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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:20260414T202721
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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
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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:20260414T202721
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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
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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:20260414T202721
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230210T231516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141028Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230210T232807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
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:20260414T202721
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:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230112T203237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230316T165528Z
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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:20260414T202721
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:20260414T202721
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20220425T215640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
UID:1076-1652270400-1652275800@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Speaker Series: James Thuo Gathii
DESCRIPTION:Following the murder of George Floyd\, the World Bank established an Anti-Racism Task Force that divided the Bank’s work into two phases. Phase one\, involves workplace issues including raising awareness\, strengthening knowledge\, mitigating instances of racism and racial discrimination. Phase 2 issues will look at the World Bank’s development work and its community engagements. This lecture will focus on the early indications of how the World Bank is addressing issues of race in its development work. My primary claim is that\, so far it seems the World Bank is moving towards a path of institutionalizing a pretty-thin understanding of racial discrimination in its development work. This minimalist race agenda does not include the World Bank facing its role in justifying its lending to the racist South African government during apartheid in open defiance of international law and of the United Nations. This lecture will make the case that the World Bank needs to face up to its racist legacy upfront as well as to explicitly disavow the techniques its lawyers and leaders deployed to defend the World Bank’s continued lending to apartheid South Africa. Ultimately my claim then is that by looking back to see how the World Bank has in the past addressed issues relating to race\, we can also better trace the footprints of racism embedded in rules and institutions of the post second world war order and therefore define how to better address this legacy. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJames T. Gathii has served as a professor of law and the Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since July 2012.  He is a graduate of the University of Nairobi\, Kenya\, and Harvard Law School. He sits on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law\, the Journal of African Law and the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy\, among others. His research and teaching interests are in Public International Law\, International Trade Law\, Third World Approaches to International Law\, (TWAIL)\, African Constitutionalism and Human Rights. Professor Gathii is an Independent Expert of the Working Group on Extractive Industries\, Environment\, and Human Rights Violations in Africa formed by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He is also an expert member of the Working Group on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDRIOT). He has sat as an arbitrator in two international commercial arbitrations hosted by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague. He is a founding member of the Third World Approaches to International Law\, (TWAIL)\, network. He is an elected member of the International Academy of International Law. He has consulted for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights\, (OHCHR)\, and the Economic Commission for Africa\, (ECA)\, among others. Professor Gathii is widely published in the areas of Public International Law\, International Trade Law\, International Human Rights and speaks extensively on these topics both in the United States and abroad. His books include African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes (Cambridge University Press\, 2011\, Paperback 2013); War\, Commerce and International Law (Oxford University Press\, 2010); and The Contested Empowerment of Kenya’s Judiciary\, 2010-2015: A Historical Institutional Analysis\, (Sheria Publishing House\, 2016). In addition to his books\, Professor Gathii has authored over 80 articles and numerous book chapters.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/james-thuo-gathii-law-loyola-university-chicago/
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:20220504T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20220425T215208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Joachim Savelsberg
DESCRIPTION:Core themes from a recent book on the construction of genocide knowledge will be addressed. The book presents the notion of an epistemic circle\, addressing ways in whch victims and perpetrators generate conflicting knowledge repertoires about genocide. Using a sociology of knowledge approach\, the book answers this question for the Armenian genocide committed in the context of World War I. Focusing on Armenians and Turks\, it examines strategies of silencing\, denial\, and acknowledgment in everyday interaction\, public rituals\, law\, and politics. Empirical materials include interviews\, ethnographic accounts\, documents\, and eyewitness testimony. The book illuminates the social processes that drive dueling versions of history. The presentation speaks to the sedimentation of knowledge repertoires\, and it addresses counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony\, with implications for populist disinformation campaigns against overwhelming evidence. \nPotential reading materials: The book is available as a paperback and as an open access online publication\, which can be accessed here. The brief introduction provides an overview; Chapter 8 addresses a court case over “free speech rights” in the US; Chapter 9 addresses counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJoachim Savelsberg: “Born\, raised\, and educated in Germany\, I moved—after year-long fellowships at the Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities – to the United States to take a position at the University of Minnesota in 1989. Here I am a professor of sociology and\, by courtesy\, law as well as the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair. \nMuch of my recent work addresses representations and memories of mass violence\, especially through legal intervention. Simultaneously\, I continue to contribute to themes that were previously at the center of my agenda. They include institutional conditions of knowledge about crime and punishment in international and temporal comparison and associated dynamics of criminal punishment; comparative imprisonment rates; the sociology of criminology; sentencing guidelines; and the criminalization of white-collar offenses. \nAlong the way\, I served\, with my colleague Timothy Johnson\, as editor of the Law & Society Review\, and as the elected chair of the Sections for the Sociology of Law and the Sociology of Human Rights of the American Sociological Association and of the Theory Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. \nI kept my contacts to Europe alive and expanded them into Africa\, aided by fellowships or visiting professorships at the Humboldt University (Berlin)\, the Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich)\, the Karl Franzens University (Graz)\, the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio\, the Käte-Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn)\, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa)\, and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. My publications have appeared in English\, German\, French\, Portuguese\, Italian\, Spanish\, and Chinese. Movements across continents have inspired insights into globalization and cross-national comparison.”
