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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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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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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/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T190000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
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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:20260417T065420
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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/
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/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231206T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
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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
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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:20260417T065420
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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:20260417T065420
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/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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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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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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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
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DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T133000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231018T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230718T225615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T180326Z
UID:7896-1697565600-1697571000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T173615Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230927T140507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T155358Z
UID:8450-1697040000-1697047200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join the American Bar Foundation (ABF) for a reception and hybrid book talk for Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law\, edited by Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal. \nReception 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. CT*                      Book Talk 4:45 – 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: \n\nTom Ginsburg\, American Bar Foundation and University of Chicago\nBenjamin Schonthal\, University of Otago\, New Zealand\n\nDiscussants: \n\nErin F. Delaney\, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law\nJothie Rajah\, American Bar Foundation\n\nAbout the Book:\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. The authors also highlight important ways in which Buddhist actors have (re)conceived Western liberal ideals such as constitutionalism\, rule of law\, and secularism. \nSave 25% on book purchases from Cambridge University Press with promo code BCCL22 \nAbout the Editors:\nTom Ginsburg is a Research Professor at the ABF and the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the Univeristy of Chicago. He also codirects the Comparative Constitutions Project. \nBenjamin Schonthal is Professor of Buddhist Studies and the Head of the Religion Programme at the University of Otago. He is the author of Buddhism\, Politics and the Limits of Law and articles in journals such as Modern Asian Studies\, Journal of Asian Studies\, and International Journal of Constitutional Law.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/book-launch-buddhism-and-comparative-constitutional-law/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,News
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CREATED:20230706T162715Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kristina Shull
DESCRIPTION:The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980\, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers\, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration’s globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents\, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration\, it laid the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion. \nReagan’s war on immigrants also sowed seeds of mass resistance. Drawing on critical refugee studies\, community archives\, protest artifacts\, and oral histories\, Detention Empire also shows how migrants resisted state repression at every turn. People in detention and allies on the outside—including legal advocates\, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition\, and the Central American peace and Sanctuary movements—organized hunger strikes\, caravans\, and prison uprisings to counter the silencing effects of incarceration and speak truth to U.S. empire. As the United States remains committed to shoring up its borders in an era of unprecedented migration and climate crisis\, reckoning with these histories takes on new urgency. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nKristina Shull is an Assistant Professor and Director of Public History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include immigration history\, mass incarceration\, U.S. foreign relations\, social movements\, climate migration\, the Cold War\, and public history. \nShull’s first monograph\, Invisible Bodies: Immigration Crisis and Private Prisons Since the Reagan Era\, is currently under contract with UNC Press’s Justice\, Power\, and Politics series. It explores the rise of immigration detention in the United States in the early 1980s as a form of counter-insurgent warfare in Reagan’s Cold War on immigrants. \nShe also directs a digital humanities project titled “Climate Refugee Stories\,” about migration\, borders\, and the fight for climate justice. This multimedia archive and public education project employs Participatory Action Research methods and is built in collaboration with a global team of migrants and refugees\, students\, interdisciplinary scholars\, artists\, and non-profit organizations. \nShe has a forthcoming article in a special issue of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics on Abolitionist Feminisms titled\, “QTGNC Stories from Detention and Abolitionist Imaginaries\, 1980-Present\,” and she is also currently conducting research for a second book project titled\, Immigration Detention and Histories of Resistance.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kristina-shull/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230706T161802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T192826Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Arzoo Osanloo
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Arzoo Osanloo will explore the persistence of the logic of mercy as a global zeitgeist. She will do so through two seemingly divergent\, yet overlapping and co-constituting prisms\, criminal sanctioning and humanitarianism. In doing so\, she aims to show how pardons and humanitarian care\, respectively\, construe mercy and\, she argues\, have overtaken the post-WWII initiative to expand human rights as a means to address inequity in social relations\, thus constituting one of the most enduring ideologies of our time. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nArzoo Osanloo is a Professor in the Department of Law\, Societies\, and Justice and the Director of the University of Washington’s Middle East Center. She also holds adjunct appointments in the School of Law and the Departments of Anthropology\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization\, Gender\, Women’s and Sexuality Studies\, and Comparative Religion. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University in 2002. Prior to that\, she practiced law\, having received a J.D. from The American University in 1993. \nAs a former immigration and asylum/refugee attorney\, Professor Osanloo became concerned with the fraught but often neglected relationship between ‘culture’ and ‘rights.’ As a legal anthropologist\, her research and teaching focus on the intersection of law\, culture\, and politics\, including human rights and humanitarianism. Her research explores the formations of women’s rights and human rights in cultural contexts and draws on continuing ethnographic fieldwork in Iran. Her first project explored the politicization of ‘rights talk’ and women’s subjectivities in post-revolutionary Iran\, and resulted in the book\, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press\, 2009). Her courses focus on human rights\, refugee rights and identity\, humanitarianism\, post-conflict reconciliation\, and women’s rights in Muslim societies. \nProfessor Osanloo is currently working on a new research project that examines the Islamic mandate of forgiveness\, compassion\, and mercy in Iran’s criminal sanctioning system\, jurisprudential scholarship\, and everyday acts among pious Muslims. This new research project considers the Muslim mandate of forgiveness or forbearance as a central ordering component of an Islamic way of life. Her interest is not simply in the texts of the sources\, Qur’an and Hadiths\, but also in how pious Muslims practice forgiveness\, forbearance\, mercy\, and compassion in everyday life. That is\, how does this compulsion to Muslims manifest through social interaction\, law\, and states politics? Iran’s criminal sanctioning laws are one specific focus of this work\, laws which permit individual forgiveness (not to be confused with the state pardon). One of the aims of this study will be to appraise the relationship between the legal and social manifestation of forgiveness to a certain understanding of human rights. In addition\, the work will assess how the Muslim compulsion to forgive and forbear may potentially play a role in reconciliation and transitional justice\, and how gender (symbolically and literally) figures into forgiveness. \nBesides working on book projects\, Professor Osanloo has published in numerous edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals\, including American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, Political and Legal Anthropology Review\, and Iranian Studies.