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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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Verónica Michel
DESCRIPTION:During the last 40 years we have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of victims’ rights in both\ninternational and domestic law. The recent recognition of the victim as an actor entitled to rights\nraises two important questions. First\, when and where did this process of norm diffusion begin? And\, second\, what is the scope of rights being granted to victims? \nIn this article I begin to answer these two questions by tracing the emergence and evolution of victims’ rights in 94 criminal procedure codes of 17 Latin American and 32 European (civil law) countries. Through preliminary content analysis I show the victims’ rights revolution that has taken hold in these two regions\, identifying the timing\, the scope of rights\, and some variations across regions. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nVerónica Michel (also known as Verónica Michel-Luviano) is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College-CUNY. Originally from Mexico City\, she obtained a B.A. in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. Her research has focused on victim rights\, public prosecutor’s offices\, criminal procedure reform\, rule of law\, and comparative and international criminal justice\, with a regional focus on Latin America. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly\, Law and Society Review\, and the Journal of Human Rights.  \nThe interdisciplinary nature of Dr. Michel’s work has been well received among political scientists and criminologists. Her book\, entitled Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims’ Rights in Latin America (published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press)\, received the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.  Also\, her article “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America” (co-authored with Kathryn Sikkink) received the 2014 Best Journal Article Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-veronica-michel/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Rohit De
DESCRIPTION:The movements of Indian-African diasporic lawyers\, and the politics and techniques they carried\, shaped the conceptual and strategic world of minority rights in the 20th century. Claims by overseas Indians based on their rights as imperial subjects had to be recalibrated\, through decolonization. As overseas Indians across the British empire in Africa emerged as national minorities in ethno-majoritarian states\, or as migrants to former colonial powers\, forms of claim making had to be revised and reworked. \nFollowing the careers of four Indian-African lawyers across the UK\, India\, Seychelles\, Tanzania\, Kenya\, Fiji and Papua New Guinea\, to show how the Indian legal diaspora\, often viewed as the “sinew of empire and capital” turned first into a network for decolonization\, and then incubated claims for integration into ethno-majoritarian national states\, reordering the ideas and strategies for minority rights. Using lawyerly lives as an archive\, it demonstrates the possibilities of tracing transnational history of ideas\, rooted in everyday local struggles and assertions and brings the framework of political commitments and ethnic identities to global histories of the legal profession. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nRohit De is a lawyer and historian of modern South Asia and focuses on the legal history of the Indian subcontinent and the common law world.  As a legal historian he moves beyond asking what the law was; to what actors thought law was and how this knowledge shaped their quotidian tactics\, thoughts and actions. In recent years\, this has enabled his research to move beyond the political borders to South Asia to uncover transnational legal geographies of commerce\, migration and rights across East Africa\, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.\n \nHis book A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press\, 2018) explores how the Indian constitution\, despite its elite authorship and alien antecedents\, came to permeate everyday life and imagination in India during its transition from a colonial state to a democratic republic. His second book\, Assembling the Indian Constitution\, coauthored with Ornit Shani\, examines at how thousands of ordinary Indians\, read\, deliberated\, debated and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing and will be published in 2023.\n\nProf De is also interested in comparative constitutional law and is an Associate Research Scholar in Law at the Yale Law School. He has assisted Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and worked on constitution reform projects in Nepal and Sri Lanka. He writes on contemporary legal issues in South Asia.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-rohit-de/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T193000
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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
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dean Spade
DESCRIPTION:Around the globe\, people are facing crisis\, from the COVID pandemic and climate change-induced fires\, floods\, and storms to the ongoing impacts of mass incarceration\, racist policing\, brutal immigration enforcement\, endemic gender violence\, war\, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis\, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and keep each other alive. \nIn this talk\, Dean Spade will be sharing ideas from his latest book\, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). Dean argues that mutual aid plays a core role in building transformative social movements\, and distinguishes mutual aid from charity and social services. He builds on his prior work on the limits of legal reform\, exploring how people’s movements aimed at building collective self-determination grow by building decentralized projects focused on survival and resistance. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nDean Spade is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law and the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!” His latest book\, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\, was published by 2020 and is soon to be published in Italian\, Portuguese\, Catalan\, Korean\, Spanish\, Thai\, Czech and German.