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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests should be fully vaccinated.  \n“Trust me\, I’m a Lawyer!”\nFeaturing: \nNigel J. Balmer: Research Direcot\, Victoria Law Foundation; Honorary Professor of Laws\, University College London \nCatrina Denvir: Associate Professor\, Monash University \nIn 2002 the American Bar Association published research on consumer perceptions of lawyers.[1]. The findings did not make for easy reading: whilst knowledgeable about the law\, lawyers were seen by the American public as ‘greedy\, manipulative and corrupt’. Such views point to a fundamental mistrust of the legal profession that is not unique to America\, with the ‘Global Trust in Professions’ survey revealing that the majority (three-quarters) of respondents across the globe view lawyers as untrustworthy. Scandals involving high profile lawyers and law firms\, including that of ‘Lawyer X’ in Australia\, are all said to undermine public confidence. But is the outlook really so bad and can a few bad apples spoil the bunch? Using findings from a new large-scale survey with the public and an in-depth qualitative study with lawyers\, this presentation explores what we mean by trust\, what people think of lawyers if we ask better questions\, the role that costs play\, and how better lawyer-client communication may help turn the tide of public opinion. \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-8/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T080000
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SUMMARY:DC Fellows Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:$35 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nDC Fellows and Fellows in town for the ABA Intellectual Property Law meeting are invited to meet for a social breakfast get together at Open City Restaurant near the Omni Hotel. \nMore information and registration coming soon.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/dc-fellows-breakfast/
LOCATION:Open City Restaurant\, Washington DC\, 2331 Calvert St NW\, Washington DC\, 20008\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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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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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:20230316T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230316T140000
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SUMMARY:Exclusive Fellows Tour - Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula\, MS
DESCRIPTION:This tour is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nPlease note: this event is only open to US citizens and attendees will need to provide appropriate ID information in advance. \nAs America’s largest shipbuilder\, Ingalls is the largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants having built nearly 70% of the U.S. Navy fleet of warships. \nJoin us for a private one-hour bus tour of the shipyard followed by a light lunch. We’ll also learn more about the current legal issues handled by the in-house law department from: \nGeorge M. Simmerman\, Jr.\nChief Counsel\, Huntington Ingalls Industries\nABF Patron Fellow \nJulie J. Gresham\nDeputy Chief Counsel\, Huntington Ingalls Industries\nABF Life Fellow
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/exclusive-fellows-tour-ingalls-shipbuilding-in-pascagoula-ms/
LOCATION:Ingalls Shipyard\, Pascagoula\, MS\, 1000 Access Road West\, Pascagoula\, MS\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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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:20230308T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20230215T194214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T134912Z
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nFeatured Keynote: “Experts in Court: The Challenges for Science in Litigation” with Shari Seidman Diamond (ABF Research Professor\, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law\, Northwestern Law School) \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230308T133000
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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:20230302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T203000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T134953Z
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SUMMARY:Utah ABF Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$125 per person. Guests of Fellows and nominees are welcome. \nBusiness/Country Club casual attire \nFeatured Keynote: “SCOTUS and the Pressure to Politicize State Supreme Courts” with Justice Christine Durham (Former Chief Justice\, Utah Supreme Court; Life Fellow\, American Bar Foundation; Senior Of Counsel\, Wilson Sonsini)  \n6:00 pm – 7:00 pm:  Cocktail and Networking Reception\n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm:  Dinner and Presentation
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/utah-abf-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:Salt Lake Country Club\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 2400 Country Club Drive\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230301T133000
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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:20260414T231708
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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:20230216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20230214T222639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135031Z
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SUMMARY:Florida Fellows Hybrid Cocktail Reception & Presentation
