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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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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/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250423T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250416T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
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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:20260416T023747
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241120T152413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T142523Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241028T144302Z
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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:20260416T023747
CREATED:20250123T030410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T194629Z
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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/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241028T144246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T215340Z
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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:20260416T023747
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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:20260416T023747
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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/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250227T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241212T151256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T155236Z
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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/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241029T164645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T201319Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T133000
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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/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250219T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241028T144129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T002114Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rabiat Akande
DESCRIPTION:The final years of British imperial rule in Northern Nigeria witnessed efforts to source appropriate models of legal modernization from the Muslim world. The models afloat in constitutional discourse\, those of Libya\, Sudan\, Pakistan\, and Egypt\, were held up by respective proponents as ideal for resolving the long-fraught question of the relationship between Islam and public law in a modern state. Yet\, the evocations of these foreign models were idealized imaginaries; by framing these models as settled facts\, the Northern Nigerian evocations flattened the constitutional experience of these states and obscured unfolding struggles over the nature of legal modernity. Against the backdrop of contestations between juristic and political elites\, colonial officials\, and other actors\, this paper chronicles the outsourcing of Northern Nigeria’s legal modernization to foreign imaginaries. Even as the Northern Nigerian legal borrowing debate fielded competing visions of decolonization and modernization\, that discourse limited the realm of possibilities to an uncritical and\, in the end\, imaginary copying from postcolonial jurisdictions. The ultimate consequence was the trumping of juristic power by political authority and the foreclosure of emancipatory possibilities for the future of law. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nRabiat Akande (she/her) joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2024. She works in the fields of legal history\, law and religion\, constitutional and comparative constitutional law\, Islamic law\, international law\, and (post)colonial African law and society. \nProfessor Akande is the author of Entangled Domains: Empire\, Law\, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press: 2023). Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, the Journal of Law and Religion\, Law and History Review\, the Supreme Court Review\, and in volumes by Cambridge University Press\, University of Toronto Press\, and University of Virginia Press. Currently\, she is co-editing an encyclopedia of law and religion (Elgar Publishing: under contract)\, an African international law reader\, and a volume on African international legal history. She is also at work on a book exploring Malcolm X’s intellectual legacy titled Malcolm X\, Black Globalism\, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism. \nProfessor Akande chairs the international legal history project at the African Institute of International Law in Arusha with the support of the African Union and the Gerda Henkel Foundation\, among other institutions. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-rabiat-akande/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241210T163553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T154010Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aaron Pitluck
DESCRIPTION:In the United States and in much of the world\, our lives are directly or indirectly dependent on financial markets to access key resources such as an automobile or home\, to move money into the future so that we can stop working before we die\, and to access fundamental needs such as healthcare and an education. Unfortunately\, even highly regulated financial markets are saturated with financial professionals’ exploitation of information and power asymmetries\, conflicts of interest\, and financial instruments designed with negative externalities. Moreover\, many financial markets are lightly regulated and rely on self-regulation. In an aspiringly democratic society\, how can outside critics—such as social movements\, policy makers\, politicians\, academics\, and even regulators—understand financial markets and instruments sufficiently to morally and normatively evaluate them? Even more challenging\, how can outsiders use their hard-won understanding to advocate for and create normatively and morally better forms of finance\, particularly when the social change may not be in financial insiders’ short-term interest? To explore questions such as these\, Dr. Pitluck will describe his research in global Islamic investment banks in Malaysia to understand how moral critics such as Shariah scholars are engaging with financial expert communities and conducting a deep structural change of financial markets. The presentation will outline how this organizational and institutional structure allows Shariah scholars to induce an understanding of what Islamic finance is and to pragmatically co-produce with investment bankers a movement towards this moral and normative vision.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n\n\nAaron Z. Pitluck (he/him) is a Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association. \nDrawing on economic sociology\, anthropology\, and cultural analysis\, his research interests center on financial actors\, organizations\, markets\, and institutions\, particularly in the Global South. \nWhile at the ABF\, he is writing an interdisciplinary book describing how investment bankers\, Shariah scholars\, and the state are co-producing Islamic banking and finance in Malaysia. By investigating this case study\, the book seeks to distinguish empowering from exploitative finance and to contribute to understanding how to alter the trajectory of finance towards the former. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-aaron-pitluck/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20250107T155832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T174013Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Carol Heimer
