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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kalyani Ramnath
DESCRIPTION:This speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \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://abf.spinudev.com/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:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bryan Sykes
DESCRIPTION:This 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.  \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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230503T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ifeoma Ajunwa
DESCRIPTION:This speaker will present virtually\, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \nIfeoma Ajunwa is an Associate Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making Research Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. \nHer research interests include: Race & the Law\, Law & Technology\, Employment & Labor Law\, Health Law\, etc. She has a budding interest in law & literature. Professor Ajunwa’s work is published or forthcoming in high impact factor law reviews of general interest: the California Law Review\, Cardozo Law Review\, Fordham Law Review\, and Northwestern Law Review\, as well as\, the top law journals for specialty areas such as: anti-discrimination law (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review)\, employment and labor law (Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law)\, and law and technology (Harvard Journal of Law and Technology). She has published op-eds in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, etc.\, and her research has been featured in major media outlets such as the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, CNN\, Guardian\, the BBC\, NPR\, etc.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T120000
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T120000
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T133000
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T133000
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CREATED:20221123T175010Z
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230301T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
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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://abf.spinudev.com/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221123T173845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140824Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kathryn Takabvirwa
DESCRIPTION:My talk examines policing in Zimbabwe\, with particular focus on encounters between police officers and people they pull over along the country’s roads. It centers on a five-year period during which Zimbabwean police mounted semi-permanent official roadblocks on roads throughout the country\, such that to be on the road was to be stopped and inspected\, repeatedly\, by the police. Through a close examination of experiences at these roadblocks\, I ask how people’s conceptions of themselves are reconfigured by intensive policing. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nKathryn Takabvirwa is a social and cultural anthropologist. Her research centers on policing\, citizenship\, migration and mobility\, governance\, and the state in Southern Africa. She is interested in the ways people reconcile themselves to the idea of the state and of citizenship in light of histories of state violence. She is currently working on a book manuscript on police roadblocks in Zimbabwe. The ethnography presents a close examination of encounters between the police and those they stopped along Zimbabwe’s roads between 2012 and 2017\, the period during which official police roadblocks proliferated throughout the country. Tentatively titled How to Ask for a Bribe\, the book also explores experiences of commuting\, as well as the policing of street vendors. \nShe is also interested in the politics of representation\, and in the role of African fiction in interrogating and generating Africanist theories of power\, intimacy\, and citizenship. This summer\, she will begin preliminary fieldwork on her second project\, on marriage and mobility in contemporary Southern Africa. \nTakabvirwa has also written on xenophobic violence in South Africa\, following research on local governance and migration with scholars at the African Center for Migration and Society\, in Johannesburg.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/kathryn-takabvirwa-anthropology-and-social-sciences-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221123T173620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140836Z
UID:1978-1675857600-1675863000@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Nayan Shah
DESCRIPTION:The presentation examines how and when U.S. Federal Courts intervene in the treatment of hunger strikers in Guantanamo\, California State Prison\, and Immigrant Detention. In each instance\, defense attorneys and prosecutors debate prisoner protest and prison policy that justifies forcible intervention. Legal processes provide an airing of prisoner grievances and public communication of concealed prison struggles. However\, the outcomes of judicial decision-making\, lean heavily on medical expertise and biopolitical measures in ways that foreclose prisoner rights and consent and dodge the causes of conflict. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nNayan Shah’s research examines historical struggles over bodies\, space and the exercise of state power from the mid- 19th to the 21st century.His scholarship advances our understanding of comparative race and ethnic studies\, LGBTQ studies\, and to the history of migration\, public health\, law\, and incarceration. Shah is the author of two award-winning books – Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race\, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press\, 2011) and Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press\, 2001). His new book\, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons\, conflicts and movements around the world. (University of California Press\, 2022).  \nShah is at work on two long-term book projects. The first is a comparative study of transnational spiritual migrations\, gender and intimacy in the early twentieth century United States that examines Muslim\, Catholic and Hindu missions and the development of interracial spiritual communities in Los Angeles\, Detroit\, Chicago and Seattle. The second examines migration and art-making and examines the ways that Asian\, Indigenous and Latin American diasporic artists forge relationships of belonging\, refuge and vulnerability with physical landscape and the built environment through art practices of photography\, installation\, archive and performance. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/nayan-shah-american-studies-and-ethnicity-and-history-university-of-southern-california-dornsife/
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/New_York:20230201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221123T173439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140847Z
