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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:20260416T005022
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250529T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250529T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
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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
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250401T162417Z
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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:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241028T144334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T175538Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241107T161745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T203515Z
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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:20260416T005022
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T234500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T234500
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250304T181902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T153420Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250407T172251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T171447Z
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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:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250424T202209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T202209Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241029T164937Z
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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:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250315T143533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T195605Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241029T164246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T194651Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T213000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
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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:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241107T194600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T214519Z
UID:11168-1745409600-1745415000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241028T144319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T184431Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250304T181319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T192618Z
UID:12171-1744286400-1744291800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241120T152413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T142523Z
UID:11277-1744200000-1744205400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241028T144302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T205701Z
UID:11047-1743595200-1743600600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Tristin Green
DESCRIPTION:In February 2025\, the Trump Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague letter to universities and K-12 schools in which it insisted that teachings that trigger feelings of guilt or “moral burden” because of race amount to discrimination by “deny[ing] students the ability to participate fully in the life of a school.” Several years earlier\, the Executive Office of the President under then-president Donald Trump issued a letter directing all federal agencies to “cease and desist” in their workplaces from funding diversity training sessions that teach “divisive concepts\,” including any trainings “suggesting that any individuals should feel discomfort\, guilt\, anguish\, or any other form of psychological stress on account of his or her race.” The common idea across these directives is that teaching about racial bias\, systemic racism\, racial history\, or injustice amounts to discrimination against whites solely because it imposes harms related to race in the form of psychological stress or emotional anguish. Feeling badly about race\, in other words\, renders the teachings discriminatory without any further inquiry. \nThese directives build from a larger shift in antidiscrimination law over the past several decades toward measuring individual harm in determining whether discrimination occurred. The shift\, what Tristin Green calls “centering personal offense\,” is particularly evident in the area of employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Judges during this time began to see and emphasize individual\, psychological harm as a principal discrimination harm and at the same time to raise concerns about claims for mere trifles\, creating legal doctrines designed to protect employers from liability through judgments about individuals’ harms where no such doctrines existed before. \nAs the anti-DEI directives so starkly illustrate\, centering personal offense in antidiscrimination law deforms and decontextualizes the discrimination inquiry by burying normative determinations in individualized measurements of harm. In this way\, it dovetails with (though is distinct from) calls for formal equality and colorblindness. What’s more\, once measuring harm is part of the discrimination inquiry\, it appears natural for judges to weigh individual harms against each other in deciding whether discrimination took place: One individual’s judicially declared affront to dignity is put up against another individual’s judicially declared much ado about nothing. \nIn this project\, Tristin Green exposes the turn in antidiscrimination law toward centering personal offense (a turn that has been implicitly embraced by progressives and conservatives alike) and illustrates why it is problematic. Looking to the future\, she then shows how a seemingly narrow recent Supreme Court decision\, Muldrow v. City of St. Louis\, can be understood to upend it. With antidiscrimination law under attack\, re-centering institutions and normative debates about what amounts to discrimination and why is more crucial than ever. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nTristin Green is a sociolegal scholar interested in the role of institutions—such as workplaces\, educational systems\, and legal frameworks—in perpetuating discrimination. Her work critically examines how prevailing ideologies about discrimination shape legal doctrines and\, in turn\, influence the potential for law to effect substantive and meaningful social change. Her work pushes against narrow frames of discrimination to instead emphasize institutional and organizational decisions\, especially as they affect the context for day-to-day relations. \nProfessor Green is the author of dozens of scholarly journal articles and book chapters\, as well as two books: Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace (University of California Press\, 2023) and Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2017).