DESCRIPTION:Regulators have long worried about how much to trust those they regulate. Trust can be efficient\, allowing regulators to expend fewer resources on expensive\, labor-intensive inspections. But trust also carries substantial risks. A regulator’s vote of confidence can open the door for shirking\, inappropriate bending of rules\, or even misrepresentation and deceit. For this reason\, many regulatory systems make trust contingent on verification\, as the Russian proverb advises.\nThis imperative to limit trust often leads to the creation and institutionalization of obligations for layered verification of one component after another. Such regulatory regimes create considerable work both for regulated entities\, who must demonstrate that they have followed the rules\, and for regulators\, who must verify compliance.\nBut as accountability and verification regimes attempt to solve one set of problems — those arising from too fully trusting regulated entities’ compliance claims — these regimes risk creating fresh problems. Building on organizational research on “routine dynamics\,” the article shows how regulatory regimes with detailed rules and elaborate verification routines may inadvertently reinscribe patterns of privilege and disadvantage as regulators enforce rules and guidelines that inevitably have biases built into them. The article also shows how the official\, scripted universalism of regulatory stances can be diminished or magnified by the unscripted interactional stances of monitors and inspectors.\nDrawing on research conducted in HIV clinics in the US\, Thailand\, South Africa\, and Uganda\, the article looks at regulatory encounters in healthcare and biomedical research. The regime of institutionalized skepticism\, developed for oversight of clinical research\, assumes that it is necessary to cast a distrustful eye on each stage of the research process. Yet it turns out that institutionalized skepticism is not always implemented or experienced the same way. Crucially\, it is more likely to be coupled with disrespect in poorer countries than richer ones.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nCarol A. Heimer is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She received her BA from Reed College and her PhD from the University of Chicago. Heimer has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational Action)\, organization theory (Organization Theory and Project Management\, co-authored with Stinchcombe)\, the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine (For the Sake of the Children\, co-authored with Staffen\, winner of both the theory and medical sociology prizes of the American Sociological Association). A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching\, she usually teaches courses on law\, medicine\, and qualitative methods\, with occasional forays in to topics such as the sociology of moral experience. She spent 2007-08 as a Visiting Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton. Heimer is currently writing a book from her NSF-funded comparative study of the role of law in medicine. In recent years\, American medicine has been “legalized” as relatively informal regulation by professional peers has been supplanted by an increasingly rule-based system. By no means confined to the US\, this rule-based regulation has diffused widely\, sometimes freely adopted by medical workers eager for the legitimacy conferred by American medical science\, at other times imposed on foreign scientific colleagues by American funding agencies and research organizations. The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in HIV/AIDS clinics in the US\, Uganda\, South Africa\, and Thailand.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-carol-heimer/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250129
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DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241210T155507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T162655Z
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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/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241028T162635Z
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SUMMARY:2025 January Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join Kari Petrasek and Hon. Dean Lum\, Co-Chairs of the ABF Washington Fellows\, for a Washington Fellows Dinner and presentation featuring Honorable M. Margaret McKeown\, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. \nWednesday\, January 22\, 2025 \nSeattle University School of Law\nSullivan Hall\n901 12th Avenue\nSeattle\, WA 98122 \n5:30 PM PT – Cocktail Reception\n6:00 PM PT – Dinner and Program \n$40 per Person\nGuests Welcome \nRegistrations must be received by Wednesday\, January 15\, 2025. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsors: \nGold Sponsor \n \nBronze Sponsor
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-january-washington-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Seattle University School of Law\, 901 12th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241210T163217Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: John Eason
DESCRIPTION:During the prison boom—from 1970 to 2000 when facilities tripled across the US\, prisons were more likely to be constructed in rural towns in the South with higher rates of poverty\, and Black and Latino residents. By examining the period we call the prison “bust”—between 2000-2023–when prison closures eclipsed openings\, we reveal how prison closures impact schools and racial equity across rural communities. Using Community Engaged Methods (CEM) we demonstrate multiple adverse effects of prison closure on rural communities of color including school closures. We argue that these findings implore us to find responsible ways of curbing demand to close prisons and reduce harm to rural communities of color. We assert this move from prison abolition as advocacy to prison abolition as policy will bear more fruit in reducing our overreliance on mass incarceration.\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n\n\nJohn M. Eason (he/him) is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He also works as a Senior Fellow at the Justice Policy Center/Office of Race and Equity Research at the Urban Institute. \nHe holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Eason\, a native of Evanston\, Illinois\, received a bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a M.P.P. from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. \nBefore entering graduate school\, Eason was a church-based community organizer focused on housing and criminal justice issues. He also served as a political organizer for then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. \nEason’s research interests challenge existing models and develop new theories of community\, health\, race\, punishment and rural/urban processes in several ways. First\, by tracing the emergence of the rural ghetto\, he establishes a new conceptual model of rural neighborhoods. Next\, by demonstrating the function of the ghetto in rural communities\, he extends concentrated disadvantage from urban to rural community process. These relationships are explored through his book\, “Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation” (University of Chicago Press\, 2017).
