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SUMMARY:Illinois Fellows and ABA Business Law Section Joint Event
DESCRIPTION:Registration Now Open! \n$80/person. Open to Fellows\, Nominees\, ABA Business Law Section Members\, and guests. \nJoin the Illinois Fellows and the ABA Business Law Section in town for the Chicago ABA Business Law Section Fall meeting for dinner\, drinks\, and a presentation by ABF Researcher Professor Emeritus\, John Hagan. \n  \n7:00-7:30 Open Beer and Wine Bar \n7:30-8:00 Dinner \n8:00-9:00 Presentation and Q&A \nDrinks and food will be available throughout the entire event. \nVenue:\nLabriola \n535 N Michigan Ave \nChicago\, IL 60611 \n  \nChicago’s Reckoning: Racism\, Politics\, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City \nChicago police detective Jon Burge oversaw the torture – from the 1970s through the early 1990s – of more than 100 Black men (the exact number is unknown). Our recent book\, Chicago’s Reckoning\, documents how this torture swept through Chicago’s segregated south side neighborhoods. The book reveals how Richard M. Daley\, both as State’s Attorney and then as Mayor\, consistently denied knowledge of Burge’s “midnight torture crew\,” while the City’s Law Department paid nearly a billion dollars to settle civil suits arising from these cases. Finally\, in 2010\, Department of Justice U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald prosecuted Burge for perjury and obstruction of justice – but not torture – resulting in a four-year sentence that was later reduced. We discovered in a sidebar transcript that at trial Fitzgerald’s prosecutors presented more extensive evidence of Burge’s criminal activities that was acknowledged but overruled for presentation in open court. The result was a kind of “code of silence” that can conceal high-level corruption. This corruption is a backdrop to a larger Chicago story to be presented in this lecture.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/illinois-fellows-and-aba-business-law-section-joint-event/
LOCATION:Labriola\, 535 N Michigan Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T133000
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SUMMARY:Oklahoma Fellows National Event
DESCRIPTION:View of a recording of the event below: \n\nFree event. Open to all Fellows and nominees. \nFeatured Presentation: “Killers of the Flower Moon: An Osage Perspective” with speaker\, Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear\, Osage Nation and opening remarks by D. Michael McBride III\, Crowe and Dunlevy\, P.C. \nIn the early 1920s\, the western U.S. was shaken by a series of murders targeting Osage people after oil is discovered on their land. One hundred years later\, the Osage Nation is still grappling with the losses and working to bring attention to the atrocities of the period often referred to as the “Reign of Terror.” \nChief Standing Bear will share his thoughts about Author David Grann and his book\, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. In reference to the forthcoming movie based on these events\, he will also speak about his experience with the Director\, Martin Scorsese\, and the actors in the film\, including their joint efforts to ensure the portrayals were factual\, authentic\, presented in the native Osage language\, and in keeping with Osage history and culture. Mr. McBride will give opening remarks about that time in Oklahoma history and the legal happenings surrounding these murders\, most of which remain unsolved to this day. \nPlease mark your calendars and register today for this fascinating program. It is an important if tragic intersection of our laws and the legal system with greed\, treachery\, murder and justice — set within the early histories of Oklahoma and the FBI. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor:  \n \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/oklahoma-fellows-national-event/
LOCATION:Crowe & Dunlevy\, 222 N Detroit Ave Suite 600\, Tulsa\, OK\, 74120\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gregory Elinson
DESCRIPTION:“Over the past decade\, prominent progressive voices in the legal academy have reached a new consensus. Robust\, American-style\, judicial review is no balm to progressive causes — rather\, it is inherently anti-progressive. The judiciary\, they say\, has regularly interfered with legislative and executive efforts to protect minority rights and remedy economic inequality. Thus\, they conclude\, progressives ought to stop defending judicial review and instead devote their energies to eliminating (or limiting) it. Embedded in their critique are two related empirical claims: first\, that the judiciary in general and the Supreme Court in particular have been consistently less progressive than the other branches; and\, second\, that landmark progressive rulings in cases like Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade were not\, in and of themselves\, meaningful contributions to the progressive cause. \nThis Article considers the evidence in support of these claims and argues that judicial review’s progressive critics are wrong on both counts. For one\, we contend that critics underestimate just how anti-progressive American politics\, independent of judicial intervention\, have usually been. Revisiting the key cases on which the progressive critique is based\, we find little evidence for the proposition that the judiciary has consistently been more anti-progressive than the elected branches. Rather\, we suggest that few durable progressive coalitions have ever been latent such that we can say with any confidence that\, but for judicial intervention\, they would have surfaced in Congress or the executive. For another\, the Article finds little evidence that progressive judicial interventions have been mostly sizzle\, with little substance. To the contrary\, we find empirical support for the proposition that landmark progressive rulings in cases like Brown and Roe mattered quite a bit. Brown\, recent historiography makes clear\, eased passage of federal civil rights legislation\, while Roe established a far more permissive abortion regime than would have been feasible to achieve through the political process. \nStepping back from this empirical inquiry\, the Article takes an analytic turn. What is it about the judiciary’s role in American politics that judicial review’s progressive critics have missed? We have two answers. First\, we think that progressive critics offer a too-rosy account of the elected branches’ progressivism. Throughout American history\, both major political parties have effectively colluded to keep the rights of disfavored minorities off the political agenda. And drawing on an array of scholarship in law\, political science\, and history\, we find little evidence that electoral incentives consistently favor progressivism. Second\, we think there is better evidence to suggest that legal elites\, when freed of the pressures of coalition assembly and maintenance that constrain the elected branches\, have in fact been more progressive than Congress and the president. In earlier eras of American history\, we attribute this phenomenon to legal elites’ commitment to a stripped-down\, common-law constitutionalism. In more recent decades\, we attribute this phenomenon in large part to the role of educational polarization\, which has tended to make the elite bar—and thus the pool of actual and potential judges and justices—relatively more open to progressive arguments.” \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nGregory Elinson is an Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. He is a public law scholar with wide-ranging interests in constitutional and administrative law and legislative and judicial procedure. Much of his research concerns how partisan politics and political polarization have shaped the separation of powers. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Vanderbilt Law Review\, Emory Law Journal\, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law\, as well as several leading peer-reviewed social science journals\, including Law & Social Inquiry and Studies in American Political Development. \nBefore coming to NIU in 2022\, Professor Elinson was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office\, where his practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. Greg clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School\, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-series-gregory-elinson/
