of us live under today. \nPenningroth’s narrative\, which stretches from the last decades of slavery to the 1970s\, partly traces the history of his own family. Challenging accepted understandings of Black history framed by relations with white people\, he puts Black people at the center of the story―their loves and anger and loneliness\, their efforts to stay afloat\, their mistakes and embarrassments\, their fights\, their ideas\, their hopes and disappointments\, in all their messy humanness. Before the Movement is an account of Black legal lives that looks beyond the Constitution and the criminal justice system to recover a rich\, broader vision of Black life―a vision allied with\, yet distinct from\, “the freedom struggle.” \nQuestion and answer session to follow moderated by ABF Research Professor and former Executive Director Ajay K. Mehrotra. \nEvent Recording:\nhttps://vimeo.com/917166696/9191ced53c?share=copy
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-february-national-fellows-webinar/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240221T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231214T193308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T180412Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Demar F. Lewis IV
DESCRIPTION:The senseless murders of Breonna Taylor\, George Floyd\, and countless other Black Americans in 2020 brought unprecedented and polarized attention to the mandate to “defund the police.” Despite the centrality of this debate to discussions of community safety in recent years\, few studies document the nuanced perspectives that undergird Black Americans’ evaluations of this mandate. Drawing on interviews and surveys with an age-diverse sample of 83 Black people living in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, this article shows that there are generational differences in participants’ evaluations of “defunding the police” as an outcome or process of change that do not neatly transfer to universal support or opposition for the mandate. While respondents of all ages generally agree that policing is needed to co-produce safety in Black communities\, Demar F. Lewis finds that they also believe that policing’s operational structure and daily practices must evolve to better meet unmet local needs\, supporting calls for institutional divestment. \nTo register for the event\, or to access the related paper draft\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDemar F. Lewis IV is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of African American and Africana Studies. Lewis is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of African American Studies. He is a sociologist and critical criminologist trained in Black Studies and public policy whose research examines how historical and contemporary notions of safety influence the ways that Black people organize their lives. This has led Lewis to develop multiple research studies to advance understandings of how racial violence\, police violence\, and resource deprivation influence perceptions of safety in the United States. \nHis current projects examine (1) the influence of gentrification and resource deprivation on policing practices and Black Americans’ perceptions of community safety in Cincinnati\, (2) the evolution of the “defund” mandate in U.S. politics\, (3) the health consequences of carceral violence and racism in the U.S.\, and (4) the causes and consequences of U.S. lynchings. To pursue his research agenda\, Lewis uses historical methods\, qualitative interviews\, statistical analyses\, and computational methods.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-demar-f-lewis-iv/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231214T191353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T172618Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Susila Gurusami
DESCRIPTION:For the last few decades\, “gender responsiveness”— policies meant to help address the supposedly “unique needs and circumstances” of women under carceral supervision and control—has dominated reforms aimed at improving the experiences and outcomes of incarcerated women and is often hailed as an important feminist intervention. However\, abolitionists have long identified such policies as problematic in how they essentialize gender and women’s needs while contributing to the expansion of carceral power. Yet\, rather than understanding the failures to create “kinder\, gentler\, gender-responsive [women’s] cages” as an indicator that carceral institutions have not meaningfully implemented gender responsive policies\, Susila Gurusami argues that carceral institutions have always been gender responsive institutions. \nGurusami contends that the recent turn towards what is labeled as gender responsive carceral policy obscures how carceral institutions actually respond to gender. Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with formerly incarcerated Black women\, Gurusami shows how carceral institutions respond to\, construct\, and govern gender through a process that she calls “reproductive warfare”: carceral institutions’ mobilization of racial-sexual power meant to deny Black women reproductive and sexual self-determination. \nShe documents how carceral institutions wage “reproductive warfare” in two ways: by (1) explicitly invoking gender responsive carceral policies as legitimate\, therapeutic\, and protective for criminalized women; and (2) blatantly violating the legal reproductive and sexual rights of incarcerated people\, but referencing stated or implied commitments to gender responsive policies to dismiss such violations as accidental and/or further evidence of the need for gender responsive carceral policies. Ultimately\, Gurusami argues that these findings should push us towards abolition feminism as a strategy that meaningfully responds to the gendered needs of all criminalized people. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSusila Gurusami is an Assistant Professor of Criminology\, Law\, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a sociologist of race\, gender\, labor\, and politics\, with particular interests in carceral governance and abolition. \nGurusami is also a former UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow and received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2017. Her work has been published in Gender & Society\, Societal Problems and Punishment and Society. Recognitions for this scholarship include funding and awards from the American Sociological Association\, Sociologist for Women in Society\, Society for the Study of Social Problems\, and the Racial Democracy\, Crime\, and Justice Network. \nGurusami is currently working on a book manuscript investigating how Black women navigate state surveillance\, regulation\, and punishment in their everyday lives after returning home from prison and jail.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-susila-gurusami/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20240119T175116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T191942Z