UID:1974-1675252800-1675258200@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hajin Kim
DESCRIPTION:A major critique of ESG and stakeholder capitalism is that corporate voluntary efforts to reduce environmental harms and help society will reduce public pressure for formal policy reform. Because companies are already working to solve their problems\, government regulation appears less necessary. Previous empirical studies have found mixed results on this question. Using real examples of firm efforts and proposed legislation\, we empirically test whether voluntary efforts in the real world crowd out support for government regulation. I will present one completed study and our design for a second. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nHajin Kim is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Law School. She uses principles from social psychology and economics to study environmental law. Her work examines how moral and social influence can shape environmental regulation and firm behavior. \nHajin received her BA in economics\, summa cum laude\, from Harvard\, her JD from Stanford Law School\, and her PhD from Stanford’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Before attending Stanford\, Hajin worked for the Boston Consulting Group. She also clerked for Judge Paul Watford of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/1974/
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/New_York:20230118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221123T173137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140858Z
UID:1969-1674043200-1674048600@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rahim Kurwa
DESCRIPTION:This talk argues for a re-consideration of policing as a key factor in the historic and contemporary production of racial residential segregation. Historical evidence suggests that policing has long been a substituting force among many modes of segregation which increased and decreased in use and effectiveness based on social and legal context. However\, in contemporary contexts\, policing not only substitutes for other mechanisms of segregation\, but also has become synthesized with them. Using a case study of crime-free and nuisance housing ordinances\, I suggest that policing has been metabolized into the everyday ways that residents reproduce hierarchy within neighborhoods. These ordinances encourage individuals to surveil their neighbors and file complaints with them through city bureaucracies and municipal police departments. These processes threaten and\, in many cases\, produce eviction\, which reproduces segregation in the context of whites policing Black neighbors. \nBuilding from Cheryl Harris’ work on whiteness as property\, I theorize policing as a form of property. I argue that to engage in neighborhood policing is to acquire social status and power through dispossession\, forms of social status unavailable to those vulnerable to such policing. As traditional mechanisms of racial segregation weaken or change\, seeing how policing functions as property reveals one way that whiteness is imbued with new meaning in the face of de-segregation. \nTo access the related paper draft\, please click here. \nTo register\, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nRahim Kurwa is an ABF Visiting Scholar (September 2022- August 2023) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Justice and Department of Socioogy (by courtesy) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His research is at the intersection of race\, policing\, and residential segregation. His book project\, Apartheid’s Afterlives: Policing Black Life in the Antelope Valley\, documents how Los Angeles’ northernmost suburb used the criminalization and policing of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program to evict Black residents and re-segregate the region. Professor Kurwa’s work has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, Society for the Study of Social Problems\, and the Surveillance Studies Network. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/rahim-kurwa-abf-visiting-scholar-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221024T220223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140909Z
UID:1809-1670414400-1670419800@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bruce Greenhow Carruthers
DESCRIPTION:Today’s economy depends on promises as borrowers commit to repay their loans: people borrow to buy houses\, finance their education\, and support household spending. Firms borrow to fund investment\, finance inventory\, or bridge the gap between revenues and expenditures. How do lenders decide whose promises to believe? Lenders weigh their uncertainty about the borrower’s future with the extent of their own vulnerability. Initially\, lenders judged a borrower’s personal character and exploited the social ties that connected them for information and advantage. But starting in the 19th century\, lenders began to use a system of numerical scores and information provided by credit rating agencies. Ratings\, which spread from short-term business credit to long-term corporate bonds and eventually to individual consumers\, transformed the assessment of trustworthiness. Personal qualitative judgements were replaced by impersonal quantitative measurements\, making it possible to lend on a much greater scale. Americans were ambivalent about credit\, believing indebtedness to be a kind of subordination but also recognizing its usefulness. Nevertheless\, access to credit remained highly uneven. Widespread use of scores and ratings set the stage for current developments in “big data\,” and pose important questions about discrimination and algorithmic decision-making. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nBruce Greenhow Carruthers’ current research projects include a study of the historical evolution of credit as a problem in the sociology of trust\, regulatory arbitrage\, what modern derivatives markets reveal about the relationship between law and capitalism\, the adoption of “for-profit” features by U.S. museums\, and the regulation of credit for poor people in early 20th-century America. He has had visiting fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, the Library of Congress\, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study\, and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is methodologically agnostic\, and does not believe that the qualitative/quantitative distinction is worth fighting over. Northwestern is Carruthers’ first teaching position.  \nCarruthers has authored or co-authored five books\, City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton\, 1996)\, Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States (Oxford\, 1998)\, Economy/Society: Markets\, Meanings and  Social Structure (Pine Forge Press\, 2000)\, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (Stanford\, 2009)\, and Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach (Polity Press\, 2010).  
