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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rabiat Akande
DESCRIPTION:The final years of British imperial rule in Northern Nigeria witnessed efforts to source appropriate models of legal modernization from the Muslim world. The models afloat in constitutional discourse\, those of Libya\, Sudan\, Pakistan\, and Egypt\, were held up by respective proponents as ideal for resolving the long-fraught question of the relationship between Islam and public law in a modern state. Yet\, the evocations of these foreign models were idealized imaginaries; by framing these models as settled facts\, the Northern Nigerian evocations flattened the constitutional experience of these states and obscured unfolding struggles over the nature of legal modernity. Against the backdrop of contestations between juristic and political elites\, colonial officials\, and other actors\, this paper chronicles the outsourcing of Northern Nigeria’s legal modernization to foreign imaginaries. Even as the Northern Nigerian legal borrowing debate fielded competing visions of decolonization and modernization\, that discourse limited the realm of possibilities to an uncritical and\, in the end\, imaginary copying from postcolonial jurisdictions. The ultimate consequence was the trumping of juristic power by political authority and the foreclosure of emancipatory possibilities for the future of law. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nRabiat Akande (she/her) joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2024. She works in the fields of legal history\, law and religion\, constitutional and comparative constitutional law\, Islamic law\, international law\, and (post)colonial African law and society. \nProfessor Akande is the author of Entangled Domains: Empire\, Law\, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press: 2023). Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, the Journal of Law and Religion\, Law and History Review\, the Supreme Court Review\, and in volumes by Cambridge University Press\, University of Toronto Press\, and University of Virginia Press. Currently\, she is co-editing an encyclopedia of law and religion (Elgar Publishing: under contract)\, an African international law reader\, and a volume on African international legal history. She is also at work on a book exploring Malcolm X’s intellectual legacy titled Malcolm X\, Black Globalism\, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism. \nProfessor Akande chairs the international legal history project at the African Institute of International Law in Arusha with the support of the African Union and the Gerda Henkel Foundation\, among other institutions. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-rabiat-akande/
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:20250205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aaron Pitluck
DESCRIPTION:In the United States and in much of the world\, our lives are directly or indirectly dependent on financial markets to access key resources such as an automobile or home\, to move money into the future so that we can stop working before we die\, and to access fundamental needs such as healthcare and an education. Unfortunately\, even highly regulated financial markets are saturated with financial professionals’ exploitation of information and power asymmetries\, conflicts of interest\, and financial instruments designed with negative externalities. Moreover\, many financial markets are lightly regulated and rely on self-regulation. In an aspiringly democratic society\, how can outside critics—such as social movements\, policy makers\, politicians\, academics\, and even regulators—understand financial markets and instruments sufficiently to morally and normatively evaluate them? Even more challenging\, how can outsiders use their hard-won understanding to advocate for and create normatively and morally better forms of finance\, particularly when the social change may not be in financial insiders’ short-term interest? To explore questions such as these\, Dr. Pitluck will describe his research in global Islamic investment banks in Malaysia to understand how moral critics such as Shariah scholars are engaging with financial expert communities and conducting a deep structural change of financial markets. The presentation will outline how this organizational and institutional structure allows Shariah scholars to induce an understanding of what Islamic finance is and to pragmatically co-produce with investment bankers a movement towards this moral and normative vision.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n\n\nAaron Z. Pitluck (he/him) is a Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association. \nDrawing on economic sociology\, anthropology\, and cultural analysis\, his research interests center on financial actors\, organizations\, markets\, and institutions\, particularly in the Global South. \nWhile at the ABF\, he is writing an interdisciplinary book describing how investment bankers\, Shariah scholars\, and the state are co-producing Islamic banking and finance in Malaysia. By investigating this case study\, the book seeks to distinguish empowering from exploitative finance and to contribute to understanding how to alter the trajectory of finance towards the former. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-aaron-pitluck/
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:20250129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Carol Heimer
DESCRIPTION:Regulators have long worried about how much to trust those they regulate. Trust can be efficient\, allowing regulators to expend fewer resources on expensive\, labor-intensive inspections. But trust also carries substantial risks. A regulator’s vote of confidence can open the door for shirking\, inappropriate bending of rules\, or even misrepresentation and deceit. For this reason\, many regulatory systems make trust contingent on verification\, as the Russian proverb advises.\nThis imperative to limit trust often leads to the creation and institutionalization of obligations for layered verification of one component after another. Such regulatory regimes create considerable work both for regulated entities\, who must demonstrate that they have followed the rules\, and for regulators\, who must verify compliance.\nBut as accountability and verification regimes attempt to solve one set of problems — those arising from too fully trusting regulated entities’ compliance claims — these regimes risk creating fresh problems. Building on organizational research on “routine dynamics\,” the article shows how regulatory regimes with detailed rules and elaborate verification routines may inadvertently reinscribe patterns of privilege and disadvantage as regulators enforce rules and guidelines that inevitably have biases built into them. The article also shows how the official\, scripted universalism of regulatory stances can be diminished or magnified by the unscripted interactional stances of monitors and inspectors.\nDrawing on research conducted in HIV clinics in the US\, Thailand\, South Africa\, and Uganda\, the article looks at regulatory encounters in healthcare and biomedical research. The regime of institutionalized skepticism\, developed for oversight of clinical research\, assumes that it is necessary to cast a distrustful eye on each stage of the research process. Yet it turns out that institutionalized skepticism is not always implemented or experienced the same way. Crucially\, it is more likely to be coupled with disrespect in poorer countries than richer ones.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nCarol A. Heimer is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She received her BA from Reed College and her PhD from the University of Chicago. Heimer has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational Action)\, organization theory (Organization Theory and Project Management\, co-authored with Stinchcombe)\, the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine (For the Sake of the Children\, co-authored with Staffen\, winner of both the theory and medical sociology prizes of the American Sociological Association). A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching\, she usually teaches courses on law\, medicine\, and qualitative methods\, with occasional forays in to topics such as the sociology of moral experience. She spent 2007-08 as a Visiting Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton. Heimer is currently writing a book from her NSF-funded comparative study of the role of law in medicine. In recent years\, American medicine has been “legalized” as relatively informal regulation by professional peers has been supplanted by an increasingly rule-based system. By no means confined to the US\, this rule-based regulation has diffused widely\, sometimes freely adopted by medical workers eager for the legitimacy conferred by American medical science\, at other times imposed on foreign scientific colleagues by American funding agencies and research organizations. The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in HIV/AIDS clinics in the US\, Uganda\, South Africa\, and Thailand.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-carol-heimer/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2025 ABA Midyear Meeting in Phoenix
