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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251001T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251001T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250924T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
CREATED:20250618T145225Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gabriel Winant
DESCRIPTION:This presentation opens a new angle of inquiry on the brittleness of the institutions of the welfare state constructed during the New Deal. Whereas the traditional account of those institutions holds that they were the product of a “culture of unity” among the New Deal’s mass base\, and were vitiated at the elite level\, this paper explores a more complex and fractious dynamic at both levels of the liberal coalition. This approach suggests that the institutional contradictions that ultimately led to the defeat of New Deal liberalism were not external impositions only (from business or from the Dixiecrats)\, but arose in important ways from divisions within the “culture of unity” itself—the mass base of urban industrial workers in the North. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nDr. Gabriel Winant is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism. His work approaches capitalism as an expansive social order—not confined to the market alone but rather structurally composed of multiple\, heterogeneous spheres. He focuses on the relationship between economic production and formal employment on the one hand\, and the social reproduction and governance of the population on the other. Broadly\, he is interested in transformations in the social division of labor and the making and management of social difference through this process.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-gabriel-winant/
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:20250917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250917T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Michelle Brown
DESCRIPTION:In the United States\, the formation and ongoing articulation of tribal sovereignty has been inseparable from the logics and institutions of the settler colonial carceral state. This convergence—where Indigenous governance\, legal recognition\, and carceral power intersect—is not an aberration but rather a foundational structural nexus of U.S. law and carceral chokeholds\, and therefore of significance broadly for our understandings of US carceral power and social movement struggles aimed at transformation. The landmark decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)\, which affirmed nearly half of Oklahoma as tribal territory\, exemplifies this paradox: sovereignty is recognized but on the terms of the carceral state and its expansion. Drawing on sociolegal analysis grounded in critical Indigenous studies\, carceral studies\, and abolitionist thought\, this paper traces how jurisdictional contests in Indian Country obscure the possibilities of ongoing Indigenous forms of governance rooted in relationality\, non-punitive accountability\, and deep forms of community safety. These legal border skirmishes raise urgent questions: What kind of sovereignty is affirmed when granted by the settler carceral state? How can Indigenous resurgence leverage sovereignty against carceral expansion? And what forms of justice might continue to emerge when Indigenous traditions and abolitionist geographies converge to imagine governance beyond and before the carceral state? \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nTo read the related paper for Dr. Brown’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\nDr. Michelle Brown is a criminologist and sociolegal scholar with a joint PhD in Criminal Justice and American Studies. A Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, Dr. Brown also serves as Co-Director of the Appalachian Justice Research Center. Her research and teaching areas include abolition and emergent forms of justice; carceral studies; law & society; and media\, theory\, and digital culture. Her work focuses on the rise of the carceral state and attendant social movements directed at ending mass incarceration\, building more effective forms of community safety\, and shifting media narratives on crime and punishment. Dr. Brown is the author of The Culture of Punishment(NYUP); co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology\, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime\, Media\, and Popular Culture\, the Palgrave MacMillan Crime\, Media and Culture Book Series\, and she is the former editor of the leading journal on crime and media: Crime Media Culture. Dr. Brown also has a forthcoming volume\, Under the Gun: Criminology Goes Back to the Movies (NYUP). She was named Critical Criminologist of the Year in 2016 by the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice of the American Society of Criminology. She is a first generation student: an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah\, OK) and of English-Scottish descent\, with deep lineages in Appalachia on both sides of her family.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-michelle-brown-2/
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:20250910T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250910T133000
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SUMMARY:2025 September New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch\, for a virtual presentation: \n“Access to Justice in U.S. Immigration Courts” \nEmily Ryo\nPast ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholar\nCharles L. B. Lowndes Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology\, Duke University \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 on 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? \nWednesday\, September 10\, 2025\n12:30PM – 1:30pm ET
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-september-new-york-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250910T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250910T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
