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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Atinuke Adediran
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, when it was economically beneficial to do so\, companies proclaimed the importance of equity and diversity. But as Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran shows in her book DISCLOSURELAND: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress (Cambridge University Press\, January 2026)\, five years later and with Trump back in office\, those recent promises have significantly softened or been eliminated altogether. Adediran examines why this type of lip service surged\, why the commitments crumbled\, and what their unraveling means for shareholders\, employees\, customers and for the future of racial fairness in the corporate world.  \nAnalyzing data from more than 2\,000 companies—including Amazon and Walmart\, the two largest corporate employers in the world—Adediran explores the issue from three angles. First\, she illustrates how business pledges are opportunistic when they’re not grounded in historical facts about past corporate inequality. Second\, she reveals how companies use public statements to deflect accusations of racial inequality in their businesses. And third\, she highlights how under the Trump administration\, many companies choose one of two paths: softening their progressive language or scrubbing race from their messaging entirely. All of these approaches reflect the same calculation: how to protect their reputation with politicians\, shareholders\, customers\, and employees today\, while hedging against financial and reputational risks down the road. Nowhere in this equation are genuine concerns about how race intersects with their business practices and the lives of the employees and customers they depend on. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nProfessor Atinuke Adediran uses empirical sociological methods to study the relationship between business\, law\, and society. Her work spans a range of ideas with reputational\, financial\, social\, and political consequences for the private sector and society\, including environmental and social issues\, stakeholder welfare\, diversity and inclusion\, race relations\, philanthropy\, corporate social responsibility\, and pro bono legal services. \nIn addition to Disclosureland\, she has published articles and essays in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals\, including the California Law Review\, Columbia Law Review\, Law and Social Inquiry\, Northwestern Law Review\, Virginia Law Review\, and UCLA Law Review. Her work has also been featured in popular outlets like Agenda (Financial Times)\, Bloomberg Law\, Fortune\, and The Wall Street Journal. \nProfessor Adediran’s work has won many awards\, including from the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, the Ford Foundation\, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2023\, she received the university-wide Distinguished Research Award for Interdisciplinary Studies at Fordham University. \nBefore joining Fordham\, Professor Adediran was the David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor of Business Law at Boston College Law School\, and an Earl B. Dickerson Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago. Prior to entering academia\, she was an Associate in the New York office of Cadwalader\, Wickersham & Taft LLP\, where she represented clients in complex commercial business disputes with a focus on securities litigation and maintained active pro bono practice. \nProfessor Adediran holds Ph.D. and MA degrees in Sociology from Northwestern University and received her JD degree from Columbia Law School.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-atinuke-adediran/
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:20260219T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T200000
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SUMMARY:2026 February Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Kari Petrasek and the Hon. Dean Lum\, Co-Chairs of the ABF Washington Fellows\, for a Washington Fellows Dinner featuring a presentation by ABF Research Professor Christopher W. Schmidt. \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\nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsors: \nGold Sponsor \n \nBronze Sponsors
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-february-washington-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T123000
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SUMMARY:2026 February New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Alana Ackerman\, ABF Research Professor. \n“Crip Images Against the Disabling of Asylum: Lessons from Two Protests at the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois”\nIn this presentation\, Professor Ackerman will reflect on preliminary research she has begun related to the “disabling of asylum” by the current US administration. The presentation will focus on a set of photographs and videos recorded during two protests in Fall 2025 outside of Broadview Detention Center in Illinois. These recordings were taken in the context of “Operation Midway Blitz\,” an ongoing militarized attack by the US government against migrant\, refugee\, and related racialized communities in the Chicago area\, part of a broader project of white nationalism and a “thickening” borderlands condition (Rosas 2006). These recordings are “crip” in that they center disability and disablement\, and they challenge the status quo of state power. Professor Ackerman will argue that crip images\, and crip protesting\, represent one way to witness and confront contemporary state violence.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2026-february-new-york-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T133000
DTSTAMP:20260217T222754Z
CREATED:20260114T191333Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jill Horwitz
DESCRIPTION:Recent crises—the pandemic\, natural disasters\, and political targeting—have caused enormous suffering\, sparing no one\, including charities. Even over the past few years\, they have faced extreme revenue losses\, leading to reductions in programming that advance their purposes\, staff layoffs\, and bankruptcy. Amid these crises\, a lot of money has sat in endowments. It has been largely unavailable to alleviate harms to charities\, their beneficiaries\, employees\, and their purposes. During the pandemic\, for example\, regulators across the country reminded charities that legal constraints on the use of endowment funds still applied\, including restrictions mandating that assets be held for investment\, as well as other specific spending restrictions. Charities must observe restrictions on charitable assets\, even during a crisis. \nDo these rather inflexible restrictions make sense? Using the pandemic and other recent crises as examples\, this article examines the question and\, largely\, answers it in the affirmative. In doing so\, it engages decades of scholarly debate on the justification for adhering to restrictions in general\, with particular attention to endowment restrictions\, and uses the most recent crises as a stress test of the law. It considers the wisdom of changing rules during crises more generally. In a discussion of the legal concept of waste\, it concludes that\, possibly excepting the most extreme cases\, both practical evidence and theory point towards maintaining restrictions. It re-examines traditional arguments for allowing donors to restrict the use of donations as applied in the context of emergencies. \nThe article concludes that the arguments for granting charities unilateral ability to release restrictions\, even during a crisis\, are largely wanting. Existing law almost always provides sufficient tools for charities to respond to needs\, even to crises. Understanding that the goal of charities law is to protect specified charitable purposes rather than particular charities\, the case for upholding restrictions becomes even stronger. Nevertheless\, there are exceptions. The article suggests that the Trump administration’s targeting of some charities\, particularly universities\, may well be one of them. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nJill Horwitz previously served as the David Sanders Professor in Law and Medicine at UCLA School of Law and Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She was the Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life at UCLA School of Law for the academic years 2019-2021. Professor Horwitz holds appointments as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria Department of Economics in British Columbia\, Canada. Prior to joining UCLA in 2012\, she was on the law faculty at the University of Michigan\, where she was the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law and Co-Director of Law and Economics. She also held joint appointments at Michigan with the School of Public Health and the Ford School of Public Policy.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jill-horwitz/
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:20260211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260211T133000
DTSTAMP:20260209T234952Z
CREATED:20251219T184222Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: katrina quisumbing king
DESCRIPTION:In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands\, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later\, in 1946\, Philippine independence was recognized by the United States\, even as it continued to exert influence over the domestic and foreign affairs of the newly decolonized Republic. Despite some differences\, U.S. control remained racial and imperial. In this talk\, I show how U.S. federal state actors translated their ideas of race into state structures. Through innovating constitutional law\, bureaucratic administration\, and legislation\, state actors built a durable and flexible system of racial-imperial rule that not only lasted beyond the period of formal empire but continues to this day. I trace debates among U.S.  presidents\, federal legislators\, administrators\, and court justices about what kind of state the United States should be\, the place of nonwhite people in the polity\, and the best way to maintain U.S. white hegemony. in charting how state actors’ positions—some nativist\, isolationist\, and protectionist and others expansionist\, interventionist\, and imperialist—evolved\, I identify key moments when they cemented racial ideas into law and reshaped the terms of U.S. racial-imperial formation.  \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nkatrina quisumbing king studies racial classification and exclusion from a historical perspective that foregrounds the state’s authority to manage populations. She is particularly interested in the ways state actors conceive of and make decisions around race and citizenship. Her research recenters empire as a key political formation. In the U.S. context\, she focuses especially on how the state defines colonized populations and how these people fit into the U.S. racial order.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-katrina-quisumbing-king/
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:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260105T211534Z
CREATED:20251219T184050Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Reuben Jonathan Miller
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nReuben Jonathan Miller (he/him) is an ABF Research Professor and an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work\, Policy\, and Practice and in the Department of Race\, Diaspora and Indigeneity. In 2022\, he was named a MacArthur Fellow for his work tracing the long-term consequences that incarceration and reentry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-reuben-j-miller/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTSTAMP:20260210T165449Z
CREATED:20251210T165832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T165449Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2026 Midyear Meeting in San Antonio
DESCRIPTION:A $30 registration fee is required and helps cover administrative costs associated with the Midyear Meeting \nEarly registration: Tickets are discounted through January 16 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours:\nGrand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk\n600 E. Market Street \n3:00PM – 5:30 PM (Wednesday\, February 4) \n7:30AM – 5:00PM (Thursday\, February 5 – Friday\, February 6) \n7:30 AM-5:00 PM (Saturday\, February 7) \n8:00 AM-2:00 PM (Sunday\, February 8) \nFriday\, February 6\nFellows CLE Program \n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\nHenry B. González Convention Center\n900 E. Market Street \n“The Supreme Court and the Second Trump Administration”\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) \nThis program will examine the Supreme Court’s performance at the one-year mark of President Trump’s second term. The conversation will explore initial concerns regarding potential executive branch resistance to Court rulings and how those concerns have evolved. We will also consider the Court’s use of its “shadow docket\,” as well as several significant cases already before the Court\, including matters involving tariffs and the President’s removal of the heads of independent agencies. \nThis program will be moderated by Mario Barnes\, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Center on Law\, Equality and Race Director at UC Irvine School of Law\, and feature a panel discussion with: \n\nChristopher W. Schmidt – American Bar Foundation Research Professor\, Professor of Law\, Co-Director of the Institute on the U.S. Supreme Court\, Chicago-Kent College of Law\nPaul M. Smith – Senior Advisor\, Campaign Legal Center\n\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CLE-Audio-2026.mp3\n\n70th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet\n6:00 PM – 10:00 PM\nMission Concepción (807 Mission Road)\nRound Trip Shuttle from Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk \nFor information on table sponsorships or tribute advertisements in honor of our Award Winners\, please contact Julia Dombrowski at jdombrowski@abfn.org or 312-988-6547. \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. \nOutstanding Service Award: William C. Hubbard \nOutstanding Scholar Award: Rachel F. Moran \nOutstanding State Chair Award: Stephen A. Bain and Joi G. Kush\, Colorado State Chairs \nFeaturing keynote remarks from Innocence Project exoneree and author of\n“The Jailhouse Lawyer\,” Calvin Duncan\, Founder and Director of Light of Justice and Orleans Parish Criminal Clerk of Court\nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Awards Banquet Gold