DESCRIPTION:A $30 registration fee is required and helps cover administrative costs associated with the Midyear Meeting \nEarly event registration discounted pricing until January 17 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours: \nSheraton Phoenix Downtown\n340 N. 3rd Street \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 29\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Thursday\, January 30\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Friday\, January 31\n7:30 AM – 5:00 PM      Saturday\, February 1\n7:30 AM – 3:00 PM      Sunday\, February 2\n\nFriday\, January 31\nFellows CLE Program – “The Age-Old Question Facing All of Us – Deny People Any Help or Allow Some Help by Non-Lawyers: An Innovation’s Odyssey”\n(2:00 PM – 3:30 PM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\n\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1003-1.mp3\n\nSheraton Phoenix Downtown\n340 N. 3rd Street \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) \nAccess to justice is an endemic and intractable challenge for the American legal system. This CLE is about an innovation’s odyssey. It explores the expansion and evolution in the states of one response to that intractable challenge\, one with far-reaching potential – redefining who can deliver legal services if not licensed attorneys. It is about states as laboratories for innovations authorizing trained and licensed non-lawyers – having a variety of names — to deliver certain legal services without attorney supervision. And the states are indeed laboratories for what is\, admittedly\, an access experiment. At the outset\, no one knew if this innovation would work. As then Washington State Chief Justice Barbara Madsen said in the 2012 order creating the first such non-lawyer program\, “No one has a crystal ball … There is simply no way to know the answer to this question without trying it.” Odysseys are about journeys and what a given journey can teach us. In 2025\, the question now is what have we learned? \nThis program will be moderated by Don Bivens\, Principal Attorney\, Don Bivens\, PLLC and feature a panel discussion with: \n\nStephen Daniels – American Bar Foundation Research Professor Emeritus\nMichele Statz – Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School\, Affiliated Faculty with the University of Minnesota Law School and Affiliated Scholar with the American Bar Foundation\nRodolfo D. Sanchez – Executive Director\, DNA – People’s Legal Services\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nChase Field\n401 E. Jefferson \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends\, and fun at the 20th Anniversary Experience at Chase Field! Relive some of the greatest moments in Arizona Diamondbacks history in an MLB museum-style setting. Located on the main concourse in right field\, the area features historic artifacts\, memorabilia\, photography and a wall with signed baseballs from nearly all D-backs players and coaches. The Experience also includes a showcase of the team’s 2001 World Series championship and several Silver Slugger\, Gold Glove and Cy Young Awards won by D-backs players. Guests can also view the field! \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsor:  \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsors:  \n \n \n\nSaturday\, February 1\, 2025\nFellows Tour: Taliesin West (8:45 AM – 12:00 PM)\nRound trip bus tour from Sheraton Phoenix Downtown 340 N. 3rd Street. \nTaliesin West is a World Heritage site and National Historic Landmark nestled in the desert foothills of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Wright’s beloved winter home and desert laboratory was established in 1937 and diligently handcrafted over many years. Deeply connected to the desert from which it was forged\, Taliesin West possesses an almost prehistoric grandeur. It was built and maintained almost entirely by Wright and his apprentices\, making it among the most personal of the architect’s creations. Join us for a break from the conference room to enjoy the true beauty of Arizona. The bus ride is about 40 minutes each way to reach this desert beauty and will leave from the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix at 8:45 AM and return to the same location by 12:00 PM. \n69th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM) – CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. If you would like to be put on the waitlist\, please email jdombrowski@abfn.org.  \nHeard Museum\n2301 N. Central \nRound trip shuttle bus provided from Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. \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.  Our guests will have full access to the museum to tour and discover the rich and vibrant world of American Indian art\, from traditional artworks to contemporary creations. \n\nOutstanding Service Award: Myles Lynk\nOutstanding Scholar Award: Erwin Chemerinsky\nOutstanding State Chair Award: Julianne P. Blanch\, Utah\n\nFeaturing keynote remarks from the author of “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History\,” Professor Ned Blackhawk\, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History\, Yale University \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsor: \n \n \n \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Bronze Sponsors:  \nLAURA V. FARBER\, IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL ABF FELLOWS\n \n \n \nSunday\, February 2 \nFellows Sing-Along (9:00 PM –  ??)\nSheraton Phoenix Downtown\n340 N. 3rd Street \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.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2025-aba-midyear-meeting-in-phoenix/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250122T200000
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SUMMARY:2025 January Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Kari Petrasek and Hon. Dean Lum\, Co-Chairs of the ABF Washington Fellows\, for a Washington Fellows Dinner and presentation featuring Honorable M. Margaret McKeown\, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. \nWednesday\, January 22\, 2025 \nSeattle University School of Law\nSullivan Hall\n901 12th Avenue\nSeattle\, WA 98122 \n5:30 PM PT – Cocktail Reception\n6:00 PM PT – Dinner and Program \n$40 per Person\nGuests Welcome \nRegistrations must be received by Wednesday\, January 15\, 2025. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsors: \nGold Sponsor \n \nBronze Sponsor
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-january-washington-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Seattle University School of Law\, 901 12th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T130000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: John Eason
DESCRIPTION:During the prison boom—from 1970 to 2000 when facilities tripled across the US\, prisons were more likely to be constructed in rural towns in the South with higher rates of poverty\, and Black and Latino residents. By examining the period we call the prison “bust”—between 2000-2023–when prison closures eclipsed openings\, we reveal how prison closures impact schools and racial equity across rural communities. Using Community Engaged Methods (CEM) we demonstrate multiple adverse effects of prison closure on rural communities of color including school closures. We argue that these findings implore us to find responsible ways of curbing demand to close prisons and reduce harm to rural communities of color. We assert this move from prison abolition as advocacy to prison abolition as policy will bear more fruit in reducing our overreliance on mass incarceration.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n\n\nJohn M. Eason (he/him) is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He also works as a Senior Fellow at the Justice Policy Center/Office of Race and Equity Research at the Urban Institute. \nHe holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Eason\, a native of Evanston\, Illinois\, received a bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a M.P.P. from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. \nBefore entering graduate school\, Eason was a church-based community organizer focused on housing and criminal justice issues. He also served as a political organizer for then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. \nEason’s research interests challenge existing models and develop new theories of community\, health\, race\, punishment and rural/urban processes in several ways. First\, by tracing the emergence of the rural ghetto\, he establishes a new conceptual model of rural neighborhoods. Next\, by demonstrating the function of the ghetto in rural communities\, he extends concentrated disadvantage from urban to rural community process. These relationships are explored through his book\, “Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation” (University of Chicago Press\, 2017).