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-arzoo-osanloo/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2023-25 Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nReyna Hernandez: Bureaucracies of Innocence: Reentry and Remedy After Wrongful Conviction\nThe extant literature on life after wrongful conviction is foundational to examining how exonerees experience reentry. This scholarship primarily focuses on the social and psychological challenges exonerees face after wrongful incarceration\, including prolonged trauma and stigma\, and how they affect exonerees’ reentry processes. While offering essential insights into the effects of wrongful conviction and incarceration on exonerees’ personal lives\, this work only scratches the surface of exploring how criminal legal contact shapes exonerees’ everyday lives. As in life after incarceration for “rightfully” convicted people\, wrongfully convicted and exonerated individuals must interact with and incorporate themselves into institutions and organizations that become crucial to accessing the tangible and intangible resources and services they need through their transitions into the outside world. Moreover\, while law and policy are continually embedded into exonerees’ daily lives within and outside of these institutional and organizational contexts\, research on these relational dynamics is lacking. Reyna Hernandez’s research utilizes participant observation and in-depth interviews with exonerees\, innocence lawyers\, and innocence organization staff; content analysis; and visual methods (photo-elicitation) to triangulate exonerees’ experiences and organizational perspectives on facilitating and accessing exonerees’ post-incarceration needs. These include the legal and extralegal processes and mechanisms these actors might activate to advance remedies to wrongful conviction. Ultimately\, this work seeks to offer ways to improve and reimagine how best to compensate the wrongfully convicted by examining the bureaucracies that directly affect how exonerees access and receive reparations after wrongful incarceration\, further illustrating how entanglement with U.S. carceral institutions perpetually affect innocent people. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nBrandon Honoré: Land Use Regulations and the Racial Inequality of Institutionalized Trustworthiness  \nBrandon Honoré examines the socio-legal construction of racial wealth inequality by investigating the relationship between land use regulations and institutionalized indicators of trustworthiness. He hypothesizes that exclusionary zoning not only contributes to segregation\, but also racial wealth inequality\, by asymmetrically distributing risks across racial groups. The asymmetric distribution of risks—both environmental hazards and the hazards of social exclusion—consequently contribute to institutionalized wealth inequality. Honoré combines data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act\, Toxics Release Inventory\, American Community Survey\, and Chicago Metropolitan Area for Planning Land Use Survey to build models of the Chicago region. By examining a single metropolis\, he will track interdependencies among communities both within the urban core and across the suburban periphery as risk and institutional credibility are (re)allocated across spaces over time. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nPortia Xiong: Admitted but not Advanced: Diversity\, Minor Feelings and Asian and Asian American Law Students in the United States\nThis ethnographic project looks at why anti-Asian biases\, prejudices\, discriminations\, and violence still persist in legal education while Asian and Asian American presence is rapidly increasing by investigating three interconnected questions. First\, how does race impact Asian and Asian American law students’ everyday lives in white institutional spaces? It will compare and contrast the intergroup and intragroup dynamics of the Asian group and the Asian American group to explore how citizenship status stratifies their racialized law school experiences. Special attention will be paid to their experiences of racial biases\, prejudices\, and discriminations. Second\, how does racial identity intersect with other identities such as gender\, class\, sexual orientation\, religion\, and country of origin in each group? It will pay attention to how the Asian group and the Asian American group socialize with people from different racial backgrounds as an effort to refute the stereotype that Asians and Asian Americans are monolithic groups. For instance\, who do they make friends with at law schools? Who do they include in their study groups and recreational activities? Thirdly\, how do they respond\, resist\, or relate to marginalization and exclusion emotionally and cognitively in white institutional spaces like law schools? It will focus on their emotional labor and cognitive labor in dealing with racial oppression by documenting what Cathy Park Hong calls “minor feelings”: the emotions felt by marginalized minority groups in a predominantly white space\, feelings that are both ignored and considered excessive.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2023-24-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230706T155113Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Emily Rong Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Each redistricting cycle presents an opportunity for minority groups to translate demographic growth and changes in residential patterns into political power. That it occurs typically only once every ten years following each decennial census makes this opportunity all the more momentous. And for Native persons\, this opportunity has been hard-won: in some cases\, it has taken decades of litigation to challenge districts that diluted the Native vote\, either through cracking (fracturing the population across several districts) or packing (concentrating Native persons into a few districts with lopsided majorities). \nYet identifying redistricting opportunities\, seized or missed\, is not analytically straightforward. This project\, the first of its kind\, evaluates how Native persons fared in the last redistricting cycle (following the 2010 census) and in the latest redistricting