CREATED:20250618T141424Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, after unyielding pressure from activists\, New York City seemed poised to close the detested Rikers Island penal colony. The local press dutifully reported that the end of Rikers was imminent\, and New Yorkers celebrated the closure of the country’s largest urban jail\, condemned as a moral stain on an otherwise great city. The problem\, however\, was that the city had not actually committed to closing Rikers. And at the same time\, it laid the groundwork for the construction of more jails\, a network of skyscraper facilities amounting to the largest carceral construction the city has seen in decades. \n\n\nHow did this happen? Scholars and organizers Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti detail how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane” jails. The principal advocates of these new jails were not right-wing politicians\, but prominent city activists and progressive non-profit organizations. The story is at once a case study and a cautionary tale for what will be coming to cities and towns across the United States and beyond. \n To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\n \nDr. Zhandarka Kurti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Kurti received her PhD degree in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research and teaching areas include race and criminalization\, mass supervision and contemporary politics of criminal justice reforms. She is the co-author of Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City (Haymarket 2025)\, and States of Incarceration: Rebellion\, Reform and the Future of America’s Punishment System (Field Notes/Reaktion 2022). \n \nDr. Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso\, 2022) and Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion\, Reaction\, and Morbid Symptoms (PM Press\, 2025)\, and the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion\, Reform and America’s Punishment System (Field Notes/Reaktion\, 2022)\, City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island (NYU Press\, 2025) and Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City (Haymarket\, 2025). He works as an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-zhandarka-kurti-2/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250811
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2025 ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto
DESCRIPTION:ABF Fellows Registration Hours:\nFairmont Royal York\n100 Front Street West \nPlease stop by the Fellows registration desk to pick up your tickets\, complimentary Fellows ribbons\, and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\nWednesday\, August 6: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, August 7: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, August 8: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSaturday\, August 9: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSunday\, August 10: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm\n\nFriday\, August 8\nFellows CLE Program – “Safeguarding Democracy” (8:30 AM – 10:00 AM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ABA.mp3\nFairmont Royal York\nTudor 7/8\n \nRegistration not required to attend event \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nA panel moderated by Deborah Enix-Ross\, Senior Advisor to the International Dispute Resolution Group of Debevoise & Plimpton and the Past President of the American Bar Association and including Aziz Z. Huq\, ABF Collaborating Scholar and Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at The University of Chicago Law School and David M. Driesen\, University Professor at the College of Law\, Syracuse University\, will present and explore the evolving tactics and tools used to weaken democratic institutions\, offering a critical look at the resilience of democracy and the efforts required to protect it. \nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nMalaparte\n350 King Street W  \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 18\, 2025 \nLocated in the heart of downtown Toronto’s entertainment district\, Malaparte is a spectacular outdoor event space on the sixth floor of the TIFF Bell Lightbox\, Canada’s premiere home of cinema. The breathtaking rooftop terrace offers sweeping views of the city skyline\, with the iconic CN Tower as a striking centerpiece. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Bronze Sponsor: \n \nSaturday\, August 9\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (8:30 AM – 10:30 AM)\nFairmont Royal York\nSalon A\n \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 18\, 2025 \nJoin us for a breakfast buffet and program\, where we will discuss important Fellows business\, recognize outgoing leaders and hear keynote remarks from Ronald S. Flagg\, President of Legal Services Corporation\, the largest funder of civil legal aid in the United States. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Annual Business Breakfast Gold Sponsor: \n \nSunday\, August 10\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – 11:30 PM)\nFairmont Royal York\nSalon A \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-2025-aba-annual-meeting-in-toronto/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:2025 New Mexico Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Orlando Lucero\, Chair of the ABF New Mexico Fellows\, invites you to participate in the upcoming Fellows breakfast program to be held in conjunction with the State Bar of New Mexico Annual Meeting. \n“The Origins and Increasing Use of Professional Historians as Experts in Trial Courts\,” featuring Joshua E. Kastenberg\, Professor\, University of New Mexico School of Law. \n7:00 AM MDT – Breakfast Buffet\n7:30 AM MDT – Presentation\nSandia Resort & Casino\n30 Rainbow Road NE\nRoom – Hummingbird B\nAlbuquerque\, NM 87113 \n$50 a Person Breakfast Buffet
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-new-mexico-fellows-breakfast/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250728T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250728T183000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
CREATED:20250708T170734Z
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SUMMARY:ABF Fellows Reception at the 100th Annual National Bar Association Convention