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-dean-spade/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T133000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: 2022-23 ABF Doctoral Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Heba Alex: Rights Negotiation Within the Boundaries of Citizenship\nSociological studies widely acknowledge that rights contestation is a major tool in majority versus minority/marginalized struggles within the boundaries of citizenship. Often\, however\, these rights struggles are interrogated through a binary boundary framework of the majority vs. the minority in the context of group competitions over resources. Whether scholars examine how citizens differentiate themselves from noncitizens or contend that the unequal extension of rights creates hierarchical classes of “citizens\,” the literature focuses on competitions over rights that occur along traditional axes such as race\, religion\, gender\, and nationality. This suggests that similar struggles do not happen within the majority\, defined by the literature as the group with the “most types of rights.” How rights play out in differentiation disputes within more or less homogenous groups\, where classification struggles often defy binary boundaries\, is much less understood. \nFor example\, what happens in a hypothetical situation where rights are extended equally among\, say\, white\, Protestant\, native-born\, male citizens? Who gets excluded\, and how?  I explore this line of inquiry by tracing how rights to access certain occupations were mediated through the personal qualification of having a “good moral character\,” a vague stipulation that was common in state statutes after the Civil War. Examining the consequential contestations that emerged as a result of including this substantive element in the formal legal code\, while delegating the authority to adjudicate the good moral character requirement to different private actors\, illustrates the ways rights remain in flux within the juridical field even when some appear more stable/settled than others. Moreover\, it demonstrates that rights negotiations regularly construct ways to restrict privileges within categories\, even if such limitations are not necessarily hierarchical. \nView Heba’s ABF profile here. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nOscar R. Cornejo Casares: The Life and Afterlife of Migrant Illegality\nUndocumented immigration has transformed American society. Yet\, it remains a fundamentally misunderstood and controversial social problem. While migration scholars have developed significant contributions to the production of undocumented migration and/or the lived experience of undocumented status\, sociological research has primarily directed its attention to the immediate and short-term effects of legal status. This dissertation study\, thus\, turns to the long-term intragenerational impact\, investigating how legal status acts an axis of stratification with dynamic and cumulative consequences across the life courses of undocumented immigrants. I draw upon retrospective in-depth life history interviews of Latin American undocumented and formerly undocumented immigrants in the Chicagoland area. Thus\, I seek to conceptualize the durability and temporality of migrant illegality as we as the power of the state and how immigrants respond\, resist\, or acquiesce to the immigration regime. \nView Oscar’s ABF profile here.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-abf-2022-23-doctoral-fellows/
LOCATION:American Bar Foundation\, 750 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60611\, United States
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T133000
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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
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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:20260415T015701
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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:20260415T015701
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220624T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220624T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T191339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135713Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220625T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230112T203237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230316T165528Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Justice: From Ideas to Impact
DESCRIPTION:The American Bar Foundation (ABF) invites you to Reimaging Justice: From Ideas to Impact\, a conference that will bring together researchers\, practitioners\, and policy makers to move forward together in advancing civil access to justice efforts that can help to combat poverty. The conference will feature research presentations by scholars from the ABF/JPB Access to Justice Scholars program and invited doctoral students\, along with keynote remarks by prominent leaders in the field. \nThe two-day event will be held at the Hilton Magnificent Mile\, beginning with lunch on Thursday\, June 23 and concluding with lunch on Saturday\, June 25. A detailed agenda is available here. \nThe conference is free but advance registration is required.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/reimagining-justice-from-ideas-to-impact/
LOCATION:Hilton Magnificent Mile – Chicago\, 198 E. Delaware Place\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60611
CATEGORIES:Conferences,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230210T233140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kennette Benedict
DESCRIPTION:Vladimir Putin’s veiled threat to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine has brought renewed public attention to their possible use in war-fighting. Russia and the United States together possess nearly 12\,000 nuclear weapons—almost 90% of all nuclear weapons in the world—and rely on the military doctrine of nuclear deterrence to manage their relations with adversaries.  As such\, Russia is counting on its nuclear retaliatory capacity to inhibit U.S. and NATO response to aggression in Ukraine; any direct action to defend Ukraine would risk escalation of the current conventional conflict to a nuclear war.  The seminar will provide background about current doctrine and thinking about nuclear weapons\, review the possible effects of using them in conflicts\, and point to the limitations of governing nuclear weapons and war through nuclear deterrence\, upholding norms of non-use\, international law\, and treaties. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nKennette Benedict is a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and senior advisor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. From 2005-2015\, she served as executive director and publisher of the Bulletin\, the leading scholarly magazine about threats to humanity from nuclear weapons\, climate change\, and emerging technologies\, and known for its Doomsday Clock. She publishes articles and gives media interviews about nuclear weapons and disarmament\, nuclear power\, and global governance. \nFrom 1991-2005\, Benedict was the director of International Peace and Security at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, overseeing grant making on a broad international security agenda. She also directed a grant-making initiative in Russia from 1992-2001 and an initiative on science\, technology and security from 2000-2005. \nPreviously she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her PhD in political science from Stanford University. \nShe serves as an advisor to International Student Youth Pugwash and New America Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-kennette-benedict/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T191843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135748Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20220425T215814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sarah Brayne