cycle (following the 2020 census). I measure the spatial dispersion of Native populations in every state in which Native persons constitute a numerically significant minority (Alaska\, Arizona\, Montana\, New Mexico\, North Dakota\, South Dakota\, and Wyoming)\, analyzing the districting schemes of both lower and upper chambers of each state legislature. \nCombining census data with districting shapefile data\, and adapting a measure called “partisan dislocation” developed to assess partisan gerrymandering\, I measure Native dislocation: it is the difference between the racial composition of each district and that of each Native person’s geographic neighborhood. When that difference is large\, there are either proportionally more Native persons in the district than in their immediate neighborhood (an indication of concentration) or proportionally fewer (an indication of dispersion). \nThe analysis reveals both the enduring contribution and growing limitations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act\, which is responsible for the creation of many majority-Native districts\n(districts in which Native voters constitute more than a majority of the district’s population). While the Act is still responsible for the maintenance of historically majority-Native districts\, it is unable to translate increasing Native voting strength into electoral power beyond those districts. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nEmily Rong Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California\, Berkeley\, School of Law. She studies how the law can promote political participation and representation\, especially of individuals from historically disadvantaged communities. Before joining Berkeley\, she was a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Voting Rights Project.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-emily-rong-zhang/
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:20230915T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230915T083000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230726T164610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230906T204346Z
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SUMMARY:Missouri Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:In Person Registration: $15/person\, includes breakfast. \nVirtual Registration: Complimentary. \nOpen to Fellows\, Nominees\, and guests. Please RSVP by Wednesday\, September 13. \nPlease join the Missouri Fellows at the Kansas City\, MO office of Polsinelli for breakfast and a presentation titled “Crypto Fever and the Betrayal of “Trustless Trust”” by ABF researcher Susan Shapiro. This event is in conjunction with the Missouri State Bar Meeting\, taking place September 13-15. \nBreakfast to be served at 7:00 AM \nPresentation to commence at 7:30 AM \nCrypto Fever and the Betrayal of “Trustless Trust” \nThe raison d’etre of cryptocurrency is to be “trustless”—to jettison the intermediaries and central authorities (what its creator called “trust”) upon which the traditional financial system relies. Crypto offers “trustless trust\,” replacing trust with technology and deploying a buzzword that denotes safety and privacy of transactions untethered to the state or corporate third parties. But are they? This presentation traces the evolution of crypto and exposes a facade of trustlessness\, with many of the vulnerabilities that digital currency was invented to escape and without the safeguards\, regulation\, or insurance that protect customers of traditional financial institutions. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/missouri-fellows-breakfast-2/
LOCATION:Polsinelli\, 900 W. 48th Place Suite 900\, Kansas City\, MO\, 64112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230718T224858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230906T202959Z
UID:7892-1694608200-1694611800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPatricia E. Salkin discusses her book titled “May it Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education.” This event features a panel of local higher education leaders of New York Universities. \nPatricia E. Salkin– Senior VP of Academic Affairs\, Provost\, Graduate and Professional Divisions and Professor of Law\, Touro University | Life Fellow\, ABF \nMichelle Anderson – President\, Brooklyn College \nKarol Mason – President\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice \nLaura Rosenbury -President\, Barnard College | Patron Fellow\, ABF \nJohn Sexton – Former President\, NYU | Life Fellow\, ABF \nLaura Sparks – President\, Cooper Union \nFrank Wu – President\, Queens College | Life Fellow\, ABF \nPlease join ABF member Dr. Patricia Salkin as she discusses her recent book through a Q & A format with a panel of distinguished lawyer presidents leading New York City’s most prestigious colleges and universities. The data-driven book discusses the role of lawyers as college and university presidents dating back to the 1700s and how today\, there are more lawyers than at any point in history running institutions of higher education. As you will learn\, the Presidents are not only former law professors and law deans but partners in major law firms\, government lawyers and leaders in the non-profit sector. This is a topic that has received little attention until the publication of this award-winning book that was recognized for exemplary legal writing by The Green Bag Blog  and was reviewed as one of the best four law related books by Professor Nancy Rapaport of UNLV School of Law. Jacksonville Law School Dean Nick Allard (former Dean of Brooklyn Law School) wrote a review for the ABA. Through arrangements with the State and Local Government Law Section\, ABA members can purchase the book at the ABA Bookstore here. For more information check out Dr. Salkin’s blog. \n  \nEvent Location: \nNixon Peabody \n\n\n\n55 W 46th St Tower 46\n\nNew York\, NY 10036 \n*please note: this is a different location than usual \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Event Sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-9/