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SUMMARY:2024 February Arizona Fellows Hybrid Presentation and Cocktail Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Arizona Fellows for a presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Laura Beth Nielsen. \nHybrid: Virtual/In-Person (Offices Cohen Dowd Quigley\, Phoeniz\, Arizona) \n4:00 PM MT presentation/In-person cocktail reception immediately following \n“Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality” \nResearch conducted in this project illustrates how employment civil rights litigation entrenches patterns of discrimination in and out of the workplace. Though significant legislative and judicial progress has been made\, workplace discrimination based on race\, gender\, age\, and disability persists. The research reveals the ways that employment civil rights litigation can underscore existing systems of privilege. The research exposes how many plaintiffs struggle to obtain a lawyer as a result of structural inequalities and lawyer biases. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Event Sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-february-arizona-fellows-hybrid-presentation-and-cocktail-reception/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240205
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231113T174303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T211726Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2024 ABA Midyear Meeting in Louisville
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 19 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours: \nOmni Louisville Hotel 400 S 2nd St. \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\, January 31\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Thursday\, February 1\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Friday\, February 2\n7:30 AM – 5:00 PM      Saturday\, February 3\n7:30 AM – 3:00 PM      Sunday\, February 4\n\n  \nFriday\, February 2\nFellows CLE Program – “Experts in Court: The Challenges for Science and Law” (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM) \nAudio Recording of the Fellows CLE Program is now available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ABA-Midyear-Louisville-2024-ABF-CLE-Audio.mp3\nOmni Louisville Hotel 400 S 2nd St. \nCommonwealth 2 \nThe ABA will seek 1.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states\, and 1.8 hours of CLE credit for this program in 50-minute states.. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. Please visit www.americanbar.org/mcle for general information on CLE at the ABA. (CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Midyear Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nScientists and engineers can be central actors in modern courtroom proceedings. Yet courts and attorneys often struggle with the relationship between science and law. This research uses extensive expert surveys to examine how experts view the legal system and their experiences with it. Surveys of both experts and attorneys provide insights on what can be done to improve the partnership between science and the legal system. \nModerator: \n\nLaura Farber — ABF Fellows Chair | Partner\, Hahn & Hahn\n\nPanelists: \n\nShari Seidman Diamond — ABF Research Professor | Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University\nHon. Brian Edwards — Jefferson County Circuit Court\nGregory J. Bubalo – Becker Law Office\n\n  \nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\n21c Museum Hotel Louisville 700 W Main St. \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends\, and fun at the modern art venue\, 21c Museum Hotel! For more than a decade\, 21c Louisville has been engaging visitors and locals alike with some of the world’s best contemporary art. Dedicated solely to collecting the art of the 21st century reflecting the global nature of contemporary culture\, the art exhibits are constantly evolving\, but always feature an exhibit from a local Kentucky artist. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsor:  \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsor:  \n \n \nSaturday\, February 3\nFellows Tour: Kentucky Derby Museum Tour (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM)\nRound trip bus tour from Omni Louisville Hotel 400 S 2nd St. \nThis 2-hour private Fellows expedition to the Kentucky Derby Museum located at Churchill Downs will take Fellows through derby exhibits and on a tour of the race grounds. The bus will leave from the Omni Louisville Hotel at 10:00 AM and return to the same location by 12:00 PM. \n68th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM) \nMuhammad Ali Center 144 N 6th St. \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.  Round trip shuttle bus provided from Omni Louisville Hotel. \n\nOutstanding Service Award: Suzette Malveaux\nOutstanding Scholar Award: Michael McCann\nOutstanding State Chair Award: Michael Hernandez\, Illinois\nDistinguished Life Fellow Award: Joanne Martin\n\nKeynote interview with John M. Rosenberg\, Holocaust survivor\, civil rights activist\, and founder of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsor:  \n \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Bronze Sponsors:  \n \n\n \nSunday\, February 4\nFellows Sing-Along (9:00 PM –  ??)\nLouisville Marriott Downtown 280 W Jefferson St.\nSalon F \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. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2024-aba-midyear-meeting-in-louisville/
LOCATION:ABA Midyear Meeting\, Louisville\, KY
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240120T074500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240120T090000
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SUMMARY:Fellows Breakfast at the Louisiana State Bar Midyear Meeting
DESCRIPTION:$35 per person. Open to Fellows\, nominees and guests.  \n  \n“A View from the Other Side: What the New Judge Sees” \nJoin former Louisiana State Chair\, Hon. Darrel Papillion\, to discuss his first six months as a federal judge. Hon. Papillion serves in the US District Court\, Eastern District of Louisiana. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-breakfast-at-the-louisiana-state-bar-midyear-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 7000 Bluebonnet Boulevard\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 70810\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T133000
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CREATED:20231208T202106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231208T202218Z