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an ABF Fellows Cocktail Reception at the 100th Annual National Bar Association Convention \nMonday\, July 28 \n5:30pm – 6:30pm\nWrigley Room\, West Tower Hyatt Regency Hotel\n151 E. Wacker Drive\nChicago\, IL \nThis is a free event\, but requires RSVP.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-fellows-reception-at-the-100th-annual-national-bar-association-convention/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:2025 July Alabama Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Alabama State Chair\, Celia Collins\, for an Alabama Fellows dinner in conjunction with the Alabama State Bar Annual Meeting featuring Wall Street Journal bestselling author and Life Fellow\, Robert Bailey. \nThe Wash House Restaurant\n17111 Scenic Highway 98\nFairhope\, AL \n$100 a Person \n6:30 pm CT – Cocktail Reception\n7:00 pm CT – Dinner and Presentation
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-july-alabama-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250623T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250623T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:2025 June Washington\, D.C. Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:We are at capacity for our in-person portion of this Fellows event\, if you’d like to be added the waitlist\, please email fellowsevents@abfn.org.  \nPlease join the Washington\, D.C. Fellows for a reception and presentation by Dean William M. Treanor\, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Law Center\, Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair\, Professor of Law\, Georgetown Law. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-june-washington-d-c-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250620T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250620T080000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
CREATED:20250530T184525Z
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SUMMARY:2025 June South Dakota Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Please join South Dakota State Chair\, Professor Thomas E. Simmons\, for a South Dakota Fellows Breakfast in conjunction with the 2025 State Bar Convention. Featured speaker\, Mark Suchman\, Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation\, will provide an update on recent ABF news and research highlights. \nRamkota Hotel\n2111 N. Lacrosse Street\nRapid City\, SD 57701 \nBlack Elk Peak room \nFor more information\, please contact Fellowsevents@abfn.org.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-june-south-dakota-fellows-breakfast/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T130000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:2025 June Maryland Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Janice Nadler. \nPublic Opinion\, Private Governance\, and the Influence of Source Credibility\nDoes McDonald’s public embrace of selling only cage-free eggs affect their customers’ support for legislation banning the caging of chickens for egg production? Does ExxonMobil’s commitment to reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations impact the views of their customers/shareholders on climate change legislation? In this project\, ABF Research Professor Janice Nadler will explore whether these kinds of corporate initiatives influence public support for subsequent legal regulation or whether people infer that the private sector is adequately managing the problem\, thus obviating the need for a legal response. \nThis presentation will also explore the influence of political partisanship and the possibility that groups with differing ideological values respond with increased concern for problems framed consistently with their foundational moral frameworks. In addition\, Professor Nadler will report on findings suggesting further questions about the role of various messengers besides corporations — such as local governments and trusted professionals – in impacting public support for increased legal regulation. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-june-maryland-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250611T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250611T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:2025 June New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by 2024-25 ABF William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law\, John M. Eason. \nBig House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation\nFor the past fifty years\, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970\, the total number of facilities has tripled\, adding more than 1\,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns. \nIn 2007\, Professor Eason moved his family to Forrest City\, Arkansas\, in search of answers to key questions about this trend: Why is America building so many prisons? Why now? And why in rural areas? Professor Eason quickly learned that rural demand for prisons is complicated. Big House on the Prairie is a remarkable glimpse into the ways a prison economy takes shape and operates. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-june-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:2025 May Utah Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Utah State Chair\, Keith A. Call\, for a Fellows dinner and presentation of “Welcoming the World Again in 2034” by Utah Olympic Committee CEO\, Fraser Bullock. \n6:00 pm MT \nLocation:\nAlta Club\n100 E South Temple Street\nSalt Lake City\, UT 84111
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-may-utah-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T130000
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SUMMARY:2025 May Illinois Fellows Hybrid Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Illinois State Chair\, Michael Hernandez\, for a hybrid lunch and presentation by Illinois Legends of the bar\, Terrence Hake and Sergio E. Acosta. \n“Operation Greylord and The Role of Undercover Attorneys”\nWednesday\, May 28\, 2025\n11:30 am CT – Networking Lunch\n12:00 pm CT – Presentation \nFranczek\, P.C.\n300 South Wacker Drive\, Suite 3400\nChicago\, IL 60606 \nCLE Approved! \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-may-illinois-fellows-hybrid-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:20250521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250521T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jedidiah Kroncke