LOCATION:Nixon Peabody LLP\, Tower 46\, 55 West 46th St.\, New York\, 10036-4120\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230913T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: K-Sue Park
DESCRIPTION:Dr. K-Sue Park will be presenting on her forthcoming law review article. This paper offers a history of the American title registry and its role in expanding the jurisdictional power of the English colonies in America\, and then the United States. It argues that the examination\, historical or theoretical\, of U.S. sovereignty and property institutions\, such as the registry\, must depart from and center the question of the prior and ongoing sovereignty of Native nations across this land. \nTo register for this event\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nK-Sue Park is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Her scholarship examines the development of American property law and the creation of the American real estate market through the histories of colonization and enslavement. She teaches first-year Property and a seminar entitled Land\, Dispossession\, and Displacement. Previously\, she was the Critical Race Studies Fellow at UCLA School of Law and an Equal Justice Works Fellow and staff attorney in El Paso\, where she investigated predatory mortgage lending schemes as part of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid’s foreclosure defense team. \nPark earned her B.A. summa cum laude\, Phi Beta Kappa honors from Cornell University\, where she was a College Scholar\, her M.Phil. with Distinction in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge\, her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School\, where she was a Presidential Scholar\, and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley\, where she was a Javits Fellow. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea in 2003. \nIn 2015\, her article\, “Money\, Mortgages\, and the Conquest of America\,” won the American Bar Foundation’s Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition and the Association for Law\, Culture and the Humanities’ Austin Sarat Award\, and was selected for the Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop. Her publications have appeared in the Harvard Law Review\, the Yale Law Journal\, The University of Chicago Law Review\, The History of the Present\, Law & Social Inquiry\, and the New York Times.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/7777/
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:20230906T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
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SUMMARY:Illinois Fellows and ABA Business Law Section Joint Event
DESCRIPTION:Registration Now Open! \n$80/person. Open to Fellows\, Nominees\, ABA Business Law Section Members\, and guests. \nJoin the Illinois Fellows and the ABA Business Law Section in town for the Chicago ABA Business Law Section Fall meeting for dinner\, drinks\, and a presentation by ABF Researcher Professor Emeritus\, John Hagan. \n  \n7:00-7:30 Open Beer and Wine Bar \n7:30-8:00 Dinner \n8:00-9:00 Presentation and Q&A \nDrinks and food will be available throughout the entire event. \nVenue:\nLabriola \n535 N Michigan Ave \nChicago\, IL 60611 \n  \nChicago’s Reckoning: Racism\, Politics\, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City \nChicago police detective Jon Burge oversaw the torture – from the 1970s through the early 1990s – of more than 100 Black men (the exact number is unknown). Our recent book\, Chicago’s Reckoning\, documents how this torture swept through Chicago’s segregated south side neighborhoods. The book reveals how Richard M. Daley\, both as State’s Attorney and then as Mayor\, consistently denied knowledge of Burge’s “midnight torture crew\,” while the City’s Law Department paid nearly a billion dollars to settle civil suits arising from these cases. Finally\, in 2010\, Department of Justice U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald prosecuted Burge for perjury and obstruction of justice – but not torture – resulting in a four-year sentence that was later reduced. We discovered in a sidebar transcript that at trial Fitzgerald’s prosecutors presented more extensive evidence of Burge’s criminal activities that was acknowledged but overruled for presentation in open court. The result was a kind of “code of silence” that can conceal high-level corruption. This corruption is a backdrop to a larger Chicago story to be presented in this lecture.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/illinois-fellows-and-aba-business-law-section-joint-event/
LOCATION:Labriola\, 535 N Michigan Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230718T224101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T210218Z
UID:7888-1694001600-1694007000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Oklahoma Fellows National Event