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/bruce-greenhow-carruthers-sociology-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221024T215849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140921Z
UID:1806-1669809600-1669815000@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Hokyu Hwang
DESCRIPTION:Impact investing\, globally hyped as a game-changing\, market-based funding solution to tackle social and environment problems\, promises an imagined future where the quest for social good can be readily combined with one for financial returns. This imagined future seems simply too good not to be true. However\, realizing the promise has been elusive. \nDrawing on a ten-year field-level case study of efforts to build an impact investing market in Australia\, we analyze how the pursuit of this imagined future is legitimated and sustained over a long period. We show how building a market for impact investing\, initially introduced as a means to an end\, becomes an end in itself\, revealing considerable shifts in the bases of legitimacy to sustain this pursuit. We theorize two distinct social mechanisms that account for such shifts. These mechanisms—the cultivation of institutional infrastructure and engagement in a form of cultural entrepreneurship that we dub ‘moral entrepreneurship’—are central to sustaining both belief and efforts to realize the imagined future promised by impact investing. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nHokyu Hwang is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation\, effecitve November through December\, 2022. He is an associate professor in the School of Management and Governance\, UNSW Business School\, UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University. His research examines the causes and consequences of organizational rationalization. \nHe is a two time recipient of the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant (2014-16\, 2018-2021). He has written a multitude of book chapters\, edited two books\, and has had research featured in publications such as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly\, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science\, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/hokyu-hwang-management-government-university-of-new-south-wales-business-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221024T215522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140932Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kyle Willmott
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, Indigenous peoples in settler societies like the US and Canada have been the subject of tax talk\, myths and stories. These stories are driven by legal and ideational dynamics that circulate around the financial lifeblood of settler states\, and the moral and political foundation of taxation in relation to Indigenous nations. Settlers often come to see Indigenous people through fiscal frames – thinking politically as “taxpayers”. Many Indigenous people can recount being accused of being subsidized\, on welfare\, not paying tax\, wasting ‘taxpayer dollars’\, and subject to other folk ‘taxpayer’ fiscal concerns. \nThis talk examines how this fiscalized racism is organized by legal structures\, non-state policy advocacy organizations\, and identity formation processes. Focussing on the durability of anti-Indigenous sentiment in settler colonial societies\, I show how tax comes to act as a form of white political property. Building on recent work examining racialization\, colonialism\, economic institutions\, tax\, and law\, I show the significance of taxpayer identity and citizenship practices. Based on close text analysis and quantitative content analysis\, I point out three discursive processes that show how non-state policy actors construct taxpayer identity: legal differentiation\, subsumption of sovereignty\, and tax as property and security. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nKyle Willmott is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. Prior to joining SFU\, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is Mohawk from the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation (Tyendinaga).  \nDr. Willmott is a political and economic sociologist interested in Indigenous-settler relations\, settler colonialism\, racialization\, taxation\, law\, and policy. His SSHRC-funded research agenda is currently focussed on two areas: (1) how fiscal politics are shaped by settler colonialism\, racialization\, and contention over property\, law\, and policy\, and (2) the institutional construction of policy knowledge and expertise in relation to Indigenous nations. \nDr. Willmott’s work is published in generalist and subfield journals. His empirical and theoretical findings examine: fiscalized racism and the informal function of tax as a form of white political property in relation to Indigenous people (Law & Society Review); how taxpayer subjecthood is constructed through practices of state critique (Economy & Society); the organization of anti-Indigenous political discourse by neoliberal advocacy groups (Canadian Review of Sociology); and the bureaucratic use of legal mechanisms around transparency and commensuration to reshape citizenship in First Nations (Critical Social Policy).