DESCRIPTION:$30 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeaturing Keynote: “The Future of Legal Education” \nJoin leading professionals in the field for a presentation on the changing role of the legal profession and legal education in the United States. Featuring \n\nBryant Garth: Interim Director\, American Bar Foundation | Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, UC-Irvine\nStephen Daniels: Research Professor\, American Bar Foundation\nNick Allard: Founding Dean\, Jacksonville University College of Law | Life Fellow\n\nIn-person \nOpen bar and light horse d-oeuvres begin at 5:00 pm. Presentation begins at 6:00 pm \nVirtual \nRegister virtually and receive a Zoom link to join the presentation from 6:00 – 7:00 pm. \n  \nThe Fellows Gratefully Recognize:
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/florida-fellows-hybrid-cocktail-reception-presentation/
LOCATION:Jacksonville University College of Law Building\, Vystar Tower\, 18th Floor\, 76 S. Laura St.\, Jacksonville\, FL\, 32202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221123T173845Z
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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:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221123T173620Z
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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:20230203T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2023 ABA Midyear Meeting in New Orleans
DESCRIPTION:A $30 registration fee is required and helps cover administrative costs associated with the Midyear Meeting \nEarly registration: Tickets are 15% off through January 20 \nABF Fellows On-Site Registration Hours: \nSheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \nPlease stop by The Fellows registration desk to pick up your complimentary Fellows ribbons and visit the ABF booth to learn more about our many ongoing research projects. \n\n3:00 PM – 5:30 PM      Wednesday\, February 1\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Thursday\, February 2\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Friday\, February 3\n7:30 AM – 5:30 PM      Saturday\, February 4\n\n  \nFriday\, February 3\nFellows CLE Program – “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM)\nSheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \nThe ABA will seek 1.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states\, and 1.8 hours of CLE credit for this program in 50-minute states including 1.5 hours of CLE Elimination of Bias/Diversity and Inclusion credit in 60-minute states and 1.8 hours of CLE Elimination of Bias/Diversity and Inclusion credit in 50-minute states as needed. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. Please visit www.americanbar.org/mcle for general information on CLE at the ABA. (CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Midyear Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nThis program will present material from the forthcoming capstone book of the ABF’s After the JD project\, “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession” by Nelson\, Dinovitzer\, Garth\, Sterling\, Wilkins\, Dawe\, and Michelson (University of Chicago Press 2023).  The book presents a definitive study of lawyers’ careers based on 20 years of research on a national sample of lawyers who passed the bar in 2000. It follows these lawyers through a combination of survey data and in-depth interviews that show how lawyers make meaning in their personal and professional lives. Although all American lawyers belong to one profession\, the book demonstrates that there are deep divisions by client type and practice setting and that women and lawyers of color continue to face barriers to equal opportunity. \nModerated By: \n\nDarrell Mottley — National Fellows Chair | Attorney\, Banner-Witcoff\n\nPanelists: \n\nBryant Garth— ABF Interim Executive Director | Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, UC-Irvine\nRobert L. Nelson — ABF Director Emeritus | Professor of Sociology\, Northwestern University\nRonit Dinovitzer— ABF Faculty Fellow | Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto\n\nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nThe Cabildo 701 Chartres St\, New Orleans\, LA \nJoin us for an evening filled with music\, food\, friends and fun at the historic venue\, The Cabildo! The Cabildo was the seat of Spanish colonial city hall of New Orleans\, Louisiana\, and is now the Louisiana State Museum Cabildo\, overlooking Jackson Square. The Cabildo was the site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer in 1803 and served as the center of New Orleans government until 1853\, when it became the headquarters of the Louisiana State Supreme Court\, where the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision originated in 1892. Today\, the Cabildo showcases the rich and colorful history of New Orleans and Louisiana. The region’s unique cultural blend is reflected in the Cabildo’s permanent and changing exhibits\, which include both famous historical figures and ordinary inhabitants. There are more than five hundred artifacts and original works of art in the building including The Battle of New Orleans\, Eugene Louis Lami’s huge 1839 painting depicting the final battle of the War of 1812. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsor:  \n \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Silver Sponsor: \nSandra Chan and Gary Yoshimura\n  \nSaturday\, February 4\nFellows Tour: New Orleans City Bus Tour (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM)\nplease email fellowsevents@abfn.org to be added to the waitlist.  \nRound trip bus tour from Sheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \nThis 2-hour private Fellows expedition through the Big Easy takes in some of the major points of interest\, including the French Quarter\, City Park\, the Esplanade\, and the Garden District\, to name a few. Relax in air-conditioned minibus comfort and listen as a guide leads you through one of America’s most historic cities. The bus will stop at the famous Cafe Du Monde and at various points along the way for photo opportunities. \n67th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM) \nThe Gallery 755 Tchoupitoulas St\, New Orleans\, LA \nJoin us for a festive evening as we celebrate and honor lawyers and scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and society. Robert Jones\, Innocence Project New Orleans exoneree\, will deliver keynote remarks. Round trip shuttle bus provided from Sheraton New Orleans. \n\nOutstanding Service Award: Norma Cantú\nOutstanding Scholar Awards: Professor Kaaryn Gustafson & Professor Mario Barnes\nOutstanding State Chair Award: Andrew M. Schpak\, Oregon \nDistinguished Life Fellow Award: Carolyn Witherspoon\n\n  \nSunday\, February 5\nFellows Sing-Along (9:00 PM –  ??)\nSheraton New Orleans 500 Canal St\, New Orleans\, LA \nWhat better way to top off a long day of meetings than with a relaxed evening of sing-along favorites? Bring some friends and enjoy! Not much of a singer? No problem! Join us for a nightcap and enjoy the entertainment. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize ABF Benefactor Fellow Jo Ann Engelhardt for the generous sponsorship of the Fellows Sing-Along.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/fellows-events-at-the-2023-aba-midyear-meeting-in-new-orleans/
LOCATION:ABA Midyear Meeting\, New Orleans\, LA\, 500 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221123T173439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140847Z
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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:20230121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20230215T183100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135125Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Breakfast at the Louisiana State Bar Midyear Meeting
DESCRIPTION:$30 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeatured Speaker: Innocence Project New Orleans Exoneree\, Robert Jones \nMore than 23 years ago\, Robert Jones was convicted of robbing\, kidnapping and raping a woman in 1992 in Orleans Parish and then soon after pleaded guilty to a pair of other crimes\, one of which included killing a tourist in New Orleans’ French Quarter in 1996. Thanks to the help of the Innocence Project New Orleans\, Jones was exonerated of those crimes. The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not retry him for the 1992 crimes and vacated the other charges to which he’d falsely pleaded guilty. \nThe Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) started working on Jones’ case seven years earlier. Over the course of those years\, attorneys there uncovered evidence which pointed to grave injustice in how then-prosecutors handled Jones’ case\, including loss of exculpatory DNA evidence and “steering of a witness” in the 1992 case\, writes the Advocate. IPNO also learned that there was absolutely no evidence linking Jones to the other cases to which he’d been advised by his attorney to plead guilty. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/fellows-breakfast-at-the-louisiana-state-bar-midyear-meeting/
LOCATION:The Renaissance Hotel\, Salon 4\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 7000 Bluebonnent Blvd\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 70810\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20230215T181910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135206Z
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SUMMARY:Alabama Fellows Breakfast at the State Bar Meeting
DESCRIPTION:$25/person. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nJoin Alabama State Chair\, Celia Collins\, for a Fellows networking breakfast to kick off the Thursday events at the Alabama State Bar Meeting.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/alabama-fellows-breakfast-at-the-state-bar-meeting/
LOCATION:The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel\, Ashland Parlors Room\, Mobile\, AL\, 26 North Royal Street\, Mobile\, AL\, 36602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221123T173137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140858Z
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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:20221207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20230215T202301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135241Z
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SUMMARY:Maine Fellows Cocktail Reception and Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$25 per person. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeatured Presentation: “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era” with Christopher Schmidt (ABF Research Professor\, Professor of Law\, Chicago-Kent College of Law) \nJoin Christopher Schmidt for a keynote in reference to his published book\, The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era. \nOn February 1\, 1960\, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter\, like most in the American South\, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until the store closed. In the following days\, they returned\, joined by growing numbers of fellow students. These “sit-in” demonstrations soon spread to other southern cities\, drawing in thousands of students and coalescing into a protest movement that would transform the struggle for racial equality. \nThe Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet defiance at “whites only” lunch counters lies a series of underappreciated legal dilemmas—about the meaning of the Constitution\, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy different forms of injustice\, and the relationship between legal reform and social change. \nCopies of the book will be available for pre-order with registration and available for purchase on-site. \n5:30- Cocktail Hour \n6:30- Dinner \n7:30- Keynote Presentation \n  \n 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/maine-fellows-cocktail-reception-and-dinner/