Sponsor \n \nand Awards Banquet Silver Sponsors \n \n \nand Awards Banquet Bronze Sponsor \n \n  \nSaturday\, February 7\nFellows Tour: Go Rio San Antonio River Cruise – SOLD OUT\nIf you would like to be added to the waitlist\, please email jdombrowski@abfn.org\n9:45 AM – 11:00 AM\nThis narrated cruise takes you on an enchanting journey through San Antonio’s rich history\, from La Villita\, the city’s first neighborhood past the Old Mill Crossing where Teddy Roosevelt led his Rough Riders. You’ll learn about the city’s architecture and points of interest such as Selena’s Bridge and The Briscoe Western Art Museum\, as well as fascinating facts about the city’s history. For instance\, did you know that the Hyatt Regency Hotel was designed so its height would not cast a shadow on the Alamo in the setting sun? Come along on the Fellows Tour to learn more about our host city! \nFellows Reception\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\nBoudro’s Texas Bistro on the Riverwalk (421 E. Commerce) \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends\, and fun on the iconic San Antonio Riverwalk. Guests will be greeted with margaritas and enjoy a menu featuring South Texas flavors while enjoying views overlooking the heart of the city’s most popular destination. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Fellows Reception Silver Sponsors \n \n \n \nSunday\, February 8\nFellows Sing-Along\n9:00 PM – 11:30 PM\nGrand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk  \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring a friend and enjoy this lively Fellows tradition. Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Sing-Along Event Sponsor \nJo Ann Engelhardt\, Benefactor Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2026-midyear-meeting-in-san-antonio/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260128T130000
DTSTAMP:20260127T223113Z
CREATED:20251219T183955Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Stephanie Holmes Didwania
DESCRIPTION:Asset forfeiture laws allow law enforcement agencies to permanently take property that is thought to be connected to criminal activity. Every year\, federal and state governments acquire billions of dollars’ worth of property (such as cash\, electronics\, homes\, and vehicles) through asset fofeiture\, and often use this money and property to fund law enforcement activities. The Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment prevents the government from conducting an asset forfeiture that is grossly disproportional to the gravity of the defendant’s offense. However\, little case law clarifies what it means for a forfeiture to be excessive enough to violate the Eighth Amendment\, and\, in practice forfeitures are virtually never overturned on Eighth Amendment grounds. \nThis Article provides the first evidence of how ordinary people view the fairness of asset forfeiture across a variety of hypothetical scenarios motivated by real-life forfeiture practice. We find that the public’s perceptions of forfeiture converge in some ways and diverge in others from the approaches taken by law enforcement agencies and courts in conducting and evaluating asset forfeiture. We conclude by offering both concrete and broad guidance for courts\, advocates\, law enforcement agencies\, and property owners. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nStephanie Holmes Didwania writes and teaches about criminal law and criminal procedure. Her scholarship uses empirical methods to study the criminal legal system. She is primarily interested in understanding how prosecutors exercise discretion in criminal cases and in federal pretrial detention. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Law and Economics Review\, the Journal of Law and Economics\, and the Journal of Legal Studies\, as well as in student-edited law journals such as the Northwestern University Law Review\, the Southern California Law Review\, and the Stanford Law Review.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-stephanie-holmes-didwania/
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:20260121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260120T224640Z
CREATED:20251219T183832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T224640Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jessica Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:This talk draws from Greenberg’s recent ethnographic monograph: Justice in the Balance: Democracy\, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights. Greenberg will discuss the practices\, ideologies and normative frameworks that define the rule of law\, and whether and how these can weather a moment of profound crisis in Europe and beyond.  \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nJessica Greenberg is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Her first book\, After the Revolution: Youth\, Democracy\, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford University Press 2014) analyzes the temporal and affective experience of democracy in the shift from popular resistance to political institutionalization. Her most recent book\, Justice in the Balance: Democracy\, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights (Stanford 2025) asks why and how people channel visions of social change and justice through international legal institutions. In 2017\, Greenberg earned a Masters in Law as a University of Illinois Fellow for Study in a Second Discipline. She has served as co-editor of the Political and Legal anthropology review (PoLAR)\, and is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including two Fulbright Fellowships\, and an NSF in Law and Science.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jessica-greenberg/
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:20260114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260105T200733Z
CREATED:20251219T183012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T200733Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bryant Garth
DESCRIPTION:We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series\, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities\, directions\, obstacles\, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nBryant Garth (he/him) is an Affiliated Research Professor and the ABF’s Interim Executive Director\, beginning September 2\, 2025. He is a Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at University of California\, Irvine School of Law\, where he codirects the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession. He also served as University of California\, Irvine School of Law’s Interim Dean for the 2021–22 academic year. Previously\, Garth served as Interim Executive Director of the ABF from 2022 to 2023\, Dean of Southwestern Law School from 2005 to 2012\, Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation from 1990 to 2004\, and Dean of the Indiana University Bloomington School of Law from 1986 to 1990.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-bryant-garth/
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:20251213T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251213T130000
DTSTAMP:20251208T203450Z
CREATED:20251030T202134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T203450Z
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SUMMARY:2025 December Mississippi Fellows Lunch and Presentation - Postponed!