DESCRIPTION:Computational procedures increasingly inform how we work\, communicate\, and make decisions. In this talk\, I draw on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted within the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze how the police leverage big data and new surveillance technologies to allocate resources\, classify risk\, and conduct investigations. I argue big data does not eliminate discretion\, but rather displaces discretionary power to earlier\, less visible parts of the policing process\, which has implications for organizational practice\, law\, and social inequality. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nSarah Brayne is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. In her research\, Brayne uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the social consequences of data-intensive surveillance practices. Her book\, Predict and Surveil: Data\, Discretion\, and the Future of Policing (Oxford University Press)\, draws on ethnographic research with a large\, urban police department to understand how law enforcement uses predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies. In previous research\, she analyzed the relationship between criminal justice contact and involvement in medical\, financial\, labor market\, and educational institutions. Brayne’s research has appeared in the American Sociological Review\, Social Problems\, Law and Social Inquiry\, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, the Law and Society Association\, and the American Society of Criminology. \nPrior to joining the faculty at UT-Austin\, Brayne was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University.  \nBrayne has volunteer-taught college-credit sociology classes in prisons since 2012. In 2017\, she founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/sarah-brayne-sociology-university-of-texas-at-austin/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220512T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220512T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T192401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135817Z
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SUMMARY:National Fellows Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only. \nIn honor of Asian American heritage month\, the ABF Fellows will be hosting a panel discussion featuring one of the ABF’s latest research projects on diversity\, equity\, and inclusion: “Portrait Project 2.0: Situating Asian Americans in the Legal Profession.” This ongoing ABF study investigates the many ways in which Asian American lawyers and law students struggle and thrive\, and the unique incentives and constraints that shape their career paths. \nPlease join us as we host a panel of leading experts to discuss one aspect of this new ABF project\, the relatively high rate of attrition of Asian American attorneys at large law firms\, and the pathways and barriers to advancement for Asian Americans in corporate in-house counsel positions. \nModerator: \n\nAjay K. Mehrotra\, Executive Director and Research Professor\, ABF; Professor of Law\, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law\n\nFeaturing: \n\nHon. Goodwin H. Liu\, Associate Justice\, California Supreme Court\nSandra Leung\, General Counsel\, Bristol Myers Squibb\nSusan L. Shin\, Partner\, Weil\, Gotshal & Manges LLP
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/national-fellows-webinar/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20220425T215640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: James Thuo Gathii
DESCRIPTION:Following the murder of George Floyd\, the World Bank established an Anti-Racism Task Force that divided the Bank’s work into two phases. Phase one\, involves workplace issues including raising awareness\, strengthening knowledge\, mitigating instances of racism and racial discrimination. Phase 2 issues will look at the World Bank’s development work and its community engagements. This lecture will focus on the early indications of how the World Bank is addressing issues of race in its development work. My primary claim is that\, so far it seems the World Bank is moving towards a path of institutionalizing a pretty-thin understanding of racial discrimination in its development work. This minimalist race agenda does not include the World Bank facing its role in justifying its lending to the racist South African government during apartheid in open defiance of international law and of the United Nations. This lecture will make the case that the World Bank needs to face up to its racist legacy upfront as well as to explicitly disavow the techniques its lawyers and leaders deployed to defend the World Bank’s continued lending to apartheid South Africa. Ultimately my claim then is that by looking back to see how the World Bank has in the past addressed issues relating to race\, we can also better trace the footprints of racism embedded in rules and institutions of the post second world war order and therefore define how to better address this legacy. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJames T. Gathii has served as a professor of law and the Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since July 2012.  He is a graduate of the University of Nairobi\, Kenya\, and Harvard Law School. He sits on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law\, the Journal of African Law and the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy\, among others. His research and teaching interests are in Public International Law\, International Trade Law\, Third World Approaches to International Law\, (TWAIL)\, African Constitutionalism and Human Rights. Professor Gathii is an Independent Expert of the Working Group on Extractive Industries\, Environment\, and Human Rights Violations in Africa formed by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He is also an expert member of the Working Group on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDRIOT). He has sat as an arbitrator in two international commercial arbitrations hosted by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague. He is a founding member of the Third World Approaches to International Law\, (TWAIL)\, network. He is an elected member of the International Academy of International Law. He has consulted for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights\, (OHCHR)\, and the Economic Commission for Africa\, (ECA)\, among others. Professor Gathii is widely published in the areas of Public International Law\, International Trade Law\, International Human Rights and speaks extensively on these topics both in the United States and abroad. His books include African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes (Cambridge University Press\, 2011\, Paperback 2013); War\, Commerce and International Law (Oxford University Press\, 2010); and The Contested Empowerment of Kenya’s Judiciary\, 2010-2015: A Historical Institutional Analysis\, (Sheria Publishing House\, 2016). In addition to his books\, Professor Gathii has authored over 80 articles and numerous book chapters.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/james-thuo-gathii-law-loyola-university-chicago/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T192952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135900Z
