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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
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
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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:20260417T065056
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/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
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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:20260417T065056
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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:20260417T065056
CREATED:20241008T231704Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240923T174431Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2024-26 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n  \nSino Esthappan: “The Institutionalization of Algorithmic Risk Assessments in US Pretrial Hearings”\nAcross fields\, organizations now increasingly adopt predictive algorithmic scoring systems to improve decision-making processes. Some studies find that these systems discipline workers by evaluating and directing their behaviors. Others show how\, rather than unwittingly abiding by algorithmic directives\, workers may appropriate these tools to accomplish specific goals and tasks. Yet the relational conditions under which actors follow or reject scores are not well understood\, and we know little about how organizational networks shape algorithmic decision-making practices in multiprofessional expert fields. In this presentation\, I will describe my dissertation project\, which examines how actors in the US criminal court policy field negotiate different kinds of expertise to institutionalize risk assessment tools in pretrial hearings. I will explain my plans to use archival records\, interviews\, observations\, and court transcripts to analyze how a wide multiprofessional field of national policy stakeholders and local criminal court officials makes sense of and justifies the use of varied risk assessment practices in pretrial hearings. I will conclude by discussing the implications of this research for criminal court policies and practices and scholarship on law\, organizations\, punishment\, and technology. \nSino Esthappan is an ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellow in Law & Social Science. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. \n____________________________________________________________ \nRobert Gelles: “Originalism in the Making: Language\, Knowledge Practice\, and Constitutionalism in the Conservative Judicial Audience”\nDespite significant successes in pursuing its agenda\, there remains dissent among the ranks of the Conservative Legal Movement (CLM). Intellectuals in the Movement have criticized the Supreme Court judgments that seem to achieve Conservatives’ political and legal priorities. One of their central criticisms is that the Court did not use the appropriate method of legal interpretation—it failed to abide by an Originalist Constitutional Theory. Recent social science scholarship has shown that intellectuals like these play a key role in CLM. As institution builders\, conveners\, teachers\, and authors\, Conservative legal scholars help to create and disseminate intellectual resources for litigation and judicial decisions\, train a group of attorneys to take up the cause\, and act as an audience for the judiciary and profession. At the heart of their activities is a discussion about the appropriate means of interpreting law\, often centered on an argument about the nature of language. Drawing from participant observation\, interviews with members of the Movement\, and publicly posted footage of major events\, I analyze the linguistic beliefs and behaviors by which these scholars perform their roles. By taking a semiotic approach\, I aim to show how their linguistic beliefs and knowledge practices play a key role in shaping their particular and influential legal consciousness\, as well as shaping their responses to ongoing legal action. Doing so\, I suggest\, offers an opportunity to re-conceptualize a defining feature of constitutionalism: the relationship between law and politics. \nRobert Gelles is an ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellow in Law & Social Science. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago.  \n_________________________________________________________________ \nKyneshawau Hurd: “3D of Racial Justice: Diversity\, Dominance & Discrimination. Implicit Social Dominance & The Diversity Principle-Policy Gap”\nThis work delves into the discord between the widely professed commitment to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI) in the United States and the persistent maintenance of racial hierarchies\, a phenomenon described as the principle-policy gap. Challenging traditional notions of discrimination that link it solely to overt racism or covert prejudice\, this study posits that the drive for hierarchy (or preservation of caste) is a subtler and perhaps more foundational force perpetuating racial inequalities. Further\, this works argues that this hierarchy-preservation motivation may be especially important for understanding persistent inequality in outwardly egalitarian\, pro-diversity\, and racially positive contexts.\nThus\, through a socio-psychological perspective\, the research spotlights “implicit social dominance orientation” (ISDO)—an unconscious preference for hierarchical structuring of social groups—as a significant factor contributing to this gap. Across several studies\, this work investigates the nuanced relationship between explicit and implicit social dominance orientations (SDO and ISDO\, respectively) and their impact on support for racial diversity and justice policies. Drawing from Social Dominance Theory and recent advancements in implicit cognition\, I develop a measure of ISDO and create four “Dominance Profiles”—a typology of group-based dominance motivations with implicit and explicit dimensions—to examine decision-making of those who explicitly disavow social dominance but implicitly endorse it.\nThis work further suggests that that diversity ideology\, particularly when framed instrumentally\, appeals to implicit dominance motivations and helps explain the principle-policy gap observed among egalitarians. We find evidence for the existence of ISDO and its influence on the decision-making of self-professed egalitarians. Those with higher levels of implicit social dominance (but not necessarily higher levels of racial antipathy) endorse policies that undermine racial justice efforts compared to True Egalitarians. Specifically\, policy support of Implicit Dominants\, those who explicitly endorse diversity and egalitarianism but implicit support hierarchy\, is driven by perceptions of dominant-group benefit.\nOur research highlights the importance of considering both implicit motivations and dominance motivations in understanding decision-making and behavior\, particularly among self-identified egalitarians. These findings contribute to the broader discourse on diversity to advance a 3D framework for understanding racial inequality. This framework seeks to better account for Discrimination and the ways Diversity and Dominance contribute to contemporary manifestations of it that current legal frameworks may not appreciate.\n\n\nKyneshawau Hurd is the ABF Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality. She is a social psychologist and psychology and law scholar studying the intersections of diversity\, dominance and discrimination. \n\n\nTo read the related paper for Dr. Hurd’s presentation\, reach out to Sophie Kofman or Dianna Garzón. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2024-26-doctoral-and-postdoctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T193000