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:20230804T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230806T233000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2023 ABA Annual Meeting in Denver
DESCRIPTION:ABF Fellows Registration Hours: \nColorado Convention Center- 700 14th Street \nPlease stop by The Fellows registration desk to pick up your tickets\, complimentary Fellows ribbons\, and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\nWednesday\, August 2: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, August 3: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, August 4: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSaturday\, August 5: 7:00 am – 5:30 pm\nSunday\, August 6: 7:30 am – 2:00 pm\n\n  \nFriday\, August 4\nFellows CLE Program – “Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law\, Culture\, and the Long War on Terror” (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM)\nEvent Audio Recording Now Available:\n\nhttps://www.americanbarfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Denver-CLE-Audio-_-For-Website.mp3\n  \nColorado Convention Center- Room 301/302 \nRegistration not required to attend event \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nJothie Rajah\, a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation will discuss her recent book\, which views law through an interdisciplinary lens “to perceive how law’s compound meanings have been represented\, reconfigured\, and globalized” during the long War on Terror to cause a discounting of lives taken and persons injured and traumatized as “collateral damage.”  A panel including Professor Rajah\, Judy Perry Martinez\, former ABA President and World Justice Project Vice-President\, Will A. Gunn\, General Counsel & Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Legal Services Corporation and former Chief Defense Counsel of the DoD Office of Military Commissions\, and George Freeman\, Executive Director\, Media Law Resource Center\, will discuss Professor Rajah’s book and its premises and conclusions.  This promises to be a robust and timely discussion of issues so important to national and international justice and the Rule of Law. \nModerator: \n\nJimmy Goodman — President\, ABF | Director\, Crowe & Dunlevy\n\nPanelists: \n\nJothie Rajah — Research Professor\, ABF\nJudy Perry Martinez — Vice President\, World Justice Program | Of Counsel\, Simon\, Peragine\, Smith & Redfearn | Past President\, American Bar Association | Benefactor Fellow\, American Bar Foundation\nWill A. Gunn — General Counsel and Vice President for Legal Affairs\, Legal Services Corporation | Former General Counsel\, U.S. Department of Government Affairs\nGeorge Freeman— Executive Director\, Media Law Resource Center\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nClyfford Still Museum \n1250 Bannock St \nTicketed Event \nlocated in the heart of Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District\, The Clyfford Still Museum offers nine beautiful galleries of Still’s art\, historic photos\, objects and letters from the Clyfford Still Archives\, interactive features\, tranquil outdoor terraces\, and views into storage and conservation areas. Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century\, Clyfford Still (1904–1980) was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists. The Fellows invite you to mingle with friends\, enjoy refreshments\, and explore the galleries. \nRound trip shuttle bus provided \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \n  \nSaturday\, August 5\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (7:30 AM – 9:30 AM)\nColorado Convention Center- Room 301/302 \nTicketed Event  \nJoin us for breakfast and keynote remarks titled “Restoring Faith in the Judiciary” from Justice William W. Hood\, III\, Colorado Supreme Court.  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Silver Sponsors: \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Business Breakfast Bronze Sponsors: \n \nSandra Chan & Gary Yoshimura \nVice President\, ABF Board of Directors | Philanthropist Fellow \nSunday\, August 6\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – ??)\nHyatt Regency Denver- 650 15th St \nCapitol Ballroom 2 \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-2023-aba-annual-meeting-in-denver/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center\, 650 15th St.\, Denver\, CO\, 80202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230728T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230728T083000
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SUMMARY:New Mexico Fellows Breakfast at the NM State Bar Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Free Event. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nFeatured Presentation: “Cooperation Without Submission” with Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation\, Justin Richland.  \nIt is well-known that there is a complicated relationship between Native American Tribes and the US government. These relations are dominated by the principle that the government is supposed to engage in meaningful consultations with the tribes about issues that affect them. In this presentation\, Justin B. Richland\, an associate justice of the Hopi Appellate Court\, closely examines the language employed by both Tribes and government agencies in over eighty hours of meetings between the two. Richland shows how Tribes conduct these meetings using language that demonstrates their commitment to nation-to-nation interdependency\, while federal agents appear to approach these consultations with the assumption that federal law is supreme and ultimately authoritative. In other words\, Native American Tribes see themselves as nations with some degree of independence\, entitled to recognition of their sovereignty over Tribal lands\, while the federal government acts to limit that authority. \n  \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor: \n \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-mexico-fellows-breakfast-at-the-nm-state-bar-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort\, 1300 Tuyuna Trail\, Santa Ana Pueblo\, NM\, 87004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230623T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230623T080000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:South Dakota Fellows Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join South Dakota State Chair\, Tom Simmons\, at The South Dakota State Bar Meeting for a Fellows get together. No registration required\, email Tom.E.Simmons@usd.edu for any questions. \n  \nMeeting Information: \n7:00 AM \nRamkota Motel \nMaple Room \nSouix Falls\, SD \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/south-dakota-fellows-meeting/