DESCRIPTION:View of a recording of the event below: \n\nFree event. Open to all Fellows and nominees. \nFeatured Presentation: “Killers of the Flower Moon: An Osage Perspective” with speaker\, Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear\, Osage Nation and opening remarks by D. Michael McBride III\, Crowe and Dunlevy\, P.C. \nIn the early 1920s\, the western U.S. was shaken by a series of murders targeting Osage people after oil is discovered on their land. One hundred years later\, the Osage Nation is still grappling with the losses and working to bring attention to the atrocities of the period often referred to as the “Reign of Terror.” \nChief Standing Bear will share his thoughts about Author David Grann and his book\, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. In reference to the forthcoming movie based on these events\, he will also speak about his experience with the Director\, Martin Scorsese\, and the actors in the film\, including their joint efforts to ensure the portrayals were factual\, authentic\, presented in the native Osage language\, and in keeping with Osage history and culture. Mr. McBride will give opening remarks about that time in Oklahoma history and the legal happenings surrounding these murders\, most of which remain unsolved to this day. \nPlease mark your calendars and register today for this fascinating program. It is an important if tragic intersection of our laws and the legal system with greed\, treachery\, murder and justice — set within the early histories of Oklahoma and the FBI. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:  \n \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/oklahoma-fellows-national-event/
LOCATION:Crowe & Dunlevy\, 222 N Detroit Ave Suite 600\, Tulsa\, OK\, 74120\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T133000
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CREATED:20230623T181817Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gregory Elinson
DESCRIPTION:“Over the past decade\, prominent progressive voices in the legal academy have reached a new consensus. Robust\, American-style\, judicial review is no balm to progressive causes — rather\, it is inherently anti-progressive. The judiciary\, they say\, has regularly interfered with legislative and executive efforts to protect minority rights and remedy economic inequality. Thus\, they conclude\, progressives ought to stop defending judicial review and instead devote their energies to eliminating (or limiting) it. Embedded in their critique are two related empirical claims: first\, that the judiciary in general and the Supreme Court in particular have been consistently less progressive than the other branches; and\, second\, that landmark progressive rulings in cases like Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade were not\, in and of themselves\, meaningful contributions to the progressive cause. \nThis Article considers the evidence in support of these claims and argues that judicial review’s progressive critics are wrong on both counts. For one\, we contend that critics underestimate just how anti-progressive American politics\, independent of judicial intervention\, have usually been. Revisiting the key cases on which the progressive critique is based\, we find little evidence for the proposition that the judiciary has consistently been more anti-progressive than the elected branches. Rather\, we suggest that few durable progressive coalitions have ever been latent such that we can say with any confidence that\, but for judicial intervention\, they would have surfaced in Congress or the executive. For another\, the Article finds little evidence that progressive judicial interventions have been mostly sizzle\, with little substance. To the contrary\, we find empirical support for the proposition that landmark progressive rulings in cases like Brown and Roe mattered quite a bit. Brown\, recent historiography makes clear\, eased passage of federal civil rights legislation\, while Roe established a far more permissive abortion regime than would have been feasible to achieve through the political process. \nStepping back from this empirical inquiry\, the Article takes an analytic turn. What is it about the judiciary’s role in American politics that judicial review’s progressive critics have missed? We have two answers. First\, we think that progressive critics offer a too-rosy account of the elected branches’ progressivism. Throughout American history\, both major political parties have effectively colluded to keep the rights of disfavored minorities off the political agenda. And drawing on an array of scholarship in law\, political science\, and history\, we find little evidence that electoral incentives consistently favor progressivism. Second\, we think there is better evidence to suggest that legal elites\, when freed of the pressures of coalition assembly and maintenance that constrain the elected branches\, have in fact been more progressive than Congress and the president. In earlier eras of American history\, we attribute this phenomenon to legal elites’ commitment to a stripped-down\, common-law constitutionalism. In more recent decades\, we attribute this phenomenon in large part to the role of educational polarization\, which has tended to make the elite bar—and thus the pool of actual and potential judges and justices—relatively more open to progressive arguments.” \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nGregory Elinson is an Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. He is a public law scholar with wide-ranging interests in constitutional and administrative law and legislative and judicial procedure. Much of his research concerns how partisan politics and political polarization have shaped the separation of powers. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Vanderbilt Law Review\, Emory Law Journal\, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law\, as well as several leading peer-reviewed social science journals\, including Law & Social Inquiry and Studies in American Political Development. \nBefore coming to NIU in 2022\, Professor Elinson was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office\, where his practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. Greg clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School\, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-gregory-elinson/