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-tristan-green/
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:20250318T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250123T030410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T194629Z
UID:11827-1742301000-1742304600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 March New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor Emeritus\, Terence Halliday. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“Looking Back\, Looking Forward: China’s Rights Lawyers and Us” \nFor 20 years the ABF has underwritten research on one of the great rights’ struggles of our times—the fight for basic legal freedoms by China’s criminal defense and rights lawyers. Based on Professor Halliday’s longstanding ties with many leading lawyers\, he look back to describe how they worked in the dark underbelly of China as counsel of last resort\, how they have suffered for their heroic activism\, what hope now remains ten years after the brutal 709 Crackdown in 2015 on hundreds of rights lawyers\, and what we and the international community can do now to enable them to continue to fight the good fight. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/11827/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241028T144246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T215340Z
UID:11044-1741780800-1741786200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ji Li
DESCRIPTION:Immigrant lawyers represent a rapidly growing yet understudied segment of the U.S. legal profession. This article examines the career trajectories of Chinese immigrant lawyers\, the largest ethnic subgroup within this population\, through a dual institutional perspective that situates their professional experiences within both home-state and host-state institutional contexts. Applying the forms of capital framework\, this study empirically analyzes how these lawyers navigate the devaluation of their human and cultural capital\, limited access to social capital\, and systemic biases within the American legal market. Despite these structural barriers\, Chinese immigrant lawyers exercise considerable adaptive agency by specializing in China-related legal work\, a strategy that enables them to reconfigure and mobilize their capital in ways that mitigate structural disadvantages. By shifting the analytical focus beyond a U.S.-centric lens\, this study advances socio-legal scholarship by proposing a transnational approach that captures both institutional constraints and agentic responses shaping immigrant lawyers’ careers. More broadly\, it contributes to ongoing debates on the legal profession\, immigrant incorporation\, and first-generation Asian American professionals\, while extending the application of the forms of capital framework to transnational legal careers. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nProfessor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to this appointment\, he was a Professor of Law and a Zhuang Zhou Scholar at Rutgers University\, where he also served as a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. \n\n\nProfessor Li received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Yale Law School\, where he was an Olin Fellow in Law\, Economics\, and Public Policy. After law school\, he worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. \n\n\nProfessor Li’s teaching and scholarship cover a broad range of topics\, including Chinese law and politics\, international business transactions\, contracts\, comparative law\, and empirical legal studies. He has published two books with Cambridge University Press: Negotiating Legality (2024) and Clash of Capitalisms (2018)\, both of which examine how Chinese multinational companies\, including those owned by the Chinese state\, adapt to U.S. legal and regulatory institutions. During the 2018-2019 academic year\, Professor Li was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is currently working on two book projects that investigate the interactions between China and the international legal order\, as well as the ways transnational legal actors are coping with the U.S.-China geopolitical rivalry. \n\n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-ji-li/
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:20250305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250205T153751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T194405Z
UID:11935-1741176000-1741181400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hila Keren
DESCRIPTION:Statutory bans on providing necessary treatments to trans minors are already in place in about half of the nation’s states. Although many courts have found such treatment bans unconstitutional\, the Sixth Circuit affirmed bans enacted by Tennessee and Kentucky in L.W. v. Skrmetti. The decision rejected two separate constitutional challenges under the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause. However\, when the challengers petitioned for the Supreme Court’s review\, the Court only agreed to consider the argument—made by the Government as an intervening plaintiff—that the treatment bans discriminate on the basis of sex and transgender status in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. It took no action on the private plaintiffs’ petitions—minors\, parents\, and doctors—who argued that the treatment bans not only discriminate but also infringe on parental rights in violation of the Due Process Clause. \nThis Article is the first to analyze the adverse ramifications of such a selective review of the treatment bans. It argues that deciding Skrmetti without considering parental rights is a flawed way to adjudicate the constitutionality of the bans. Far from being merely a procedural issue\, narrow consideration stands to skew the substantive outcome of the litigation\, allowing the bans to survive despite their striking conflict with the Constitution. This is a possible result not due to a weakness of the legal arguments regarding discrimination: The bans explicitly target transgender adolescents\, preventing only them from undergoing treatments