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event is being postponed until after the holiday season.  \nPlease join Robert E. Hauberg\, Jr.\, Esq.\, Chair of the ABF Mississippi Fellows\, for a Mississippi Fellows lunch featuring Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald (Ret.) \nFriday\, December 12\, 2025\n11:30 AM CT\n\nThe Inn at Ole Miss\n120 Alumni Drive\nOxford\, MS \n$45 per Person\nGuests Welcome
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-december-mississippi-fellows-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T133000
DTSTAMP:20251201T070238Z
CREATED:20251006T210549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T070238Z
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SUMMARY:2025 December New York Fellows Lunch and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a networking lunch and presentation with Jeh Johnson. \nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 \n12:00 pm – Lunch \n12:30 pm – Presentation \nLocation:\nWachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\n51 W. 52nd Street\nNew York\, NY \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-december-new-york-fellows-lunch-and-presentation/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251203T133000
DTSTAMP:20251022T153954Z
CREATED:20250618T150655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T153954Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jose Atiles
DESCRIPTION:Crisis by Design offers an interdisciplinary sociolegal analysis of the role of law\, emergency powers\, and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico’s ongoing multilayered crisis. From the 2006 public debt crisis and the government’s bankruptcy in 2016 to the devastation of Hurricanes Irma\, María\, and Fiona\, the 2020 earthquakes\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, and the anticorruption uprisings of 2019\, Puerto Rico’s recent history has been shaped by overlapping crises that have deepened inequality and citizen vulnerability. Rather than viewing these crises as isolated events\, this talk argues that they are integral to the legal structure of colonialism\, which actively produces and sustains disaster conditions. \nDrawing on eight years of qualitative research—including ethnography\, semi-structured interviews\, archival analysis\, and policy review—Crisis by Design examines the legal and political mechanisms that manufacture and manage crisis in Puerto Rico. The book introduces three key concepts: the colonial state of exception\, which frames US colonialism as a permanent legal structure of inclusion/exclusion; colonial legality\, which captures the legal practices\, policies\, and economic frameworks sustaining Puerto Rico’s crisis management; and legal interruptions\, which describes civil society efforts to mobilize transparency laws and accountability measures as a form of resistance. These mobilizations\, together with grassroots demonstrations\, or what I term colonial ruptures\, challenge the repetitive temporality of colonial legality\, underscoring a radical possibility for rendering the colonial legal structure in Puerto Rico ineffective. \nBy critically engaging with law\, power\, and resistance in Puerto Rico\, Crisis by Design contributes to global debates on colonialism\, legal governance\, and crisis management in the Global South. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nJose Atiles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and College of Law (by courtesy) at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. His sociolegal and criminological research focuses on the colonial context of Puerto Rico\, aiming to elucidate the role of state and corporate crimes\, law\, and emergency powers during periods of crisis. He is the author of Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico (Stanford University Press\, 2024)\, and Islands of Exception: Law\, Empire\, and Offshore Finance in the Caribbean (Cambridge University Press\, 2026). Atiles currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crimes and is a member of various other editorial boards. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jose-atiles/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251119T133000
DTSTAMP:20251022T213033Z
CREATED:20250618T150359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T213033Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gino Pauselli
DESCRIPTION:How does institutional design affect non-state actors’ preferences for international organizations (IOs)? We develop a theory of strategic forum shopping\, where non-state actors choose the most advantageous venue for litigation. While existing research highlights the importance of IO activity\, it often treats non-state actors as exogenous and their involvement as given. In contrast\, our approach considers these actors as strategic decision-makers\, choosing where to engage based on the costs and benefits associated with institutional design. We compare the Inter-American and the UN human rights treaty systems. Our findings show that actors are more likely to file petitions with organizations offering legally binding decisions and less likely with alternatives. Non-governmental organizations weigh time differently than individual petitioners and are more willing to wait for a binding decision. However\, longer wait times deter individual petitioners from filing complaints. This research shows the importance of considering outside options in regimes with overlapping institutions. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nGino Pauselli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, specializing in the intersection of human rights\, global governance\, and transnational advocacy. Previously\, Pauselli was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University (2023-2024). \n\n\n\n\nPauselli’s research uses rigorous statistical methods to analyze the dynamics of norms adoption and resistance within global governance systems\, with a focus on how international actors (including NGOs\, intergovernmental organizations\, and transnational networks) shape policy reform and accountability mechanisms.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-gino-pauselli/
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:20251113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T203000
DTSTAMP:20251006T153551Z
CREATED:20251006T153551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T153551Z
UID:13938-1763058600-1763065800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 November New Jersey Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Lisa Rodriguez and Lynn Fontaine Newsome\, Co-Chairs of the New Jersey ABF Fellows\, for a New Jersey Fellows Reception. \nThursday\, November 13\, 2025 \n6:30 pm – 8:30 pm \nRat’s Restaurant at Grounds for Sculpture\n16 Fairgrounds Road\nHamilton Township\, NJ 08619 \n$160 per Person\nGuests Welcome \nPlease RSVP by November 5