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows ABA President-Elect Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease join the New York Fellows in celebrating the ABA President-Elect\, Michelle Behnke. \nMichelle Behnke\, a practitioner for over 35 years\, officially joined Boardman Clark\, one of Madison’s largest and longest-standing law firms\, this month. She will focus on the areas of business\, commercial real estate and estate planning. \nBehnke has a long history of service with the ABA. She previously served as ABA treasurer from 2017-2020 and was recently chair of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. She is currently a member of the ABA’s Strategic Planning Committee and is Wisconsin state chair for the Membership Committee. She has been a member of the ABA Board of Governors and House of Delegates and formerly served as chair of the Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services. \nMichelle is a proud Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  \n6:00-7:30 PM ET \nDrinks and appetizers to be served. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-aba-president-elect-reception-3/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241002T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240708T203001Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Yuan Yuan
DESCRIPTION:When soldiers fight justly in a just war waged by their state\, they may nonetheless kill or maim innocent civilians unexpectedly or in terms of expected collateral damage in overall justified assaults. Such incidents often inflict severe moral injuries on those soldiers in the form of immense guilt\, shame\, and remorse\, which Yuan Yuan calls “the moral injuries of soldiering.” \nThese injuries appear to have a fatalistic flavor\, representing a wound at the heart of soldiering itself as they haunt soldiers even though they have done the right thing in light of the morality of soldiering. In this paper\, Yuan contends that soldiers do not kill in their personal capacity when they fight justly in a just war initiated by their state. Instead\, they kill on behalf of and in the name of the people. While their state—representing the citizenry—wronged the innocent war victims\, the soldiers carrying out the killings did not wrong them\, thanks to the exclusionary power of the rules of engagement. While the soldiers share the responsibility for the killings as citizens of the warring state\, their responsibility is no more and no less than that of any other citizen. Only if the citizenry takes up the moral responsibilities for the unavoidable killings of innocents in a just war\, through public apology\, collective mourning\, and fair compensation\, can soldiers be liberated from the crushing emotional burdens of harming the victims. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nYuan Yuan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, San Diego. Prior to this appointment\, she was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NYU Shanghai. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 2020. Her primary areas of research are ethics\, political philosophy\, and philosophy of law\, with an emphasis on the interface between them.   \nShe is currently working on a series of papers on just war theory\, which defends the core principles of the international laws of war by illustrating how political relations transform interpersonal morality in politically oriented or mediated warfare. She also has a secondary research interest in experimental philosophy\, employing empirical methods to explore patterns in ordinary people’s philosophical intuitions.  \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-yuan-yuan/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240709T200241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T152959Z
UID:10341-1727373600-1727380800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 September Colorado Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Stephen A. Bain and Joi G. Kush\, State Chairs of the ABF Colorado Fellows\, for a complimentary networking reception and presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Anna Reosti. \n \nThursday\, September 26\, 2024 \n5:30 PM MDT – Reception \n6:00 PM MDT – Presentation \nSturm College of Law – University of Denver\n2255 E. Evans Avenue\nRicketson Law Building\, Room 412\nDenver\, Colorado 80208 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event host:\nUniversity of Denver Sturm College of Law
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-september-colorado-fellows-reception/
LOCATION:Sturm College of Law\, 2255 E. Evans Avenue\, Denver\, CO\, 80210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240925T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240917T132849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T145547Z
UID:10829-1727265600-1727271000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2024-26 Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nJoshua Aiken: “The Public’s Safety: Gun Control\, Career Criminals\, and the Statutory Revolution in Arms (1961-1995)”\nThis talk examines the relationship between notions of public safety\, new firearms regulations\, and mass criminalization in the United States from 1961-1995. Synthesizing four case studies\, I argue that the racialization of space\, pathologizing of crime\, and development of a new “gun rights” agenda shaped how Americans experienced an increasingly armed society. Based on archival research\, I attend to how legal frameworks\, political approaches\, and influential actions of everyday people can index historical changes over time. First\, I consider the drafting of the Gun Control Act of 1968\, the first major federal firearms regulation since the 1930s. Second\, I examine a network of armed black resistance\, namely through the actions of the original Black Panther Party\, that revealed the racial state’s role in structuring public space\, defining who constitutes the public\, and determining what it means to be safe. Third\, I explore how a failed constitutional challenge of Washington D.C.’s 1975 firearm regulation law\, led key figures in the “gun rights” movement to a statutes-first approach. Fourth\, I foreground a suite of federal laws passed from 1984-1986—including the Armed Career Criminal Act—that criminalized people and pathologized blackness. By the 1990s\, gun rights ideologues successfully used these laws to advance their distinct agenda through conventional legal arguments\, favorable federal courts and bipartisan responses to “violent crime.” In conclusion\, I consider how these events might challenge prevailing narratives regarding the relationship between race\, gun laws\, and American social life. \nJoshua Aiken is the ABF Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality. He is currently a J.D./Ph.D. Candidate at Yale University (History and African American Studies).  \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nEwurama Okai: “In Search of Equal Protection Futures: How Imagined Futures Shape Racial Justice Litigation in the Progressive Legal Movement”\nUnderstanding what makes legal movements successful has long been a focus of social-scientific study. Existing literature identifies factors such as the available legal ‘stock\,’ framing of social wrongs\, resource access\, and movement coherence. Recently\, scholarship on constitutional change and conservative legal movements has highlighted an important yet underexplored factor: imagined futures. While scholars acknowledge that these futures shape legal landscapes\, they often limit their analysis to predefined scenarios or trace current conditions back to pre-determined visions. This approach leaves a gap in understanding how legal movements actively construct\, interpret\, and legitimize these imagined futures\, particularly in adverse litigation contexts. Ewurama Okai’s research addresses this gap by investigating how imagined futures influence lawyering. Through in-depth interviews with Illinois-based legal professionals and qualitative content analysis of legal scholarship\, Okai examines the doctrinal and interpretive possibilities for law. Her work aims to illuminate how imagined futures serve as a mechanism in shaping legal movements\, influenced by legal education and scholarship\, and what the mean for how the field makes changes in broader society. \nEwurama Okai is the ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellow in Legal & Higher Education. She is a J.D./Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University (Sociology). 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-2024-26-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240918T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240708T202100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240805T173338Z
UID:10310-1726660800-1726666200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kasey Henricks
DESCRIPTION:“Chicago on the Take” is a case study that focuses on parking tickets that are written under false pretenses. It leverages multiple data sets against one another to demonstrate that more than one in eight tickets over a six-year span were written under conditions when restrictions did not apply. These findings within a multilevel framework to answer three questions: (1) Are errored tickets more likely to be issued in neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black or Latinx residents? (2) Are errored tickets more likely to be issued by patrol officers as opposed to parking enforcement officers? and (3) Does ethnoracial composition moderate the relationship between ticketing authorities and errored tickets? The implications of our findings (1) quantitatively trouble the ontological assumptions of data that are defined from a policing standpoint and (2) underscore an adjudicative process that routinely sanctions drivers without cause.\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nKasey Henricks (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law\, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He likes to pursue big questions through small things. Looking at often overlooked objects of the everyday\, from parking citations to lottery tickets\, Kasey’s research agenda uncovers how race and class inequalities are reproduced over time through reconfigurations of public finance under late capitalism. More specifically\, he has a publication record that follows a two-fold examination of 1) how seemingly face-neutral modes of raising revenue yield disparate consequences in who pays for social services and 2) the ways in which raced and classed antagonisms ideologically shape\, and become shaped by\, conflicts over state finance. His work documents various predatory developments in private-public “partnerships\,” alongside the erosion of a social safety net\, through the emergence of piecemeal revenue systems during the past half-century\, showing how raced and classed dynamics are implicated in a transformation of state finance that has become increasingly regressive and upwardly redistributive to capital interests across the globe.  \nAlthough Kasey never earned a high school diploma\, he completed a PhD with distinction in the discipline of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University and an associate’s from Chattanooga State Technical Community College. Prior to arriving at UIC\, he was a faculty member of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an affiliate scholar at the Appalachian Justice Research Center. He has held fellowships at the American Bar Foundation\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime\, Security\, and Law\, KWI Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities\, and UIC’s Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy\, and his research has been supported by funders like the National Science Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, and Chicago Community Trust. Some of his work has been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association\, Society for the Study of Social Problems\, Association of Black Sociologists\, Association for Humanist Sociology\, Southern Sociological Society\, Eastern Sociological Society\, and Southwestern Sociological Association. He is also a former doctoral fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-kasey-henricks/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240911T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240730T222547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T184111Z
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SUMMARY:2024 September San Diego Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Please join California State Co-Chair\, Anna Romanskaya for a dinner and presentation by 9th Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown in conjunction with the ABA Business Law Section Meeting. \n“Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas” \nWednesday\, September 11\, 2024 \nEddie V’s Prime Seafood\n789 W. Harbor Drive\, Suite 158\nSan Diego\, CA 92101 \n6:00 PM PT – Cocktail Reception \n6:30 PM PT – Dinner and Program \n$135 per Person – Guests are Welcome \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Silver Sponsor: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-september-san-diego-fellows-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240911T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240911T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240708T200454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T163345Z
