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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240911T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
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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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240708T200454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T163345Z
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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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240730T220854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T162654Z
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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:20260417T082905
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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240611T174930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T172155Z
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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:20260417T082905
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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240517T164732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T212751Z
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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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240517T160949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T212359Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240614T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240614T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240605T184106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T184106Z
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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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240312T191629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T152847Z
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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\, 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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240416T172912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T170552Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240312T175253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T155437Z
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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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240312T172932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240418T204838Z
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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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240408T201726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T201726Z
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:20260417T082905
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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240226T200409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T134447Z
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:20260417T082905
CREATED:20231214T231042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T141147Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240424T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20231214T230258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T154213Z
UID:9034-1713960000-1713965400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Shayak Sarkar
DESCRIPTION:Shayak Sarkar’s talk discusses the experience of taxation for domestic workers\, particularly childcare workers in private households. Drawing upon an original survey\, expert interviews\, and online forums\, he documents new observations of the employee-employer relationship and tax decision-making. Surveyed “nannies” express a strong preference for formal employment and tax reporting. Nannies also report tax ignorance and evasion by some educated household employers; others forge unique tax arrangements\, including by strategically placing some income on the books and some off-the-books. Finally\, payroll companies play a surprising role in educating and supporting workers in navigating tax- and formality-hesitant employers. In addition to presenting these preliminary results\, Sarkar discusses further work to unpack domestic worker-employer negotiations. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nShayak Sarkar is a Professor of Law at the University of California\, Davis School of Law. Sarkar’s scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation\, employment law\, immigration\, and taxation. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. \nSarkar clerked for the Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to his clerkship\, he practiced as an employment attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services\, where he focused on domestic workers’ rights. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School\, where he was active in the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. He also served as a Coker Fellow in Contracts and received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Before law school\, he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford\, where he earned Masters’ Degrees\, with distinction\, in Social Work and Development Economics. \nHis research has appeared or is forthcoming in academic journals including the California Law Review\, Georgetown Law Journal\, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review\, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender\, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism\, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-shayak-sarkar/
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:20240418T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240311T214339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T153910Z