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/joachim-savelsberg-sociology-university-of-minnesota/
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:20220427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230213T153825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aziza Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is from the first part of my book which recovers the story of feminist AIDS activists in the 1980s.  These advocates succeeded in changing the scientific definition of AIDS used by the CDC.  They targeted the CDC because of the direct relationship between the medical definition of AIDS and the distribution of benefits by the Social Security Administration.  In recovering this lost story\, I am to show how social movement actors disrupt scientific consensus to bring about redistributional goals. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nProfessor Aziza Ahmed recently joined UCI Law from Northeastern University School of Law. Prof. Ahmed has been Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School\, Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School\, visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy Biotechnology\, and Bioethics\, and Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University. \nAziza Ahmed’s scholarship examines the intersection of law\, politics\, and science in the fields of constitutional law\, criminal law\, health law\, and family law. This work advances multiple scholarly conversations including those related to law and social movements\, race and the law\, and feminist legal theory. \nShe is the author of the forthcoming book Feminism’s Medicine: Law\, Science\, and Social Movements in the AIDS Response\, published by Cambridge University Press\, and co-editor of the forthcoming handbook\, Race\, Racism\, and the Law\, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.  \nProf. Ahmed earned a B.A. from Emory University\, a J.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley School of Law\, and an M.S. in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-aziza-ahmed/
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:20220420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230210T233756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Roseanna Sommers
DESCRIPTION:Consent is often celebrated as liberatory: at its best\, it allows individuals to choose for themselves how to live a good life. But consent is also a tool wielded by the powerful to stifle individual agency. This is particularly so\, I argue\, when consent is operationalized with legalistic and formalistic instruments such as consent forms. In this research\, I study the relationship between consent and victim-blaming\, and identify legal practices that serve to disempower individuals\, all in the name of providing them with choice. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nProfessor Sommers‘ research examines people’s intuitions about legal concepts such as consent\, autonomy\, and moral responsibility. Her work is part of a growing interdisciplinary field known as experimental jurisprudence\, which borrows empirical techniques from the social sciences to clarify core concepts in the law. \nHer work asks questions like: How do people determine whether someone is acting voluntarily? How do we think about interferences to autonomy\, such as coercion\, deception\, incapacity\, and manipulation? Are our legal doctrines defensible in light of empirical insights from the social and cognitive sciences? Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science\, PNAS\, and Psychological Science\, as well as in law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review. She is currently co-leading a study funded by the National Science Foundation on the psychology of compliance. \nPrior to joining the Michigan Law faculty\, Prof. Sommers taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow. She is the founder and director of the Psychology and Law Studies (PALS) Lab\, which conducts original research at the intersection of psychology and law. She also co-organizes the Chicago/Michigan PALS speaker series\, a virtual workshop hosted in collaboration with the University of Chicago Law School.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-roseanna-sommers/
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:20220413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230213T154133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Fernanda Pirie
DESCRIPTION:How do laws come to constrain the exercise of power? The rule of law is a contemporary ideal\, much discussed in the context of democracy\, social justice\, and human rights. But historically laws have been used to constrain arbitrary power in many different contexts and within many different political regimes. A question rarely addressed is how laws ever came to do this in the first place. What is it about sets of rules\, mere words\, that they can act as a constraint on political power\, and who ever thought that they might? \nIn this presentation\, I argue that the core idea of the rule of law has ancient roots\, almost as ancient as law\, itself. But the idea arose in different ways in very different contexts\, as did laws\, themselves. Comparing some of the earliest examples – from Mesopotamia\, Rome\, and the Islamic world – reveals that centuries ago religious lawmakers and citizens’ assemblies established laws that could\, at least in principle\, have been used to hold political leaders to account. So\, too\, did powerful rulers\, themselves. Yet others\, notably in China\, made concerted and ultimately successful efforts to avoid even the idea of the rule of law. This history speaks to very contemporary concerns about the legal ideals we pursue in the modern world. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nAn anthropologist specializing in Tibetan societies\, Fernanda Pirie uses both ethnographic and historical methods to study and compare legal practices and texts. She has argued for a new anthropology of law\, which engages both with legal theory and legal history: The Anthropology of Law (OUP\, 2013). This builds on themes and debates developed in the Oxford Legalism project\, which brought together scholars from anthropology\, history\, and other disciplines to compare wide-ranging empirical examples (Legalism\, OUP\, 4 vols).