UID:10303-1726056000-1726061400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Troutt
DESCRIPTION:Urban renewal\, a mid-century federal-local redevelopment program that transformed American cities and displaced millions of Black migrants from the South\, was a race-conscious government policy responsible for the enduring suppression of Black wealth. Its racial history and character are untold in legal scholarship. This article argues that the 25-year regime enacted in the Housing Act of 1949 was a response to the Great Migration of Black workers and families to northern\, midwestern\, and western cities. It was codified to interact with other segregation policies\, such as highway construction\, restrictive covenants\, redlining\, and public housing\, through the colorblind veneer of rational planning principles. Race planning created durable conditions of “racial bargaining\,” the discounted value of wealth-producing transactions in segregated Black communities. Since its mid-century enactment\, urban renewal federalized a race-conscious segregation policy that eluded civil rights remedies and framed contemporary urban development programs. The article shows how this framework sustained the racial wealth gap at the core of this country’s continuing struggle with structural inequality. \nReframing requires reckoning. The article presents\, for the first time\, the case for restorative remedies to Black descendants of the U.S. urban renewal program. Offering an architecture of accountability for race-conscious wrongs\, the article conceptualizes three buckets of contemporaneous\, future\, and cumulative harms\, an analysis of government wrongfulness\, and illustrative restorative programs. \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org. \n_____________________________________________________________________ \nDavid Dante Troutt (he/him) is professor of law (Justice John J. Francis Scholar) and the founding director of the Rutgers Center on Law\, Inequality\, and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). He teaches and writes in four areas of primary interest: the metropolitan dimensions of race\, class and legal structure; intellectual property; Torts; and critical legal theory. His major publications (noted below) include books of fiction and non-fiction\, scholarly articles and a variety of legal and political commentary on race\, law and equality. A member of the faculty since 1995 after practicing corporate and public interest law in New York and California\, Troutt founded CLiME in 2013 in order to provide a research resource for students and the public interested in the growing challenges of municipalities and families trying to sustain middle-class outcomes amid growing fiscal constraints and rapid demographic change.  \nSeveral themes characterize Troutt’s work. A key feature of his writing and teaching about the intersections of race\, class and place concerns identifying blind spots in conventional analyses of spatially determined opportunity through structuralist and interdisciplinary analysis. This work involves inquiries about meanings of colorblindness\, the role of inequity in persistent marginalization\, and the utility of civil rights theories in addressing concentrated poverty. Troutt is conducting ongoing research on developing the principle of mutuality in public law. Key themes in Troutt’s writing about intellectual property include personhood and authorship in copyright and trademark. Key aspects of his work in critical theory include the uses of narrative methodology\, cultural constructions of marginalization and the dynamic life of stereotypes.  \nProfessor Troutt is a frequent public speaker and contributor to a variety of national periodicals\, including Politico\, Huffington Post\, Reuters and The Crisis. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his juris doctor from Harvard Law School. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-david-troutt/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240730T220854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T162654Z
UID:10482-1725971400-1725975000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 September New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Elizabeth Mertz. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“From Deficit to Democracy Models in US Legal Education: The After Tenure Study” \nThe “After Tenure” study of law professors is examining the attitudes of the professors who shape students to be legal professionals. To our knowledge\, this is to date the only national\, random sample survey of law professors\, augmented by in-depth interviews with 100 of the survey respondents. We find a sharp division between law professors who focus on hierarchical models\, on the one hand\, and those who prioritize creating open educational settings and encourage diversity among students and faculty. Like research on bar exams and entry to the profession generally\, the After Tenure Study suggests a potential mismatch between the legal profession’s stated goals and practices.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/10482/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240730T221722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T152231Z
UID:10485-1725535800-1725541200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 September California Hybrid Lunch Event (Bay Area)
DESCRIPTION:Please join the California State Co-Chair\, Roger A. Royse\, Esq. for a complimentary hybrid presentation and lunch by ABF Research Professor\, Laura Beth Nielsen. \n“Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality” \nResearch conducted in this project illustrates how employment civil rights litigation entrenches patterns of discrimination in and out of the workplace. Though significant legislative and judicial progress has been made\, workplace discrimination based on race\, gender\, age\, and disability persists. The research reveals the ways that employment civil rights litigation can underscore existing systems of privilege. The research exposes how many plaintiffs struggle to obtain a lawyer as a result of structural inequalities and lawyer biases. \n11:30 am PT– Networking Lunch\n12:00 pm PT– Hybrid Presentation \n*In-person will be limited to 18 guests; we will create a waitlist once we reach capacity. \n  \nGenerously hosted and sponsored by:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-september-california-hybrid-lunch-event-bay-area/