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/kyle-willmott-sociology-simon-fraser-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/New_York:20221109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221024T215303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140943Z
UID:1799-1667995200-1668000600@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Riaz Tejani
DESCRIPTION:Law and Society scholars often dismiss Law and Economics as insoluble with their core beliefs on distributive justice\, culture\, and social solidarity. This has allowed us to overlook between the fields\, and to miss opportunity for new theory generated in those spaces. One such opportunity came in 1978\, when Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt argued that societies make “tragic choices” about scarce resource allocations in a way that seeks to reconcile such choices with core culture\, ethics\, and values. In Calabresi’s later words\, that book was an “explicit appeal to Anthropology.” In 2016\, he renewed this call by arguing that the Future of Law and Economics will require better investigation of the interplay between cultural tastes on one hand and economic rationalisms on the other. After forty-plus years\, sociolegal studies remains poised to help with this more nuanced account\, provided we can find common ground with Law and Economics in our uses of language\, method\, and interpretive theory. \nA step in that direction\, this article is an intellectual history inspired by new ethnographic data gathered among lawyer-economists. Using “tragic choices” as an example\, it argues that Law and Society’s intellectual commitments sit closer to Law and Economics than usually understood\, and that we should finally grapple with Calabresi’s invite. It concludes by offering a framework for those interested in doing so today. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nRiaz Tejani is Associate Professor of Business Ethics at University of Redlands. His work investigates the interaction of legal and business ethics with special interests in race and class inequality\, distributive justice\, and cultures of economic rationality. \nHis first book\, Law Mart: Justice\, Access\, and For-Profit Law Schools (Stanford\, 2017)\, is an ethnographic account of for-profit legal education during and after the global financial crisis. His second book\, Law and Society Today (University of California\, 2019)\, critically surveys contemporary themes in socio-legal studies after “law and economics”. Riaz is Co-director of the Law and Society Association’s CRN 28 on New Legal Realism\, and a member of the board of conveners for the Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop. \n Riaz’ work has been cited or reviewed in venues that include the Harvard Law Review\, Yale Law Journal Forum\, Annual Review of Law and Social Science\, The Nation\, Huffington Post\, Salon\, and NPR. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from Princeton University and a JD from the USC Gould School of Law\, where he was a Fellow at the Center for Law\, History\, and Culture.  Before joining the School of Business\, Riaz was on faculty at the University of Illinois – Springfield where\, in 2017\, he was a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award for teaching. In 2020\, for his work on law and marketization\, he was awarded the University of Redlands’ Outstanding Faculty Award for research.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/riaz-tejani-business-ethics-university-of-redlands/
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/New_York:20221102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20221024T214523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140953Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Renée Cramer
DESCRIPTION:Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women’s reproductive capacity. Currently\, professional midwives are legal and regulated in their practice in 32 states and illegal in eight\, where their practice could bring felony convictions and penalties that include imprisonment. In the remaining ten states\, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) are unregulated\, but nominally legal. Midwives and their clients engage in various forms of legal and political mobilization—at times simultaneous\, and at times inconsistent—to facilitate access to care\, autonomy in childbirth\, and the articulation of women’s authority in reproduction. This talk draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law\, politics\, and activism surrounding midwifery care\, and provides narratives from midwives across the country\, parsing out the often-paradoxical priorities with which they must engage—seeking formal professionalization\, advocating for reproductive justice\, and resisting state-centered approaches.   \nOur conversation will bring together several literatures not frequently in conversation with one another\, on regulation\, mobilization\, health policy\, and gender.  While midwifery care and reproductive justice form the heart of the presentation\, I am also interested in the ways that professional practice and disciplinary knowledge are figured and constituted – and will draw parallels between the professionalization of midwifery\, and the socialization and disciplinary professionalization undertaken by associations like Law and Society\, and organizations like the American Bar Foundation.    \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nRenée Cramer earned her Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2001. Since 2004\, she has been engaged in ethnographic and participant-observation field work with homebirth midwives\, advocates for midwifery\, and families who have had out-of-hospital births. Her book on this work\, tentatively titled Attending to Birth: Expanding the Margins of Reproductive Care\, is under contract with Stanford University Press. Stanford published her most recent book\,  Pregnant with the Star: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump in 2015. \nShe teaches a wide range of Law\, Politics and Society classes at Drake University. Her special topics courses include Law and Social Change\, Reproductive Law and Politics; Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory; and Contemporary American Indian Law and Politics\, which draws on her prior research on federal tribal acknowledgment.  Her first book\, on that topic\, was published in 2005 by University of Oklahoma Press\, under the title Cash\, Color\, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment\, and re-released in paperback in 2008.  Professor Cramer directs The Slay Fund for Social Justice\, and served\, for the 2018/2019 academic year\, as Faculty Senate President.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/renee-cramer-law-politics-society-drake-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/New_York:20221026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20230210T231319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141004Z
UID:3112-1666785600-1666791000@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Verónica Michel
DESCRIPTION:During the last 40 years we have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of victims’ rights in both\ninternational and domestic law. The recent recognition of the victim as an actor entitled to rights\nraises two important questions. First\, when and where did this process of norm diffusion begin? And\, second\, what is the scope of rights being granted to victims? \nIn this article I begin to answer these two questions by tracing the emergence and evolution of victims’ rights in 94 criminal procedure codes of 17 Latin American and 32 European (civil law) countries. Through preliminary content analysis I show the victims’ rights revolution that has taken hold in these two regions\, identifying the timing\, the scope of rights\, and some variations across regions. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nVerónica Michel (also known as Verónica Michel-Luviano) is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College-CUNY. Originally from Mexico City\, she obtained a B.A. in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. Her research has focused on victim rights\, public prosecutor’s offices\, criminal procedure reform\, rule of law\, and comparative and international criminal justice\, with a regional focus on Latin America. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly\, Law and Society Review\, and the Journal of Human Rights.  \nThe interdisciplinary nature of Dr. Michel’s work has been well received among political scientists and criminologists. Her book\, entitled Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims’ Rights in Latin America (published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press)\, received the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.  Also\, her article “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America” (co-authored with Kathryn Sikkink) received the 2014 Best Journal Article Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-veronica-michel/
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:20221019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20230210T230924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141015Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rohit De
DESCRIPTION:The movements of Indian-African diasporic lawyers\, and the politics and techniques they carried\, shaped the conceptual and strategic world of minority rights in the 20th century. Claims by overseas Indians based on their rights as imperial subjects had to be recalibrated\, through decolonization. As overseas Indians across the British empire in Africa emerged as national minorities in ethno-majoritarian states\, or as migrants to former colonial powers\, forms of claim making had to be revised and reworked. \nFollowing the careers of four Indian-African lawyers across the UK\, India\, Seychelles\, Tanzania\, Kenya\, Fiji and Papua New Guinea\, to show how the Indian legal diaspora\, often viewed as the “sinew of empire and capital” turned first into a network for decolonization\, and then incubated claims for integration into ethno-majoritarian national states\, reordering the ideas and strategies for minority rights. Using lawyerly lives as an archive\, it demonstrates the possibilities of tracing transnational history of ideas\, rooted in everyday local struggles and assertions and brings the framework of political commitments and ethnic identities to global histories of the legal profession. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nRohit De is a lawyer and historian of modern South Asia and focuses on the legal history of the Indian subcontinent and the common law world.  As a legal historian he moves beyond asking what the law was; to what actors thought law was and how this knowledge shaped their quotidian tactics\, thoughts and actions. In recent years\, this has enabled his research to move beyond the political borders to South Asia to uncover transnational legal geographies of commerce\, migration and rights across East Africa\, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.\n \nHis book A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press\, 2018) explores how the Indian constitution\, despite its elite authorship and alien antecedents\, came to permeate everyday life and imagination in India during its transition from a colonial state to a democratic republic. His second book\, Assembling the Indian Constitution\, coauthored with Ornit Shani\, examines at how thousands of ordinary Indians\, read\, deliberated\, debated and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing and will be published in 2023.\n\nProf De is also interested in comparative constitutional law and is an Associate Research Scholar in Law at the Yale Law School. He has assisted Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and worked on constitution reform projects in Nepal and Sri Lanka. He writes on contemporary legal issues in South Asia.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-rohit-de/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dean Spade