that cisgender minors are permitted to receive. Rather\, as this Article shows\, it is the conservative orientation of the Court that makes the invalidation of the bans under the Equal Protection Clause an unlikely result. \nYet\, this Article offers more than an analysis of how selective consideration begets injustice. Because it acknowledges that treating trans youth touches ideological nerves that impact adjudication\, it takes on an original task: uncovering arguments that would justify invalidating the bans outside of the liberal framework. By uniquely examining the issue from a conservative perspective\, this Article aspires to help persuade enough Republican appointees on the Court that the treatment bans are unconstitutional for reasons independent of their discriminatory intent and content. It canvasses multiple resources to show how conservatives are less united with regard to state intrusion into parental rights than they are in their resistance to gender identity issues. Based on this study\, the Article argues that the main path to saving minors’ access to gender-affirming care is to find common ground between liberals and some conservatives on the Court around the bans’ impact on the fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing\, including healthcare needs\, of their children free of government intervention. \nDelving even deeper in search of such a coalition\, this Article highlights conflicting priorities on the right side of the political map\, analyzing how the treatment bans contradict key principles of the libertarian and neoliberal strands within the conservative movement. This nuanced understanding might persuade some Justices\, who are more committed to limiting state power than to promoting religious values\, to be more skeptical of the bans and join their liberal colleagues in invalidating them as a display of unprecedented government overreach. \nTherefore\, there might currently be a narrow window of opportunity to invalidate the bans and resume trans minors’ access to the treatments their doctors advise and their parents agree they need. This insight should lead the Court to broaden its review and consider the threat to parental rights before deciding Skrmetti. Yet\, if this does not transpire due to excessive partisanship\, the Article’s long-term contribution is identifying—for future litigation—how the treatment bans clash not only with trans rights but also with conservative principles. As this Article shows\, due care for all minors\, regardless of their gender identity\, could and should be within reach even in a conservative Court. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nHila Keren brings a unique global perspective on contracts and business law to the classroom\, having studied\, taught and practiced law in Israel for more than two decades. She served on the Faculty of Law of her alma mater\, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, from 2005 until her appointment to Southwestern in Fall 2010. At Hebrew University\, she taught basic and advanced courses in contracts as an Assistant Professor of Law and earned the Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2006\, Professor Keren was elected by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities to be a member of its Young Researchers’ Forum. Professor Keren was appointed Associate Dean for Research in 2019. \nAt Southwestern\, Dean Keren teaches in the areas of contracts and business law. In addition to earning her LL.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Israel\, Dean Keren completed two years of post-doctoral studies at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California\, Berkeley in 2005. During her studies\, she was awarded the Birk Foundation Award for Distinguished Research in the Field of Law\, the Alice Shalvi Scholarship for Original Feminist Legal Studies\, the Rector’s Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Students and the Golda Meir Fellowship. She returned to UC Berkeley in 2007-2008 to teach Contracts and Challenges to Legal Rationality as a Visiting Professor. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-hila-keren/
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:20250301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20250210T185002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T185056Z
UID:12012-1740830400-1740834000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 March West Virgina Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join West Virgina State Co-Chairs\, Thomas and Rebecca Tinder for a virtual presentation to welcome the newest West Virginia Fellows. Featuring remarks from Frank X. Neuner\, Jr.\, Chair of the National Fellows of the ABF and West Virginia University College of Law Professor Emeritus\, Jack Bowman. \nFor registration information and Zoom link\, please contact jdombrowski@abfn.org.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-march-west-virgina-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250227T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241212T151256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T155236Z
UID:11398-1740679200-1740686400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2025 February Mississippi Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Mississippi State Chair Robert E. Hauberg\, Jr.\, Esq. and the Mississippi Fellows for a dinner and presentation with the Honorable Leslie King\, Presiding Justice\, Mississippi State Supreme Court. \nThursday\, February 27\, 2025 \nCapital Club\n125 S. Congress Street\nJackson\, MS \n6:00 PM CT \n$75 per Person\nGuests Welcome
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-february-mississippi-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T005022
CREATED:20241029T164645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T201319Z
UID:11106-1740571200-1740576600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Calvin John Smiley