LOCATION:Haynes & Boone\, 1 Post Street\, Suite 2800\, San Francisco\, California\, 94104
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240731T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240804T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240611T174930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T172155Z
UID:10052-1722438000-1722805200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:ABF Fellows Registration Hours: \nHyatt Regency Hotel Chicago – 151 E. Wacker Drive \nPlease stop by the Fellows registration desk to pick up your tickets\, complimentary Fellows ribbons\, and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\nWednesday\, July 31: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, August 1: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, August 2: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSaturday\, August 3: 7:00 am – 5:30 pm\nSunday\, August 4: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm\n\nFriday\, August 2\nFellows CLE Program – “Challenges to Democracy in 2024″ (8:30 AM – 10:00 AM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ABA-Fellows-CLE-Research-Seminar-8.2.2024-Main-Record.mp3\n  \nHyatt Regency Chicago\nPlaza B\n \nRegistration not required to attend event \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nResearchers and practitioners will present work in progress related to different challenges to administering and voting in US elections in 2024. Topics include threats to election administrators and candidates\, the spread of misinformation\, and barriers to participation. \nModerated By: \nTraci Burch — ABF Research Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University \nPanelists: \nRay Block\, Jr. – Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies\, The Pennsylvania State University \nAlexandra Filindra – Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology\, University of Illinois Chicago \nBrandon Jones — Director of Political Campaigns\, Southern Poverty Law Center and SPLC Action Fund \nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nChicago Architecture Center\n111 E. Wacker Drive  \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 19\, 2024 \nLocated just next-door to the headquarters hotel\, the Chicago Architecture Center is the leading organization devoted to celebrating and promoting Chicago as a center of architectural innovation. The Fellows invite you to mingle with friends\, enjoy refreshments\, and explore the interactive exhibits\, including a special gallery dedicated to Chicago architecture. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Bronze Sponsor: \n \nSaturday\, August 3\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (7:30 AM – 9:30 AM)\nHyatt Regency Chicago\nCrystal Ballroom C (West Tower\, Lobby Level)\n \nTicketed Event – An early-bird discount will apply to registrations received by Friday\, July 19\, 2024 \nJoin us for breakfast and keynote remarks from Jarrett Adams\, author of the book\, “Redeeming Justice\,” his memoir about his harrowing journey through the inner workings of the legal and prison systems and the triumph that follows as an exoneree and passionate\, committed lawyer that he is today. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Silver Sponsor: \n \n  \nSunday\, August 4\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – ??)\nHyatt Regency Chicago\nCrystal Ballroom A (West Tower\, Lobby Level)\n \nRegistration not required to attend event \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring some friends and enjoy! Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Sing-along Sponsor: \nJo Ann Engelhardt \nABF Florida State Chair | Benefactor Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/fellows-events-at-the-2024-aba-annual-meeting-in-chicago/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago\, 151 E. Wacker Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60601
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240715T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240715T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240710T223201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240712T152658Z
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SUMMARY:ABF Fellows Reception at the 2024 National Bar Association Annual Convention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free ABF Fellows Reception at the 2024 National Bar Association Annual Convention! \nMonday\, July 15 \n5:00 – 6:30pm \nPisa Room\, Promenade Level\, 3rd Floor\nCaesars Palace Las Vegas \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/abf-fellows-reception-at-the-2024-national-bar-association-annual-convention/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240517T164732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T212751Z
UID:9939-1720697400-1720702800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 July Illinois Fellows Hybrid Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Michael J. Hernandez\, Chair of the ABF Illinois Fellows\, invites you to participate in a complimentary Illinois Lunch and Presentation by ABF Executive Director and Research Professor\, Mark Suchman. \nThursday\, July 11\, 2024 \n11:30 AM CT – Networking Lunch \n12:00 PM CT – Presentation \nLocation:\nFranczek P.C.\n300 South Wacker\, Suite 3400\nChicago\, Il 60606 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor: \n \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-july-illinois-fellows-lunch/
LOCATION:Office of Franczek P.C.\, Chicago\, IL\, 300 S. Wacker Drive\, Suite 3400\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240710T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240710T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240517T160949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T212359Z
UID:9937-1720596600-1720602000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 July Oklahoma Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Join ABF Board President and Interim State Chair of the ABF Oklahoma Fellows\, Jimmy K. Goodman\, at an Oklahoma Fellows Breakfast at the Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting. \nJoin us for a morning of networking and a presentation by Oklahoma Attorney General\, Gentner Drummond\, Life Fellow. \nWednesday\, July 10\, 2024 \n7:30 am – 9:00 am \n$30 per person \nEmbassy Suites by Hilton Norman\n2501 Conference Drive\nNorman\, OK 73069 \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-july-oklahoma-fellows-breakfast/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240614T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240614T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240605T184106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T184106Z