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-fernanda-pirie/
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:20220330T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Adam Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Historians have written extensively about immigration policy and the so-called immigrant experience. Many works in the field have framed migration as a linear process in which people left their countries of origin\, settled in the United States\, and created new lives for themselves. Other studies have focused on how laws and the growth of the bureaucratic state during the twentieth century have shaped the country by controlling who can enter and who can remain. Yet\, many migrants’ experiences have been defined by neither assimilation and integration nor exclusion and deportation. This paper argues that immigration policies since 1965 have increasingly left people in a precarious\, often prolonged\, state of limbo—from undocumented immigrants living under threat of expulsion and people stuck in detention\, to asylum seekers waiting as their cases wind their way through labyrinthine bureaucracies and individuals with provisional protections that could be stripped away at a moment’s notice. By examining the four-decade history of Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\, this paper highlights the illiberal effects of immigration policies that liberal politicians have championed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nAdam Goodman is an associate professor in the Department of History and Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). His research and teaching interests include migration history and policy; Mexican American and Latino/a/x history; border and borderlands history; and recent US\, Mexican\, and Central American history.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-adam-goodman-history-university-of-chicago-illinois/
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:20220316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220316T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2021-22 ABF Post-Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Hardeep Dhillon: Reimagining the Racial Origins of Modern American Immigration and Border Control\nHardeep Dhillon is a socio-legal historian of immigration and border enforcement with a secondary field in gender and sexuality studies. Her first book manuscript follows the journeys of South Asian immigrants who sought to immigrate to the United States in the early twentieth century. By recasting histories of immigration through microhistories from below\, Hardeep orients our imaginaries of immigration and border enforcement through the journeys of immigrants rather than imperial state legislation. This approach expands the literature on immigration and border enforcement to account for the full scope of restrictions that immigrants encountered prior to and after their arrival in the United States\, and the transimperial intersections through which these restrictions emerged. It also reveals how enhanced legal restrictions developed through contestations between immigrant and state officials rather than through unilateral state directives. \nView Hardeep’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSonya Rao: Teaching Quality Communication: The Need for Professional Solidarity Between Legal Professionals and Interpreters in the United States\nIn this presentation\, I will share my broader research program and intellectual project. First\, I will summarize findings from my dissertation project\, Privatizing Language Work: Interpreters and Access in Los Angeles Immigration Court (2021)\, in which I argued that the erasure of everyday communication labor in immigration courts creates poor working conditions for courtroom professionals and allows contractors to aggressively prioritize profit over quality language services. Next\, I describe how the results motivated me to design my current project\, an investigation into current approaches to the language barrier in clinical legal education. I will share preliminary findings from the first 20 interviews from this research\, including the need for more significant support of professional legal interpreters by legal professionals. I conclude with a discussion of a common thread throughout my work\, a call to transcend current notions of “language access” to theorize quality communication as a public good. \nView Sonya’s ABF profile here.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-2021-22-abf-post-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:20220309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Justin Richland