DESCRIPTION:Reentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately\, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas\, in a journey that is often confusing\, complex\, and precarious. Making use of life-history interviews\, focus groups\, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color\, primarily Black men\, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serve as an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free\, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems\, this book advocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nTo read the related paper for Dr. Smiley’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\nCalvin John Smiley received his PhD from The Graduate Center-CUNY in 2014. His work focuses on issues related to race\, inequality\, and social justice. More specifically\, as a critical sociologist and criminologist\, he has studied mass incarceration and prisoner reentry\, particularly for urban inhabitants. \nSmiley has been published in a number of academic peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. In addition\, his research has been cited in notable publications such as The Washington Post and Le Monde (France). He is the co-editor of Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Returning Home published by Routledge Press. Finally\, Smiley is working on a book-length manuscript on his work on prisoner reentry\, specifically examining many of the intricacies and complications of prisoner reentry and how men and women navigate and negotiate reentry space\, moving from confinement to community\, with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas. \nExplore Dr. Smiley’s research\, teaching\, and publications on his website. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-calvin-john-smiley/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:2025 February New York Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Affiliated Scholar\, Robin Bartram. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \nStacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality \nA startling look at the power and perspectives of city building inspectors as they navigate unequal housing landscapes. Though we rarely see them at work\, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at the heart of Professor Bartram’s analysis of how individuals’ impact—or attempt to impact—housing inequality. In Stacked Decks\, Professor Bartram reveals surprising patterns in the judgment calls inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. These predominantly white\, male inspectors largely recognize that they work within an unequal housing landscape that systematically disadvantages poor people and people of color through redlining\, property taxes\, and city spending that favor wealthy neighborhoods. Stacked Decks illustrates the uphill battle inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-february-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rabiat Akande
DESCRIPTION:The final years of British imperial rule in Northern Nigeria witnessed efforts to source appropriate models of legal modernization from the Muslim world. The models afloat in constitutional discourse\, those of Libya\, Sudan\, Pakistan\, and Egypt\, were held up by respective proponents as ideal for resolving the long-fraught question of the relationship between Islam and public law in a modern state. Yet\, the evocations of these foreign models were idealized imaginaries; by framing these models as settled facts\, the Northern Nigerian evocations flattened the constitutional experience of these states and obscured unfolding struggles over the nature of legal modernity. Against the backdrop of contestations between juristic and political elites\, colonial officials\, and other actors\, this paper chronicles the outsourcing of Northern Nigeria’s legal modernization to foreign imaginaries. Even as the Northern Nigerian legal borrowing debate fielded competing visions of decolonization and modernization\, that discourse limited the realm of possibilities to an uncritical and\, in the end\, imaginary copying from postcolonial jurisdictions. The ultimate consequence was the trumping of juristic power by political authority and the foreclosure of emancipatory possibilities for the future of law. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nRabiat Akande (she/her) joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2024. She works in the fields of legal history\, law and religion\, constitutional and comparative constitutional law\, Islamic law\, international law\, and (post)colonial African law and society. \nProfessor Akande is the author of Entangled Domains: Empire\, Law\, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press: 2023). Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, the Journal of Law and Religion\, Law and History Review\, the Supreme Court Review\, and in volumes by Cambridge University Press\, University of Toronto Press\, and University of Virginia Press. Currently\, she is co-editing an encyclopedia of law and religion (Elgar Publishing: under contract)\, an African international law reader\, and a volume on African international legal history. She is also at work on a book exploring Malcolm X’s intellectual legacy titled Malcolm X\, Black Globalism\, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism. \nProfessor Akande chairs the international legal history project at the African Institute of International Law in Arusha with the support of the African Union and the Gerda Henkel Foundation\, among other institutions. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-rabiat-akande/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aaron Pitluck