DESCRIPTION:Around the globe\, people are facing crisis\, from the COVID pandemic and climate change-induced fires\, floods\, and storms to the ongoing impacts of mass incarceration\, racist policing\, brutal immigration enforcement\, endemic gender violence\, war\, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis\, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and keep each other alive. \nIn this talk\, Dean Spade will be sharing ideas from his latest book\, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). Dean argues that mutual aid plays a core role in building transformative social movements\, and distinguishes mutual aid from charity and social services. He builds on his prior work on the limits of legal reform\, exploring how people’s movements aimed at building collective self-determination grow by building decentralized projects focused on survival and resistance. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nDean Spade is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law and the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!” His latest book\, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\, was published by 2020 and is soon to be published in Italian\, Portuguese\, Catalan\, Korean\, Spanish\, Thai\, Czech and German.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-dean-spade/
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:20220928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T133000
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CREATED:20230210T232807Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2022-23 ABF Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Heba Alex: Rights Negotiation Within the Boundaries of Citizenship\nSociological studies widely acknowledge that rights contestation is a major tool in majority versus minority/marginalized struggles within the boundaries of citizenship. Often\, however\, these rights struggles are interrogated through a binary boundary framework of the majority vs. the minority in the context of group competitions over resources. Whether scholars examine how citizens differentiate themselves from noncitizens or contend that the unequal extension of rights creates hierarchical classes of “citizens\,” the literature focuses on competitions over rights that occur along traditional axes such as race\, religion\, gender\, and nationality. This suggests that similar struggles do not happen within the majority\, defined by the literature as the group with the “most types of rights.” How rights play out in differentiation disputes within more or less homogenous groups\, where classification struggles often defy binary boundaries\, is much less understood. \nFor example\, what happens in a hypothetical situation where rights are extended equally among\, say\, white\, Protestant\, native-born\, male citizens? Who gets excluded\, and how?  I explore this line of inquiry by tracing how rights to access certain occupations were mediated through the personal qualification of having a “good moral character\,” a vague stipulation that was common in state statutes after the Civil War. Examining the consequential contestations that emerged as a result of including this substantive element in the formal legal code\, while delegating the authority to adjudicate the good moral character requirement to different private actors\, illustrates the ways rights remain in flux within the juridical field even when some appear more stable/settled than others. Moreover\, it demonstrates that rights negotiations regularly construct ways to restrict privileges within categories\, even if such limitations are not necessarily hierarchical. \nView Heba’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nOscar R. Cornejo Casares: The Life and Afterlife of Migrant Illegality\nUndocumented immigration has transformed American society. Yet\, it remains a fundamentally misunderstood and controversial social problem. While migration scholars have developed significant contributions to the production of undocumented migration and/or the lived experience of undocumented status\, sociological research has primarily directed its attention to the immediate and short-term effects of legal status. This dissertation study\, thus\, turns to the long-term intragenerational impact\, investigating how legal status acts an axis of stratification with dynamic and cumulative consequences across the life courses of undocumented immigrants. I draw upon retrospective in-depth life history interviews of Latin American undocumented and formerly undocumented immigrants in the Chicagoland area. Thus\, I seek to conceptualize the durability and temporality of migrant illegality as we as the power of the state and how immigrants respond\, resist\, or acquiesce to the immigration regime. \nView Oscar’s ABF profile here.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-abf-2022-23-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:American Bar Foundation\, 750 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60611\, United States
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T133000