DESCRIPTION:The founding principles of U.S. law regarding Native Americans\, first articulated in the 1830s\, define them as “domestic dependent nations” who retain powers of self-government but who are also in a “state of pupilage\,” to the federal government in a relationship like that of a “ward to its guardian.” This ambiguous status has offered cover for the shifting winds of U.S. political sentiment\, leading sometimes to calls for the assimilation of Native peoples\, sometimes for their rights to self-determination. Despite these shifts\, tribes like the Hopi Nation in Arizona persist in their claims as sovereign nations who Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act\, this relationship has been executed pursuant to rules requiring “meaningful tribal consultation” whenever U.S. agencies or their grantees propose actions that may impact Native peoples and their significant cultural interests. Disagreement persists about meaningful tribal consultation and its efficacies. \nIn this paper I draw on my recently published monograph\, Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements (U Chicago Press\, 2021)\, to highlight how insights from indigenous studies\, and legal and linguistic anthropology afford a humanistic empirical analysis of some of the consultation interactions I have observed\, since 2012\, between the Hopi Nation officials and their Federal counterparts. Unpacking those interactions in light of Hopi theories of knowledge and authority\, through a theory of legal language as jurisdiction\, I argue that these consultations enact Hopi and Anglo-legal norms of “significance” in complex\, contradictory ways. I suggest that understanding “meaningful tribal consultation” and the US legal status of Native Nations more generally\, requires understanding how indigenous nations enact the conditions of their own spheres of indigenous authority and the relations and refusals to settler colonialism this jurisdiction inevitably entails. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJustin Richland\, associate professor of anthropology\, studies Native American law and politics in the contemporary moment – particularly the interface between tribal nations in the U.S. and the U.S. federal and state governments. \nIn 2014\, he was appointed Adjunct Curator of North American Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History and in 2015 he was appointed to his second term of service by the Hopi Tribal Government as Associate Justice of the Hopi Appellate Court. From 2006-09 he served as Justice Pro Tempore. In 2016\, he became a member of the research faculty of the American Bar Foundation. His publications have appeared in several leading peer-reviewed outlets\, including most recently in the Annual Review of Anthropology\, Law and Social Inquiry\, and the Maryland Journal of International Law. He has authored two books\, Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court (U. Chicago Press\, 2008) and Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies (with Sarah Deer)\, 3rd Edition\, (Alta Mira Press\, 2015). In addition to his scholarship and advocacy\, he also co-curated an exhibition of the art of Rhonda Holy Bear and Chris Pappan\, two contemporary Native American artists\, which opened at the Field Museum of Chicago in November 2016. He was named a J.S. Guggenheim Fellow in April 2016. \nRichland earned his J.D. at UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. at UCLA. From 2005-11\, he was a professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Society at UC Irvine. He left California for the University of Chicago (2011-18) and is excited about being back home on the West Coast where he joins a vibrant community of law and social sciences scholars. He’s also looking forward to reaching the campus’s large population of first generation college students and hopes to open more opportunities for professional degrees and interests in native North America.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-justin-richland/
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:20220302T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220302T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kali Rubaii
DESCRIPTION:Strontium is a radioactive heavy metal. It appears everywhere\, but especially in the relationship between a boy named Azraq and myself; between the Cold War and the War on Terror; and between the US and Iraq. Tracing Strontium through these relationships\, I ask: What are the responsibilities of tracing connections forged by war? How can we narrate stories of violence that implicate the narrator? How can we love less violently? In this talk\, I suggest that it is necessary to close the gap between assigning responsibility and actually taking\, and that self-implication simplifies rather than complicates the ethics of research\, writing\, and material action. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nDr. Rubaii is a cultural anthropologist who studies the materiality of structural violence\, especially ecological arrangements between living and nonliving things. Her purpose is to sharpen resistance strategies that target the vulnerable nexus between coercive power and the physical world. Her most recent project explores the ecological impacts of less-than-lethal counterinsurgency in Iraq. Her book project\, Counterinsurgency: The Ecology of Coercion\, examines how displaced Anbari farmers in Iraq survive war-made landscapes designed to preclude possibilities for organized resistance. Working through five modes of coercion (preemption\, divide-and-conquer\, suspense\, abstraction\, and counter-resurgence)\, this ethnography follows militarized relations among humans\, ghosts\, plants\, animals and molecular agents. Her next ethnographic project approaches the corporate-military enterprise of cement production in post-invasion Iraq\, and how the cement industry enforces global regimes of race\, class\, and extraction. Thanks to an AAUW fellowship\, Dr. Rubaii will be spending much of her time in Fallujah and Ramadi this year. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-kali-rubaii/
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:20220223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220223T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T202721