DESCRIPTION:In the United States and in much of the world\, our lives are directly or indirectly dependent on financial markets to access key resources such as an automobile or home\, to move money into the future so that we can stop working before we die\, and to access fundamental needs such as healthcare and an education. Unfortunately\, even highly regulated financial markets are saturated with financial professionals’ exploitation of information and power asymmetries\, conflicts of interest\, and financial instruments designed with negative externalities. Moreover\, many financial markets are lightly regulated and rely on self-regulation. In an aspiringly democratic society\, how can outside critics—such as social movements\, policy makers\, politicians\, academics\, and even regulators—understand financial markets and instruments sufficiently to morally and normatively evaluate them? Even more challenging\, how can outsiders use their hard-won understanding to advocate for and create normatively and morally better forms of finance\, particularly when the social change may not be in financial insiders’ short-term interest? To explore questions such as these\, Dr. Pitluck will describe his research in global Islamic investment banks in Malaysia to understand how moral critics such as Shariah scholars are engaging with financial expert communities and conducting a deep structural change of financial markets. The presentation will outline how this organizational and institutional structure allows Shariah scholars to induce an understanding of what Islamic finance is and to pragmatically co-produce with investment bankers a movement towards this moral and normative vision.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n\n\nAaron Z. Pitluck (he/him) is a Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association. \nDrawing on economic sociology\, anthropology\, and cultural analysis\, his research interests center on financial actors\, organizations\, markets\, and institutions\, particularly in the Global South. \nWhile at the ABF\, he is writing an interdisciplinary book describing how investment bankers\, Shariah scholars\, and the state are co-producing Islamic banking and finance in Malaysia. By investigating this case study\, the book seeks to distinguish empowering from exploitative finance and to contribute to understanding how to alter the trajectory of finance towards the former. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-aaron-pitluck/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T120000
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UID:11487-1738152000-1738157400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Carol Heimer
DESCRIPTION:Regulators have long worried about how much to trust those they regulate. Trust can be efficient\, allowing regulators to expend fewer resources on expensive\, labor-intensive inspections. But trust also carries substantial risks. A regulator’s vote of confidence can open the door for shirking\, inappropriate bending of rules\, or even misrepresentation and deceit. For this reason\, many regulatory systems make trust contingent on verification\, as the Russian proverb advises.\nThis imperative to limit trust often leads to the creation and institutionalization of obligations for layered verification of one component after another. Such regulatory regimes create considerable work both for regulated entities\, who must demonstrate that they have followed the rules\, and for regulators\, who must verify compliance.\nBut as accountability and verification regimes attempt to solve one set of problems — those arising from too fully trusting regulated entities’ compliance claims — these regimes risk creating fresh problems. Building on organizational research on “routine dynamics\,” the article shows how regulatory regimes with detailed rules and elaborate verification routines may inadvertently reinscribe patterns of privilege and disadvantage as regulators enforce rules and guidelines that inevitably have biases built into them. The article also shows how the official\, scripted universalism of regulatory stances can be diminished or magnified by the unscripted interactional stances of monitors and inspectors.\nDrawing on research conducted in HIV clinics in the US\, Thailand\, South Africa\, and Uganda\, the article looks at regulatory encounters in healthcare and biomedical research. The regime of institutionalized skepticism\, developed for oversight of clinical research\, assumes that it is necessary to cast a distrustful eye on each stage of the research process. Yet it turns out that institutionalized skepticism is not always implemented or experienced the same way. Crucially\, it is more likely to be coupled with disrespect in poorer countries than richer ones.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nCarol A. Heimer is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She received her BA from Reed College and her PhD from the University of Chicago. Heimer has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational Action)\, organization theory (Organization Theory and Project Management\, co-authored with Stinchcombe)\, the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine (For the Sake of the Children\, co-authored with Staffen\, winner of both the theory and medical sociology prizes of the American Sociological Association). A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching\, she usually teaches courses on law\, medicine\, and qualitative methods\, with occasional forays in to topics such as the sociology of moral experience. She spent 2007-08 as a Visiting Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton. Heimer is currently writing a book from her NSF-funded comparative study of the role of law in medicine. In recent years\, American medicine has been “legalized” as relatively informal regulation by professional peers has been supplanted by an increasingly rule-based system. By no means confined to the US\, this rule-based regulation has diffused widely\, sometimes freely adopted by medical workers eager for the legitimacy conferred by American medical science\, at other times imposed on foreign scientific colleagues by American funding agencies and research organizations. The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in HIV/AIDS clinics in the US\, Uganda\, South Africa\, and Thailand.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-carol-heimer/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2025 ABA Midyear Meeting in Phoenix