UID:9473-1713439800-1713445200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 April Florida Fellows Hybrid Lunch and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Florida State Co-Chairs\, Jo Ann Engelhardt\, Esq.\, and Kenneth A. Tinkler\, and the ABA Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness for “The Delivery of Legal Services in Disasters and Redefining Resilience.” \nA presentation highlighting the American Bar Association’s work in disaster response and preparedness\, including the Disaster Legal Services Program\, and how this program has assisted disaster survivors for half a century. The program will also provide an overview of the delivery of legal services during a disaster\, and how policies can improve or hinder recovery after a disaster. \nProgram Panelists: \nAndrew VanSingel (Chicago\, IL) – Moderator\nTerritory Manager\, Internal Revenue Service\nMember\, ABA Standing Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness\nLife Fellow\, American Bar Foundation \nJaclyn Lopez (Gulfport\, FL)\nAssistant Professor of Law and Director of the Jacobs Public Interest Law Clinic for Democracy and the Environment\, Stetson University College of Law \nDanielle Harris (Orlando\, FL)\nChief Program Officer\, Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida\, Inc. \nLinda Anderson Stanley (St. Petersburg\, FL)\nDirector of Fellowships\, Equal Justice Works\nChair\, ABA Standing Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness \nAnthony Palermo (Gulfport\, FL)\nAssistant Professor of Law\, Stetson University \n11:30 AM ET – Lunch\n12:00 PM ET – Presentation \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Gold Sponsor: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event Silver Sponsor: \nJo Ann Engelhardt\, Esq.\n  \nThe Fellows gratefully acknowledge Stetson University College of Law for hosting this event. \nThis program is cosponsored by the ABA Section of Environment\, Energy\, and Resources.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-april-florida-fellows-hybrid-lunch-and-presentation/
LOCATION:Stetson University – Tampa Law Center\, 1700 N. Tampa Street\, Tampa\, Florida\, 33602
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20231214T224231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T165022Z
UID:9031-1713355200-1713360600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lucius Couloute
DESCRIPTION:Roughly 600\,000 people are released from prison each year. Contemporary reentry systems\, or webs of post-incarceration services\, are typically organized around transforming this population into law-abiding\, productive\, and responsible citizens. Lucius Couloute’s talk examines how formerly incarcerated people conceptualize reentry services amid severe structural barriers to (re)integration. In particular\, Couloute will link narratives of individualism to the various forms of exclusion and “support” described by a sample of formally criminalized people. The cleavages between post-imprisonment needs and available resources begs a critical evaluation of both existing interventions and potential alternatives. As such\, Couloute will also explore a somewhat novel (re)integrative support – direct cash transfers – for their capacity to promote post-incarceration success. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLucius Couloute is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Suffolk University. He came to Suffolk University in the summer of 2019. Previously\, Couloute worked as a policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative where he produced policy reports using Bureau of Justice Statistics data and advocated for criminal justice reform. \nCouloute’s primary research interests involve the practices\, processes\, and impacts of criminalization. His current research investigates the structural barriers and cultural ideas that permeate a northeastern prisoner reentry system. His work also examines how organizations produce\, mediate\, or experience systems of inequality.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-lucius-couloute/
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:20240411T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240301T162216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T201657Z
UID:9420-1712856600-1712869200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 April Washington Fellows Reception and Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Kari Petrasek and the Hon. Dean Lum\, Co-Chairs of the ABF Washington Fellows\, invite you to save the date for the Washington State Fellows Dinner with Keynote Speaker\, Chief Justice Steven C. González\, Washington State Supreme Court. \nThursday\, April 11\, 2024\n5:30 PM PT Cocktail Reception\nDinner and Program to Follow \nThe Rainier Club\nBurke Room\n820 4th Avenue\nSeattle\, WA 98104 \nThe Fellows gratefully our event sponsors:\n \nGold Sponsor \n \nSilver Sponsor \n \nBronze Sponsor
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-april-washington-fellows-reception-and-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240327T161205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T214302Z
UID:9592-1712772000-1712779200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 April Washington DC Presentation and Cocktail Reception
DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is now closed. Please email jdombrowski@abfn.org if you would like to attend. \nPlease join the Washington DC Fellows State Chairs for a cocktail reception and fireside chat with the Hon. Amit P. Mehta\, United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Sy Damle\, Partner\, Latham & Watkins LLP. \nWednesday\, April 10\, 2024\n6:00 PM ET Cocktail Reception and Conversation \nLatham & Watkins LLP\nTriple Nickel Room\n555 Eleventh Street\, NW Suite 1000\nWashington\, D.C. 20004 \nPhoto ID Required for Building Access \nThe Fellows gratefully our event sponsors:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-april-washington-dc-presentation-and-cocktail-reception/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20240308T171939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T150535Z