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SUMMARY:2024 January New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Tom Ginsburg. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM. \n  \nBuddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law  \nBuddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in Sri Lanka\, Myanmar\, Thailand\, Cambodia\, Vietnam\, Tibet\, Bhutan\, China\, Mongolia\, Korea\, and Japan. It offers a complex portrait of “the Buddhist-constitutional complex\,” demonstrating the intricate and powerful ways in which Buddhist and constitutional ideas merged\, interacted and coevolved\, and continue to influence constitutional developments in the region. The talk will also touch on the relationship of Buddhist constitutional thinking and democracy\, which is somewhat embattled in the region.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-january-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T190000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231026T205236Z
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SUMMARY:ABF Fellows Reception at the 2024 AALS Annual Meeting- Washington\, DC
DESCRIPTION:This is a free event\, but requires RSVP.  \nPlease note this event is open to all ABF Fellows and Nominees\, whether or not you are attending the 2024 AALS Annual Meeting. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-fellows-reception-at-the-2024-aals-annual-meeting-washington-dc/
LOCATION:Marriott Marquis\, Washington\, D.C.\, 901 Massachusetts Ave\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231213T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231128T155129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231128T170824Z
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SUMMARY:Access To Justice Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The last two decades have seen a new stream of empirical access to justice research that focuses on the justice experiences of ordinary people\, and a corresponding shift in people-centered policy and practice. Fueling much of this work are people-centered data generated by legal needs surveys and related justice measurement strategies. This webinar will feature leading researchers working in this field and focus on emerging research\, methods\, and analysis\, including the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) to understand how people see\, understand and engage with the law\, and new statistical analysis based on the World Justice Project Global Legal Needs Survey. \n  \nSpeakers \nRebecca Sandefur\, Arizona State University/American Bar Foundation\nNigel Balmer\, Victoria Law Foundation\nAlejandro Ponce and Daniela Barba\, World Justice Project\nModerator: Matthew Burnett\, American Bar Foundation
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/access-to-justice-webinar-global-trends-in-people-centered-justice-measurement/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T133000
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Virtual Program
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, William H.J. Hubbard. \nZoom Presentation\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM. \nJustice for Sale: Exposing the Hidden Markets in Civil Procedure and Finding Ways to Regulate Them Sensibly \nA centuries-old lament is that justice is for sale—the rich benefit from the courts\, while the poor struggle for relief. This is so\, even as a thick web of constitutional and procedural rights seem to insulate the civil justice process from market forces. This book project considers the extent to which the market dynamics that describe our broader economy—buying\, selling\, prices\, barter—exist in the domain of civil procedure\, and what can be done about it. \nThis project offers both empirical and theoretical contributions. Empirically\, it marshals a wide array of empirical evidence to show how procedural rules and court practices reproduce\, rather than counterbalance\, the market forces and economic inequalities that exist outside the courtroom. Theoretically\, we develop the surprising insight that the market forces\, if properly harnessed\, can be more effective at remedying the inequities in civil litigation than traditional forms of regulation.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-virtual-program/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231206T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20230621T163651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231128T222217Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Eva Rosen
DESCRIPTION:An extensive literature documents racial discrimination in housing\, focusing on its prevalence and effect on non-White populations. This article studies how such discrimination operates\, and the intermediaries who engage in it: landlords. A fundamental assumption of racial discrimination research is that gatekeepers such as landlords are confronted with a racially heterogeneous applicant pool. The reality of urban housing markets\, however\, is that historical patterns of residential segregation intersect with other structural barriers to drive selection into the applicant pool\, such that landlords are more often selecting between same-race applicants. \nUsing interviews and observations with 157 landlords in four cities\, we ask: how do landlords construct their tenants’ race within racially segmented housing markets\, and how does this factor into their screening processes? We find that landlords distinguish between tenants based on the degree to which their behavior conforms to insidious cultural narratives at the intersection of race\, gender\, and class. Landlords with large portfolios rely on screening algorithms\, whereas mom-and-pop landlords make decisions based on informal mechanisms such as “gut feelings\,” home visits\, and the presentation of children. Landlords may put aside certain racial prejudices when they have the right financial incentives\, but only when the tenant also defies stereotypes. In this way\, landlords’ intersectional construction of race—even within a predominantly Black or Latino tenant pool—limits residential options for low-income\, subsidized tenants of color\, burdening their search process. These findings have implications for how we understand racial discrimination within racially homogenous social spheres. Examining landlords’ screening practices offers insight into the role housing plays in how racism continues to shape life outcomes—both explicitly through overt racial bias\, and increasingly more covertly\, through algorithmic automation and digital technologies. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nEva Rosen is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy\, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Sociology. Her research is focused on social inequality in the urban context. In particular\, she studies the intersection between poverty and American housing policy. Rosen was on research leave during the academic year 2022-2023 as a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. \nRosen received her doctorate in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University. In 2018\, she was named one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received their 40 for 40 Fellowship. Rosen is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network. She has published papers in academic journals including the American Sociological Review\, City & Community\, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography\, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Rosen’s work has been funded by: The National Science Foundation\, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)\, The Joint Center for Housing Studies\, The Furman Center\, The Meyer Foundation\, and The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy\, among others. \nRosen’s recent book\, The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” Housing and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, is the winner of the Inequality\, Poverty\, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award from the ASA and the Paul Davidoff Award from the ACSP. The book examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program\, colloquially known as “Section 8\,” and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners\, voucher holders\, renters who receive no housing assistance\, and the landlords who provide housing.  \nHer new edited volume\, with Brian McCabe\, called The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives\, will be released in fall 2023 with Chicago University Press. With this volume\, the editors and contributors solidify the importance of housing studies within the discipline of sociology by tackling topics like racial segregation\, housing instability\, the supply of affordable housing\, and the process of eviction. \nCurrent work examines low-income housing and the role that landlords play in four urban housing markets. Another ongoing project maps eviction trends in the District of Columbia with sociology professor Brian McCabe.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-eva-rosen/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Chiara Galli
DESCRIPTION:More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to seek asylum worldwide. In the past decade\, over a half million children have fled from Central America to the United States\, seeking safety and a chance to continue lives halted by violence. Yet upon their arrival\, they fail to find the protection that our laws promise\, based on the broadly shared belief that children should be safeguarded. A meticulously researched ethnography\, Precarious Protections chronicles the experiences and perspectives of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the U.S. asylum process. Chiara Galli debunks assumptions about asylum\, including the idea that people are being denied protection because they file bogus claims. In practice\, the United States interprets asylum law far more narrowly than what is necessary to recognize real-world experiences of escape from life-threatening violence. This is especially true for children from Central America. Galli reveals the formidable challenges of lawyering with children and exposes the human toll of the U.S. immigration bureaucracy. \nTo register for this event\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nChiara Galli is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago and an ABF/JPB Access to Justice Scholar for 2022-23. She studies the profession of public interest immigration lawyering and the effects of the law on the lives of vulnerable groups of undocumented immigrants\, including children and asylum-seekers. \nHer book\, Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the U.S. (University of California Press\, 2023)\, is based on ethnographic research that she conducted in legal clinics in Los Angeles during the Obama and Trump administrations and chronicles the experiences and perspectives of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the U.S. asylum process.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-chiara-galli/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20230706T165549Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jamelia Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Quality-of-life offenses\, or municipal and state criminal laws that purport to regulate social and physical disorder\, regularly target people who violate those laws because they engage in routine activities of daily living in public spaces.  Most notably\, these laws target unsheltered individuals and include a litany of offenses prohibiting activities like public camping\, sleeping in public spaces\, and disorderly conduct. Plaintiffs challenging these offenses and critics of these laws have labeled these laws “status crimes\,” or status offenses\, because these laws criminalize behaviors inextricably linked with status or derivative of status. Proponents of these laws argue that they serve to promote the general welfare of the community and that they reduce incidents of physical and social disorders.  They argue that the enforcement of quality-of-life offenses furthers what has long been recognized as a legitimate exercise of state police powers. \nThis framing by proponents paints an incomplete picture of the nature and function of quality-of-life offenses that target individuals engaged in routine activities of daily living in public spaces. Quality-of-life offenses are by their nature exclusionary devices; the enforcement of these laws leads to the removal of offending individuals whose conduct (allegedly) produces or contributes to social and physical disorder. Viewed in this vein\, it becomes clear to see that the function of these quality-of-life offenses is not solely to reduce or eliminate disorders or even promote the general welfare of the community; these laws also function to exclude certain individuals from the community. \nThis exclusionary function of these quality-of-life laws poses serious constitutional concerns. Through community exclusion\, and the stigma and costs that attach to those who are targeted under enforcement regimes\, these laws are also status-enforcing. Through the stigmatizing effects of criminalization\, and the economic losses that criminal legal system involvement produces\, the enforcement of quality-of-life offenses in particular serves to reinforce the social position of marginalized groups.  After all\, these laws target for removal\, citation\, and arrests individuals whose life-sustaining conduct must take place in public spaces because they have nowhere else to go. If laws regulating disorder target for enforcement—including removal\, citation\, arrest\, and detention— individuals whose conduct is inextricably linked with their status or identity\, then what’s at stake is more than solely the criminalization of status per se but rather criminalization that contributes to the continued subordination of that group\, or groups\, within society. \nThe status-enforcing effects of criminalization stem not only from the meaning of status vis-à-vis criminal sanction itself\, but also from the interaction between the status and the broader political economy. Where these laws criminalize conduct based on necessary activities of daily living\, these laws locate the harms of enforcement within a largely sociopolitical setting\, one that may render conduct practically compulsory (though factually voluntary) only insofar as the state and local jurisdiction have failed to adequately fund social services and programs\, whether affordable and accessible housing\, medical and mental health care\, and other supports.  