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-john-eason/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250115T164500
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241105T223544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T201836Z
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SUMMARY:2025 January Utah Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Utah Fellows for a reception and presentation of “Our Court: A History of the United States Supreme Court” by ABF Research Professor\, Christopher W. Schmidt. \nWednesday\, January 15\, 2025\n4:45 PM MT – Reception\n5:00 – 6:00 PM MT – Presentation \nUtah Law and Justice Center\n645 S. 200 E\nSalt Lake City\, UT 84111 \n**Approved for CLE Credit** \nThe United States Supreme Court today occupies a place in American politics and culture more prominent and more contested than at any point in history. The overturning of Roe v. Wade dramatically raised the Court’s profile and further polarized public attitudes toward it. Recent Court vacancies have produced passionate ideological confrontations that have exploded long-established political norms and practices\, proposals to reform the Court have become debate points of mainstream politics\, and the ethics of the justices are not a regular topic of media coverage. For many Americans the Supreme Court has become a focal point for their hopes and fears and shaping its composition and direction a responsibility of democratic citizenship. A defining characteristic of the modern Supreme Court is this perceived connection between the American people and the Court. \nProfessor Schmidt’s research examines a key moment in the making of the modern Supreme Court: the failed appointment of John Parker to the Supreme Court in 1930. Prior to Parker\, no Supreme Court nominee had been voted down in the Senate for almost half a century\, and almost forty years would pass before it happened again. Schmidt argues that this event had lasting significance in the ways groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led the campaign to defeat Parker by using the Court to energize social movement activity and advance their political objectives. In making the case for active citizen oversight of the Court\, the NAACP\, with the support of allies in the press and in Congress\, forged new pathways connecting the Court and the American people. \nThe Fellows Gratefully Recognize Event Sponsors
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2025-january-utah-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Utah Law and Justice Center\, 645 South 200 East\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the 1960s\, many African governments were taken over by their armies. “The Soldier’s Creed” describes how law and militarism intersected in postcolonial Africa. In Nigeria and other former British colonies\, military officers believed they could remake their countries in the image of an army. Soldiers tried to condition civilians to think like they did—and when that failed they tried to beat the bad habits out of them by force. Military-style discipline became a political philosophy\, and some soldiers came to believe that making Africa into a vast open-air barracks was what would make it truly “free.” In Nigeria and elsewhere\, soldiers saw judges as partners in their attempts to “discipline” their countries\, but law wasn’t the disciplinary tool they thought it was. Civilians could turn law back on them\, they discovered\, and only some judges shared their world-making aspirations. Using an original collection of legal records\, documents\, and memoirs\, Samuel Fury Childs Daly shows how law facilitated militarism and\, at times\, worked against it. \n\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\n\n\nSamuel Fury Childs Daly is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago’s Department of History. Professor Daly writes about law\, warfare\, and the politics of military regimes. Most of his work describes the history of Africa since independence. He asks how soldiers and judges think: how do military dictatorships use law\, and how do judiciaries check their powers – or enable them? He also studies what warfare does to legal systems. Armed conflict degrades normative orders\, and sometimes it creates new ones. How do people make order and resolve disputes in wartime? His first book\, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law\, Crime\, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, connects the Nigerian Civil War to the fraud and violent crime that wracked Nigeria in its wake. Using an original body of legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra\, it traces how technologies\, survival practices\, and moral codes that emerged during the fighting lasted long after the war was over. The line between martial violence and violent crime can blur on the battlefield\, and once that line is gone it is hard to redraw it. \nHe is currently conducting research for two projects – a global history of military desertion\, and a book about military imposters and role-players. His work has been published in venues including Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in History from Columbia University\, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge\, and an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London. He previously taught at Duke University. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-samuel-fury-childs-daly/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241212T130000