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-november-new-jersey-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20251112T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20251112T190000
DTSTAMP:20251006T154104Z
CREATED:20251006T154104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T154104Z
UID:13940-1762966800-1762974000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 Utah Fellows Reception with ABA President\, Michelle A. Behnke
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date to join the Utah Fellows for a reception with ABA President\, Michelle A. Behnke. \nParsons Behle & Latimer\n201 South Main Street\, Suite 1800\nSalt Lake City\, Utah
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-utah-fellows-reception-with-aba-president-michelle-a-behnke/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T133000
DTSTAMP:20251029T154052Z
CREATED:20250618T150019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T154052Z
UID:13165-1762948800-1762954200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shauhin Talesh
DESCRIPTION:Despite the massive costs associated with data breaches\, ransomware\, viruses\, and cyberattacks\, most organizations remain thoroughly unprepared to safeguard consumer data. Over the past two decades\, the insurance industry has begun offering cyber insurance to help organizations manage cybersecurity and privacy law compliance\, while also offering risk management services as part of their insurance packages. These insurers have thus effectively evolved into de facto regulators — yet at the same time\, they have failed to effectively curtail cybersecurity breaches. \nDrawing from interviews\, observations\, and extensive content analysis of the cyber insurance industry\, this book reveals how cyber insurers’ risk management services convey legitimacy to the public and to insureds but fall short of actually improving data security\, rendering them largely symbolic. Speaking directly to broader debates on regulatory delegation to nonstate actors\, Prof. Talesh proposes a new institutional theory of insurance to explain how insurers shape the content and meaning of privacy law and cybersecurity compliance\, offering policy recommendations for how insurers and governments can work together to improve cybersecurity and foster greater algorithmic justice. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nShauhin Talesh is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans law\, sociology\, and political science. His research interests include the empirical study of law and business organizations\, dispute resolution\, consumer protection\, insurance\, and the relationship between law and social inequality. Professor Talesh is considered one of the leading scholars on organizational responses to law and compliance and the relationship between insurance\, regulation and inequality. \nTalesh’s empirical research addresses the intersection between organizations\, risk\, and consumer protection laws\, focusing on private organizations’ responses to and constructions of laws designed to regulate them\, consumers’ mobilization of their legal rights and the legal cultures of private organizations. His most recent research focuses on how cyber insurance and insurance companies shape cybersecurity and privacy law compliance among private organizations. He previously published multiple articles on how insurance companies\, through employment practice liability insurance\, construct the meaning of compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shauhin-talesh/
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:20251112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T130000
DTSTAMP:20250916T154219Z
CREATED:20250903T144646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T154219Z
UID:13745-1762948800-1762952400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 November Maryland Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by author and professor of history at the University of Maryland\, Professor Richard Bell\, Professor Bell will present from his new book\, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. \nTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE FATE OF THE WORLD\nAn electrifying global history of a not-so local war. \nWhen we think of the American Revolution\, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. But this version of the story is only half the truth—and perhaps not even the most interesting half. In this riveting program\, historian and author Richard Bell invites audiences to rediscover the Revolution as a world war that unleashed chaos\, opportunity\, and transformation across six continents. From the sugar fields of the Caribbean to the court of the King of Mysore\, from refugee camps on the Canadian frontier to political uprisings in Sierra Leone and Peru\, the war that gave birth to the United States was never simply America’s own. It was a seismic global event that redrew maps\, toppled hierarchies\, catalyzed migration\, and accelerated new movements for liberty—and for empire. \nIn this program\, Bell traces the far-flung reverberations of the war through the lives of the people it displaced\, empowered\, or destroyed. Participants will encounter a Native matriarch struggling to preserve a transatlantic military alliance\, a Prussian officer reinventing himself in a foreign army\, and a Boston schoolteacher shipwrecked thousands of miles from home. Along the way\, the Bell explores how the Revolution stirred a transoceanic refugee crisis\, ignited antislavery activism\, and inspired uprisings from Ireland to India. The program offers a bold new framework for understanding the Revolutionary War not as a tidy founding moment but as a sprawling\, high-stakes struggle fought on land and sea\, shaped by commerce\, diplomacy\, propaganda\, and contingency. This is the American Revolution as you’ve never seen it before: complex\, global\, and astonishingly relevant to the modern world.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-november-maryland-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20251107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20251107T203000
DTSTAMP:20251014T165921Z
CREATED:20250904T160930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T165921Z
UID:13750-1762543800-1762547400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:ABF Reception at the 2025 NAPABA Convention
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a free ABF Reception at the 2025 NAPABA Convention in Denver\, CO! \nFriday\, November 7\, 2025\n7:30pm – 8:30pm MT \nRoom Director’s Row J\nSheraton Denver Downtown\n1550 Court Place\nDenver\, CO \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-reception-at-the-2025-napaba-convention/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T133000
DTSTAMP:20251030T194539Z
CREATED:20251006T204646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251030T194539Z