DESCRIPTION:The life of Chinese legal scholar Wu Jinxiong has long attracted the attention given his diverse intellectual interests and high profile in Chinese judicial politics and constitutional reform during the 1930s and 1940s. Like many of his generation\, Wu’s education combined traditional Confucian schooling with study at multiple Western-influenced institutions. During his first law degree\, he converted to Christianity and his religious journey ultimately led him to become one of the most notable Catholic Chinese intellectuals of this era. Episodes of his transnationalized life have been well-studied—from his relationship with Oliver Wendell Holmes to his engagement with numerous other Western intellectuals. \nYet\, Wu’s life after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 has received less attention. During this period\, Wu spent fifteen years in the United States primarily teaching law at Seton Hall University before returning to Taiwan for the final years of his life. While the least studied time of his life\, Wu’s post-1949 life in the United States was a critical juncture in his ongoing quest to reconcile his Confucian sympathies with his Catholic faith and was a significant contributor to debates both about natural law and the relationship of Vatican II to Catholic legal thought. In particular\, he became closely associated with prominent Catholic scholars who fervently promoted Edmund Burke’s ideas\, such as Russell Kirk and Peter Stanlis\, and influenced his post-World War II elevation in conservative American legal thought. \nYet\, Wu’s return to Taiwan was impacted by the complications of these debates crosscut by Cold War geopolitical tensions and related racial politics. Recovering the transnational significance of this episode of Wu’s life is revealing not only as an example of the challenges diasporic Chinese intellectuals faced during this era but also how his relatively unique intellectual commitments shed light on less emphasized tensions in Catholicism and American Cold War geopolitics of this era. Amidst rising contemporary Sino-American tensions and renewed debates over the role of Catholic legal thinking in US politics\, Wu’s complex American experience as a transnational intellectual is newly provocative and probative. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nDr. Jedidiah Kroncke is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong\, joining the faculty in August of 2018. He currently teaches property\, equity and trusts\, as well as courses in common law reasoning for civil law students. \nPreviously\, he was a professor at FGV Sao Paulo School of Law\, and before this he was the Senior Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Dr. Kroncke garnered a range of awards and fellowships as he earned a B.A. in Asian Studies and Legal Studies from the University of California Berkeley\, a J.D. from Yale Law School\, and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology also from the University of California\, Berkeley. After graduate school\, he was awarded the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellowship at Yale Law School\, the Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History at NYU Law and the Berger-Howe Fellowship in Legal History at Harvard Law School. He has been a visitor at the International University College of Turin and the National University of Singapore. \nDr. Kroncke’s research centers on international legal history and the comparative study of alternative labor and property institutions. His interdisciplinary work draws on the US\, Chinese and Brazilian legal experiences\, and is devoted to the productive indigenization of comparative legal analysis. He routinely presents his work at leading law schools across the globe\, and is a reviewer for several leading international journals as well as the university presses of Oxford and Cambridge.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jedidiah-kroncke/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:2025 May Louisiana Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Thank you to all those that registered for our March event for understanding when a water issue in the building caused us to reschedule.  \nHarry M. Moffett and H. Minor Pipes\, co-chairs of the Louisiana ABF Fellows\, invite you to save the date for a Louisiana Fellows Reception. Featuring remarks from Frank X. Neuner\, Jr.\, Chair of the National ABF Fellows. \nThursday\, May 15\, 2025\n5:30 pm – 7:00pm \nPipes Miles Beckman\, LLC\n1100 Poydras Street\, Suite 1800\nNew Orleans\, LA 70163 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-march-louisiana-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Pipes Miles Bechman\, LLC\, 1100 Poydras Street\, Suite 1800\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70163\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
CREATED:20241120T200106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T155602Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Xin He
DESCRIPTION:How to understand the operation of Chinese courts\, especially after Xi Jinping took power and thoroughly reformed its judiciary? To what extent is it different from other judicial systems? Dr. Xin He presents a governance model. The courts have two overarching characteristics under this model: supporting the state’s goals of policy implementation and legitimacy enhancement. The various policies that the courts are tasked with implementing and the approaches the courts use for enhancing the judiciary’s legitimacy—and by extension\, that of the state—have played key roles in the courts’ evolution. This governance model is distinct from the dualism and order-maintenance theses which have been used to understand the Chinese legal system in the past. It also challenges the conventional wisdom of the rule-by-law and rights-based approaches to understanding the Chinese court system. Engaging extensively with the literature in law and politics\, law and society\, and institutional economics\, The Judicial System of China provides an understanding of the inner workings and day-to-day realities of the Chinese judicial system. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nTo read the related chapter for Dr. He’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\nProfessor Xin He studies China’s legal systems empirically. He is interested in supervising Ph.D. students in the fields of judicial process (criminal justice in particular)\, legal consciousness\, and law and gender in China. \nHis English monographs are: \nThe Judicial System of China (Oxford University Press\, 2024) \nDivorces in China: Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes (NYU Press\, 2021) \nEmbedded Courts: Judicial System of China (coauthored with Kwai Hang Ng\, Cambridge University Press\, 2017) \nHe also published a Chinese book 《街頭的研究者：法律與社會科學筆記》(The Researcher in the Street) (Peking University Press 2021). \nAn avid Pingpong player\, he was the champion (men’s single) of the Central and Western District of his age group in 2019.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-he-xin/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:2025 May New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a hybrid lunch and presentation by Manhattan District Attorney\, Alvin L. Bragg. \n12:00 PM ET – Lunch – TIME CHANGE – 11:45 AM LUNCH \n12:30-1:30 PM ET – Presentation – TIME CHANGE – 12:15 PM PRESENTATION \nLocation:\nWachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\n51 West 52nd Avenue\nNew York\, New York 10019 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-may-new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T163000
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SUMMARY:National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \n1:00pm PT / 2:00pm MT / 3:00pm CT / 4:00pm ET \nDefying the Supreme Court: Historical Perspectives on a Looming Constitutional Crisis \nRecent actions of the second Trump administration are moving the nation toward a direct confrontation between the executive branch and the Supreme Court. Administration leaders are resisting compliance with federal court orders and questioning the authority of the judiciary over executive actions. This webinar will consider our present situation in the context of the history of challenges to the Supreme Court’s authority. \nAmericans have a long tradition of robust public criticism of their Supreme Court. Critics of the Court have sometimes threatened to defy the Court’s commands\, and on occasion the Court’s rulings have been met with noncompliance. Yet\, with only rare exceptions\, Presidents have complied with the mandates of the Court. In this webinar\, we will consider the history of defying Supreme Court authority\, why Presidents have historically avoided direct confrontations with the Court\, and the perspectives this history offers on recent events.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/national-fellows-webinar-9/
CATEGORIES:Fellows,Rule of Law
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250507T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250507T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:2025 California (San Diego) Fellows Lunch and National Webinar Viewing
DESCRIPTION:Stephen S. Korniczky and Anna Romanskaya\, Co-Chairs of the California (San Diego) Fellows\, invite you to attend a complimentary Fellows Networking Lunch and viewing of the National Fellows Webinar “Defying the Supreme Court: Historical Perspectives on a Looming Constitutional Crisis.” \nWednesday\, May 7\, 2025 \nOffices of SheppardMullin\n12275 El Camino Real\, Suite 100\nSan Diego\, CA 92130-4092 \n12:30 PM PT – Networking Lunch \n1:00 PM PT – National Fellows Webinar: \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-california-san-diego-fellows-lunch-and-national-webinar-viewing/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Alexandra Huneeus
DESCRIPTION:This paper analyzes the arguments used to advance claims of non-human rights (or rights of nature) in Latin America\, the region where they first emerged and have undergone the most development. Most studies to date treat rights of nature as a single movement. A review of judgments\, laws\, and social movements\, however\, reveals that justifications for extending legal rights beyond humans fall into three categories. First are claims based on the species-level attributes of an animal or other creature: there is a quality of the being in question that demands a certain type of ethical treatment. Second are claims based on legal pluralism. Law in a multicultural state should give voice to the views of indigenous and tribal peoples as well as Western legal traditions. If indigenous or other peoples so request\, states should grant legal personhood and rights to natural features or “earth beings” that non-Western peoples hold as persons\, or kin\, and with whom they live in relation. Third are claims based on a new ontology: Some argue that it is time to rethink the most fundamental commitments of Western thought and\, specifically\, to give a different moral meaning to the distinction and relation between humans and non-humans\, as well as the distinction and relation between the living and non-living. Each of the three types of claims is advanced by distinct social movements and plays out in different ways in its relationship to existing laws. While the first and second can be cast as extensions of existing human rights doctrine\, the third aims to radically shift our major premises but is struggling to find legal coherence. The chapter’s main contribution is to introduce a typology of nature rights and use it to analyze the relation of nature rights and human rights. Scholarship needs to consider these differences in the argumentative structure because they have implications for many of the questions that we are asking of this emerging body of law\, including questions of effectiveness\, implementation\, and impact on other areas of law. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nTo read the related paper for Dr. Huneeus’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\nAlexandra Huneeus’ scholarship focuses on international law and human rights\, with emphasis on Latin America. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, Harvard International Law Journal\, Law and Social Inquiry\, Yale Journal of International Law\, Leiden International Law Journal\, and by Cambridge University Press. She is Evjue Bascom Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law\, Society and Justice at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. She received her PhD\, JD and BA from University of California\, Berkeley\, and was a post-doc at Stanford University’s Center on Development\, Democracy and the Rule of Law. \nIn 2017\, Professor Huneeus was named to serve a ten-year term as Foreign Expert Jurist in the Colombian Jurisdicción para la Paz (JEP)\, a court created as part of the Colombian peace process. At UW\, Professor Huneeus currently serves as Director of the Center for Law\, Society and Justice. She is Co-Chair of the University of Wisconsin Human Rights Program\, which she co-founded\, and Director of the Global Legal Studies Program. She is a member of the American Society of International Law and the Law and Society Association. She has served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law\, and of Law and Social Inquiry. Previously\, she has served on the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association and the American Society for Comparative Law\, and as section chair for the Midwest Political Science Association (Law and Courts) and for the ASIL Midwest Interest Group on International law.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-alexandra-huneeus/
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:20250430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250430T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Governing the Global Clinic HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Please contact mkennedy@abfn.org to register. \nPlease join the ABF for a hybrid presentation and in-person reception celebrating the launch of Governing the Global Clinic by ABF Research Professor Carol A. Heimer. Governing the Global Clinic offers a deep examination of how new\, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine.  \n4:00 PM CT\nPresentation by Carol A. Heimer\nAmerican Bar Foundation and Northwestern University\nThe presentation is in-person and online via Zoom\n5:00 PM CT\nJoin us for wine and light snacks.\nThe reception is in-person only.\n\n\nAbout the Book\nA deep examination of how new\, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine. \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. Read more about Governing the Global Clinic here. \nAbout the Author\n\nCarol A. Heimer is a Professor of Sociology Emerita at Northwestern University and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Heimer has written on risk and insurance\, organization theory\, the sociology of law\, and the sociology of medicine. A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching\, she frequently teaches courses on law\, medicine\, and qualitative methods\, with occasionally forays into topics such as the sociology of moral experience. Read more about Carol A. Heimer here.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/book-launch-governing-the-global-clinic-hiv-and-the-legal-transformation-of-medicine/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250430T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250430T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kamaria Porter
DESCRIPTION:Black and Latina women experience higher rates of unwanted sex\, assault\, and harassment\, yet rarely report these incidents to police or campus officials (Harris\, 2023: Slatton & Richard\, 2020; Washington\, 2001). To date\, most research on campus sexual assault reporting focuses on white\, heterosexual\, cis-gendered women at elite institutions (Brubaker et al.\, 2017; Sabina & Ho\, 2014). In this study\, Dr. Porter examined factors that influenced Black and Latina women and non-binary students’ decision to report sexual assault to police and/or university officials. Dr. Porter used a conceptual framework that combines intersectionality and the theory of legal consciousness. Instead of examining the effects of racism or sexism in isolation\, intersectionality holds that these systems of power interlock and shape each other (Crenshaw\, 1989\, 1991). Black women\, being marginalized by anti-Black racism and sexism\, experience particular forms of exclusion at the intersection of racism and sexism (P. H. Collins\, 2000; Crenshaw\, 1991). The theory of legal consciousness explores how people perceive the legal system and use concepts associated with the law to interpret everyday experiences\, particularly when they are harmed (Ewick & Silbey\, 1995; Marshall\, 2003). This presentation focuses on the 15 of 66 participants who entered a criminal or university grievance process\, exploring their evaluation of reporting processes based on interactions with police\, complaint officers\, the legal system\, and Title IX policy procedures. This research has implications for policy implementation and exploring legal cynicism among university student survivors.  \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nKamaria B. Porter\, PhD. (she/her) joined the Office of the Ombudsperson as Associate Ombudsperson in July 2024. Prior to joining Northwestern University\, Kamaria served as an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Penn State University. There she taught a range of courses related to higher education\, including administration and organizational theory\, history and critical issues in higher education\, and research methods. Kamaria’s research broadly explores inequities in higher education\, focusing on faculty experiences on the tenure track\, graduate student success in STEM departments\, and Title IX policy. She earned her PhD in Higher Education at the University of Michigan. While there\, she managed a research lab on university policy responses to sexual harassment and assault\, investigated practices to prevent harassment in academic units\, and organized interdisciplinary learning and mental health programming for graduate students.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kamaria-porter/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T213000
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SUMMARY:2025 April New Jersey Fellows Reception