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SUMMARY:2024 December Maryland Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Maryland State Co-Chairs\, Hon. Lynne Battaglia and Herman Rosenthal\, for a virtual presentation by ABF Affiliated Scholar\, Emily Ryo. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST. \nAccess to Justice in U.S. Immigration Courts \nRemoval proceedings are high-stakes adversarial proceedings in which immigration judges must decide whether to allow immigrants who allegedly have violated U.S. immigration laws to stay in the United States or to order them deported to their countries of origin. In these proceedings\, the government trial attorneys prosecute noncitizens who often lack English fluency\, economic resources\, and familiarity with our legal system.  This presentation will focus on studies that examine issues of access to justice in U.S. immigration courts for immigrants in removal proceedings.  The questions raised and addressed in these studies include: What barriers do immigrants in removal proceedings face in obtaining legal representation?  Does the effect of legal representation case outcomes vary by the race of immigrants\, their lawyers\, and/or immigration judges presiding over their proceedings?  What is the role of social identity of individual judges and the role of social diversity of immigration courts in shaping the removal decisions of immigration judges?
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-december-maryland-fellows-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
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SUMMARY:2024 December New York Fellows Lunch
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nView photos from the event below! \nPlease join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a hybrid lunch and presentation by Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, Akhil Reed Amar. \n \n \n \nThe Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation \n12:00 PM ET – Lunch \n12:30-1:30 PM ET – Presentation \nLocation:\nDavis Polk\n450 Lexington Avenue\nNew York\, New York 10017 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-december-new-york-fellows-lunch/
LOCATION:Davis Polk\, 450 Lexington Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20240709T163120Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
DESCRIPTION:Using 60 ethnographic interviews with a range of minority law students and early career legal professionals\, this Article illuminates the cruciality of eCRT tools to understand the experience of individual deviance and the usefulness of a queer theory lens in aiding such an effort. Analysis from these narrative data show that students with different kinds of peripheral identities experience professional spaces in many uniquely different ways but that narratives across minority categories (primarily differentiated by race\, gender identity\, religion\, and disability) also overlapped in important ways. Particularly\, the data show a clear pattern among these differently peripheral actors of what I call “blasé” dismissal and denial of discrimination. Unlike microaggressions which might have resonance in common cultural parlance as an operationalization of structural violence\, what distinguishes blasé discrimination\, I argue\, is the ordinariness of the act in common interactional parlance alongside its relative unlikeliness to be seen as problematic when confronted. It is this possibility of defense and even justification in the face of being questioned about the violence that makes blasé discrimination and its ambiguous parameters worthy of our attention in identity jurisprudence. This exploration of the blasé response to discrimination sheds light – borrowing from queer theory – on the opportunities available for theory building when difference is analyzed across narrative to focus on the commonalities of deviance across sub-categories of assumed identity. In turn\, it offers a framework for considering what I am framing as the “QuEer-CRT” approach for law and society scholarship. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nSwethaa S. Ballakrishnen (they/them) is a socio-legal scholar whose research examines the intersections between law\, globalization and stratification from a critical feminist and global south perspective. Particularly\, across a range of sites and different levels of analysis\, their work interrogates how law and legal institutions create\, continue\, and counter different kinds of socio-economic inequalities.  \nScholarship from Professor Ballakrishnen’s research projects has appeared in\, among other journals\, Law and Society Review\, Law and Social Inquiry\, Fordham Law Review\, International Journal of the Legal Profession\, and the Journal of Professions and Organization. Their first book\, Accidental Feminism (Princeton University Press: 2021)\, unpacks the case of unintentional gender parity among India’s elite legal professionals; a second book Invisible Institutions (Hart Publishing: 2021\, ed. with Sara Dezalay) brings together cross-subjective perspectives on legal globalization; and a third book\, Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy (Zubaan Books\, with Kalpana Kannabiran) investigates the gendered legacies of India’s privacy jurisprudence. These strains of research have received a range of honors and awards\, including from the National Science Foundation\, the American Sociological Association\, and the Law and Society Association; and in 2022\, Ballakrishnen was awarded the campus-wide UCI Distinguished Early-Career Award for Research. You can read more about their research praxis and commitments here.  \nAlongside this scholarly output\, Professor Ballakrishnen’s research has been featured in a range of professional and popular media including Harvard Business Review\, Stanford News Report\, Above the Law\, Bloomberg Law\, Quartz\, Law School Transparency Radio\, The Practice\, New Books Network\, and WPR. They have presented research at over 100 conferences worldwide\, delivered over 50 invited talks in a range of academic and professional settings\, and their legal opinions on family and financial laws have been cited by the Probate and Family Court of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit respectively.  \nProfessor Ballakrishnen is committed to building and serving socio-legal communities\, especially ones that focus on critical questions concerning legal education and the profession. At UCI\, they co-run the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession\, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop\, and the Law\, Society\, and Culture Emphasis. In addition\, beyond UCI\, they are affiliated faculty at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession\, on the board of trustees of the Law and Society Association (LSA) and the ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Law\, a co-founder of the LSA Collaborative Research Network on Legal Education\, and on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession. In 2017-18\, they were the AccessLex Visiting Scholar on Legal Education at the American Bar Foundation. In 2020\, Professor Ballakrishnen was named a AALS Teacher of the Year.  \nFor over a decade before entering academia full-time\, Professor Ballakrishnen was a legal intern to Hon’ble Justice Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court of India\, an international banking associate in Mumbai\, and an external consultant for cross-border litigation financing in New York City.  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-swethaa-s-ballakrishnen/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T200000
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SUMMARY:2024 November New Jersey Fellows Reception - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:Please join New Jersey Co-Chairs\, Lisa Rodriguez and Lynn Fontaine Newsome\, for a New Jersey Fellows Reception. \nJoin us for an evening of networking and celebration as we bring together the New Jersey ABF Fellows. Enjoy cocktails\, conversation\, and the opportunity to connect with old friends and new! \nWednesday\, November 20\, 2024\n6:00 pm – 8:00pm\n \nNew Jersey Law Center\nOne Constitution Square\nNew Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \n$115.00 per person \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-november-new-jersey-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:New Jersey Law Center\, One Constitution Square\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey\, 08901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241109T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
CREATED:20241022T205154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T193519Z
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SUMMARY:ABF Reception at the 2024 NAPABA Convention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free ABF Reception at the 2024 NAPABA Convention in Seattle\, WA! \nSaturday\, November 9\, 2024\n4:30pm – 5:30pm PT \nRoom 501 Chiwawa\nHyatt Regency Seattle\n808 Howell Street \nFeaturing remarks from Hon. Goodwin H. Liu\, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-reception-at-the-2024-napaba-convention/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T193712Z
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SUMMARY:2024 November Connecticut Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Connecticut Fellows State Chair\, Andy I. Corea\, for a networking reception and presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Robert L. Nelson. \n“The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” \n6:00pm ET – Networking Reception \n6:30pm ET – Presentation \nThis program will present material from the capstone book of the ABF’s After the JD project\, “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” by Nelson\, Dinovitzer\, Garth\, Sterling\, Wilkins\, Dawe\, and Michelson (University of Chicago Press 2023).  The book presents a definitive study of lawyers’ careers based on 20 years of research on a national sample of lawyers who passed the bar in 2000. It follows these lawyers through a combination of survey data and in-depth interviews that show how lawyers make meaning in their personal and professional lives. Although all American lawyers belong to one profession\, the book demonstrates that there are deep divisions by client type and practice setting and that women and lawyers of color continue to face barriers to equal opportunity.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-november-connecticut-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Murtha Cullina LLP\, 280 Trumbull Street\, Hartford\, Connecticut\, 06103
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ke Li