UID:13948-1762345800-1762349400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 November New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation by Carol A. Heimer\, ABF Research Professor and Professor of Sociology Emerita\, Northwestern University. \n“Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine”\n\nHIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward legally inflected\, rule-based ways of doing things. It accelerated both trends. While pestilence and disease are generally considered the domain of biological sciences and medicine\, social arrangements—and law in particular—are also crucial. \nDrawing on years of research in HIV clinics in the United States\, Thailand\, South Africa\, and Uganda\, Governing the Global Clinic examines how growing norms of legalized accountability have altered the work of healthcare systems and how the effects of legalization vary across different national contexts. A key feature of legalism is universalistic language\, but\, in practice\, rules are usually imported from richer countries (especially the United States) to poorer ones that have less adequate infrastructure and fewer resources with which to implement them. Challenging readers to reconsider the impulse to use law to organize and govern social life\, Governing the Global Clinic poses difficult questions: When do rules solve problems\, and when do they create new problems? When do rules become decoupled from ethics\, and when do they lead to deeper moral commitments? When do rules reduce inequality? And when do they reflect\, reproduce\, and even amplify inequality? \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-november-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20251104T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20251104T190000
DTSTAMP:20251015T151634Z
CREATED:20250903T145254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T151634Z
UID:13747-1762277400-1762282800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 November Colorado Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Stephen A. Bain and Joi G. Kush\, State Chairs of the ABF Colorado Fellows\, for a networking reception and presentation by ABF Faculty Fellow\, Research Professor and Director of the Access to Justice Research Initiative\, Rebecca L. Sandefur. \nTuesday\, November 4\, 2025 \n5:30 PM MDT – Reception \n6:00 PM MDT – Presentation \n“The Future of Access to Justice”\nProfessor Sandefur will give an overview of the work of the ABF’s Access to Justice Research Initiative and then focus on research-into-action projects exploring innovative service delivery models that hold promise to increase access to justice for all Americans. \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/2025-november-colorado-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T130000
DTSTAMP:20251022T201520Z
CREATED:20250828T163510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T201520Z
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SUMMARY:2025 November Florida Hybrid Lunch Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Florida State Co-Chairs\, Jo Ann Engelhardt\, Esq.\, and Kenneth A. Tinkler\, for a hybrid lunch and presentation by ABF Research Professor Emeritus\, Stephen Daniels. \n“The Crucial Question – Deny Legal Help or Allow Some Help by Non-Lawyers: An Innovation’s Odyssey”\n11:30 AM ET – Lunch\n12:00 PM ET – Presentation \nLocation: \nCarlton Fields\, P.A.\n700 NW 1st Avenue\, Suite 1200\nMiami\, Florida \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? \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event host:\n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsors:\n\nJo Ann Engelhardt\, Leadership Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-november-floriday-hybrid-lunch-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T193000
DTSTAMP:20250922T184916Z
CREATED:20250328T142439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T184916Z
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SUMMARY:2025 October Connecticut Fellows Hybrid Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join Connecticut Fellows State Chair\, Andy I. Corea\, for a networking reception and presentation by ABF Affiliated Research Professor\, Dylan C. Penningroth. \n“Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights” \n6:00 PM ET – Networking Reception\n6:30 PM ET – Presentation \nLocation:\nHarris Beach Murtha\n280 Trumbull Street\, 12th Floor\nHartford\, CT 06150 \nAbout “Before the Movement”: \nThe familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once\, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights\, their basic human dignity\, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered\, police and judges often closed their eyes\, if they didn’t join in. For Black people\, law was a hostile\, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then\, starting in the 1940s\, a few brave lawyers ventured south\, bent on changing the law. Soon\, ordinary African Americans\, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists\, launched the civil rights movement. \nIn Before the Movement\, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation\, Penningroth reveals that African Americans\, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century\, have thought about\, talked about\, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery. They dealt constantly with the laws of property\, contract\, inheritance\, marriage and divorce\, of associations (like churches and businesses and activist groups)\, and more. By exercising these “rights of everyday use\,” Penningroth demonstrates\, they made Black rights seem unremarkable. And in innumerable subtle ways\, they helped shape the law itself―the laws all of us live under today. \nPenningroth’s narrative\, which stretches from the last decades of slavery to the 1970s\, partly traces the history of his own family. Challenging accepted understandings of Black history framed by relations with white people\, he puts Black people at the center of the story―their loves and anger and loneliness\, their efforts to stay afloat\, their mistakes and embarrassments\, their fights\, their ideas\, their hopes and disappointments\, in all their messy humanness. Before the Movement is an account of Black legal lives that looks beyond the Constitution and the criminal justice system to recover a rich\, broader vision of Black life―a vision allied with\, yet distinct from\, “the freedom struggle.” \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-october-connecticut-fellows-reception-and-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251029T133000
DTSTAMP:20251002T171755Z
CREATED:20250618T145713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T171755Z
UID:13160-1761739200-1761744600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Mugambi Jouet