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! \nTuesday\, April 29\, 2026\n6:30 pm ET\n \n$190 per person \nChateau Grande\n670 Cranbury Road\nEast Brunswick\, NJ 08816
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-april-new-jersey-fellows-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250423T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T185334
CREATED:20241107T194600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T214519Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shitong Qiao
DESCRIPTION:Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews\, this book provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes. Using interviews\, survey data\, and a comprehensive examination of laws\, policies and judicial decisions\, this book also examines how the party-state in China responds to the risks and benefits brought by neighborhood democratization. Moreover\, this book provides a framework to analyze different approaches to the authoritarian dilemma facing neighborhood democratization which may increase the regime’s legitimacy and expose it to the challenge of independent organizations at the same time. Lastly\, this book identifies conditions under which neighborhood democratization can succeed. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nShitong Qiao is Professor of Law and the Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar at Duke Law School. He also holds the title of Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong and is a core faculty member of the Asia/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University. He was previously a tenured professor at the University of Hong Kong\, a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) fellow at Princeton University\, and the inaugural Jerome A. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law at NYU. \nHe is primarily interested in the relationship between political power\, law\, and private ordering. His first monograph\, Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, investigates how a real estate economy took off without legal titles. His second monograph\, The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China (Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming 2025)\, provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes\, within and beyond the boundaries of law. \nProfessor Qiao has also published numerous articles in top American and Chinese law journals. In addition\, he has served as an expert witness on the Chinese property regime in China\, Canada\, and the U.S. He holds degrees from Wuhan University (LL.B.)\, Peking University (MPhil)\, and Yale University (LL.M.\, J.S.D.). \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shitong-qiao/
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:20250416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250416T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jerry Kang
DESCRIPTION:At a time when the Right attacks implicit bias as liberal propaganda and some on the Left dismiss it as a distraction from structural racism\, this Article [to be discussed] offers a different take: implicit bias actually helps us see and respond to structural racism. It is a powerful diagnostic and prescriptive tool. Kang and Carbado argue that the supposed tension between individual and structural accounts of racial inequality is misguided. Implicit bias\, Kang and Carbado contend\, both reflects and reinforces structural racism. More than that\, implicit bias education—when done right—can catalyze structural reform. \nPart I begins with what most readers already know about implicit bias but then adds a surprising twist: when we aggregate individual bias scores across cities\, counties\, and states\, we discover striking correlations with racial disparities in everything from health outcomes to police violence. This recent “structuralizing” of implicit bias data has escaped the attention of legal academics. \nPart II tackles head-on the Left’s concern that implicit bias isn’t “structural enough.” Kang and Carbado agree that structural forces are primary and introduce the concept of “racial sedimentation” to make that point clear. However\, they push back against the puzzling claim that implicit bias frameworks reinforce the “intentional discrimination” mindset that Critical Race Theory has long criticized and show that just the opposite is true. \nPart III showcases how implicit bias education can advance structural reform in three important domains. Theoretically\, it provides empirical support for Critical Race Theory’s claim that race is socially constructed. Practically\, through what Kang and Carbado call the “Quadrants of Responsibility” framework\, it motivates law firms to tackle structural barriers they’d otherwise write off as beyond their institutional responsibility and control. And doctrinally\, it nudges courts to think more structurally about everything from capital punishment to jury selection. Kang and Carbado think this matters. By showing how implicit bias operates as both symptom and cause of structural racism\, they offer a new way to understand—and do something about—America’s enduring racial hierarchy. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nTo read the related paper for Professor Kang’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\nJerry Kang is the Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. He graduated magna cum laude from both Harvard College (physics) and Harvard Law School\, where he was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. After clerking for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals\, he started his professorship at UCLA in 1995. A leading scholar on implicit bias\, critical race studies\, and communications law\, Professor Kang collaborates broadly across disciplines and industries on scholarly\, educational\, and advocacy projects. An inspiring teacher\, he has received UCLA’s highest recognition: the Eby Art of Teaching Distinguished Teaching Award. During 2015-20\, he served as the UCLA’s Founding Vice Chancellor for Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-jerry-kang/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:2025 April New York Fellows