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:20230804T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230806T233000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065420
CREATED:20230608T204522Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2023 ABA Annual Meeting in Denver
DESCRIPTION:ABF Fellows Registration Hours: \nColorado Convention Center- 700 14th Street \nPlease stop by The Fellows registration desk to pick up your tickets\, complimentary Fellows ribbons\, and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\nWednesday\, August 2: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, August 3: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, August 4: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSaturday\, August 5: 7:00 am – 5:30 pm\nSunday\, August 6: 7:30 am – 2:00 pm\n\n  \nFriday\, August 4\nFellows CLE Program – “Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law\, Culture\, and the Long War on Terror” (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Denver-CLE-Audio-_-For-Website.mp3\n  \nColorado Convention Center- Room 301/302 \nRegistration not required to attend event \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nJothie Rajah\, a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation will discuss her recent book\, which views law through an interdisciplinary lens “to perceive how law’s compound meanings have been represented\, reconfigured\, and globalized” during the long War on Terror to cause a discounting of lives taken and persons injured and traumatized as “collateral damage.”  A panel including Professor Rajah\, Judy Perry Martinez\, former ABA President and World Justice Project Vice-President\, Will A. Gunn\, General Counsel & Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Legal Services Corporation and former Chief Defense Counsel of the DoD Office of Military Commissions\, and George Freeman\, Executive Director\, Media Law Resource Center\, will discuss Professor Rajah’s book and its premises and conclusions.  This promises to be a robust and timely discussion of issues so important to national and international justice and the Rule of Law. \nModerator: \n\nJimmy Goodman — President\, ABF | Director\, Crowe & Dunlevy\n\nPanelists: \n\nJothie Rajah — Research Professor\, ABF\nJudy Perry Martinez — Vice President\, World Justice Program | Of Counsel\, Simon\, Peragine\, Smith & Redfearn | Past President\, American Bar Association | Benefactor Fellow\, American Bar Foundation\nWill A. Gunn — General Counsel and Vice President for Legal Affairs\, Legal Services Corporation | Former General Counsel\, U.S. Department of Government Affairs\nGeorge Freeman— Executive Director\, Media Law Resource Center\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nClyfford Still Museum \n1250 Bannock St \nTicketed Event \nlocated in the heart of Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District\, The Clyfford Still Museum offers nine beautiful galleries of Still’s art\, historic photos\, objects and letters from the Clyfford Still Archives\, interactive features\, tranquil outdoor terraces\, and views into storage and conservation areas. Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century\, Clyfford Still (1904–1980) was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists. The Fellows invite you to mingle with friends\, enjoy refreshments\, and explore the galleries. \nRound trip shuttle bus provided \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \n  \nSaturday\, August 5\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (7:30 AM – 9:30 AM)\nColorado Convention Center- Room 301/302 \nTicketed Event  \nJoin us for breakfast and keynote remarks titled “Restoring Faith in the Judiciary” from Justice William W. Hood\, III\, Colorado Supreme Court.  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Silver Sponsors: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Bronze Sponsors: \n \nSandra Chan & Gary Yoshimura \nVice President\, ABF Board of Directors | Philanthropist Fellow \nSunday\, August 6\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – ??)\nHyatt Regency Denver- 650 15th St \nCapitol Ballroom 2 \nRegistration not required to attend event \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring some friends and enjoy! Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Sing-along Sponsor: \nJo Ann Engelhardt \nABF Florida State Chair | Benefactor Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2023-aba-annual-meeting-in-denver/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center\, 650 15th St.\, Denver\, CO\, 80202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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