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-john-eason/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250115T164500
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250115T180000
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SUMMARY:2025 January Utah Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Utah Fellows for a reception and presentation of “Our Court: A History of the United States Supreme Court” by ABF Research Professor\, Christopher W. Schmidt. \nWednesday\, January 15\, 2025\n4:45 PM MT – Reception\n5:00 – 6:00 PM MT – Presentation \nUtah Law and Justice Center\n645 S. 200 E\nSalt Lake City\, UT 84111 \n**Approved for CLE Credit** \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 not 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. \nThe Fellows Gratefully Recognize Event Sponsors
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-january-utah-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Utah Law and Justice Center\, 645 South 200 East\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250115T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the 1960s\, many African governments were taken over by their armies. “The Soldier’s Creed” describes how law and militarism intersected in postcolonial Africa. In Nigeria and other former British colonies\, military officers believed they could remake their countries in the image of an army. Soldiers tried to condition civilians to think like they did—and when that failed they tried to beat the bad habits out of them by force. Military-style discipline became a political philosophy\, and some soldiers came to believe that making Africa into a vast open-air barracks was what would make it truly “free.” In Nigeria and elsewhere\, soldiers saw judges as partners in their attempts to “discipline” their countries\, but law wasn’t the disciplinary tool they thought it was. Civilians could turn law back on them\, they discovered\, and only some judges shared their world-making aspirations. Using an original collection of legal records\, documents\, and memoirs\, Samuel Fury Childs Daly shows how law facilitated militarism and\, at times\, worked against it. \n\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\n\n\nSamuel Fury Childs Daly is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago’s Department of History. Professor Daly writes about law\, warfare\, and the politics of military regimes. Most of his work describes the history of Africa since independence. He asks how soldiers and judges think: how do military dictatorships use law\, and how do judiciaries check their powers – or enable them? He also studies what warfare does to legal systems. Armed conflict degrades normative orders\, and sometimes it creates new ones. How do people make order and resolve disputes in wartime? His first book\, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law\, Crime\, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, connects the Nigerian Civil War to the fraud and violent crime that wracked Nigeria in its wake. Using an original body of legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra\, it traces how technologies\, survival practices\, and moral codes that emerged during the fighting lasted long after the war was over. The line between martial violence and violent crime can blur on the battlefield\, and once that line is gone it is hard to redraw it. \nHe is currently conducting research for two projects – a global history of military desertion\, and a book about military imposters and role-players. His work has been published in venues including Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in History from Columbia University\, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge\, and an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London. He previously taught at Duke University. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-samuel-fury-childs-daly/
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:20241212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241212T130000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
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SUMMARY:2024 December Maryland Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by ABF Affiliated Scholar\, Emily Ryo. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST. \nAccess to Justice in U.S. Immigration Courts \nRemoval proceedings are high-stakes adversarial proceedings in which immigration judges must decide whether to allow immigrants who allegedly have violated U.S. immigration laws to stay in the United States or to order them deported to their countries of origin. In these proceedings\, the government trial attorneys prosecute noncitizens who often lack English fluency\, economic resources\, and familiarity with our legal system.  This presentation will focus on studies that examine issues of access to justice in U.S. immigration courts for immigrants in removal proceedings.  The questions raised and addressed in these studies include: What barriers do immigrants in removal proceedings face in obtaining legal representation?  Does the effect of legal representation case outcomes vary by the race of immigrants\, their lawyers\, and/or immigration judges presiding over their proceedings?  What is the role of social identity of individual judges and the role of social diversity of immigration courts in shaping the removal decisions of immigration judges?
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-december-maryland-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
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SUMMARY:2024 December New York Fellows Lunch
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nView photos from the event below! \nPlease join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a hybrid lunch and presentation by Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, Akhil Reed Amar. \n \n \n \nThe Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation \n12:00 PM ET – Lunch \n12:30-1:30 PM ET – Presentation \nLocation:\nDavis Polk\n450 Lexington Avenue\nNew York\, New York 10017 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-december-new-york-fellows-lunch/
LOCATION:Davis Polk\, 450 Lexington Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
DESCRIPTION:Using 60 ethnographic interviews with a range of minority law students and early career legal professionals\, this Article illuminates the cruciality of eCRT tools to understand the experience of individual deviance and the usefulness of a queer theory lens in aiding such an effort. Analysis from these narrative data show that students with different kinds of peripheral identities experience professional spaces in many uniquely different ways but that narratives across minority categories (primarily differentiated by race\, gender identity\, religion\, and disability) also overlapped in important ways. Particularly\, the data show a clear pattern among these differently peripheral actors of what I call “blasé” dismissal and denial of discrimination. Unlike microaggressions which might have resonance in common cultural parlance as an operationalization of structural violence\, what distinguishes blasé discrimination\, I argue\, is the ordinariness of the act in common interactional parlance alongside its relative unlikeliness to be seen as problematic when confronted. It is this possibility of defense and even justification in the face of being questioned about the violence that makes blasé discrimination and its ambiguous parameters worthy of our attention in identity jurisprudence. This exploration of the blasé response to discrimination sheds light – borrowing from queer theory – on the opportunities available for theory building when difference is analyzed across narrative to focus on the commonalities of deviance across sub-categories of assumed identity. In turn\, it offers a framework for considering what I am framing as the “QuEer-CRT” approach for law and society scholarship. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nSwethaa S. Ballakrishnen (they/them) is a socio-legal scholar whose research examines the intersections between law\, globalization and stratification from a critical feminist and global south perspective. Particularly\, across a range of sites and different levels of analysis\, their work interrogates how law and legal institutions create\, continue\, and counter different kinds of socio-economic inequalities.  \nScholarship from Professor Ballakrishnen’s research projects has appeared in\, among other journals\, Law and Society Review\, Law and Social Inquiry\, Fordham Law Review\, International Journal of the Legal Profession\, and the Journal of Professions and Organization. Their first book\, Accidental Feminism (Princeton University Press: 2021)\, unpacks the case of unintentional gender parity among India’s elite legal professionals; a second book Invisible Institutions (Hart Publishing: 2021\, ed. with Sara Dezalay) brings together cross-subjective perspectives on legal globalization; and a third book\, Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy (Zubaan Books\, with Kalpana Kannabiran) investigates the gendered legacies of India’s privacy jurisprudence. These strains of research have received a range of honors and awards\, including from the National Science Foundation\, the American Sociological Association\, and the Law and Society Association; and in 2022\, Ballakrishnen was awarded the campus-wide UCI Distinguished Early-Career Award for Research. You can read more about their research praxis and commitments here.  \nAlongside this scholarly output\, Professor Ballakrishnen’s research has been featured in a range of professional and popular media including Harvard Business Review\, Stanford News Report\, Above the Law\, Bloomberg Law\, Quartz\, Law School Transparency Radio\, The Practice\, New Books Network\, and WPR. They have presented research at over 100 conferences worldwide\, delivered over 50 invited talks in a range of academic and professional settings\, and their legal opinions on family and financial laws have been cited by the Probate and Family Court of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit respectively.  \nProfessor Ballakrishnen is committed to building and serving socio-legal communities\, especially ones that focus on critical questions concerning legal education and the profession. At UCI\, they co-run the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession\, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop\, and the Law\, Society\, and Culture Emphasis. In addition\, beyond UCI\, they are affiliated faculty at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession\, on the board of trustees of the Law and Society Association (LSA) and the ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Law\, a co-founder of the LSA Collaborative Research Network on Legal Education\, and on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession. In 2017-18\, they were the AccessLex Visiting Scholar on Legal Education at the American Bar Foundation. In 2020\, Professor Ballakrishnen was named a AALS Teacher of the Year.  \nFor over a decade before entering academia full-time\, Professor Ballakrishnen was a legal intern to Hon’ble Justice Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court of India\, an international banking associate in Mumbai\, and an external consultant for cross-border litigation financing in New York City.  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-swethaa-s-ballakrishnen/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:2024 November New Jersey Fellows Reception - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:Please join New Jersey Co-Chairs\, Lisa Rodriguez and Lynn Fontaine Newsome\, for a New Jersey Fellows Reception. \nJoin us for an evening of networking and celebration as we bring together the New Jersey ABF Fellows. Enjoy cocktails\, conversation\, and the opportunity to connect with old friends and new! \nWednesday\, November 20\, 2024\n6:00 pm – 8:00pm\n \nNew Jersey Law Center\nOne Constitution Square\nNew Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \n$115.00 per person \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-november-new-jersey-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:New Jersey Law Center\, One Constitution Square\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey\, 08901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:ABF Reception at the 2024 NAPABA Convention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free ABF Reception at the 2024 NAPABA Convention in Seattle\, WA! \nSaturday\, November 9\, 2024\n4:30pm – 5:30pm PT \nRoom 501 Chiwawa\nHyatt Regency Seattle\n808 Howell Street \nFeaturing remarks from Hon. Goodwin H. Liu\, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-reception-at-the-2024-napaba-convention/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:2024 November Connecticut Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Connecticut Fellows State Chair\, Andy I. Corea\, for a networking reception and presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Robert L. Nelson. \n“The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” \n6:00pm ET – Networking Reception \n6:30pm ET – Presentation \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-november-connecticut-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Murtha Cullina LLP\, 280 Trumbull Street\, Hartford\, Connecticut\, 06103
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ke Li
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on archival and ethnographic research\, this talk presents a case study of legal workers in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Empirically\, it marks the key moments in the PRC’s development of a legal services industry during the reform era. It does so by tracing how a particular group of law practitioners\, known as basic-level legal workers\, rose to prominence in the socialist era and then fell from favor in the new millennium. The fact that the PRC’s top decision-makers have struggled to transform the group of practitioners and that they have mishandled attempts to harness a burgeoning services industry testifies to the limits of authoritarian regimes—and especially the challenges in instrumentalizing law\, legal professions\, and judicial institutions. Theoretically speaking\, this case study foregrounds an understudied theme in the literature. True\, legality has become an integral part of autocrats’ ruling methodologies in many parts of the world. Their endeavors to deploy legal techniques and personnel to resolve emerging problems in ruling\, however\, do not always deliver. Thus\, it is crucial for researchers to heed—and explicate—when and why autocrats do not always get what they want.\n  \nTo read the related paper for Dr. Li’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nKe Li (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on law and society\, knowledge practices\, and gender politics in contemporary China. In a decade or so\, she has had articles published in the Law & Society Review\, Law & Policy\, and Sociological Forum. Her book\, Marriage Unbound: State Law\, Power\, and Inequality in Contemporary China\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2022.   \nDrawing on extensive archival and ethnographic data\, Marriage Unbound shows how women’s legal mobilization and rights contention can forge new ground for our understanding of law and politics\, as well as power and inequality\, in an authoritarian context. In 2023\, this book received several awards\, including Herbert Jacob Book Prize for the best book on law and society and Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics.  \nIn recent years\, she has branched out into new research areas. In one project\, she examines LGBTQ activism and impact litigation in Chinese society; and\, in a related project\, studies how state- and society-sponsored knowledge moves come to shape judicial decision-making\, respectively. Together\, these two inquiries\, she hopes\, will allow her to connect several adjacent research areas: law and society\, the sociology of knowledge\, and science and technology studies. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-ke-li/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Widening the Lens