LOCATION:Ramkota Motel
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230621T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230621T190000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:Portland Fellows Hybrid Reception Program
DESCRIPTION:Free Event. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nFeatured Presentation: “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” with Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and Director Emeritus & MacCrate Research Chair at The American Bar Foundation: Robert Nelson.  \nThis program will present material from the forthcoming 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. \nCocktail reception begins at 5:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 6:00 p.m. \nThe Fellows Gratefully Recognize Event Sponsor:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/portland-fellows-hybrid-reception-program/
LOCATION:Offices of Barran Liebman LLP\, Portland\, OR\, 601 SW 2nd Ave\, Suite 2300\, Portland\, Oregon
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230613T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230613T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. Registration now open! \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests should be fully vaccinated.  \nFeatured Presentation: “Law and the War on Terror: 21 Years and Counting” with ABF Research Professor Jothie Rajah.  \nHow do we make sense of law in relation to the unending war on terror? This presentation shows how\, by excavating legal meanings and values in seemingly non-legal state discourse and cultural texts\, the globalized discounting of life and persistent fostering of war becomes legible as the guiding legality of our contemporary times. \nThis presentation is in reference to her new book\, Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law\, Culture\, and the Long War on Terror.  \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nFor in-person attendees only: This program will provide 1 hour of Professional Practice CLE credit for both experienced and newly-admitted attorneys.  Please note that\, in accordance with CLE Board Regulations\, if you are late or leave early\, you will not receive CLE credit. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-7/
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/New_York:20230607T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230607T190000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:DC Fellows Cocktail Reception
DESCRIPTION:Registration is now closed. \n$55 per person. Open to Fellows\, nominees\, and DC Bar members only. \nFeatured Presentation: “Democracies\, International Law and the Ukraine War” with Professor of International Law and Political Science at University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation Research Professor\, Tom Ginsburg.  \nDemocracies and authoritarian regimes have different approaches to international law\, grounded in their different forms of government. In the face of rising authoritarianism\, understanding what international law can and cannot do in defense of democracy has become a crucial question. This talk will lay out the implications of Ginsburg’s book\, Democracies and International Law for the war in Ukraine\, which has served as a wakeup call for the liberal order but also may be hastening its demise.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/dc-fellows-cocktail-reception/
LOCATION:DC Bar Building\, 901 4th Street\, NW\, Washington DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230524T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kalyani Ramnath
DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw from Dr. Ramnath’s forthcoming book Boats in a Storm: Law\, Migration\, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia 1942 – 1962 (Stanford University Press\, 2023). Migrant struggle with the law – in transnational disputes over taxation\, immigration\, and detention between 1940s and 1960s – form a lesser-known archive for decolonization. A critical reading of this archive offers insights into the contours of citizenship today and offers opportunities to reflect on continuities in conversations around belonging\, loyalty\, displacement\, and dispossession. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\nKalyani Ramnath is an Assistant Professor in the department of History at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is a historian of modern South Asia\, with research and teaching interests in legal history\, histories of migration and displacement\, transnational history\, and questions of archival method. Her first book\, Boats in a Storm: Law\, Migration\, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia 1942 – 1962 is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in August 2023.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/kalyani-ramnath-history-university-of-georgia/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. Registration is now open! \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests should be fully vaccinated  \nFeatured Presentation: “The Paradox of Africa’s International Courts” with 2022-23 ABF William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity in Law Professor James Thuo Gathii  \nEstablished as engines of market liberalization or trade courts\, Africa’s international trade courts have instead become promoters of human rights\, the rule of law\, good governance\, the protection of the environment and lately free and fair elections. The legacy of these post-cold war courts challenges the precedence of trade over human rights in other regional trade courts as well as in the World Trade Organization. Relying on case law from trade courts in East\, West and Southern Africa\, this presentation will show how human rights causes have been advanced and promoted within trade integration courts. Ultimately\, the presentation will explore the implications this has for how we should think of classic paradigm of international courts that is based on a strict division of between those that specialize in human rights and those that specialize in trade matters. \nLunch available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nFor in-person attendees only: This program will provide 1 hour of Professional Practice CLE credit for both experienced and newly-admitted attorneys.  Please note that\, in accordance with CLE Board Regulations\, if you are late or leave early\, you will not receive CLE credit. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-6/
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/Los_Angeles:20230518T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T093000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:San Diego Fellows Breakfast Program
DESCRIPTION:$10 in-person registration \nComplimentary virtual registration \n  \nFeatured Presentation: “The Impact of Gruesome Photographs on Mock Jury Decisions” with Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law at Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation Research Professor\, Janice Nadler.  \nIn both civil and criminal proceedings\, judges and juries are faced with a barrage of evidence and argument displayed in visual form – sometimes gruesome in nature. This project investigates how emotionally evocative modes of visual evidence can affect the psychology of jurors’ decision making processes\, through influence on emotions\, attention to evidence\, and legal judgments at the individual and group level. We developed a video of a simulated trial in a murder case\, and recruited community members to participate in mock juries either in person (pre-pandemic) or on zoom (post-pandemic). We found that viewing gruesome photos make jurors more conviction prone. Jury deliberation in person attenuated these affects. Surprisingly\, jury deliberation online exacerbated the conviction prone tendencies of jurors exposed to gruesome photos. We will explore various interventions such as color v. black-and-white photos\, and jury instructions as a potential safeguard.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/san-diego-fellows-breakfast-program/