Hybrid Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a hybrid lunch and presentation by ABF Research Professor\, William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law\, and Affiliated Professor of History at Northwestern University\, Ajay K. Mehrotra. \n“Nixon’s VAT: Lawyers\, Economists\, and the Rise and Fall of the National Value-Added Tax to Fund Education” \n12:00 PM ET – Lunch \n12:30-1:30 PM ET – Presentation \nLocation:\nDavis Polk\n450 Lexington Avenue\nNew York\, New York 10017 \nNearly all developed countries have some type of a broad-based\, national consumption tax\, frequently in the form of a value-added tax (VAT). These levies generate tremendous revenues that often underwrite expansive social-welfare spending – spending that mitigates economic inequality by promoting redistribution. \nThe United States is a glaring exception. While there are numerous U.S. state and local sales taxes\, the federal government has consistently rejected broad-based national consumption taxes. Likewise\, the United States has comparative low levels of direct social-welfare spending and high levels of economic inequality.  This presentation – which is part of a larger ABF research project exploring the question “why no VAT in the U.S.?” – examines the rise and fall of the Nixon administration’s 1970s national VAT aimed at funding education. \nThis presentation explores the broader forces\, seminal events\, and pivotal historical figures that resisted the education VAT during this period.  It focuses\, in particular\, on the epistemic community of tax experts\, mainly lawyers and economists\, who both supported and opposed a U.S. VAT. Ultimately\, recounting the rise and fall of Nixon’s VAT may shed light not only on the peculiar development of the fractured modern American fiscal and social-welfare states\, but also on possibilities for future tax reform. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-april-new-york-fellows-hybrid-event/
LOCATION:Davis Polk\, 450 Lexington Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Taisu Zhang
DESCRIPTION:This article argues that legal professions\, regardless of socioeconomic\, political\, cultural\, or ideological context\, naturally drift towards jurisprudential internalism. Zhang defines “legal internalism” as a behavioral paradigm in which legal actors treat legal rules as normative\, epistemologically self-contained\, and systemically coherent. Such a paradigm is deeply controversial within the legal academy: formalists embrace it as objectively “correct\,” whereas realists reject it as empirically false and conceptually incoherent. \nRegardless of what scholars believe\, he argues—first at the level of behavioral theory\, then through empirical illustration—that internalism naturally appeals to lawyers and judges due to the socioeconomic incentive structures they face. Once socially accepted\, internalism greatly increases the legal knowledge gap between specialists and non-specialists\, rendering legal comprehension easier for trained lawyers and but more difficult for laymen. This enhances the legal profession’s functional dominance over legal interpretation\, which in turn enhances its prestige\, sociopolitical stature\, and earning power. As a result\, legal professionals will tend to behaviorally embrace internalism regardless of its intellectual merits. Legal scholars\, in contrast\, have different incentive structures that significantly dilute the appeal of internalism. \nThese are universalist theoretical claims that should apply in nearly every socioeconomic and political context. Although a full empirical proof is clearly impossible in a single article\, we demonstrate their applicability to six of the world’s most important legal systems: the United States\, China\, Germany\, England\, Japan\, and India. In all six countries\, which otherwise diverge dramatically in wealth\, size\, politics\, culture\, and institutions\, legal professionals behaviorally drift towards internalism over time. They do so despite some significant political and intellectual obstacles\, and often in an explicitly self-interested manner. In contrast\, legal scholars in several of these countries are visibly more skeptical towards internalism. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nTaisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and works on comparative legal and economic history\, private law theory\, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. He is the author of two books\, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems\, Politics\, and Institutions (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, and The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England (Cambridge University Press\, 2017). These are the first two entries in a planned trilogy of books on the institutional and cultural origins of early modern economic divergence. He is currently writing two other books: the first\, The Authoritarian Functions of Law (And Their Application to Contemporary China)\, is under contract with Harvard University Press and examines the political and socioeconomic logic of legalization in China. The second\, tentatively titled The Cultural-Legal Origins of Economic Divergence\, completes the trilogy mentioned above. Zhang’s academic articles and essays have recently appeared in journals such as the Journal of Legal Studies\, the Journal of Legal Analysis\, the Yale Law Journal\, and the Harvard Law Review. His work has won awards and prizes from a number of academic organizations. \nZhang is a Global Faculty member at Peking University Law School and holds secondary appointments at Yale in the History Department and the Jackson School. He has also taught at the Duke University School of Law\, the University of Hong Kong\, Brown University\, and the Tsinghua University School of Law. He serves as co-editor of Studies in Legal History\, the book series of the American Society for Legal History (published by Cambridge University Press). He is a regular commentator on law and politics in media outlets\, in both English and Chinese.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-taisu-zhang/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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