UID:9463-1712752200-1712755800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2024 April 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\, Jeannine Bell\, 2023-24 ABF William Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“Mining the Trust Gap: The Complexity of American’s Views of Police Behavior” \nThe nationwide protests that took place in 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd may have surprised casual observers of American public opinion.  It seemed that Americans were suddenly waking up to police violence and demanding changes in an area where they had mostly been contented. \nHowever\, the scholarly view of public opinion on policing is far more complicated.  Even before the protests\, African Americans had long held dim views of police behavior\, and public opinion polls showed white Americans trust of the police as far lower than one might assume.  Scholars refer to the wide gulf between whites and African Americans’ views of the police as a trust gap.  Based on more than 80 interviews for her forthcoming book\, Professor Bell’s presentation will explore: 1) the level of trust in police from respondents of different backgrounds and 2) some of the reasons for this trust gap.  She will also discuss some police procedures that might help increase trust in the police.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/2024-april-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20231214T223726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T203451Z
UID:9028-1712750400-1712755800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Susan Bibler Coutin
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Susan Bibler Coutin provides an overview of her draft book manuscript\, On the Record: Papers\, Immigration\, and Legal Advocacy.  Based on 2011-2015 ethnographic fieldwork in the legal department of an immigrant-serving nonprofit in Southern California\, On the Record analyzes how immigrant residents and the attorneys and paralegals who represent them attempt to surmount documentary challenges\, deploying papers as a form of advocacy.  Undocumented residents who seek legal status in the United States face a potentially insurmountable challenge: to obtain status\, they have to document lives that they were forbidden to live. The records that applicants must present to US immigration officials may be the very things that their lives as undocumented individuals fail to produce: bank records\, check stubs from their employers\, contracts in their own names. Sometimes\, records can result in unexpected opportunities\, while other times they eliminate all hope of legalizing. The documentation requirements associated with immigration cases also have risen in recent years\, as US officials have increasingly come to see immigration as a security issue and immigrants as a potential threat. On the Record examines how broader trends in enforcement and securitization are embedded in the forms that immigrants have to complete\, the documentary expertise that service providers and immigrants have developed\, the materiality and legal significance of papers\, and the sorts of state-noncitizen relationships that emerge in the interstices of form completion. By analyzing the mundane workings of an extraordinary area of law\, On the Record argues that gathering and submitting records as part of immigration claims is a way of “documenting back” to a state that views immigrant residents as suspect. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nSusan Bibler Coutin is a Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society\, and Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and is a professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law\, and Society and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine.  Her research has examined social\, political\, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues\, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States. \nHer most recent book Documenting the Impossible Realities: Ethnography\, Memory\, and the As If\, coauthored with Barbara Yngvesson\, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023.  She recently completed NSF-funded research regarding how the production\, retrieval\, and circulation of records and files figures in immigrants’ efforts to secure legal status in the United States.  In collaboration with Sameer Ashar\, Jennifer Chacón\, and Stephen Lee\, she is completing a book project based on research entitled\, “Navigating Liminal Legalities along Pathways to Citizenship: Immigrant Vulnerability and the Role of Mediating Institutions.” Their co-authored book Legal Phantoms: Executive Relief and the Haunting Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.  With Walter Nicholls\, she is currently carrying out an NSF-funded project entitled\, “Immigration Dimensions of Local Governance: Municipalities\, Neighborhoods\, and Citizenship.”
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-susan-bibler-coutin/
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:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T082905
CREATED:20231214T220337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T154447Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sara Sternberg Greene
DESCRIPTION:One of the most basic assumptions of our legal system is that when two parties face off in court\, the case will be adjudicated before a judge who is trained in the law. Sara Sternberg Greene’s research shows that\, empirically\, the assumption that most judges have legal training does not hold true for many low-level state courts. Using data compiled from all fifty states and the District of Columbia\, Greene finds that thirty-two states allow at least some low-level state court judges to adjudicate without a law degree\, and seventeen states do not require judges who adjudicate eviction cases to have law degrees. Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases\, this sets up an almost Kafkaesque scene in courtrooms across the country: Legal cases that have a profound effect on poor families\, such as whether they will lose their home to eviction\, are argued in courtrooms where either no one knows the law or only one party—the attorney for the more powerful party—does. \nConsidering data collected from a case study of North Carolina\, where over 80% of magistrates do not have J.D.s\, Greene argues that allowing a system of nonlawyer judges perpetuates long-standing inequalities in our courts. She further argues that the phenomenon of lay judges is a symptom of a much larger problem in our justice system: the devaluation of the legal problems of the poor\, who are disproportionately Black and Latinx. This devaluation stems in part from an enduring cultural history in the United States of blaming the poor for their poverty and its associated problems. A change is in order\, one that intentionally considers the expertise of judges and adopts creative solutions to incentivize specially qualified adjudicators to serve as low-level state court judges. \nTo register\, or for access to the related paper\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSara Sternberg Green is a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. She is a sociologist and legal scholar whose teaching and research interests include poverty law\, housing law\, consumer law\, bankruptcy\, family law\, contracts\, qualitative research methods\, and law and sociology. Greene uses primarily qualitative empirical methods to study the relationship between law\, poverty\, and inequality. \nHer work focuses on how low-income families understand\, experience\, and interact with the law\, how legal institutions may inadvertently perpetuate poverty and inequality\, and how structural conditions create barriers to accessing law and justice for low-income families. Greene’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review\, the New York University Law Review\, the Duke Law Journal\, and the Minnesota Law Review\, among others. She has also published work in popular outlets such as The New York Times\, Politico\, and The Hill. \nGreene received her B.A. in 2002 from Yale University\, magna cum laude and with distinction. She received her J.D. in 2005 from Yale Law School\, where she received the Stephen J. Massey Prize for excellence in advocacy and served as notes editor for the Yale Law Journal and articles editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review. She also served as chair of the student board of directors for the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization and as student director in the Housing and Community Development Clinic. After clerking for Judge Richard Cudahy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit\, Greene focused on housing law and tax credit matters at the law firm Klein Hornig in Boston before beginning a Ph.D. program. She received her Ph.D. in social policy and sociology from Harvard University in 2014.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-sara-sternberg-greene/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Leisy J. Abrego
DESCRIPTION:Having accompanied the immigrant youth movement in the United States\, we witnessed the leadership\, relationality\, and transformative capacities of undocumented youth who fought for access to legalization. Leisy J. Abrego will highlight undocumented youth-led practices of healing as inspiring examples of kinship\, community care\, and transformation in the face of legal violence. Reframing notions of undocumented youth in the U.S. as ‘good neoliberal subjects’ as was required for public-facing activism (Pallares\, 2014)\, the talk instead centers their communal embeddedness. Undocumented youth were able to collectively organize and heal some of the harm caused by the legal violence (Menjívar and Abrego\, 2012) of the citizenship regime by going through an affective and cognitive (personal and political) transformation process in which their subjectivities were reconstituted. Shame turned into pride\, and a sense of isolation was met with a sense of kinship and belonging. Relying on humbled scholarship and participatory (co-creative) research\, Abrego takes seriously the messiness of life and the complex personhood (Gordon\, 2008) of immigrants without romanticizing their agency\, nor underestimating the embodied effects of legal violence. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLeisy J. Abrego is a Professor in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is a member of the first large wave of Salvadoran immigrants who arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. \nHer research and teaching interests – inspired in great part by her family’s experiences – are in Central American immigration\, Latina/o families\, the inequalities created by gender\, and the production of “illegality” through U.S. immigration laws. Her award-winning first book\, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws\, Labor\, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press\, 2014)\, examines the well-being of Salvadorian immigrants and their families – both in the United States and in El Salvador – as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations. Her early research examines how immigration and educational policies shape the educational trajectories of undocumented students. Her second book\, Immigrant Families (Polity Press\, 2016)\, is co-authored with Cecilia Menjívar and Leah Schmalzbauer and delves deeply into the structural conditions contextualizing the diverse experiences of contemporary immigrant families in the United States. \nMore recently\, Abrego has been writing about how different subsectors of Latino immigrants internalize immigration policies differently and how this shapes their willingness to make claims in the United States. Her current project examines the day-to-day lives of mixed status families after DACA. Her scholarship analyzing legal consciousness\, illegality\, and legal violence has garnered numerous national awards. She also dedicates much of her time to supporting and advocating for refugees and immigrants by writing editorials and pro-bono expert declarations in asylum cases.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-leisy-j-abrego/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Hubbard Conference on Law & Education: National Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The American Bar Foundation invites you to join a free one-hour virtual webinar:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemocracy at Risk: Can Understanding Our Past Protect Our Future?