DESCRIPTION:Why is abortion being recriminalized in the United States in sharp contrast to the historical evolution of reproductive rights? This presentation will explore how abortion exemplifies American exceptionalism in the original sense of the phrase that America is an “exception\,” especially within the Western world. Yet exceptionalism should not be misunderstood as historical determinism or cultural essentialism. By the early 1970s\, America was converging with peer Western democracies in liberalizing abortion. This process of convergence was ultimately halted by the mounting influence of the U.S. pro-life movement in an age when tolerance or support for reproductive rights increasingly became the norm abroad. \nWhile abortion is often analyzed in isolation\, this multidisciplinary article focuses on its interrelationship with wider features of American exceptionalism. A distinctive religious landscape sheds light on the intensity of opposition to abortion among the substantial minority of Americans who share a traditionalist worldview. This unique social environment has contributed to the resilience of the U.S. anti-abortion movement\, which has an outsized impact due to the exceptional weight of lobbying by special interests over American government. Organized opposition to abortion instead declined elsewhere in the West concurrently with the decline of organized religion\, especially traditionalist conceptions of Christianity. Modern America is now an outlier\, refighting and relitigating an endless battle over abortion. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nMugambi Jouet’s research focuses on American exceptionalism\, criminal justice\, and comparative history from a multidisciplinary perspective. He is an expert on the distinctive historical evolution of American law\, government\, and sociopolitical culture compared to other Western democracies. \nHis scholarship has notably analyzed the death penalty\, mass incarceration\, juvenile justice\, guns\, abortion\, and the historiography of key concepts\, from “American exceptionalism” to the “Western world.” In 2022\, he won the Brophy Prize for the article that “most significantly breaks new ground and adds new insights to the study and understanding of United States legal history.” In 2025\, he received the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-mugambi-jouet/
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:20251023T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251023T140000
DTSTAMP:20251008T141833Z
CREATED:20250911T154009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141833Z
UID:13769-1761224400-1761228000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \n11:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET \n“The Legal Profession and the Rule of Law in Asia” \nChallenges to the rule of law in the U.S. resonate with urgent debates about the role of law and lawyers worldwide. This webinar will explore these issues through an international lens\, drawing on cutting-edge empirical research from American Bar Foundation experts and their collaborators. A panel of leading scholars will offer in-depth insights into the lawyers\, courts\, and legal systems of China\, Singapore\, and India\, examining both the challenges and the possibilities of practicing law and pursuing justice within these diverse regimes. From the struggles of China’s criminal defense and human rights lawyers\, to the disproportionate influence of favored advocates in India’s Supreme Court\, to the impact of authoritarian politics on Singapore law\, panelists will explore how lawyers across Asia serve their clients\, fight for basic freedoms\, and hold governments accountable. This webinar will also look at the many\, contested meanings of “the rule of law” — and the complexities of defining and measuring this fraught concept across widely differing legal cultures. \nFeaturing: \nTerence Halliday\nResearch Professor Emeritus\, American Bar Foundation;\nAdjunct Professor of Sociology\, Northwestern University; Honorary Professor\, Australian National University \nJothie Rajah\nResearch Professor\, American Bar Foundation  \nSital Kalantry\nDirector\, RoundGlass India Center;\nProfessor of Law\, Seattle University School of Law \nModerated by: \nDavid K.Y. Tang\nABF Visionary Fellow;\nPartner\, K&L Gates
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/national-fellows-webinar-10/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251022T133000
DTSTAMP:20251021T211308Z
CREATED:20250925T165222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T211308Z
UID:13801-1761134400-1761139800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Grigory Gorbun
DESCRIPTION:Moot courts—competitive legal simulations where law students argue fictitious cases before panels of judges—have experienced remarkable global growth in recent decades. They have become arenas of international prestige\, with law firms investing heavily in organizing and sponsoring competitions\, legal educators promoting them as powerful tools for reshaping professional culture\, and international institutions using them to advance their jurisdictional claims. My book project asks: why have these seemingly trivial role-play exercises become so central to global legal education\, and what does this tell us about how the authority of law itself is being reimagined in the world today? \nThis talk focuses on the book’s central theoretical contribution. I argue that moot courts shift the grounds of law’s authority away from state sovereignty and toward a transnational legal professional community. Drawing on ethnographic research at Russian moot court competitions\, I demonstrate how\, in a context where state legal institutions face crises of legitimacy\, legal professionals use these competitions to sustain their commitment to law as worth preserving and performing correctly. Moot courts become sites where international interactional professionalism defines what “good” law looks like\, in explicit contrast to failing state institutions. I call this dynamic “moot jurisdiction\,” a process of authorizing law in institutions that have no legal authority or political power. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nGrigory Gorbun (he/him) is a legal and linguistic anthropologist studying how the authority of law is produced and contested beyond conventional legal and political institutions. His research relies on ethnography\, interviews\, and interactional analysis to reveal how attitudes toward law are transferred\, upheld\, and anchored in socially recognizable patterns of communication. Gorbun completed his MA in Anthropology of Law from Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-grigory-gorbun/
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251015T133000
DTSTAMP:20251014T203614Z
CREATED:20250915T203303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T203614Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kris Rosentel\, Anna Fox