UID:10031-1718348400-1718355600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Annual South Dakota ABF Fellows Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Annual South Dakota ABF Fellows Meeting \nJune 14\, 2024 at 7:00 am \nDuring the State Bar of South Dakota Annual Meeting \nRamkota Hotel in Pierre\, SD \nQuestions? Please contact South Dakota ABF Fellows Chair Thomas Simmons.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/annual-south-dakota-abf-fellows-meeting/
LOCATION:Ramkota Hotel\, Pierre\, South Dakota
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240312T191629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T152847Z
UID:9503-1718128800-1718134200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:New York Fellows ABA President-Elect Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease join the New York Fellows in celebrating the ABA President-Elect\, William “Bill” Bay. \nWilliam R. “Bill” Bay\, a partner with the St. Louis office of national law firm Thompson Coburn LLP\, is President-Elect of the American Bar Association and will become ABA president in August 2024. \nA longtime leader in the ABA\, Bill served as chair of the House of Delegates from 2018 to 2020\, and has been a member of the House of Delegates for more than 20 years\, serving on numerous committees. Bill was a member of the ABA Board of Governors from 2014 to 2017\, and chaired the Board’s Finance Committee from 2015 to 2016. Bill recently co-chaired the Practice Forward initiative\, which addressed member concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of the profession. He served as Chair of the Planning Committee for ABA Day on the Hill in both 2021 and 2022. Bill is also a Past Chair of the Section of Litigation (2012 to 2013). \nBill is a proud Patron Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  \n6:00-7:30 PM ET \nDrinks and appetizers to be served. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-aba-president-elect-reception-2/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240416T172912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T170552Z
UID:9687-1717610400-1717621200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 June Utah Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is now closed. Please email jdombrowski@abfn.org if you would like to attend. \nJuli Blanch\, State Chair of the Utah ABF Fellows\, invites you and a guest to a Utah Fellows Dinner. \nJoin us for an evening of networking and a presentation by Dr. Bonnie K. Baxter\, Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University\, and Tim Davis\, Deputy Great Salt Lake Commissioner\, entitled\, “Protecting The Great Salt Lake:  The Problems and Solutions.” \nWednesday\, June 5\, 2024 \n6:00 pm Cocktail Reception\n6:45 pm Dinner and Presentation\n$150 per Person \nThe Country Club\n2400 E. Country Club Drive\nSalt Lake City\, UT 84109
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-june-utah-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:The Country Club\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 2400 Country Club Drive\, Salt Lake City\, Utah\, 84109
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20231214T235759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T145017Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dan Berger
DESCRIPTION:The facts of mass incarceration in the United States are well known. Yet many of the distinguishing features of mass incarceration\, including its racism and severity\, have been foundational elements of the US prison system. At the same time\, incarcerated people have consistently shown prison to be a microcosm of the social and political divisions of society overall. In this talk\, Dan Berger previews his current book project\, Prison: A History of the United States. A sweeping history of how the United States has been made and remade through prison\, the book endeavors to tell an incarcerated people’s history of the country from settlement to the present. Following the experiences of incarcerated people across a diverse and evolving set of prisons\, Berger addresses how a country that takes “freedom” as its beacon has been defined by its absence. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDan Berger is a Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship He is an interdisciplinary historian of activism\, Black Power\, and the carceral state in twentieth-century U.S. history. His research pursues a human accounting of how freedom and violence have shaped the United States. Much of Berger’s work is located in critical prison studies\, including the diverse ways in which imprisonment has shaped social movements\, racism\, and American politics since World War II. \nHis latest book is Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey\, which is a biography of the modern Black freedom struggle through the lives of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons. Published in 2023\, the book has already been hailed as “a triumph in storytelling” (Hanif Abdurraqib) and a “rare\, intimate portrait … that will join classics on this period” (Imani Perry). Berger’s other books include Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\, which won the 2015 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians; Rethinking the American Prison Movement\, coauthored with Toussaint Losier; and Remaking Radicalism\, coedited with Emily Hobson. \nBerger co-curates the Washington Prison History Project\, a digital archive of prisoner activism and prison policy in our state. He writes often for public audiences in Black Perspectives\, Boston Review\, Truthout\, and the Washington Post\, among elsewhere. At the UW\, he is an affiliate member of the Center for Human Rights\, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies\, and the UW Seattle Department of History\, and he co-directs the UW Bothell Labor Colloquium. Beyond the university\, he is on the advisory or editorial boards of the American Prison Newspaper Project\, The Global Sixties\, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights\, and the Justice\, Power\, and Politics book series at UNC Press.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-dan-berger/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T190000
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UID:9492-1715706000-1715713200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 May Oregon Hybrid Presentation and Cocktail Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join Oregon State Chair\, Andrew Schpak\, for a cocktail reception and presentation by ABF Affiliated Scholar\, Robin Bartram. \nStacked Decks \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. \nThe Fellows gratefully acknowledge Barran Liebman LLP for sponsoring this event. \n \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-may-oregon-hybrid-presentation-and-cocktail-reception/
LOCATION:Barran Liebman LLP\, 601 SW 2nd Avenue\, Suite 2300\, Portland\, Oregon
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