\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 19\, 2024\nVirtual\n11:00 am ET / 10:00 am CT / 9:00 am MT / 8:00 am PT\nJoin us for a provocative discussion about the role of education and critical thinking in safeguarding democracy. With our constitution and democratic principles at risk\, we bring together three prominent voices to discuss how we might take lessons from history to guard against further peril. This event was inspired by a powerful op-ed written by LA Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg\, who will be joined by political scientist Margaret Levi and constitutional scholar Tom Ginsburg. Moderated by Dean William C. Hubbard\, and featuring introductory remarks from Bill Neukom\, the conversation will explore what we can do now to shape the future of democracy. We invite you to participate with your questions and comments. \nThis webinar is a production of the William Hubbard Conferences on Law & Education. For more information about the Hubbard Conferences and to donate to the endowment supporting them\, visit the William C. Hubbard Law & Education Conference Endowment page. \nView a Recording of the Webinar Here:\n \nFeaturing: \nTom Ginsburg is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago\, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He currently codirects the Comparative Constitutions Project\, a National Science Foundation–⁠funded data set cataloging the world’s constitutions since 1789. \nHis latest book is Democracies and International Law. Earlier books include Judicial Review in New Democracies\, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions\, which also won a best book prize from APSA; Judicial Reputation; and How to Save a Constitutional Democracy\, with coauthor Aziz Z. Huq\, winner of the best book prize from the International Society for Constitutional Law. He has edited or coedited twenty-five other books. \nHe has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo\, Kyushu University\, Seoul National University\, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya\, Harvard University\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and the University of Trento. Before teaching\, he served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal\, The Hague\, Netherlands\, and he has consulted with numerous international development agencies and governments on legal and constitutional reform. \nNicholas Goldberg is an American journalist\, most recently with the Los Angeles Times\, where he was associate editor and Op-Ed columnist. He previously served 11 years as editor of the editorial page and was also a former editor of the Op-Ed page and the Sunday Opinion section. While at New York Newsday in the 1980s and 1990s\, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent and political reporter. His writing has been published in the New Republic\, New York Times\, Vanity Fair\, the Nation\, Sunday Times of London and Washington Monthly\, among other places. He is a graduate of Harvard University. \n  \nMargaret Levi\, Stanford University\, is Professor of Political Science\, co-director of the Stanford Ethics\, Society and Technology Hub\, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy\, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL)\, and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)\, which she previously directed. She is Bacharach Professor Emerita\, University of Washington\, and holds an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Winner of the Skytte Prize and Falling Walls Breakthrough\, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences\, the British Academy\, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, American Philosophical Society\, and American Association of Political and Social Sciences. She is past president of the American Political Science Association. \nLevi authored or coauthored numerous articles and books\, including: Of Rule and Revenue (1988); Consent\, Dissent\, and Patriotism (1997); Analytic Narratives (1998); Cooperation Without Trust? (2005); In the Interest of Others (2013); A Moral Political Economy (2021). She co-edited Creating a New Moral Political Economy for Daedalus (2023). She is co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Levi and her husband\, Robert Kaplan\, collect Australian Aboriginal art and have gifted pieces to the Seattle\, Metropolitan\, and Nevada Museums of Art. \nModerated by: \nWilliam C. Hubbard is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 2014–2015. He previously served a two-year term as chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. Hubbard is a past president of the American Bar Foundation and a past president of the American Bar Endowment. \nHubbard is co-founder and chair of the board of the World Justice Project\, a multinational\, multidisciplinary initiative to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. \nIn 2023\, Hubbard was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute (emeritus)\, as well as the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation. He is an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple in London. \nIn 2002\, Hubbard was presented the Order of the Palmetto\, the highest civilian award presented by a South Carolina governor. In 2007\, he received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the United States Court of Appeals\, Fourth Circuit. In 2016\, the Burton Foundation\, in collaboration with the Library of Congress\, named Hubbard the recipient of its inaugural “Leadership in Law” award. \nHubbard served on the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina from 1986–2020 and served as chairman of the board from 1996–2000. In 2009\, he received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010\, the university awarded him its highest recognition\, the Honorary Doctor of Laws. He earned a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina. After law school\, Hubbard was law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert F. Chapman. He is a former partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Columbia\, SC. \nIntroductory Remarks From: \nWilliam “Bill” Neukom is the founder and chief executive officer of the World Justice Project\, an organization devoted to promoting the rule of law throughout the world. He is a retired partner in the Seattle office of the international law firm K&L Gates\, and is a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches a seminar on the rule of law. \nBill was the lead lawyer for Microsoft for nearly 25 years\, managing its legal\, government and industry affairs\, and philanthropic activities. He retired from Microsoft as its executive vice president of law and corporate affairs in 2002\, and returned to his law firm and served as its chair from 2003 to 2007. He was president of the American Bar Association from 2007 to 2008 and received the ABA Medal in 2020. He was the chief executive office of the San Francisco Giants baseball team from 2008 to 2011. He joined the board of directors of Fortinet\, Inc. in 2013 and currently serves as its lead independent director. \nHe is a trustee emeritus of University of Puget Sound and Dartmouth College\, where he served as chair of the board from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Stanford Law School and served as its chair from 2012 – 2015. He is chair of the External Advisory Board of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington. \nHe earned his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his LL.B. from Stanford University and has honorary degrees from Dartmouth College\, Gonzaga University\, the University of Puget Sound\, and the University of South Carolina. \nIn 1995\, Bill and his children founded the Neukom Family Foundation\, which supports nonprofit organizations in the fields of education\, the environment\, health\, human services\, and justice. \nHe and his wife\, Sally\, live in Seattle and together have five children and sixteen grandchildren. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/hubbard-conference-on-law-education-national-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Fellows,News
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SUMMARY:2024 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\, Robert L. Nelson. \nComplimentary Zoom Event\, register to receive Zoom link. \n12:30-1:30 PM ET \n“The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” \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-march-new-york-fellows-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: John Doering-White
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, record-breaking numbers of young people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border have entered U.S. government custody as unaccompanied children (UC). Whereas prior research has focused on UC’s experiences while in custody and following release to a sponsor—usually a family member—limited scholarship has examined the experiences of human service professionals working within programs that are contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to care for UC. In these programs\, social workers\, mental health clinicians\, medical providers\, educators\, and transitional foster parents collaborate to provide care for UC while assessing the safety and suitability of the sponsoring context. \nThis presentation draws on 65 in-depth interviews with human service workers in ORR-contracted programs across four states to examine how they conceptualize care for UC during this transitional period. John Doering-White focuses on how two legal and policy frameworks—the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008—refract through highly politicized and mediatized bureaucracies of care and control to structure how human service providers care for UC. He suggests institutional pressures to accelerate time to release are often at odds with professional care ethics\, and that this tension risks compromising care for UC as well as the sustainability of the human service workforce in mission-driven organizations contracted by ORR. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJohn Doering-White is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on undocumented immigration and humanitarianism. His ethnographic work has focused on grassroots shelters that assist Central Americans migrating through Mexico. He is interested in how organizations can best assist undocumented communities considering shifting immigration enforcement trends between the United States\, Mexico\, and Central America. As part of this work\, Doering-White served as co-producer on Border South\, a feature documentary film that premiered to national and international audiences in June 2019. \nDoering-White is also actively conducting research in his hometown of Detroit in partnership with organizations that support immigrant and minority entrepreneurs navigating a gentrifying city. Data collection for this project has taken place in partnership with undergraduate students participating in a summer field school that trains students in qualitative and community-engaged methods. \nDoering-White’s research has been funded by the Fulbright Garcia-Robles program\, the Wenner Gren Foundation\, and the Institute for Field Research. His scholarship appears in Social Service Review\, Children and Youth Services Review\, the Journal of Social Work Education\, the Journal of Community Practice\, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration. He has also presented nationally and internationally on various topics\, including undocumented migration\, unaccompanied minors\, language interpretation\, and ethnographic approaches. \nDoering-White is a graduate of the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan\, where he also earned his MSW. He received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Human Development Social Relations from Earlham College in Richmond\, Indiana.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-john-doering-white/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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