LOCATION:Sheppard Mullin (Del Mar)\, 12275 El Camino Real Suite 200\, San Diego\, CA\, 92130\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230517T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kevin Kenny
DESCRIPTION:Today the United States considers immigration and border control a federal matter. Before the Civil War\, however\, the federal government played virtually no role in regulating immigration. \nIn this presentation\, based on his recently published book The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States\, (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, Kevin Kenny will demonstrate how the existence\, abolition\, and legacies of slavery shaped the emergence of a national immigration policy in the nineteenth century. For a century after the American Revolution\, states controlled mobility within and across their borders and set their own rules for community membership. Throughout the antebellum era\, defenders of slavery feared that\, if Congress gained control over immigration\, it could also regulate the movement of free black people and even the interstate slave trade. The Civil War and the abolition of slavery removed the political and constitutional obstacles to a national immigration policy\, yet they did not make that policy inevitable. The first national immigration controls were directed not at immigrants generally\, but at Chinese immigrants in particular. Admission remained the norm for Europeans; Chinese laborers were excluded through techniques of registration\, punishment\, and deportation first used against free black people in the antebellum South. The federal government continues to control admissions and exclusions today but tensions within federalism\, rooted in nineteenth-century history\, remain important to the lives of immigrants after arrival. Some states monitor and punish immigrants\, while others offer sanctuary and refuse to act as agents of federal law enforcement\, echoing the personal liberty laws passed in response to fugitive slave acts in the antebellum era. Revealing the tangled origins of border control\, incarceration\, and deportation\, this presentation sheds light on the history of race and belonging in America\, as well as ongoing conflicts between state and federal authority over immigration today. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nKevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (OUP\, 2013)\, Peaceable Kingdom Lost (OUP\, 2009)\, The American Irish: A History (Longman\, 2002)\, and Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (OUP\, 1998). Currently President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians\, Professor Kenny came to the United States as an immigrant in the 1980s.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/kevin-kenny-history-new-york-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T180002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230728T175003Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bryan Sykes
DESCRIPTION:Criminal justice contact is a key stratifying institution in American life. By the close of 2020\, almost 3.9 million non-incarcerated people were under community supervision (probation or parole)\, representing nearly 68% of the adult correctional population. Although the number of people incarcerated has declined since the Great Recession\, alternatives to incarceration may introduce new pathways to inequality because compliance with court-ordered diversionary and rehabilitation programs rely heavily on access to resources\, such as money\, information\, and time. While there has been a considerable expansion of literature on the consequences of monetary sanctions imposed at sentencing\, less is known about how alternatives to incarceration can produce other financial punishments that intersect and amplify inequality within the criminal legal system. In this paper\, we show how shadow costs – financial outlays and expenditures not immediately quantifiable by the state but nevertheless ordered as a part of a reentry or rehabilitation treatment program — financially burden defendants\, probationers\, and parolees beyond the monetary sanctions imposed by courts. Our findings reveal that these shadow costs structure a bifurcated system of justice that facilitates the creation of markets for freedom that are dependent on poverty and inequality. \nThis speaker will present in-person at the ABF\, with the option to view the presentation virtually. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nBryan Sykes is an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Society (and\, by courtesy\, Sociology and Public Health); a Faculty Affiliate in The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis (CDASA) and The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California-Irvine. \nHis research focuses on demography and criminology\, broadly defined\, with particular interests in population processes (e.g.\, fertility\, mortality\, enumeration)\, mass incarceration\, global population health\, social inequality\, law & society\, and research methodology. He applies and develops demographic\, statistical\, and mixed methodologies to understand changing patterns of inequality — nationally and abroad. His research has appeared in general and multidisciplinary science\, social science\, and medical journals.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/bryan-sykes-criminology-law-and-society-university-of-california-irvine/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230503T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T175730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T193357Z
UID:2008-1683115200-1683120600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ifeoma Ajunwa
DESCRIPTION:The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich historical sources and contemporary examples\, The Quantified Worker explores how the workforce science of today goes far beyond increasing efficiency and threatens to erase individual personhood. With exhaustive detail\, Ifeoma Ajunwa shows how different forms of worker quantification are enabled\, facilitated\, and driven by technological advances. Timely and eye-opening\, The Quantified Worker advocates for changes in the law that will mitigate the ill effects of the modern workplace. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n\n  \nIfeoma Ajunwa (@iajunwa) J.D.\, Ph.D.\, is an award-winning tenured law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She is also the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program at UNC Law and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University since 2017. She was a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Dr. Ajunwa’s research interests are at the intersection of law and technology with a particular focus on the ethical governance of workplace technologies.  Dr. Ajunwa is a Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network which is an international group of scholars committed to the research of the ethics of AI used in the workplace and for labor. Dr. Ajunwa’s writing has also been published in the NY Times\, the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, and the Harvard Business Review\, among others. 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/ifeoma-ajunwa-law-and-artificial-intelligence-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-school-of-law/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230426T203000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20230215T195612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230728T175108Z