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SUMMARY:2024 May New York Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New York State Co-Chairs\, Vince Chang and Adrienne Koch for a virtual presentation by ABF Research Professor\, Jacob Goldin. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits” \nGovernment agencies around the world use data-driven algorithms to allocate enforcement resources. Even when such algorithms are formally neutral with respect to protected characteristics like race\, there is widespread concern that they can disproportionately burden vulnerable groups. Professor Goldin will discuss research studying differences in Internal Revenue Service audit rates between Black and non-Black taxpayers\, which finds that despite race-blind audit selection\, Black taxpayers are audited at 2.9 to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers. This research highlights how tax administration interacts with social and demographic patterns to shape the distribution of income tax benefits and burdens.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-may-new-york-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
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UID:9657-1715623200-1715634000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 May New Jersey Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Rodriguez and Lynn Fontaine Newsome\, Co-Chairs of the New Jersey ABF Fellows\, invite you and a guest to a New Jersey Fellows Dinner. \nJoin us for an evening of networking featuring a delicious menu of heavy hors d’oeuvres plus seafood\, pasta and carving stations\, and a premium hosted bar. Valet parking will be provided. \nMonday\, May 13\, 2024 \n6:00 pm – 9:00pm ET\n$175 per Person \nPark Chateau\n678 Cranbury Rd\nEast Brunswick\, NJ 08816 \nRegistrations must be received by Thursday\, May 2\, 2024. Cancellations will be honored through Wednesday\, May 1\, 2024 \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-may-new-jersey-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Park Chateau\, East Brunswick\, NJ\, 678 Cranbury Road\, East Brunswick\, New Jersey\, 08816
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240508T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20231214T234653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T174500Z
UID:9040-1715169600-1715175000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Veena Dubal
DESCRIPTION:How much does an Uber driver make per hour? Workers’ groups\, economists\, and corporate-sponsored researchers have all calculated dramatically different numbers. Why has answering this question been so fraught\, and what can we learn about the value of quantitative and qualitative research from reflecting on this question? \nIn this article\, Veena Dubal argues that rather than reflecting a “natural labor price\,” calculated via a digital assessment of supply and demand\, variable wages allocated algorithmically to individual workers are better understood as part of a new digitalized labor management practice\, what she has called algorithmic wage discrimination. By design\, algorithmic wage discrimination formulates hourly wages that are highly variable\, using data and insights about worker behavior to set labor prices differentially. Quantitative studies of wage-earning at the aggregate level thus obscure what qualitative research makes evident: wages for platform-controlled workers not only often fall below subsistence levels\, but the very methods and practices of wage-setting generate novel forms of economic suffering. Regulatory interventions\, then\, should be attendant not just to the average wage price\, which tends to disguise new harms and buttress corporate myths about the nature of digital labor management\, but also to the many problems engendered by digitalized wage allocation\, thereby heeding the demands of worker groups to intervene in the relational process of wage-determination. These qualitative findings are especially important to understanding and regulating the “future of work\,” as algorithmic wage discrimination is quickly moving from the ride-hail and food-delivery industry to the labor economy writ large. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nVeena Dubal is a Professor of Law at the University of California\, Irvine School of Law. Her research focuses broadly on law\, technology\, and precarious workers\, combining legal and empirical analysis to explore issues of labor and inequality. Her work encompasses a range of topics\, including the impact of digital technologies and emerging legal frameworks on workers’ lives\, the interplay between law\, work\, and identity\, and the role of law and lawyers in solidarity movements. \nDubal has written numerous articles in top law and social science journals and published essays in the popular press. Her research has been cited internationally in legal decisions\, including by the California Supreme Court\, and her research and commentary are regularly featured in media outlets\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Los Angeles Times\, NPR\, CNN\, etc. TechCrunch has called Dubal an “unlikely star in the tech world\,” and her expertise is frequently sought by regulatory bodies\, legislators\, judges\, workers\, and unions in the U.S. and Europe. Dubal is completing a book manuscript that presents a theoretical reappraisal of how low-income immigrant and racial minority workers experience and respond to shifting technologies and regulatory regimes. The manuscript draws upon a decade of interdisciplinary ethnographic research on taxi and ride-hail regulations and worker organizing and advocacy in San Francisco. \nDubal received a B.A. from Stanford University and holds J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she conducted an ethnography of the San Francisco taxi industry. The subject of her doctoral research arose from her work as a public interest attorney and Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow at the Asian Law Caucus where she founded a taxi worker project and represented Muslim Americans in civil rights cases. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at her alma mater\, Stanford University. She returned to Stanford again in 2022 as a Residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Dubal is the recipient of numerous awards and grants\, including the Fulbright\, for her scholarship and previous work as a public interest lawyer.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-veena-dubal/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
CREATED:20240226T200409Z
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UID:9389-1715158800-1715187600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Emerging Insights from Access to Justice Research