LOCATION:Cumberland Club\, Portland\, ME\, 116 High St\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221024T220223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140909Z
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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:20221206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20230215T201154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135335Z
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Hybrid Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to registerees. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nFeatured Presentation: “Portrait Project 2.0: Asian Americans in the Law” with: \n\nHon. Goodwin Liu\, ABF Affiliated Scholar | California Supreme Court\nProfessor Ajay K. Mehrotra\, ABF Research Professor | Professor of Law\, Northwestern University\n\nAsian Americans are a growing presence in all sectors of the legal profession. They work in Big Law and in smaller firms and solo practice\, and as government attorneys\, corporate counsel\, prosecutors\, public defenders\, judges\, and more. But they fall short in attaining leadership positions and have the highest attrition rates from major law firms. This ABF research project explores the empirical challenges and opportunities faced by Asian Americans in the legal profession.  During this NY Fellows presentation\, the co-Principal Investigators of this project (Hon. Goodwin Liu and ABF Research Professor/Former Executive Director\, Ajay K. Mehrotra) will discuss the overall aims of this project and a recently updated report chronicling Asian American identity and action during challenging times. \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-2/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221024T215849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140921Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
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:20260414T231708
CREATED:20221024T215303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140943Z
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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:20221105T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
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SUMMARY:ABF Reception at NAPABA 2022
DESCRIPTION:Join the ABF Fellows for a complimentary cocktail reception at the 2022 NAPABA Convention in Las Vegas\, NV. \n  \n 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/abf-reception-at-napaba-2022/
LOCATION:The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas\, Condesa 1\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
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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:20260414T231708
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T231708
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Reception Honoring ABA President-Elect Mary Smith
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nTo attend this program in-person\, all guests must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nJoin the New York Fellows in congratulating Mary Smith on her many achievements! \nIllinois Patron Fellow Mary L. Smith has become the first Native American woman selected as the ABA President-Elect nominee. Smith\, who is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation\, was chosen and approved by the ABA House of Delegates during the Midyear Meeting on February 14\, 2022. Once the decision is finalized at the ABA’s August Annual Meeting in Chicago\, her term will be set for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. \nSmith is a Chicago-based Vice Chair and Partner at Veng Group who received her undergraduate degree at Loyola University and her law degree at the University of Chicago. She has copious amounts of government experience at the local and national levels. She was the General Counsel for the Illinois Department of Insurance as well as the Special Counsel and Estate Trust Officer for the Office of the Special Deputy Receiver in Chicago. From 1997 to 2001\, Smith was the Associate White House Counsel to the U. S. President\, and she also worked as a Counselor for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division and the Associate Director of White House Policy Planning for the Domestic Policy Council. She is a former Principal Deputy Director for the Indian Health Service\, which operates under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide federal health funding to American Indians and Alaska Natives\, as well as a Past President of the National Native American Bar Association and Founder of the National Native American Bar Association Foundation. \nSmith has had an active history with the ABA\, as the former Secretary from 2017-2020 and as a former member of the Board of Governors for seven years. She has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates\, Section of Litigation\, Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice\, and Commission on Women in the Profession. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/new-york-fellows-reception-honoring-aba-president-elect-mary-smith/
LOCATION:Offices of Wachtell\, Lipton\, Rosen & Katz\, New York City\, NY\, 51 West 52nd Street\, 28th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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