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CREATED:20230210T232307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141038Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Bill V. Mullen
DESCRIPTION:Between 1946 and 1956\, the Civil Rights Congress of the United States carried out a public campaign to declare American law the enabling force of an emergent U.S. fascist state. At the center of its campaign was a 256-page book titled We Charge Genocide. Originally cast as a petition to the United Nations\, the book deployed the 1948 United Nations definition of “genocide” to allege that the U.S. was systematically inducing what it called in its opening pages the “premature death” of African-Americans. \nSpecifically\, the Congress sought to document that it was the American judiciary—-courts\, the law\, and the police—-which functioned as enabling mechanisms of Fascist creep.  In so doing\, the CRC manufactured a theoretical turn that will be central to this essay\, transforming the conception of U.S. law into the “rule of race.” \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nBill V. Mullen is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Purdue.  His books include UnAmerican: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution (Temple UP\, 2015); W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto\, 2016); Afro-Orientalism (Minnesota\, 2004) a study of interethnic anti-racist alliance between Asian and African Americans\, and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics 1935-1946 (University of Illinois\, 1999).  He has edited five other books in collaboration with Sherry Lee Linkon\, James Smethurst and Fred Ho.  He has been a Fulbright lecturer at Wuhan University in the People’s Republic of China. He is faculty adviser to Students for Justice in Palestine at Purdue and a member of the organizing collective for the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACB).    \nHis articles have appeared in Social Text\, African-American Review\, American Quarterly\, Modern Fiction Studies\, Electronic Intifada\, Truthout\, Mondoweiss\, Jacobin and elsewhere. Mullen teaches courses in African American Literature and Culture\, American Studies\, Working-Class Literature\, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature. He is currently working on a biography of James Baldwin titled James Baldwin: Living in Fire.  The book focuses on Baldwin’s radical\, and queer\, politics. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-bill-v-mullen/
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:20220914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20230210T231952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jodi Short
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Yanhua Bird\, Boston University Questrom School of Business\, and Michael W. Toffel\, Harvard Business School  \nActivist pressure has prompted many companies to adopt formal corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies\, but can activists induce companies to effectively implement these policies by keeping up the pressure after policy adoption? \nDrawing on and extending the private politics and (de)coupling literatures\, we theorize that ongoing activism in the institutional environment can prompt tighter coupling of companies’ CSR policies and practices\, but that it also can lead companies to engage in “coupling compromises”—improving their practices and more tightly coupling them with CSR policies in the domain contested by activists but loosening the coupling of policy and practice in other CSR domains. We test our theory by investigating how global supply chain factories that have adopted CSR policies on working conditions respond to local episodes of worker activism. \nAnalyzing 3\,495 audits of 2\,352 factories in 114 Chinese cities from 2012 to 2015\, we find that worker activism contesting wages-and-benefits issues pushes factories to improve their wages-and-benefits practices and couple them more tightly with CSR policies\, but these factories concurrently loosen the coupling of policy and practice in the area of occupational health and safety—such coupling compromises are not observed in the area of labor exploitation. Both effects are stronger in factories with organizational structures that foreground the salience of wages-and-benefits issues and mitigate the net cost of changing organizational practices. These findings make significant contributions to the literatures on private politics\, (de)coupling\, and global supply chain labor practices. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJodi Short is the Associate Dean for Research and the Honorable Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. She graduated from Duke University\, BA cum laude (1992); Georgetown Law\, JD magna cum laude (1995); and UC Berkeley\, Ph.D. in Sociology (2008). She has taught at Georgetown Law and was a Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy\, at the McDonough School of Business. Her research is on the regulation of business\, in particular\, the intersection of public and private regulatory regimes and the theory and practice of regulatory reform. \nHer prior work has examined the effects of corporate internal compliance auditing on regulatory performance\, theoretical justifications for and critiques of public regulation\, and tensions in the U.S. administrative state between cooperation and coercion\, expertise and politics\, and public and private interests. Current research projects investigate private efforts to enforce labor standards in global supply chains through codes of conduct and social auditing\, critique red-tape reduction reforms that rely on the fallacy of regulation counting\, and call for a more robust theory of the state in legal scholarship on regulation.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-jodi-short/