CREATED:20230213T155932Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Natasha Iskander
DESCRIPTION:Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training\, but this paper uses a study of Qatar’s booming construction industry in the lead-up to the 2022 World Cup to show that skill distinctions are political constructs used to limit freedom\, narrow political rights\, and even deny access to imagination and desire. The employment of the migrant workers who have built the World Cup infrastructure has been regulated by the kafala system\, a legal system that codified practices of bonded labor. This paper looks at the history of the kafala system over the past two centuries to trace how the political language of skill has been incorporated in Qatar’s legal system. Qatar is often represented as a place outside history\, a lost stretch of desert that joined the modern world only after the discovery of oil and gas in the mid-twentieth century. This paper challenges this representation\, and shows that the contemporary kafala system\, along with ongoing efforts to reform it\, was forged through the political definitions of skill that traveled along dynamics of global economic exchange and political interconnection. More recent international advocacy efforts in defense of migrant workers\, which led to an overhaul of the kafala system between 2016 and 2020\, in fact only reproduced the tiered definitions of personhood and freedom associated with different categories of skill that had long been built into Qatar’s legal structure. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nNatasha N. Iskander\, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service\, conducts research on the relationship between migration and economic development. She looks at the ways that immigration and the movement of people across borders can provide the basis for the creation of new knowledge and of new pathways for political change.  She has published widely on these questions\, looking specifically at immigration\, skill\, economic development\, and worker rights\, with more than 30 articles and book chapters on these topics.  Her first book\, Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Cornell University Press\, ILR imprint\, 2010)\, looked at the ways that migrant workers transformed the economic development policies of their countries of origin. Her forthcoming book\, Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, examines the use of skill categories to define political personhood\, in ways that have become increasingly salient with the hardening borders and the pressures of climate change.  \nDr. Iskander’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation\, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\, the MacArthur Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, the Qatar National Research Foundation\, and others. She has held positions as a fellow-in-residence at the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility at the New School for Social Research\, at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University\, and at the Global Research Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-natasha-iskander/
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:20220119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2021-22 ABF Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Alston: “The Camera is My Weapon:” How Black Men Use Cellphones to Negotiate Safety and Status Amid Police Surveillance\nCivilians frequently capture black men in cellphone-generated videos depicting police violence. Yet\, existing research ignores how black men use cellphones to mitigate risk during police encounters and the impact cellphone recording has within black communities. In this talk\, I examine how the threat of police violence shapes black men’s use of cellphones during police stops and the social dynamics that emerge from cellphone recording. Drawing on ten months of fieldwork and 70 in-depth interviews with black men living on the Southwest side of Chicago\, this study finds that vulnerability to police violence shapes men’s appropriation of cellphones to negotiate their safety and status as men. Armed with their cellphones as an instrumental tool to contest police violence\, men use their cellphones to protect against institutional and interpersonal acts of harm\, a strategy I refer to as “protective monitoring.” While monitoring police for safety\, men also use cellphones as a symbolic resource to project a multidimensional expression of manhood tied to fatherhood\, citizenship\, and redemption. By deploying their cellphones during police interventions\, men mitigate some of the consequences of criminalization\, appeal to dominant gender ideals\, and perform resistance to police as a community service. \nView Brandon’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nIsabel Anadon: Interior Immigration Enforcement: Structural Mechanisms & the Punishment of Migrants in the United States\nThe regime of mass incarceration in the United States and the nation’s system of immigration and border enforcement are imagined as two distinct forms of state policing and punishment. However\, advocates\, historians and legal scholars argue that the U.S. deportation and detention center system is an extension of the carceral state. My research heeds these concerns and situates the entangled development between the current system of mass incarceration and immigration control particularly as it relates to the nation’s interior in the United States. More specifically\, this presentation provides evidence of a relationship between immigrant detention centers openings and prison building since 1980. For this study\, I build a novel dataset merging detention centers initiation dates with prison facility openings. Using a rare-event logistic regression model\, I