DESCRIPTION:Kris Rosentel  \n \n\nCovalent Logics: Policing\, Family Values\, and the Reproduction of Inequality by Anna Fox \nHow do organizations justify their role in reproducing inequality when established institutional logics have been delegitimized? Police have historically relied upon seemingly colorblind logics of danger and criminality to frame their work\, yet mass movements like Black Lives Matter have revealed the racism implicit in these logics\, forcing police to adopt alternative frameworks to justify and legitimize police racism\, misconduct\, and violence. Drawing on interviews with 52 Chicago police officers and data from 552 police complaint files\, this article illustrates how police make use of a surprising framework—family values. Police compared the department to an idealized family to demand loyalty and suppress whistleblowing among police; blamed families of color for social disorder to displace responsibility for police violence; and framed themselves as surrogate parents to civilians to justify disciplinary intervention. By using family values\, police legitimized instances of police violence\, naturalized police power\, and obscured institutional racism and gender inequality. I argue that institutional actors may strategically deploy overlapping institutional logics—a phenomenon I term “covalent logics”–to obscure inequality and maintain legitimacy in the face of large-scale contestation.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kris-rosentel-anna-fox/
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series:  Ellie Frazier
DESCRIPTION:Over the past three decades\, programs training nonlawyers\, such as limited licensed practitioners (LLPs) and community justice workers (CJWs)\, have arisen in the United State in response to access to justice gaps. This project will address two central questions about nonlawyer professionals in the United States: (1) How do they view formal legal education in relation to their justice work\, particularly when compared to other educational pathways for achieving access to justice and community activism goals? (2) How do structural\, socioeconomic\, and interpersonal factors shape their perceptions of and engagement with the legal profession? Expanding on comparative research in South Africa and Sierra Leone on nonlawyer programs\, this research will draw on theoretical frameworks from literatures on the legal profession\, access to justice\, legal consciousness\, and state capacity to move beyond describing what non-lawyers do to examine how they understand and articulate their position within the legal system. It aims to generate meaningful points of comparison between different categories of nonlawyers to illuminate how different professionalization pathways shape nonlawyers’ perceptions of their roles relative to attorneys and their connections to community activism and political change. The study’s findings will seek to contribute to scholarship on access to justice interventions\, professionalization processes\, and ongoing debates about legal education value and regulatory frameworks for nonlawyer practice. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nEllie Frazier (she/her) a political science and sociolegal studies scholar whose research and teaching focus broadly on access to justice\, social movements\, and comparative politics. Her dissertation investigates the political\, social\, and legal processes through which nonlawyer services emerged and evolved across colonial\, authoritarian\, and democratic state building in South Africa. By shedding light on these dynamics\, Frazier’s dissertation seeks to clarify the opportunities and challenges of integrating non-lawyers into democratic institutions as part of access to justice initiatives; it also broadly highlights how these forms of sociolegal assistance both challenge and reinforce the boundaries of the legal profession.  
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-ellie-frazier/
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\, Barbara J. Howard. \nBarbara J. Howard\, principal of the Barbara J. Howard law firm in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, is president-elect of the American Bar Association and will serve as president beginning in August 2026. \nBarbara has long been active in bar association leadership since her involvement in the ABA Young Lawyers Division\, when she also served as chair of the Cincinnati Bar Association Young Lawyers Section. She has been a member of the ABA’s policymaking House of Delegates since 1986 and served as Chair of the House from 2020 to 2022. In that capacity\, she also served on the ABA Board of Governors\, the ABA Journal Board of Editors and the Board of the American Bar Foundation. \nBarbara is a proud Patron Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  \n6:00-7:30 PM ET \nDrinks and appetizers to be served.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-aba-president-elect-reception-4/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Christopher Robertson & Jane Y. Jeong
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Robertson \n \nAt the Borders of Belonging: Asian American Immigrant Families\, Disability\, and the Governance of Conditional Futures by Jane Y. Jeong \nAsian American immigrant students with disabilities and their families remain an understudied population in the sociolegal landscape of U.S. special education.  Their experiences are shaped by complex institutional dynamics: legal mandates\, administrative practices\, and shifting policy priorities converge to determine how rights are interpreted\, how services are delivered\, and how futures are envisioned. Yet\, little is known about how families navigate and make sense of this process — or how they respond when procedural requirements\, institutional expectations\, and family knowledge do not align. This dissertation examines how Asian American immigrant students with disabilities and their families encounter\, negotiate\, and contest the governance of transition planning as defined under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Conceptualizing transition as a legal and bureaucratic process — one that organizes access to federally guaranteed supports and shapes postsecondary trajectories — this study draws on sociolegal theory\, cultural citizenship\, and border epistemologies to understand how families engage with and reinterpret the state’s categories and procedures. By revealing how legal mandates are operationalized in practice\, this project advances a sociolegal account of transition planning as a site where governance\, institutional logics\, and family agency intersect. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-christopher-robertson-jane-jeong/
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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