Framed in this way\, the status offenses at issue in contemporary cases are of a different nature from the status crimes at issue in Robinson and Powell.  Yet\, the “new” status crimes still fall under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. As a constitutional matter\, the punishing of status today is much more about the lack of social investments than it is about the culpability\, precise conduct\, or volitional capabilities posed by the specific “offender.” \nDespite extensive scholarly discussions on the constitutional regime governing the criminalization of status\, the exclusionary and subordinating features of these laws punishing violations of quality-of-life offenses and other disorders have been largely ignored. Indeed\, most scholarly discussions debate how to define constitutionally prohibited status crimes. Primarily\, scholars focus on such questions as whether certain conditions\, like homelessness\, count as statuses\, and how to delineate the boundaries that govern which kind involuntary acts fall within the scope of prohibited status crimes when the individual (arguably) lacks the choice to restrain from violating the law. \nJamelia Morgan’s article proposes a more expansive\, yet still practical\, reading of Robinson and Powell that better aligns with a textualist and historical understanding of the Eighth Amendment. It also deploys an intertextual approach to propose a reading more aligned with an antisubordination reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. This reading also better aligns with the precise constitutional injuries that status offenses pose to individuals targeted by jurisdictions for quality-of-life policing specifically. Through providing a structural analysis of quality-of-life policing\, the article both defines status-based crimes and explains why many of these laws should be viewed as constitutionally prohibited status-based offenses. Ultimately\, relying on Robinson and Powell\, this article calls for these opinions to be applied to the current social context where political and economic factors drive mass criminalization\, and identifies new frameworks for understanding status crimes. \nTo register for this event\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nJamelia Morgan is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She is an award-winning and acclaimed scholar and teacher focusing on issues at the intersections of race\, gender\, disability\, and criminal law and punishment. Her scholarship and teaching examine the development of disability as a legal category in American law; disability and policing; overcriminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder; and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status. \nMorgan received a B.A. in Political Science and a M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University\, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. \nPrior to law school\, she served as Associate Director of the African American Policy Forum\, a social justice think tank that works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse related to affirmative action\, structural racism\, and gender inequality.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jamelia-morgan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231027T220843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231110T203640Z
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Virtual Program
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York Fellows for a complimentary virtual presentation by ABF Postdoctoral Fellow\, Sonya Rao. \nLearning Cultural Humility for Language Justice: Teaching to Work Across Languages \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Rao will describe results from her study on the state of training and education for law students to work across languages in law school clinics. Findings indicate concerns for access to justice\, civil rights violations\, and classroom inequality in law school clinics. She will also report on her parallel work as an advocate for language rights\, where concepts like language justice and cultural humility are taking hold in policy\, education\, and training\, and have potential to counteract these patterns. \nDr. Sonya Rao is the current ABF/NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology at UCLA in 2021.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-virtual-program-2/
LOCATION:Florida
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231108T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231012T200226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T180801Z
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SUMMARY:Minnesota Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$70/person (early bird price through October 31) \n$85/person after October 31 \n5:30-8:00 PM \nJax Cafe- Minneapolis \nOpen to Fellows\, Nominees\, and Guests \nPlease join the Minnesota Co-Chairs\, Kristi Paulson and Marc Manderschied for dinner\, drinks and a presentation on the massive ‘forever chemicals’ settlement with 3M and Dupont by Environmental Attorney\, Rob Bilott titled: \n  \n“A Legal History of Worldwide PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination” \n  \nRob Bilott is a partner in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky offices of the law firm\, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP\, where he has practiced in the Environmental and Litigation Practice Groups for over 33 years. During that time\, Rob has handled and led some of the most novel and complex cases in the country involving damage from exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”)\, including the first individual\, class action\, mass tort\, and multi-district litigation proceedings involving PFAS\, recovering over $1 billion for clients impacted by the chemicals. In 2017\, Rob received the Right Livelihood Award\, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize\,” for his decades of work on behalf of those injured by PFAS chemical contamination.  Rob is the author of the book\, “Exposure: Poisoned Water\, Corporate Greed\, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont\,” and his story is the inspiration for the 2019 motion picture\, “Dark Waters\,” starring Mark Ruffalo as Rob.  Rob’s story and work is also featured in the documentaries\, “The Devil We Know ” and “Burned:  Protecting the Protectors.”   Rob is a 1987 graduate of New College in Sarasota\, Florida\, and a 1990 graduate of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Rob also serves on the Boards of Less Cancer and Green Umbrella and is frequently invited to provide keynote lectures and talks at law schools\, universities\, colleges\, communities and other organizations all over the world.  Rob is a fellow in the Right Livelihood College\, a Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health\, Department of Environmental Health Sciences\, and an Honorary Professor at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina.  Rob also has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Ohio State University\, New College of Florida\, and Thomas More University. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/minnesota-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Jax Cafe\, 1928 University Ave NE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, 55418