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on archival and ethnographic research\, this talk presents a case study of legal workers in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Empirically\, it marks the key moments in the PRC’s development of a legal services industry during the reform era. It does so by tracing how a particular group of law practitioners\, known as basic-level legal workers\, rose to prominence in the socialist era and then fell from favor in the new millennium. The fact that the PRC’s top decision-makers have struggled to transform the group of practitioners and that they have mishandled attempts to harness a burgeoning services industry testifies to the limits of authoritarian regimes—and especially the challenges in instrumentalizing law\, legal professions\, and judicial institutions. Theoretically speaking\, this case study foregrounds an understudied theme in the literature. True\, legality has become an integral part of autocrats’ ruling methodologies in many parts of the world. Their endeavors to deploy legal techniques and personnel to resolve emerging problems in ruling\, however\, do not always deliver. Thus\, it is crucial for researchers to heed—and explicate—when and why autocrats do not always get what they want.\n  \nTo read the related paper for Dr. Li’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. \n\n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nKe Li (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on law and society\, knowledge practices\, and gender politics in contemporary China. In a decade or so\, she has had articles published in the Law & Society Review\, Law & Policy\, and Sociological Forum. Her book\, Marriage Unbound: State Law\, Power\, and Inequality in Contemporary China\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2022.   \nDrawing on extensive archival and ethnographic data\, Marriage Unbound shows how women’s legal mobilization and rights contention can forge new ground for our understanding of law and politics\, as well as power and inequality\, in an authoritarian context. In 2023\, this book received several awards\, including Herbert Jacob Book Prize for the best book on law and society and Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics.  \nIn recent years\, she has branched out into new research areas. In one project\, she examines LGBTQ activism and impact litigation in Chinese society; and\, in a related project\, studies how state- and society-sponsored knowledge moves come to shape judicial decision-making\, respectively. Together\, these two inquiries\, she hopes\, will allow her to connect several adjacent research areas: law and society\, the sociology of knowledge\, and science and technology studies. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-ke-li/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023747
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SUMMARY:Widening the Lens
DESCRIPTION:No registration is required for in-person attendance.\nPlease note\, this event is primarily in-person and open to all who are interested\, including students\, faculty\, practicing lawyers\, academics\, staff\, and others.\nIf you cannot make it to Cambridge/Harvard\, you can register to view the event via Zoom here.\n \nFriday\, October 18 and Saturday 19\, 2024\nHarvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession\, Milstein East Conference Center\, Wasserstein Hall\nIn a time when racial inclusion in US law schools is under debate and attack\, this conference poses fundamental\, empirically based challenges to law teaching. Many years ago\, New Legal Realism (NLR) co-founder David Wilkins critiqued the standard legal approach to “bleached-out professionalism” for Black lawyers. We draw from that work\, as well as from relevant social science research and theory\, from Critical Race Theory\, from research outside of mainstream Global North traditions\, and from other perspectives that shake up taken-for-granted “truths” undergirding traditional U.S. legal education. Furthermore\, conference participants will bring new paradigms developed within the legal academy to bear on assumptions that have guided traditional Western social science itself. In opening up this truly interdisciplinary space for conversation\, the conference will encourage the development of expansive research and teaching frameworks for the legal academy—frameworks containing possibilities for real change. \nNew Legal Realism (NLR) is a movement that began in the early 2000s\, aimed at producing and translating excellent empirical research on law and legal institutions for legal professionals. With deep roots in the law-and-society tradition\, NLR has worked to build bridges between social science and the legal academy and has always highlighted research on legal education. NLR scholars have published cutting-edge articles on how to integrate social science into legal training\, working between theory\, empirical research\, and the practices involved in law teaching. As those scholars have repeatedly demonstrated\, there are very important links between legal education and the ethical orientations of the legal profession. Those ethics depend importantly on perspectives that take the social reality of law seriously\, as well on inclusive visions for the profession as a whole in a democratic state. From its first conference in 2004\, NLR has engaged deeply with race\, gender\, and global approaches to law as foundational parts of research on law in books and law in action.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/widening-the-lens/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession\, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Conferences,News
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