DESCRIPTION:The United States faces an access to civil justice crisis of extraordinary scale. According to the latest Legal Services Corporation Justice Gap Report\, 92% of low-income Americans with civil needs cannot find adequate help to resolve their civil legal problems. Hosted by the American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice Research Initiative and Wayne State University Law School\, this conference offers a unique opportunity for access to justice researchers\, policy makers\, and practitioners to critically examine how empirical research and evidence might provide answers. \nThere is no cost to attend this conference\, but registration is required. Space is limited.  \nEvent Schedule:\nWelcome and Opening Remarks | 9:00 – 9:15 am\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nRichard Bierschbach\, Dean and John W. Reed Professor of Law\, Wayne State University Law School\nRebecca Sandefur\, Director and Professor\, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics\, Arizona State University; Faculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation\nHarold D. Pope\, American Bar Foundation Board Member and Sustaining Life Fellow \nSession 1: Research-Practice Partnerships | 9:15 – 10:45 am \nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC\n \nMargaret Hagan (Stanford University)\nClaire Johnson Raba (UIC Law)\nKirsten Matoy Carlson (Wayne State University Law School)\nNeel Sukhatme (Georgetown University Law Center) \nRespondent: Nikole Nelson (Frontline Justice)\nModerator: Matthew Burnett (American Bar Foundation) \nBreak | 10:45 – 11:00 am \nSession 2: Exploring the Nexus of Civil and Criminal Law | 11:00 – 12:30 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nBrittany Friedman (University of Southern California)\nSarah Lageson (Rutgers University)\nKarin Martin (University of Washington)\nMaureen Waller (Cornell University) \nRespondent: Ed Wunch (Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma)\nModerator: Robin Bartram (University of Chicago) \nLunch | 12:30 – 1:30 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nLunchtime remarks by Richard Bierschbach\, Dean and John W. Reed Professor of Law\, Wayne State University Law School\n \nSession 3: Data for Achieving Better Justice Outcomes | 1:30 – 3:00 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nChiara Galli (University of Chicago)\nRebecca Johnson (Georgetown University)\nAmy Widman (Rutgers Law School) \nRespondent: Holly Stevens (Legal Services Corporation)\nModerator: Nicole Summers (Georgetown University Law Center) \nBreak | 3:00 – 3:15 pm \nSession 4: Housing and Environmental Justice | 3:15 – 4:45 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nRobin Bartram (University of Chicago)\nAlyse Bertenthal (Wake Forest Law)\nNicole Summers (Georgetown University Law Center) \nRespondent: David Neumeyer (Virginia Legal Aid Society)\nModerator: Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State University) \nClosing Remarks | 4:45 – 5:00 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room BC \nReception | 5:00 pm\nLocation: McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Room FGH
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/emerging-insights-from-access-to-justice-research/
LOCATION:McGregor Memorial Conference Center\, Wayne State University\, 495 Gilmour Mall\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48202
CATEGORIES:Access to Justice,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T065056
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UID:9037-1714564800-1714570200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hiroshi Motomura
DESCRIPTION:Hiroshi Motomura will share key lessons from his forthcoming book\, Borders and Belonging. The book shows how new immigration policy insights emerge from combining approaches that are seldom adopted together. This broader inquiry reveals conceptual obstacles to finding sound responses to migration. First is a tendency to apply a simplistic single framework for evaluating migrants’ claims. In fact\, some claims invoke shared humanity\, while other claims draw on belonging to a national community. Second is a false assumption that immigration laws govern the boundary between insiders and outsiders. In fact\, immigration laws empower some insiders while silencing others. Third is a deceptive distinction between “refugees” and “migrants.” In fact\, refugees work\, and many migrants flee dire conditions. Fourth is a misleading choice between “temporary” and “permanent” migration. In fact\, the line between them is blurred. Moving beyond these (and other) conceptual obstacles is essential for developing sound responses to human migration. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nHiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the University of California\, Los Angeles School of Law. Motomura is a teacher and scholar of immigration and citizenship\, with influence across a range of academic disciplines and in federal\, state\, and local policymaking. \nHis book\, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States (Oxford 2006) won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PROSE) Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year’s best book in Law and Legal Studies\, and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for its Suggested Reading List for Foreign Service Officers. He is a co-author of two immigration-related casebooks: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (9th ed. West 2021) and Forced Migration: Law and Policy (2d ed. West 2013)\, and he has published many widely cited articles on immigration and citizenship. His most recent book\, Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford 2014)\, won the Association of American Publishers’ Law and Legal Studies 2015 PROSE Award and was chosen by the Association of College and Research Libraries as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. \nIn 1997\, Professor Motomura was named President’s Teaching Scholar\, which is the highest teaching distinction at the University of Colorado\, and he has won several other teaching awards\, including the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, and the 2013 Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award from the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF). He was one of just 26 law professors nationwide profiled in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard 2013)\, and he received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014 and the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence in 2021. He teaches Immigration Law\, Immigrants’ Rights\, and the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic\, and he is the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. \nProfessor Motomura was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018 to work on a book\, Borders and Belonging: Can Immigration Policy Be Ethical?\, now under contract with Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2024). A preliminary partial version of the project was published as “The New Migration Law” in the 2020 Cornell Law Review.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-hiroshi-motomura/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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