provide evidence of how these institutions shape local community characteristics. Preliminary findings point to potential harmful socio-economic outcomes in places with high-level detention center development. \nMore generally\, this research pulls from my dissertation project\, Interior Immigration Enforcement: Structural Mechanisms & the Punishment of Migrants in the United States\, where I develop a framework to explicate how the mechanisms of interior immigration enforcement situate in local level immigration laws and policies; detention center proliferation; and the overly complex and taxed immigration court system. \nView Isabel’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nAlex Reiss-Sorokin: The Costs of Access to Legal Information\nAlthough court decisions and legislation are considered public\, lawyers\, legal professionals\, and researchers depend on commercial services to access and effectively use them. This talk focuses on the costs of accessing legal information by investigating the development of one commercial service: Lexis. In the late 1960s\, before Lexis was one of the two dominant legal databases used in the United States\, it was a legal research system developed by a group of Ohio lawyers to improve access to legal information for Ohio lawyers. According to the vision of the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) organization\, the computer was to serve as an equalizer – eliminating differences in resources and status between lawyers. Based on ads\, internal reports\, conference presentations\, journal articles\, and correspondence\, this talk examines how a tool that was meant to expand access to legal information ended up making access more restricted and costly. This talk is part of a larger project that examines the ways in which legal information is made accessible and their implications on legal education and the quality and costs of legal services. \nView Alex’s ABF profile here.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-2021-22-abf-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sydney Halpern
DESCRIPTION:During the third quarter of the twentieth century\, American biomedical researchers maintained a well-organized and fully entrenched regime for conducting experiments with inmates in U.S. reformatories and prisons. At the system’s core was the idea that participating in medical experiments was a vehicle for inmate rehabilitation. By making patriotic sacrifices for the greater good\, the story went\, the prisoner would undergo a redemptive transformation leading to social reintegration. Government-sponsored scientists and prison officials advanced these notions and with the assistance of a deferential press\, disseminated them to the broader public. \nThis presentation is part of a broader study of biomedical experimentation in World War II and early Cold War America published as Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis (Yale University Press\, November 2021). Drawing on extensive archival research\, the book examines how elite U.S scientists established a moral framework that justified and normalized hazardous human experiments and won them access to custodial facilities for recruiting subjects. Researchers spun narratives that invoked dominant cultural imagery and appealed to the ethos and management concerns of institutional overseers. \nWhen arranging for experiments in prisons\, scientists promised participants certificates of service to be considered at inmates’ parole hearings. Multiple actors made the system of experimentation in prisons possible: university researchers; federal officials; wardens and other correctional officers; sympathetic journalists; and prisoners themselves. All cooperating parties promoted tales of inmate transformation\, advancing a view widely held till the 1970s: that conducting risk-laden medical experiments with prisoners was right and good. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSydney Halpern is a historical sociologist who studies biomedical science and the emergence of healthcare institutions and professions. Her recent work addresses moral and regulatory issues in human experimentation. Her recently published book\, Dangerous Medicine\, chronicles a thirty-year\, government-sponsored program in which American researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. The volume offers a sustained picture of how\, during World War II and the Cold War years\, scientists persuaded a large swath of the American public that hazardous human experiments were not only morally acceptable\, but also an exemplary expression of citizenship.  Halpern’s previous books include American Pediatrics: Social Dynamics of Professionalism (University of California Press\, 1988) and Lesser Harms: Morality of Risk in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press\, 2004).  Lesser Harms\, examining informal constraints on early vaccine testing\, won the Visiltear Award from the American Public Health Association.  Halpern earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at University of California\, Berkeley.  She has served as Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and Vanderbilt University.  She is recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\, and a grant and multiple university fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  For Dangerous Medicine\, she received an award from the National Library of Medicine of National Institutes of Health.  Halpern is currently Lecturer of Medical Education at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities\, Feinberg School of Medicine\, Northwestern University.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-sydney-halpern/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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