DESCRIPTION:A $30 registration fee is required and helps cover administrative costs associated with the Midyear Meeting \nEarly event registration discounted pricing until January 17 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours: \nSheraton Phoenix Downtown\n340 N. 3rd Street \nPlease stop by The Fellows registration desk to pick up your complimentary Fellows ribbons and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\n3:00 PM – 5:30 PM      Wednesday\, January 29\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Thursday\, January 30\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Friday\, January 31\n7:30 AM – 5:00 PM      Saturday\, February 1\n7:30 AM – 3:00 PM      Sunday\, February 2\n\nFriday\, January 31\nFellows CLE Program – “The Age-Old Question Facing All of Us – Deny People Any Help or Allow Some Help by Non-Lawyers: An Innovation’s Odyssey”\n(2:00 PM – 3:30 PM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1003-1.mp3\n\nSheraton Phoenix Downtown\n340 N. 3rd Street \nThe ABA will seek 1.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states\, and 1.8 hours of CLE credit for this program in 50-minute states. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. Please visit www.americanbar.org/mcle for general information on CLE at the ABA. (CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Midyear Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nAccess to justice is an endemic and intractable challenge for the American legal system. This CLE is about an innovation’s odyssey. It explores the expansion and evolution in the states of one response to that intractable challenge\, one with far-reaching potential – redefining who can deliver legal services if not licensed attorneys. It is about states as laboratories for innovations authorizing trained and licensed non-lawyers – having a variety of names — to deliver certain legal services without attorney supervision. And the states are indeed laboratories for what is\, admittedly\, an access experiment. At the outset\, no one knew if this innovation would work. As then Washington State Chief Justice Barbara Madsen said in the 2012 order creating the first such non-lawyer program\, “No one has a crystal ball … There is simply no way to know the answer to this question without trying it.” Odysseys are about journeys and what a given journey can teach us. In 2025\, the question now is what have we learned? \nThis program will be moderated by Don Bivens\, Principal Attorney\, Don Bivens\, PLLC and feature a panel discussion with: \n\nStephen Daniels – American Bar Foundation Research Professor Emeritus\nMichele Statz – Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School\, Affiliated Faculty with the University of Minnesota Law School and Affiliated Scholar with the American Bar Foundation\nRodolfo D. Sanchez – Executive Director\, DNA – People’s Legal Services\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nChase Field\n401 E. Jefferson \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends\, and fun at the 20th Anniversary Experience at Chase Field! Relive some of the greatest moments in Arizona Diamondbacks history in an MLB museum-style setting. Located on the main concourse in right field\, the area features historic artifacts\, memorabilia\, photography and a wall with signed baseballs from nearly all D-backs players and coaches. The Experience also includes a showcase of the team’s 2001 World Series championship and several Silver Slugger\, Gold Glove and Cy Young Awards won by D-backs players. Guests can also view the field! \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsor:  \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsors:  \n \n \n\nSaturday\, February 1\, 2025\nFellows Tour: Taliesin West (8:45 AM – 12:00 PM)\nRound trip bus tour from Sheraton Phoenix Downtown 340 N. 3rd Street. \nTaliesin West is a World Heritage site and National Historic Landmark nestled in the desert foothills of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Wright’s beloved winter home and desert laboratory was established in 1937 and diligently handcrafted over many years. Deeply connected to the desert from which it was forged\, Taliesin West possesses an almost prehistoric grandeur. It was built and maintained almost entirely by Wright and his apprentices\, making it among the most personal of the architect’s creations. Join us for a break from the conference room to enjoy the true beauty of Arizona. The bus ride is about 40 minutes each way to reach this desert beauty and will leave from the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix at 8:45 AM and return to the same location by 12:00 PM. \n69th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM) – CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. If you would like to be put on the waitlist\, please email jdombrowski@abfn.org.  \nHeard Museum\n2301 N. Central \nRound trip shuttle bus provided from Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. \nJoin us for a festive evening as we celebrate and honor lawyers and scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and society.  Our guests will have full access to the museum to tour and discover the rich and vibrant world of American Indian art\, from traditional artworks to contemporary creations. \n\nOutstanding Service Award: Myles Lynk\nOutstanding Scholar Award: Erwin Chemerinsky\nOutstanding State Chair Award: Julianne P. Blanch\, Utah\n\nFeaturing keynote remarks from the author of “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History\,” Professor Ned Blackhawk\, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History\, Yale University \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsor: \n \n \n \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Bronze Sponsors:  \nLAURA V. FARBER\, IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL ABF FELLOWS\n \n \n \nSunday\, February 2 \nFellows Sing-Along (9:00 PM –  ??)\nSheraton Phoenix Downtown\n340 N. 3rd Street \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring some friends and enjoy! Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2025-aba-midyear-meeting-in-phoenix/
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