UID:3435-1682532000-1682541000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Washington Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$125 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nRegistration is now closed.  Cancellations will be honored through Wednesday\, April 19\, 2023. \nWe invite Washington Fellows and ABA Business Law Section members to join us for a cocktail reception\, dinner\, and keynote presentation at The Rainer Club on the evening of Wednesday\, April 26th. \nFeatured Keynote: “Join In! The Rise of Self-Governance and American Organizing from the Mayflower Compact to the Modern Day” with Professor Johann Neem \nJohann N. Neem is a historian of the early American republic. He is editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He is an active contributor to the conversation on higher education reform. His new book\,” What’s the Point of College?\,” seeks to answer that very question for our reform-minded era. His other recent book\, “Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America” examines the origins and purposes of American public education between the American Revolution and the Civil War. His first book\, Creating a Nation of Joiners\, published by Harvard University Press\, examines the development of civil society in Massachusetts after American independence. Neem received his BA in history from Brown University\, where he wrote his senior thesis on civic education under the guidance of Ted Sizer. He went on to complete his PhD at the University of Virginia under Peter Onuf. Neem is Professor of History at Western Washington University. \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/washington-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:The Rainier Club\, Seattle\, WA\, 820 4th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T175553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230511T143925Z
UID:2005-1682510400-1682515800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Desiree Fields
DESCRIPTION:“Robot landlords are buying up houses.” Headlines like this one are not unusual these days. What are we to make of digital experiments with landed property? These experiments are wide-ranging\, encompassing the sale of tokenized fractional interests in LLCs attached to rental properties\, the brokering of land sales via Facebook livestream\, and metaverse environments that can defy the laws of physics yet remain wedded to market rule. In this talk\, Fields works toward an analysis of digital experiments with landed property in terms of the global\, the historical\, and the geographical. The yoking of property to modernity and civilization makes technological progress a fundamental part of how relationships to land are constituted and reconstituted\, and in whose interests\, throughout global capitalism. \nThis speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDesiree Fields is an Associate Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research revolves around the role of housing in capitalist urbanization. She studies how efforts to render immoveable property into liquid capital unevenly restructure urban space and social relations\, and the urban struggles for justice that arise to contest this process of financialization. She aims to challenge the storied complexity of finance and its tendency to obfuscate public understanding through demystifying and concretizing the operations of financial capitalism in urban housing markets. She has opened up what financialization means for rental housing\, showing how it has deepened\, diversified\, and expanded globally with the aid of a wave of advances in digital technology in the post-2008 era. At its core\, her work is about how these processes of economic and technological change unevenly restructure urban space and the social relations of housing. Her scholarship speaks to developments that are central to the future of cities: the growing importance of finance to capitalism\, the turn to increasingly market-driven approaches to housing and urbanization\, and the digital revolution. \nShe has published widely on the relationships among housing financialization\, movements for justice\, and digital platforms in journals like Progress in Human Geography; Economic Geography; Housing\, Theory\, and Society; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, and; Urban Studies.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/desiree-fields-political-economies-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T170000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20230310T143347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T194533Z
UID:5785-1682496000-1682528400@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \n11:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET \nFeatured Keynote: “Crisis in U.S. Immigration Adjudication”\nThe enforcement of immigration law and policy in the United States is a complex and much-debated topic. Join us for a panel discussion examining some of the most pressing challenges on this timely subject\, including the increasing court backlog\, the relationship between legal professionals\, detainees\, & interpreters\, and the need for qualified legal representation to ensure a more humane system and policies. \nFeaturing:  \nJojo Annobil – Executive Director\, Immigration Justice Corps \nSonya Rao – ABF/AccessLex Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow \nWendy S. Wayne – Life Fellow; Past Chair\, ABA Commission on Immigration; Director\, Immigration Impact Unit\, Committee for Public Counsel Services \nModerated by: \nJames R. Silkenant: Patron Fellow; Past President\, ABA; Director and Treasurer\, World Justice Project \n 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/national-fellows-webinar-8/
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T175440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T194504Z
UID:2002-1681905600-1681911000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Katrina Jagodinsky