DESCRIPTION:No registration is required for in-person attendance.\nPlease note\, this event is primarily in-person and open to all who are interested\, including students\, faculty\, practicing lawyers\, academics\, staff\, and others.\nIf you cannot make it to Cambridge/Harvard\, you can register to view the event via Zoom here.\n \nFriday\, October 18 and Saturday 19\, 2024\nHarvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession\, Milstein East Conference Center\, Wasserstein Hall\nIn a time when racial inclusion in US law schools is under debate and attack\, this conference poses fundamental\, empirically based challenges to law teaching. Many years ago\, New Legal Realism (NLR) co-founder David Wilkins critiqued the standard legal approach to “bleached-out professionalism” for Black lawyers. We draw from that work\, as well as from relevant social science research and theory\, from Critical Race Theory\, from research outside of mainstream Global North traditions\, and from other perspectives that shake up taken-for-granted “truths” undergirding traditional U.S. legal education. Furthermore\, conference participants will bring new paradigms developed within the legal academy to bear on assumptions that have guided traditional Western social science itself. In opening up this truly interdisciplinary space for conversation\, the conference will encourage the development of expansive research and teaching frameworks for the legal academy—frameworks containing possibilities for real change. \nNew Legal Realism (NLR) is a movement that began in the early 2000s\, aimed at producing and translating excellent empirical research on law and legal institutions for legal professionals. With deep roots in the law-and-society tradition\, NLR has worked to build bridges between social science and the legal academy and has always highlighted research on legal education. NLR scholars have published cutting-edge articles on how to integrate social science into legal training\, working between theory\, empirical research\, and the practices involved in law teaching. As those scholars have repeatedly demonstrated\, there are very important links between legal education and the ethical orientations of the legal profession. Those ethics depend importantly on perspectives that take the social reality of law seriously\, as well on inclusive visions for the profession as a whole in a democratic state. From its first conference in 2004\, NLR has engaged deeply with race\, gender\, and global approaches to law as foundational parts of research on law in books and law in action.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/widening-the-lens/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession\, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Conferences,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2024-26 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n  \nSino Esthappan: “The Institutionalization of Algorithmic Risk Assessments in US Pretrial Hearings”\nAcross fields\, organizations now increasingly adopt predictive algorithmic scoring systems to improve decision-making processes. Some studies find that these systems discipline workers by evaluating and directing their behaviors. Others show how\, rather than unwittingly abiding by algorithmic directives\, workers may appropriate these tools to accomplish specific goals and tasks. Yet the relational conditions under which actors follow or reject scores are not well understood\, and we know little about how organizational networks shape algorithmic decision-making practices in multiprofessional expert fields. In this presentation\, I will describe my dissertation project\, which examines how actors in the US criminal court policy field negotiate different kinds of expertise to institutionalize risk assessment tools in pretrial hearings. I will explain my plans to use archival records\, interviews\, observations\, and court transcripts to analyze how a wide multiprofessional field of national policy stakeholders and local criminal court officials makes sense of and justifies the use of varied risk assessment practices in pretrial hearings. I will conclude by discussing the implications of this research for criminal court policies and practices and scholarship on law\, organizations\, punishment\, and technology. \nSino Esthappan is an ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellow in Law & Social Science. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. \n____________________________________________________________ \nRobert Gelles: “Originalism in the Making: Language\, Knowledge Practice\, and Constitutionalism in the Conservative Judicial Audience”\nDespite significant successes in pursuing its agenda\, there remains dissent among the ranks of the Conservative Legal Movement (CLM). Intellectuals in the Movement have criticized the Supreme Court judgments that seem to achieve Conservatives’ political and legal priorities. One of their central criticisms is that the Court did not use the appropriate method of legal interpretation—it failed to abide by an Originalist Constitutional Theory. Recent social science scholarship has shown that intellectuals like these play a key role in CLM. As institution builders\, conveners\, teachers\, and authors\, Conservative legal scholars help to create and disseminate intellectual resources for litigation and judicial decisions\, train a group of attorneys to take up the cause\, and act as an audience for the judiciary and profession. At the heart of their activities is a discussion about the appropriate means of interpreting law\, often centered on an argument about the nature of language. Drawing from participant observation\, interviews with members of the Movement\, and publicly posted footage of major events\, I analyze the linguistic beliefs and behaviors by which these scholars perform their roles. By taking a semiotic approach\, I aim to show how their linguistic beliefs and knowledge practices play a key role in shaping their particular and influential legal consciousness\, as well as shaping their responses to ongoing legal action. Doing so\, I suggest\, offers an opportunity to re-conceptualize a defining feature of constitutionalism: the relationship between law and politics. \nRobert Gelles is an ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellow in Law & Social Science. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago.  \n_________________________________________________________________ \nKyneshawau Hurd: “3D of Racial Justice: Diversity\, Dominance & Discrimination. Implicit Social Dominance & The Diversity Principle-Policy Gap”\nThis work delves into the discord between the widely professed commitment to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI) in the United States and the persistent maintenance of racial hierarchies\, a phenomenon described as the principle-policy gap. Challenging traditional notions of discrimination that link it solely to overt racism or covert prejudice\, this study posits that the drive for hierarchy (or preservation of caste) is a subtler and perhaps more foundational force perpetuating racial inequalities. Further\, this works argues that this hierarchy-preservation motivation may be especially important for understanding persistent inequality in outwardly egalitarian\, pro-diversity\, and racially positive contexts.\nThus\, through a socio-psychological perspective\, the research spotlights “implicit social dominance orientation” (ISDO)—an unconscious preference for hierarchical structuring of social groups—as a significant factor contributing to this gap. Across several studies\, this work investigates the nuanced relationship between explicit and implicit social dominance orientations (SDO and ISDO\, respectively) and their impact on support for racial diversity and justice policies. Drawing from Social Dominance Theory and recent advancements in implicit cognition\, I develop a measure of ISDO and create four “Dominance Profiles”—a typology of group-based dominance motivations with implicit and explicit dimensions—to examine decision-making of those who explicitly disavow social dominance but implicitly endorse it.\nThis work further suggests that that diversity ideology\, particularly when framed instrumentally\, appeals to implicit dominance motivations and helps explain the principle-policy gap observed among egalitarians. We find evidence for the existence of ISDO and its influence on the decision-making of self-professed egalitarians. Those with higher levels of implicit social dominance (but not necessarily higher levels of racial antipathy) endorse policies that undermine racial justice efforts compared to True Egalitarians. Specifically\, policy support of Implicit Dominants\, those who explicitly endorse diversity and egalitarianism but implicit support hierarchy\, is driven by perceptions of dominant-group benefit.\nOur research highlights the importance of considering both implicit motivations and dominance motivations in understanding decision-making and behavior\, particularly among self-identified egalitarians. These findings contribute to the broader discourse on diversity to advance a 3D framework for understanding racial inequality. This framework seeks to better account for Discrimination and the ways Diversity and Dominance contribute to contemporary manifestations of it that current legal frameworks may not appreciate.