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231108T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Felipe Ford Cole and Brittany Farr
DESCRIPTION:This paper revises histories of nineteenth century capitalism by attending to the continuities between public and private debt in antebellum Mississippi. The conceptual distinction between public and private debt has long reigned over the financial and legal history of the midcentury Antebellum south. To historians\, public debt appears in this period as the brief and contentious subject of politics\, enlivening the rise of the Democratic party and transformation of state constitutions. Private debt takes shape as the antecedent condition to the planter foreclosures that sharpened the reasoning for secession. \nBy contrast\, the paper traverses the conceptual boundaries of public and private debt in this era. Cole and Farr begin with a series of public debts—issued in the form of state bonds to agricultural banks—that were used to support and expand the private credit of planters. When the Mississippi state government refused to repay these bonds during the economic depression of 1837-42\, it forced many planters into insolvency\, transforming them into delinquent debtors to the state. In the ensuing foreclosures\, creditor banks auctioned off many enslaved women\, men\, and children\, causing enslaved families to be torn apart and scattered to satisfy debts. \nThe history that they trace points toward a direct connection between debt and racial harm. Mississippi’s mismanaged public debt exacted the greatest cost from enslaved Black families\, who were separated to satisfy private debts to state creditors. The violence of this family separation benefitted enslavers by reducing morale and discouraging resistance\, which in turn benefitted a state whose economy relied upon slave labor. By drawing out the connection between Mississippi’s public and private debt\, and between this debt and family separation\, Cole and Farr show one of the ways in which debt and racial violence are intimately intertwined\, a relationship that they contend is central to racial capitalism. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nFelipe Ford Cole joined Boston College Law School as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2022. He studies how the law shapes the balance between sovereign power and the power conferred to private capital in local\, national\, and international contexts. As a comparative legal historian\, Professor Cole’s research focuses on the historical evolution of this balance in the U.S. and Latin America. \nCole’s current research explores the evolution of public debt markets and the theory of sovereignty in the U.S. and Latin America and reexamines the origins of the core doctrines of international investment law. Professor Cole’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review and in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. \nBefore coming to Boston College Law\, Cole was a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Professor Cole earned a J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and is completing a Ph.D. in History at Northwestern University. He also earned an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in History from New York University. \nBrittany Farr is an Assistant Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She joined NYU from the University of Pennsylvania Law School\, where she was a Sharswood Fellow. \nFarr is a scholar of private law and race. With more than a decade of interdisciplinary training\, her research draws on history\, legal theory\, and cultural studies to theorize how marginalized populations have availed themselves of otherwise inhospitable legal regimes. In particular\, her research focuses on enslaved and free African Americans’ use of contract law during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and interrogates the ways in which contract law mediated African Americans’ relationship to bodily autonomy\, economic freedom\, and legal agency both during and after slavery. Her writing has appeared in UCLA Law Review\, University of Chicago Law Review Online\, and many other academic publications. Farr has also co-authored policy reports on mental health and banking\, as well as on gender and mass incarceration. \nFarr earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2019 and was a recipient of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund’s Earl Warren Scholarship\, which is awarded to law students with a demonstrated commitment to racial justice. Prior to law school\, Farr earned a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation\, “Reproducing Fear Amid Fears of Reproduction: The Black Maternal Body in U.S. Law\, Media\, and Policy\,” examined how persistent fears about Black motherhood and reproduction have shaped certain laws\, public health campaigns\, and popular culture. Her first chapter\, which theorizes slavery as a reproductive technology\, received the Louise Kerckhoff Prize for Best Graduate Paper from USC’s Center for Feminist Research. \nFarr’s interest in the interplay between law and culture was sparked as a Folklore & Mythology major while an undergraduate at Harvard College.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-felipe-ford-cole-and-brittany-farr/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231012T202024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T213511Z
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SUMMARY:San Diego Fellows Cocktail Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please Join San Diego Fellows Co-Chairs\, Anna Romanskaya and Stephen Korniczky for a networking cocktail reception in Del Mar. \n$60/person \n5:30-7:30 PM \nHosted bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres \nOpen to Fellows\, Nominees\, and Guests. \n  \n  \nIl Fornaio – Del Mar \n1555 Camino Del Mar #301 \nDel Mar\, CA 92014 \n  \nRegistrations must be received by Monday\, October 30\, 2023. Cancellations will be honored through Friday\, October 27\, 2023.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/san-diego-fellows-cocktail-reception/
