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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:20230203T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230205T170000
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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:20260415T003451
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:20260415T003451
CREATED:20230215T203136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230316T161728Z
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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:20260415T003451
CREATED:20221024T214523Z
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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
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CREATED:20230210T231319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141004Z
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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:20260415T003451
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:20260415T003451
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T003451
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:20260415T003451
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:20260415T003451
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:20220920T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T003451
CREATED:20230221T182136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135613Z
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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 Presentation: “The New “Originalism”: The Words That Made Us and Are Remaking Us” with Akhil Reed Amar (Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University) \nProfessor Amar will discuss the jurisprudential earthquake that occurred at the end of the 2021 Supreme Court term.  Are we now at the dawn of a new era of originalism? If  so\, what kind of originalism? What relationship does any of this have to the Constitution’s own origins—origins explored in Amar’s latest book\, The Words That Made Us\, which will be available for sale and signing at the program. \nLunch Available at 12:00 p.m.\nPresentation to commence at 12:30 p.m. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize: \n \n 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/new-york-fellows-hybrid-lunch-program-3/
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:20220914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T003451
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:20220805T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220807T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T003451
CREATED:20230221T190349Z
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SUMMARY:Fellows Events at the 2022 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Registration prices can be found at the link above \nABF Fellows Registration Hours: \nHyatt Regency Hotel Chicago\, 151 E. Wacker Dr. \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\nWednesday\, August 3: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nThursday\, August 4: 7:30am – 5:30 pm\nFriday\, August 5: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm\nSaturday\, August 6: 7:00 am – 5:30 pm\n\n  \nFriday\, August 5\nFellows CLE Program – “Reflecting on a Century of Juvenile Justice: The Past in the Present” (8:30 AM – 10:00 AM) \nHyatt Regency Hotel Chicago\, 151 E. Wacker Dr. \n(CLE Requested. You must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to receive CLE credit) \nAt its founding in Chicago just over a century ago\, the juvenile justice system became a revolutionary new idea embedded in a legal institution. It was premised on the idea that children are inherently different from adults and were entitled to state protection—rather than punishment—even when they ran afoul of the law. How have these ideals held up in theory and practice over the years? This session will consider the ways legal and social conceptions of childhood and youth have shaped the evolution of the juvenile justice system. \nModerated by: \n\nHon. Ernestine Gray (Ret.) — Orleans Parish Juvenile Court\n\nPanelists: \n\nTera Agyepong — Research Professor\, ABF & Associate Professor of Legal History and African American History\, DePaul University\nPrudence Beidler Carr — Director\, American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law\nMichael Grossberg — Professor Emeritus of History\, Indiana University\n\n  \nFellows Opening Reception (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)\nAmerican Writers Museum\, 180 N. Michigan Ave\, Fl 2 \nLocated just around the corner from the headquarters hotel\, the American Writers Museum is the only museum devoted to American writers and their works. The Fellows invite you to mingle with friends\, enjoy refreshments\, and explore the interactive exhibits\, including a special gallery dedicated to Chicago writers. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize Opening Reception Gold Sponsor: \n \n  \nSaturday\, August 6\nFellows Annual Business Breakfast (7:30 AM – 9:30 AM)\nHyatt Regency Hotel Chicago\, 151 E. Wacker Dr \nJoin us for keynote remarks entitled “The Courts and the Democratic Process” from Aziz Z. Huq\, Frank & Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Professor Huq will discuss his new book\, “The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies\,” as well as his experience serving as a Law Clerk for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During this meeting\, we’ll also recap the ABF highlights over the past year\, recognize the State and International Fellows Chairs completing their terms\, as well as departing ABF Executive Director Ajay Mehrotra. \n  \nSunday\, August 7\nFellows Sing-along (9:00 PM – ??)\nHyatt Regency Hotel Chicago\, 151 E. Wacker Dr \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. \n 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/fellows-events-at-the-2022-aba-annual-meeting-in-chicago/
LOCATION:ABA Annual Meeting\, Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:San Diego Fellows Networking Reception
DESCRIPTION:$45 per person. Guests of Fellows and nominees are welcome. \nRegistrations must be received by Friday\, June 24\, 2022. Cancellations will be honored through Friday\, June 24\, 2022. \nHosted bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres begin at 5:30 pm. \n 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/san-diego-fellows-networking-reception/
LOCATION:Cocktail Patio at Il Fornaio\, Del Mar\, CA\, 1555 Camino Del Mar Ste 301\, Del Mar\, CA\, 92014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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SUMMARY:South Dakota Fellows Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nPlease contact South Dakota State Chair Robert Hayes (rhayes@dehs.com) with any questions.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/south-dakota-fellows-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Ramkota Hotel\, Rapid City\, SD\, 2111 N Lacrosse St\, Rapid City\, SD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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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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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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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 Speaker: John Sexton (President Emeritus\, New York University; Dean Emeritus; Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law) \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-4/
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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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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