\n\n\nKyneshawau Hurd is the ABF Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality. She is a social psychologist and psychology and law scholar studying the intersections of diversity\, dominance and discrimination. \n\n\nTo read the related paper for Dr. Hurd’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2024-26-doctoral-and-postdoctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows ABA President-Elect Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease join the New York Fellows in celebrating the ABA President-Elect\, Michelle Behnke. \nMichelle Behnke\, a practitioner for over 35 years\, officially joined Boardman Clark\, one of Madison’s largest and longest-standing law firms\, this month. She will focus on the areas of business\, commercial real estate and estate planning. \nBehnke has a long history of service with the ABA. She previously served as ABA treasurer from 2017-2020 and was recently chair of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. She is currently a member of the ABA’s Strategic Planning Committee and is Wisconsin state chair for the Membership Committee. She has been a member of the ABA Board of Governors and House of Delegates and formerly served as chair of the Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services. \nMichelle is a proud Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  \n6:00-7:30 PM ET \nDrinks and appetizers to be served. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-aba-president-elect-reception-3/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Yuan Yuan
DESCRIPTION:When soldiers fight justly in a just war waged by their state\, they may nonetheless kill or maim innocent civilians unexpectedly or in terms of expected collateral damage in overall justified assaults. Such incidents often inflict severe moral injuries on those soldiers in the form of immense guilt\, shame\, and remorse\, which Yuan Yuan calls “the moral injuries of soldiering.” \nThese injuries appear to have a fatalistic flavor\, representing a wound at the heart of soldiering itself as they haunt soldiers even though they have done the right thing in light of the morality of soldiering. In this paper\, Yuan contends that soldiers do not kill in their personal capacity when they fight justly in a just war initiated by their state. Instead\, they kill on behalf of and in the name of the people. While their state—representing the citizenry—wronged the innocent war victims\, the soldiers carrying out the killings did not wrong them\, thanks to the exclusionary power of the rules of engagement. While the soldiers share the responsibility for the killings as citizens of the warring state\, their responsibility is no more and no less than that of any other citizen. Only if the citizenry takes up the moral responsibilities for the unavoidable killings of innocents in a just war\, through public apology\, collective mourning\, and fair compensation\, can soldiers be liberated from the crushing emotional burdens of harming the victims. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nYuan Yuan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, San Diego. Prior to this appointment\, she was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NYU Shanghai. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 2020. Her primary areas of research are ethics\, political philosophy\, and philosophy of law\, with an emphasis on the interface between them.   \nShe is currently working on a series of papers on just war theory\, which defends the core principles of the international laws of war by illustrating how political relations transform interpersonal morality in politically oriented or mediated warfare. She also has a secondary research interest in experimental philosophy\, employing empirical methods to explore patterns in ordinary people’s philosophical intuitions.  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-yuan-yuan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:2024 September Colorado Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Stephen A. Bain and Joi G. Kush\, State Chairs of the ABF Colorado Fellows\, for a complimentary networking reception and presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Anna Reosti. \n \nThursday\, September 26\, 2024 \n5:30 PM MDT – Reception \n6:00 PM MDT – Presentation \nSturm College of Law – University of Denver\n2255 E. Evans Avenue\nRicketson Law Building\, Room 412\nDenver\, Colorado 80208 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event host:\nUniversity of Denver Sturm College of Law
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-september-colorado-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Sturm College of Law\, 2255 E. Evans Avenue\, Denver\, CO\, 80210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2024-26 Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nJoshua Aiken: “The Public’s Safety: Gun Control\, Career Criminals\, and the Statutory Revolution in Arms (1961-1995)”\nThis talk examines the relationship between notions of public safety\, new firearms regulations\, and mass criminalization in the United States from 1961-1995. Synthesizing four case studies\, I argue that the racialization of space\, pathologizing of crime\, and development of a new “gun rights” agenda shaped how Americans experienced an increasingly armed society. Based on archival research\, I attend to how legal frameworks\, political approaches\, and influential actions of everyday people can index historical changes over time. First\, I consider the drafting of the Gun Control Act of 1968\, the first major federal firearms regulation since the 1930s. Second\, I examine a network of armed black resistance\, namely through the actions of the original Black Panther Party\, that revealed the racial state’s role in structuring public space\, defining who constitutes the public\, and determining what it means to be safe. Third\, I explore how a failed constitutional challenge of Washington D.C.’s 1975 firearm regulation law\, led key figures in the “gun rights” movement to a statutes-first approach. Fourth\, I foreground a suite of federal laws passed from 1984-1986—including the Armed Career Criminal Act—that criminalized people and pathologized blackness. By the 1990s\, gun rights ideologues successfully used these laws to advance their distinct agenda through conventional legal arguments\, favorable federal courts and bipartisan responses to “violent crime.” In conclusion\, I consider how these events might challenge prevailing narratives regarding the relationship between race\, gun laws\, and American social life. \nJoshua Aiken is the ABF Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality. He is currently a J.D./Ph.D. Candidate at Yale University (History and African American Studies).  \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nEwurama Okai: “In Search of Equal Protection Futures: How Imagined Futures Shape Racial Justice Litigation in the Progressive Legal Movement”\nUnderstanding what makes legal movements successful has long been a focus of social-scientific study. Existing literature identifies factors such as the available legal ‘stock\,’ framing of social wrongs\, resource access\, and movement coherence. Recently\, scholarship on constitutional change and conservative legal movements has highlighted an important yet underexplored factor: imagined futures. While scholars acknowledge that these futures shape legal landscapes\, they often limit their analysis to predefined scenarios or trace current conditions back to pre-determined visions. This approach leaves a gap in understanding how legal movements actively construct\, interpret\, and legitimize these imagined futures\, particularly in adverse litigation contexts. Ewurama Okai’s research addresses this gap by investigating how imagined futures influence litigation within the progressive legal movement\, focusing on racial justice issues brought under the equal protection clause. Through in-depth interviews with civil rights lawyers and qualitative content analysis of legal scholarship\, Okai examines the doctrinal and interpretive possibilities envisioned for the equal protection clause. Her work aims to illuminate how imagined futures serve as a mechanism in shaping legal movements\, influenced by legal education and scholarship\, and how they reflect the progressive movement’s potential to advance racial justice. \nEwurama Okai is the ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellow in Legal & Higher Education. She is a J.D./Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University (Sociology). 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2024-26-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240918T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240708T202100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240805T173338Z