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky will offer an overview of the database her NSF-funded team is building in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL to discern trends and patterns in marginalized people’s use of habeas in the American West over the long nineteenth century. ABF scholars will be invited to offer input regarding the encoding structure of the database\, and will be asked to contribute to a peer review and discussion of an in-progress article focused on early findings of women’s use of habeas. \nFor access to the related article draft\, please reach out to Sophie Kofman (skofman@abfn.org). \n\nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nKatrina Jagodinsky is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History. She is a legal historian examining marginalized peoples’ engagement with nineteenth-century legal regimes and competing jurisdictions throughout the North American West. Jagodinsky’s first book Legal Codes & Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands\, 1854-1946 explains the strategies of six women seeking to protect their bodies\, lands\, and progeny from the whims of settler-colonists in the tumultuous process of westward expansion and conquest. \nJagodinsky has also published a number of articles and essays that examine the efforts of Indigenous and mixed-race women and children to leverage the American legal system in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. “A Testament to Power: Mary Woolsey and Dolores Rodriguez as Trial Witnesses in Arizona’s Early Statehood\,” won the 2012-2013 Jerome I. Braun Prize for Best Article in Western Legal History\, and “A Tale of Two Sisters: Family Histories from the Strait Salish Borderlands\,” won the 2017 Jensen-Miller Prize for Best Article in Western Women’s & Gender History from the Western History Association. \nHer current focus is on her role as Graduate Chair for the History department and her research project Petitioning For Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West\, which is a collaboration with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities that is funded by the National Science Foundation.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/katrina-jagodinsky-history-university-of-nebraska-lincoln/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230418T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230418T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20230324T164509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T134731Z
UID:6548-1681821000-1681824600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests should be fully vaccinated.  \n“Trust me\, I’m a Lawyer!”\nFeaturing: \nNigel J. Balmer: Research Direcot\, Victoria Law Foundation; Honorary Professor of Laws\, University College London \nCatrina Denvir: Associate Professor\, Monash University \nIn 2002 the American Bar Association published research on consumer perceptions of lawyers.[1]. The findings did not make for easy reading: whilst knowledgeable about the law\, lawyers were seen by the American public as ‘greedy\, manipulative and corrupt’. Such views point to a fundamental mistrust of the legal profession that is not unique to America\, with the ‘Global Trust in Professions’ survey revealing that the majority (three-quarters) of respondents across the globe view lawyers as untrustworthy. Scandals involving high profile lawyers and law firms\, including that of ‘Lawyer X’ in Australia\, are all said to undermine public confidence. But is the outlook really so bad and can a few bad apples spoil the bunch? Using findings from a new large-scale survey with the public and an in-depth qualitative study with lawyers\, this presentation explores what we mean by trust\, what people think of lawyers if we ask better questions\, the role that costs play\, and how better lawyer-client communication may help turn the tide of public opinion. \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-8/
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/New_York:20230413T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T080000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20230328T194738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230511T140858Z
UID:6610-1681369200-1681372800@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:DC Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:$35 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nDC Fellows and Fellows in town for the ABA Intellectual Property Law meeting are invited to meet for a social breakfast get together at Open City Restaurant near the Omni Hotel. \nMore information and registration coming soon.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/dc-fellows-breakfast/
LOCATION:Open City Restaurant\, Washington DC\, 2331 Calvert St NW\, Washington DC\, 20008\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T175243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T192305Z
UID:1999-1681300800-1681306200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Michael Ralph
DESCRIPTION:The resurgence of interest in the role chattel slavery has played in US capital growth has been marked by an abiding emphasis on the Cotton Kingdom. Highlighting the 19th century sector that arguably generated more wealth than any other—with enduring implications for governance and the management of difference—scholars have trained their emphasis on the Mississippi River Valley. One implication of this approach is that scholars have focused on the role between coercion and productivity\, generally arguing for a direct correlation. It is worth noting that the same period that witnessed tremendous brutality in the service of greater productivity in the US Cotton Kingdom witnessed unprecedented mobility and enhanced working conditions for enslaved workers in other industries\, namely those operating in hazardous enterprises\, artisanal professions\, and those working as bureaucrats. Violence constituted these dynamics\, especially the structural violence and intimate partner violence that social scientists tend to associate with freedom in capitalist societies and not merely the naked force they tend to associate with chattel slavery. In what follows\, I examine the distinct forms of intimacy and partnership that emerged during this period alongside economic transformations that changed how enslaved people experienced affinity and gained expertise\, besides shaping how they were used as capital. I use the term “commercial affinity” to explain how violence and social mobility became intertwined in unprecedented ways during the last few decades of legalized slavery. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nMichael Ralph is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard Univeristy. Dr. Ralph’s research integrates political science\, economics\, history\, and medical anthropology through an explicit focus on debt\, slavery\, insurance\, forensics\, and incarceration. He is currently at work on two books that center on slavery\, insurance\, and incarceration.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/michael-ralph-afro-american-studies-howard-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T175010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T200936Z
UID:1996-1680091200-1680096600@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Philip Thai