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:20220623T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220625T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20230112T203237Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Justice: From Ideas to Impact
DESCRIPTION:The American Bar Foundation (ABF) invites you to Reimaging Justice: From Ideas to Impact\, a conference that will bring together researchers\, practitioners\, and policy makers to move forward together in advancing civil access to justice efforts that can help to combat poverty. The conference will feature research presentations by scholars from the ABF/JPB Access to Justice Scholars program and invited doctoral students\, along with keynote remarks by prominent leaders in the field. \nThe two-day event will be held at the Hilton Magnificent Mile\, beginning with lunch on Thursday\, June 23 and concluding with lunch on Saturday\, June 25. A detailed agenda is available here. \nThe conference is free but advance registration is required.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/reimagining-justice-from-ideas-to-impact/
LOCATION:Hilton Magnificent Mile – Chicago\, 198 E. Delaware Place\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60611
CATEGORIES:Conferences,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20230210T233140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kennette Benedict
DESCRIPTION:Vladimir Putin’s veiled threat to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine has brought renewed public attention to their possible use in war-fighting. Russia and the United States together possess nearly 12\,000 nuclear weapons—almost 90% of all nuclear weapons in the world—and rely on the military doctrine of nuclear deterrence to manage their relations with adversaries.  As such\, Russia is counting on its nuclear retaliatory capacity to inhibit U.S. and NATO response to aggression in Ukraine; any direct action to defend Ukraine would risk escalation of the current conventional conflict to a nuclear war.  The seminar will provide background about current doctrine and thinking about nuclear weapons\, review the possible effects of using them in conflicts\, and point to the limitations of governing nuclear weapons and war through nuclear deterrence\, upholding norms of non-use\, international law\, and treaties. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nKennette Benedict is a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and senior advisor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. From 2005-2015\, she served as executive director and publisher of the Bulletin\, the leading scholarly magazine about threats to humanity from nuclear weapons\, climate change\, and emerging technologies\, and known for its Doomsday Clock. She publishes articles and gives media interviews about nuclear weapons and disarmament\, nuclear power\, and global governance. \nFrom 1991-2005\, Benedict was the director of International Peace and Security at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, overseeing grant making on a broad international security agenda. She also directed a grant-making initiative in Russia from 1992-2001 and an initiative on science\, technology and security from 2000-2005. \nPreviously she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her PhD in political science from Stanford University. \nShe serves as an advisor to International Student Youth Pugwash and New America Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-kennette-benedict/
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:20220518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T190553
CREATED:20220425T215814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sarah Brayne
DESCRIPTION:Computational procedures increasingly inform how we work\, communicate\, and make decisions. In this talk\, I draw on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted within the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze how the police leverage big data and new surveillance technologies to allocate resources\, classify risk\, and conduct investigations. I argue big data does not eliminate discretion\, but rather displaces discretionary power to earlier\, less visible parts of the policing process\, which has implications for organizational practice\, law\, and social inequality. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSarah Brayne is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. In her research\, Brayne uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the social consequences of data-intensive surveillance practices. Her book\, Predict and Surveil: Data\, Discretion\, and the Future of Policing (Oxford University Press)\, draws on ethnographic research with a large\, urban police department to understand how law enforcement uses predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies. In previous research\, she analyzed the relationship between criminal justice contact and involvement in medical\, financial\, labor market\, and educational institutions. Brayne’s research has appeared in the American Sociological Review\, Social Problems\, Law and Social Inquiry\, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, the Law and Society Association\, and the American Society of Criminology. \nPrior to joining the faculty at UT-Austin\, Brayne was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University.  \nBrayne has volunteer-taught college-credit sociology classes in prisons since 2012. In 2017\, she founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/sarah-brayne-sociology-university-of-texas-at-austin/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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