UID:10310-1726660800-1726666200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kasey Henricks
DESCRIPTION:“Chicago on the Take” is a case study that focuses on parking tickets that are written under false pretenses. It leverages multiple data sets against one another to demonstrate that more than one in eight tickets over a six-year span were written under conditions when restrictions did not apply. These findings within a multilevel framework to answer three questions: (1) Are errored tickets more likely to be issued in neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black or Latinx residents? (2) Are errored tickets more likely to be issued by patrol officers as opposed to parking enforcement officers? and (3) Does ethnoracial composition moderate the relationship between ticketing authorities and errored tickets? The implications of our findings (1) quantitatively trouble the ontological assumptions of data that are defined from a policing standpoint and (2) underscore an adjudicative process that routinely sanctions drivers without cause.\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nKasey Henricks (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law\, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He likes to pursue big questions through small things. Looking at often overlooked objects of the everyday\, from parking citations to lottery tickets\, Kasey’s research agenda uncovers how race and class inequalities are reproduced over time through reconfigurations of public finance under late capitalism. More specifically\, he has a publication record that follows a two-fold examination of 1) how seemingly face-neutral modes of raising revenue yield disparate consequences in who pays for social services and 2) the ways in which raced and classed antagonisms ideologically shape\, and become shaped by\, conflicts over state finance. His work documents various predatory developments in private-public “partnerships\,” alongside the erosion of a social safety net\, through the emergence of piecemeal revenue systems during the past half-century\, showing how raced and classed dynamics are implicated in a transformation of state finance that has become increasingly regressive and upwardly redistributive to capital interests across the globe.  \nAlthough Kasey never earned a high school diploma\, he completed a PhD with distinction in the discipline of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University and an associate’s from Chattanooga State Technical Community College. Prior to arriving at UIC\, he was a faculty member of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an affiliate scholar at the Appalachian Justice Research Center. He has held fellowships at the American Bar Foundation\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime\, Security\, and Law\, KWI Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities\, and UIC’s Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy\, and his research has been supported by funders like the National Science Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, and Chicago Community Trust. Some of his work has been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association\, Society for the Study of Social Problems\, Association of Black Sociologists\, Association for Humanist Sociology\, Southern Sociological Society\, Eastern Sociological Society\, and Southwestern Sociological Association. He is also a former doctoral fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kasey-henricks/
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:20240911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240911T200000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240730T222547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T184111Z
UID:10489-1726077600-1726084800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 September San Diego Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join California State Co-Chair\, Anna Romanskaya for a dinner and presentation by 9th Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown in conjunction with the ABA Business Law Section Meeting. \n“Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas” \nWednesday\, September 11\, 2024 \nEddie V’s Prime Seafood\n789 W. Harbor Drive\, Suite 158\nSan Diego\, CA 92101 \n6:00 PM PT – Cocktail Reception \n6:30 PM PT – Dinner and Program \n$135 per Person – Guests are Welcome \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Silver Sponsor: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-september-san-diego-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240911T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240911T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240708T200454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T163345Z
UID:10303-1726056000-1726061400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Troutt
DESCRIPTION:Urban renewal\, a mid-century federal-local redevelopment program that transformed American cities and displaced millions of Black migrants from the South\, was a race-conscious government policy responsible for the enduring suppression of Black wealth. Its racial history and character are untold in legal scholarship. This article argues that the 25-year regime enacted in the Housing Act of 1949 was a response to the Great Migration of Black workers and families to northern\, midwestern\, and western cities. It was codified to interact with other segregation policies\, such as highway construction\, restrictive covenants\, redlining\, and public housing\, through the colorblind veneer of rational planning principles. Race planning created durable conditions of “racial bargaining\,” the discounted value of wealth-producing transactions in segregated Black communities. Since its mid-century enactment\, urban renewal federalized a race-conscious segregation policy that eluded civil rights remedies and framed contemporary urban development programs. The article shows how this framework sustained the racial wealth gap at the core of this country’s continuing struggle with structural inequality. \nReframing requires reckoning. The article presents\, for the first time\, the case for restorative remedies to Black descendants of the U.S. urban renewal program. Offering an architecture of accountability for race-conscious wrongs\, the article conceptualizes three buckets of contemporaneous\, future\, and cumulative harms\, an analysis of government wrongfulness\, and illustrative restorative programs. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n_____________________________________________________________________ \nDavid Dante Troutt (he/him) is professor of law (Justice John J. Francis Scholar) and the founding director of the Rutgers Center on Law\, Inequality\, and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). He teaches and writes in four areas of primary interest: the metropolitan dimensions of race\, class and legal structure; intellectual property; Torts; and critical legal theory. His major publications (noted below) include books of fiction and non-fiction\, scholarly articles and a variety of legal and political commentary on race\, law and equality. A member of the faculty since 1995 after practicing corporate and public interest law in New York and California\, Troutt founded CLiME in 2013 in order to provide a research resource for students and the public interested in the growing challenges of municipalities and families trying to sustain middle-class outcomes amid growing fiscal constraints and rapid demographic change.  \nSeveral themes characterize Troutt’s work. A key feature of his writing and teaching about the intersections of race\, class and place concerns identifying blind spots in conventional analyses of spatially determined opportunity through structuralist and interdisciplinary analysis. This work involves inquiries about meanings of colorblindness\, the role of inequity in persistent marginalization\, and the utility of civil rights theories in addressing concentrated poverty. Troutt is conducting ongoing research on developing the principle of mutuality in public law. Key themes in Troutt’s writing about intellectual property include personhood and authorship in copyright and trademark. Key aspects of his work in critical theory include the uses of narrative methodology\, cultural constructions of marginalization and the dynamic life of stereotypes.  \nProfessor Troutt is a frequent public speaker and contributor to a variety of national periodicals\, including Politico\, Huffington Post\, Reuters and The Crisis. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his juris doctor from Harvard Law School. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-david-troutt/