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after intervening in the Korean War (1950–53)\, the People’s Republic of China faced an array of economic sanctions by the United States and the United Nations. The nascent regime vowed to “oppose the American imperialist policy of economic blockade against our country\,” and it sought to break what it denounced as an illegal and illegitimate embargo by any means necessary. One front in this campaign was the British colony of Hong Kong\, where the People’s Republic hired a lawyer by the name of Percy Chen to work with its many front companies and file lawsuit after lawsuit challenging the U.S. embargo. At first glance\, Chen seemed an unlikely figure to serve as legal counsel for Communist China. An Afro-Asian anglophile and a thoroughly bourgeois barrister who lived on the margins of the British empire\, Chen found himself at the center of China’s legal offensive during a critical moment in the Cold War. This talk looks at Chen’s life and legal work during the early 1950s\, retracing how he wielded colonial law as a weapon to chip away at the U.S. embargo and thereby circumscribe its reach. More broadly\, it situates Chen’s role within the vast shadow economies of Greater China during the Cold War and explores the creative ways assorted actors leveraged the legacies of empire for survival and profit. The presentation is based on a draft chapter of Professor Thai’s forthcoming book\, In the Shadows of the Bamboo Curtain. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n______________________________________________________________________________________________ \nPhilip Thai is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies\, as well as the Director of Asian Studies\, in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Thai is a historian of Modern China and East Asia with research and teaching interests that include legal history\, economic history\, and diplomatic history. He is the author of China’s War on Smuggling: Law\, Economic Life\, and the Making of the Modern State\, 1842-1965 (Columbia University Press and a Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, 2018). During the 2022-23 academic year\, he will be in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Fellow working on his new project\, “In the Shadows of the Bamboo Curtain: Underground Economies across Greater China during the Cold War.” At the core of Professor Thai’s inquiries is understanding the complex interplay between law\, society\, and economy. His interdisciplinary work has been supported by a number of organizations\, including the ACLS\, American Philosophical Society (APS)\, Fulbright-Hays Program\, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, among others.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/philip-thai-history-and-asian-studies-northeastern-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230316T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230316T140000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20230214T213418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T134828Z
UID:3276-1678962600-1678975200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Exclusive Fellows Tour - Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula\, MS
DESCRIPTION:This tour is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease note: this event is only open to US citizens and attendees will need to provide appropriate ID information in advance. \nAs America’s largest shipbuilder\, Ingalls is the largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants having built nearly 70% of the U.S. Navy fleet of warships. \nJoin us for a private one-hour bus tour of the shipyard followed by a light lunch. We’ll also learn more about the current legal issues handled by the in-house law department from: \nGeorge M. Simmerman\, Jr.\nChief Counsel\, Huntington Ingalls Industries\nABF Patron Fellow \nJulie J. Gresham\nDeputy Chief Counsel\, Huntington Ingalls Industries\nABF Life Fellow
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/exclusive-fellows-tour-ingalls-shipbuilding-in-pascagoula-ms/
LOCATION:Ingalls Shipyard\, Pascagoula\, MS\, 1000 Access Road West\, Pascagoula\, MS\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T174628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140554Z
UID:1993-1678881600-1678887000@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Tabitha Bonilla
DESCRIPTION:Despite theory that contrasts substantive and descriptive representation\, the measurement of descriptive representation almost always invokes substantive representation to determine if policy focuses are more likely to shift the status quo of a district to policies that favor particular groups. While it is clear that descriptive representation has a complicated relationship with producing policy shifts\, it is nevertheless important for redirecting policy under certain circumstances and for mobilizing Black and Latine communities. We believe that colloquially\, unlike in academic treatments of representation\, voters describe a more complex web of representation. Here\, we examine descriptive representation as a component of substantive representation. To test this hypothesis\, we use interviews\, descriptive survey data\, and a survey experiment to demonstrate how descriptive and substantive representation work in tandem. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nTabitha Bonilla studies political behavior and communication and broadly examines how elite communication influences voter opinions of candidates and political policies. In particular\, her work focuses on how messaging polarizes attitudes or can bridge attitudinal divides with substantive focuses on important topics in American politics ranging from gun control to human trafficking and immigration. Her work incorporates a range of quantitative methods including experiments and text analysis. \nBonilla earned her Ph.D. in political science in 2015 from Stanford University. She then worked as a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow in the political science department at the University of Southern California through 2016.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/tabitha-bonilla-policy-research-institute-for-policy-research-at-northwestern-university/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20230215T194214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T134912Z
UID:3425-1678278600-1678282200@www.americanbarfoundation.org
SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nFeatured Keynote: “Experts in Court: The Challenges for Science in Litigation” with Shari Seidman Diamond (ABF Research Professor\, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law\, Northwestern Law School) \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: 
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20250424T123355
CREATED:20221123T174446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140740Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Linda Zhao
DESCRIPTION:Although it is frequently argued that recruiting minority officers can improve policing by fostering positive contact and collaborations between minority and white officers\, officer diversity could in theory also produce more racially polarized networks and thus have the opposite of the intended effect. Few studies so far consider how officer networks differ across policing contexts\, and little is known about the link between the diversity of police workforces\, the structure of officer networks\, and policing outcomes. In this study\, I use data from the second-largest police agency in the United States to analyze joint implications of officer diversity and racial homophily\, defined as barriers to racial mixing in officer co-arrest networks\, for police misconduct. Results show that levels of racial homophily are higher in districts with more diverse officer workforces\, and that the combination of homophily and diversity is linked to an elevated risk of police misconduct\, even after controlling for other explanations of misconduct at both the officer and district level. These patterns contradict the idea that diversifying police forces necessarily improves the internal dynamics of police forces and is consistent with the broader sociological insight that the benefits of diversity are challenged by racial homophily within social networks. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLinda Zhao’s research focuses on how social contexts (such as levels of diversity or inequality in a population) can shape intergroup dynamics in social networks\, how social networks and social contexts are linked to our behaviors and decisions\, and how such networks can generate inequality. Her projects investigate intergroup dynamics\, inequality\, and social influence in networks within the areas of immigrant integration\, policing\, and public health. Zhao’s current work leverages data from a range of contexts such as adolescent friendships in classrooms\, officer networks in police departments\, as well as quasi-experimental settings using computational models. Prior to joining the University of Chicago\, Zhao was a Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/linda-zhao-sociology-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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SUMMARY:Utah ABF Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$125 per person. Guests of Fellows and nominees are welcome. \nBusiness/Country Club casual attire \nFeatured Keynote: “SCOTUS and the Pressure to Politicize State Supreme Courts” with Justice Christine Durham (Former Chief Justice\, Utah Supreme Court; Life Fellow\, American Bar Foundation; Senior Of Counsel\, Wilson Sonsini)  \n6:00 pm – 7:00 pm:  Cocktail and Networking Reception\n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm:  Dinner and Presentation
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/utah-abf-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Salt Lake Country Club\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 2400 Country Club Drive\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Amalia Kessler
DESCRIPTION:Although arbitration has deep roots in the United States\, the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable surge of enthusiasm for this extrajudicial dispute-resolution procedure\, giving rise to legislative and institutional experiments at multiple levels of government. A broad range of actors and interests embraced arbitration as key to the revitalization of American democracy in a modern age beset by pressing new challenges of industrialization\, urbanization\, and immigration. Arbitration\, they argued\, facilitated new forms of private/public partnership that would enable expanded\, lawyer-free access to justice and give voice to disempowered groups—ranging from small-scale business organizations and labor unions to Jewish communal minorities. The end result\, they hoped\, would be to generate a more socially expansive and culturally pluralist society\, refashioning American democracy for the modern industrial era. \nRecovering this forgotten history of arbitration reveals the surprising role that this seemingly technical and abstruse procedure played in two key developments that profoundly transformed the United States roughly a century ago and whose legacies remain with us to this day—namely\, the rise of the modern administrative state and the emergence of cultural pluralism as a defining\, though contested feature of American society. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n______________________________________________________________________________________ \nAmalia Kessler is the Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies\, the Associate Dean for Advanced Degree Programs\, a Professor\, by courtesy\, of History\, and the Director of Stanford Center for Law and History at Stanford Law School. \nA scholar whose research focuses on the evolution of commercial law and civil procedure\,  Kessler seeks to explore the intersections between law\, markets and dispute resolution—with a particular focus on the forces that have shaped the nature and origins of modern capitalism.  She is currently working on a new book\, tentatively entitled “The Public Roots of Private Ordering: Arbitration and the Remaking of the Modern American State\,” the research for which is supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies\, as well as a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.  In 2018\, her book\, Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture\, 1800-1877 (Yale University Press\, 2017) received the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Award for the best English-language monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar on Anglo-American legal history.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/amalia-kessler-international-legal-studies-and-history-stanford-law-school/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Michael Jin
DESCRIPTION:February 19\, 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind\, which followed Ozawa v. United States. This talk honors the history of Asian Americans and their struggle for US citizenship amid pervasive anti-Asian xenophobia in the early twentieth century.\nThe landmark 1922 Supreme Course case Ozawa v. United States stamped the legal status of immigrants from Japan as “aliens ineligible for citizenship\,” bolstering the intense exclusion movement based on the powerful Orientalist representation of Asians as unassimilable foreigners. This movement to police the racial boundaries of citizenship not only excluded Asian immigrants from American citizenry\, but also threatened the citizenship rights of U.S.-born Asian Americans. In their concerted effort to strip Asian Americans’ birthright citizenship\, leading anti-immigrant agitators deployed the same xenophobic rhetoric to argue that U.S.-born Japanese Americans should be treated as Japanese nationals. Japanese Americans’ struggles to protect the integrity of their birthright citizenship demonstrate that exclusionary legal measures designed to stop the influx of Asians did not simply affect the immigrant generation. Focusing on the experiences of Japanese Americans throughout the 1920s\, 1930s\, and 1940s\, this talk explores the complex and bizarre consequences of the pervasive anti-Asian xenophobia in the American West that rendered many Americans of Japanese ancestry stateless and subject to legal exclusion as “aliens ineligible for citizens.” \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nMichael R. Jin is an Associate Professor of History and Global Asian Studies. His areas of specialization include migration and diaspora studies\, Asian American history\, transnational Asia and the Pacific world\, critical race and ethnic studies\, and the history of the American West. \nHis book\, Citizens\, Immigrants\, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific (Stanford University Press)\, uncovers the stories of more than 50\,000 U.S.-born Japanese Americans in the former Japanese colonial world in Asia who drew the U.S. West into the larger histories of nations and empires in the Pacific before\, during\, and after World War II.  \nHis current research documents the experiences of Korean survivors of the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that illuminate the legacies of Japanese colonialism\, shifting geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War U.S. nuclear umbrella\, and the postcolonial politics of redress across the Pacific. His second book project opens a window into the lives of Iranians and Koreans in diaspora and the transnational circuits of change in multiple regions that intersected in their lives. This project explores the unexpected convergence of national histories\, shifting immigration policies\, and volatile geopolitical upheavals across West Asia\, East Asia\, and North America.
URL:https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/michael-jin-history-university-of-illinois-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Kofman":MAILTO:skofman@abfn.org
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