LOCATION:Cocktail Patio at Il Fornaio\, Del Mar\, CA\, 1555 Camino Del Mar Ste 301\, Del Mar\, CA\, 92014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231101T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231101T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20231006T201516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T141117Z
UID:8565-1698854400-1698861600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Making of Lawyers' Careers
DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Bar Foundation (ABF) for a reception and hybrid book talk for The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession\, the culmination of a 20-year study conducted by the Foundation’s After the JD research cohort. \nReception 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. CT*                        Book Talk 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. CT\n*The reception is in-person only at the ABF (750 N. Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago IL). Wine and light snacks will be provided.  \nFeatured Presenters: \nRobert L. Nelson\, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University \nRonit Dinovitzer\, American Bar Foundation and University of Toronto \nBryant Garth\, American Bar Foundation and University of California-Irvine \nDavid B. Wilkins\, Harvard Law School \n  \nAdditional Authors in Attendance: \nJoyce S. Sterling\, University of Denver College of Law \nMeghan Dawe\, American Bar Foundation\, Harvard Law School \nEthan Michelson\, Indiana University \n  \nSpecial Guest: \nJohn P. Heinz\, American Bar Foundation\, Northwestern Law \nAbout the Book:\nHow do race\, class\, gender\, and law school status condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do professionals then navigate these parameters? \nThe Making of Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last two decades of the legal profession in the US\, offering a data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race\, gender\, and class distinctions. Starting in 2000\, the authors collected over 10\,000 survey responses from more than 5\,000 lawyers\, following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their careers. They also interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and drew insights from their individual stories\, contextualizing data with theory and close attention to the features of a market-driven legal profession. \nTheir findings show that lawyers’ careers both reflect and reproduce inequalities within society writ large. They also reveal how individuals exercise agency despite these constraints. \nSave 30% on book purchases from University of Chicago Press with promo code LAWYERS2023 \nAbout the Authors\nRobert L. Nelson is the MacCrate Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University. The author or editor of 10 books\, his works include Rights on Trial: How Anti-discrimination Law Perpetuates Workplace Inequality (2017)\, with Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen; Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar (2005)\, with John P. Heinz\, Rebecca L. Sandefur\, and Edward O. Laumann; and Legalizing Gender Inequality (1999)\, with William P. Bridges (Winner of Distinguished Publication Prize of the American Sociological Association). \nRonit Dinovitzer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago and Affiliated Faculty in Harvard’s Center on the Legal Profession. Ronit’s research on the legal profession includes the After the JD project\, the first national longitudinal study of law graduates in the US\, and the Law and Beyond Study\, the first national study of law graduates in Canada.  \nBryant Garth is an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California-Irvine School of Law\, and co-director\, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession\, University of California-Irvine. His scholarship focuses on the legal profession\, the sociology of law\, globalization\, and legal education.  \nJoyce Sterling is Professor Emeriti of Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Professor Sterling’s research has focused on the legal profession and in particular\, she has emphasized studying problems faced by women in their legal careers compared to men.  \nDavid B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law\, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession\, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also the co-founder of Harvard Law School Executive Education\, a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics\, and founder and Executive Editor of The Practice. \nMeghan Dawe is a Resident Research Fellow in the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School and a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation. \nEthan Michelson is Professor of Sociology and Law at Indiana University Bloomington\, where he has been teaching courses on Law and Society\, Law and Authoritarianism\, and Contemporary Chinese Society since 2003. He has won several awards for his published research on China’s legal system. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/book-launch-the-making-of-lawyers-careers/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20230706T163724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T180700Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Asad L. Asad
DESCRIPTION:Some eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States\, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presence. Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex dynamics of surveillance and punishment\, providing an extraordinary portrait of fear and hope on the margins. \nAsad L. Asad brings together a wealth of research\, from intimate interviews and detailed surveys with Latino immigrants and their families to up-close observations of immigration officials\, to offer a rare perspective on the surveillance that undocumented immigrants encounter daily. He describes how and why these immigrants engage with various institutions—for example\, by registering with the IRS or enrolling their kids in public health insurance programs—that the government can use to monitor them. This institutional surveillance feels both necessary and coercive\, with undocumented immigrants worrying that evasion will give the government cause to deport them. Even so\, they hope their record of engagement will one day help them prove to immigration officials that they deserve societal membership. Asad uncovers how these efforts do not always meet immigration officials’ high expectations\, and how surveillance is as much about the threat of exclusion as the promise of inclusion. \nCalling attention to the fraught lives of undocumented immigrants and their families\, this superbly written and compassionately argued book proposes wide-ranging\, actionable reforms to achieve societal inclusion for all. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAsad L. Asad is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His scholarly interests encompass social stratification; race\, ethnicity\, and immigration; surveillance and social control; and health. Asad’s current research agenda considers how institutional categories—in particular\, legal status—matter for multiple forms of inequality. His forthcoming book\, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press)\, examines how and why undocumented immigrants worried about deportation nonetheless engage with institutions whose records the government can use to monitor them. Additional research projects focus on the effects of immigration enforcement on health\, the role of the federal judiciary in immigration enforcement\, and the capacity of immigrant-serving organizations to counter the inequalities of the U.S. immigration system. \nAsad’s research has been published in several outlets\, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, Law & Society Review\, International Migration Review\, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, and Social Science & Medicine. His work has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, including the Louis Wirth Award for Best Article given by the Section on International Migration\, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. Asad earned his B.A. in Political Science and Spanish Language and Culture from the University of Wisconsin\, and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-asad-l-asad/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231018T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T083215
CREATED:20230829T150744Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Stefan Vogler
DESCRIPTION:Limited scholarship examines LGBTQ+ people’s willingness to report crime victimization to law enforcement\, even though LGBTQ+ people face disproportionate rates of violent victimization. Relatedly\, LGBTQ+ people also report higher levels of contact with the police and are incarcerated at three times the rate of the general population\, suggesting that\, like other minoritized groups\, LGBTQ+ people face the paradox of being “over-policed and under-protected.” \nIn this context\, Stefan Vogler asks what affects LGBTQ+ people’s willingness to report future crime victimization. He draws on a first-of-its-kind national probability sample of both LGBTQ+ (N=803) and non-LGBTQ+ (N=682) people to address these questions. Vogler finds that many drivers of willingness to report are common across the two groups\, including legal cynicism\, race\, and age. At the aggregate level\, LGBTQ+ people report significantly lower level of willingness to report than non-LGBTQ+ people. However\, when disaggregated\, he finds that transgender and nonbinary people drive this finding. Vogler considers what this means for existing understandings of crime reporting behaviors\, as well as why findings may differ across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nStefan Vogler is a sociologist who studies sexuality-and gender-related issues in law\, science\, and health. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Affiliated Scholar with the American Bar Foundation. Vogler previously was a Research Scientist with NORC at the University of Chicago and held postdoctoral positions at Northwestern University and the University of California\, Irvine.  \nHis research is centrally concerned with processes of legal and social classification and their relationship to social inequalities and social change. Vogler has been particularly interested in how practices of measurement and categorization vary across institutional settings and overlap and interlock with gender\, sexuality\, race\, and nationality.  \nIn his first book\, Sorting Sexualities\, Vogler unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and sexual offenders being evaluated for carceral placement – two situations where state actors must determine individuals’ sexualities. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed—one a punitive assessment\, the other a protective one—they present the same question: how do we know someone’s sexuality? Vogler reveals how different legal arenas take dramatically different approaches to classifying sexuality and use those classifications to legitimate different forms of social control. By delving into the histories behind these diverging classification practices and analyzing their contemporary reverberations\, Sorting Sexualities shows how the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-stefan-vogler/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Postponed: New York Fellows ABA President-Elect Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed due to a family emergency. We will reschedule for a later date. More information to come.  \n  \nThis event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease join the New York Fellows in celebrating the ABA President-Elect\, William “Bill” Bay. \n  \nWilliam R. “Bill” Bay\, a partner with the St. Louis office of national law firm Thompson Coburn LLP\, is President-Elect of the American Bar Association and will become ABA president in August 2024. \nA longtime leader in the ABA\, Bill served as chair of the House of Delegates from 2018 to 2020\, and has been a member of the House of Delegates for more than 20 years\, serving on numerous committees. Bill was a member of the ABA Board of Governors from 2014 to 2017\, and chaired the Board’s Finance Committee from 2015 to 2016. Bill recently co-chaired the Practice Forward initiative\, which addressed member concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of the profession. He served as Chair of the Planning Committee for ABA Day on the Hill in both 2021 and 2022. Bill is also a Past Chair of the Section of Litigation (2012 to 2013). \nBill is a proud Patron Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  \n  \n6:00-7:30 PM \nDrinks and appetizers to be served. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-aba-president-elect-reception/
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/Los_Angeles:20231012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T190000
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SUMMARY:Seattle Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join the outgoing ABF Washington State Chairs\, Sarah Dunne and Jaime Hawk with Abha Khanna & Ben Stafford of the Elias Law Group to discuss their recent Allen v. Milligan voting rights case victory and other voting rights litigation around the country. \n$15/person \n5:00-7:00 PM \nDrinks and hors d’oeuvres served \n \nRainier Club \nBurke Room \n820 4th Ave. \nSeattle\, WA \n  \nRegistrations must be received by Tuesday\, October 10\, 2023. Cancellations will be honored through Friday\, October 6\, 2023. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/washington-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:The Rainier Club\, Seattle\, WA\, 820 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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