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:20240910T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240730T220854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T162654Z
UID:10482-1725971400-1725975000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 September New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Elizabeth Mertz. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“From Deficit to Democracy Models in US Legal Education: The After Tenure Study” \nThe “After Tenure” study of law professors is examining the attitudes of the professors who shape students to be legal professionals. To our knowledge\, this is to date the only national\, random sample survey of law professors\, augmented by in-depth interviews with 100 of the survey respondents. We find a sharp division between law professors who focus on hierarchical models\, on the one hand\, and those who prioritize creating open educational settings and encourage diversity among students and faculty. Like research on bar exams and entry to the profession generally\, the After Tenure Study suggests a potential mismatch between the legal profession’s stated goals and practices.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/10482/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T130000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240730T221722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T152231Z
UID:10485-1725535800-1725541200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 September California Hybrid Lunch Event (Bay Area)
DESCRIPTION:Please join the California State Co-Chair\, Roger A. Royse\, Esq. for a complimentary hybrid presentation and lunch by ABF Research Professor\, Laura Beth Nielsen. \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. \n11:30 am PT– Networking Lunch\n12:00 pm PT– Hybrid Presentation \n*In-person will be limited to 18 guests; we will create a waitlist once we reach capacity. \n  \nGenerously hosted and sponsored by:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-september-california-hybrid-lunch-event-bay-area/
LOCATION:Haynes & Boone\, 1 Post Street\, Suite 2800\, San Francisco\, California\, 94104
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240731T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240804T210000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240611T174930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T172155Z
UID:10052-1722438000-1722805200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:ABF Fellows Registration Hours: \nHyatt Regency Hotel Chicago – 151 E. Wacker Drive \nPlease stop by the Fellows registration desk to pick up your tickets\, complimentary Fellows ribbons\, and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\nWednesday\, July 31: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, August 1: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, August 2: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSaturday\, August 3: 7:00 am – 5:30 pm\nSunday\, August 4: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm\n\nFriday\, August 2\nFellows CLE Program – “Challenges to Democracy in 2024″ (8:30 AM – 10:00 AM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ABA-Fellows-CLE-Research-Seminar-8.2.2024-Main-Record.mp3\n  \nHyatt Regency Chicago\nPlaza B\n \nRegistration not required to attend event \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nResearchers and practitioners will present work in progress related to different challenges to administering and voting in US elections in 2024. Topics include threats to election administrators and candidates\, the spread of misinformation\, and barriers to participation. \nModerated By: \nTraci Burch — ABF Research Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University \nPanelists: \nRay Block\, Jr. – Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies\, The Pennsylvania State University \nAlexandra Filindra – Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology\, University of Illinois Chicago \nBrandon Jones — Director of Political Campaigns\, Southern Poverty Law Center and SPLC Action Fund \nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nChicago Architecture Center\n111 E. Wacker Drive  \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 19\, 2024 \nLocated just next-door to the headquarters hotel\, the Chicago Architecture Center is the leading organization devoted to celebrating and promoting Chicago as a center of architectural innovation. The Fellows invite you to mingle with friends\, enjoy refreshments\, and explore the interactive exhibits\, including a special gallery dedicated to Chicago architecture. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Bronze Sponsor: \n \nSaturday\, August 3\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (7:30 AM – 9:30 AM)\nHyatt Regency Chicago\nCrystal Ballroom C (West Tower\, Lobby Level)\n \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 19\, 2024 \nJoin us for breakfast and keynote remarks from Jarrett Adams\, author of the book\, “Redeeming Justice\,” his memoir about his harrowing journey through the inner workings of the legal and prison systems and the triumph that follows as an exoneree and passionate\, committed lawyer that he is today. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Silver Sponsor: \n \n  \nSunday\, August 4\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – ??)\nHyatt Regency Chicago\nCrystal Ballroom A (West Tower\, Lobby Level)\n \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-2024-aba-annual-meeting-in-chicago/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago\, 151 E. Wacker Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60601
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240715T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240715T183000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240710T223201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240712T152658Z
UID:10349-1721062800-1721068200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:ABF Fellows Reception at the 2024 National Bar Association Annual Convention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free ABF Fellows Reception at the 2024 National Bar Association Annual Convention! \nMonday\, July 15 \n5:00 – 6:30pm \nPisa Room\, Promenade Level\, 3rd Floor\nCaesars Palace Las Vegas \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-fellows-reception-at-the-2024-national-bar-association-annual-convention/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T130000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240517T164732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T212751Z
UID:9939-1720697400-1720702800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 July Illinois Fellows Hybrid Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Michael J. Hernandez\, Chair of the ABF Illinois Fellows\, invites you to participate in a complimentary Illinois Lunch and Presentation by ABF Executive Director and Research Professor\, Mark Suchman. \nThursday\, July 11\, 2024 \n11:30 AM CT – Networking Lunch \n12:00 PM CT – Presentation \nLocation:\nFranczek P.C.\n300 South Wacker\, Suite 3400\nChicago\, Il 60606 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor: \n \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-july-illinois-fellows-lunch/
LOCATION:Office of Franczek P.C.\, Chicago\, IL\, 300 S. Wacker Drive\, Suite 3400\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240710T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240710T090000
DTSTAMP:20250424T025007
CREATED:20240517T160949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T212359Z
UID:9937-1720596600-1720602000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 July Oklahoma Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Join ABF Board President and Interim State Chair of the ABF Oklahoma Fellows\, Jimmy K. Goodman\, at an Oklahoma Fellows Breakfast at the Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting. \nJoin us for a morning of networking and a presentation by Oklahoma Attorney General\, Gentner Drummond\, Life Fellow. \nWednesday\, July 10\, 2024 \n7:30 am – 9:00 am \n$30 per person \nEmbassy Suites by Hilton Norman\n2501 Conference Drive\nNorman\, OK 73069 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-july-oklahoma-fellows-breakfast/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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