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SUMMARY:Washington D.C. Fellows Dinner
DESCRIPTION:$125 per person. Guests of Fellows and nominees are welcome.   \nPer Cosmos Club policy\, all attendees must be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination upon arrival. Registrations must be received by Monday\, May 2\, 2022.  Cancellations will be honored through Monday\, May 2\, 2022. \nFeatured Keynote: “The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s Fight for Equal Pay” with Nicole A. Sharsky (Co-head Supreme Court & Appellate Practice\, Mayer Brown) \nCocktail Reception and Networking: 6:30 P.M.\nDinner and Keynote Remarks: 7:30 P.M.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/washington-d-c-fellows-dinner/
LOCATION:The Cosmos Club\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2121 Massachusetts Ave\, NW\, DC\, 200008\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T193314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T135921Z
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SUMMARY:New York Fellows Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attendees. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nAll attendees must be fully vaccinated\, show proof of vaccination\, and fill out a health questionnaire upon arrival. \nPlease join the New York Felllows as the honor ABA President-Elect Deborah Enix-Ross (Sustaining Life Fellow) \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/new-york-fellows-reception/
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:20220504T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20220425T215208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Joachim Savelsberg
DESCRIPTION:Core themes from a recent book on the construction of genocide knowledge will be addressed. The book presents the notion of an epistemic circle\, addressing ways in whch victims and perpetrators generate conflicting knowledge repertoires about genocide. Using a sociology of knowledge approach\, the book answers this question for the Armenian genocide committed in the context of World War I. Focusing on Armenians and Turks\, it examines strategies of silencing\, denial\, and acknowledgment in everyday interaction\, public rituals\, law\, and politics. Empirical materials include interviews\, ethnographic accounts\, documents\, and eyewitness testimony. The book illuminates the social processes that drive dueling versions of history. The presentation speaks to the sedimentation of knowledge repertoires\, and it addresses counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony\, with implications for populist disinformation campaigns against overwhelming evidence. \nPotential reading materials: The book is available as a paperback and as an open access online publication\, which can be accessed here. The brief introduction provides an overview; Chapter 8 addresses a court case over “free speech rights” in the US; Chapter 9 addresses counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nJoachim Savelsberg: “Born\, raised\, and educated in Germany\, I moved—after year-long fellowships at the Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities – to the United States to take a position at the University of Minnesota in 1989. Here I am a professor of sociology and\, by courtesy\, law as well as the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair. \nMuch of my recent work addresses representations and memories of mass violence\, especially through legal intervention. Simultaneously\, I continue to contribute to themes that were previously at the center of my agenda. They include institutional conditions of knowledge about crime and punishment in international and temporal comparison and associated dynamics of criminal punishment; comparative imprisonment rates; the sociology of criminology; sentencing guidelines; and the criminalization of white-collar offenses. \nAlong the way\, I served\, with my colleague Timothy Johnson\, as editor of the Law & Society Review\, and as the elected chair of the Sections for the Sociology of Law and the Sociology of Human Rights of the American Sociological Association and of the Theory Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. \nI kept my contacts to Europe alive and expanded them into Africa\, aided by fellowships or visiting professorships at the Humboldt University (Berlin)\, the Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich)\, the Karl Franzens University (Graz)\, the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio\, the Käte-Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn)\, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa)\, and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. My publications have appeared in English\, German\, French\, Portuguese\, Italian\, Spanish\, and Chinese. Movements across continents have inspired insights into globalization and cross-national comparison.”
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/joachim-savelsberg-sociology-university-of-minnesota/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T193630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T140003Z
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SUMMARY:Joint Oregon/Washington Virtual Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attendees. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeaturing a conversation with Bob Ferguson (Washington Attorney General) and Ellen F. Rosenblum (Oregon Attorney General). 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/joint-oregon-washington-virtual-fellows-program/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230213T153825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Aziza Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is from the first part of my book which recovers the story of feminist AIDS activists in the 1980s.  These advocates succeeded in changing the scientific definition of AIDS used by the CDC.  They targeted the CDC because of the direct relationship between the medical definition of AIDS and the distribution of benefits by the Social Security Administration.  In recovering this lost story\, I am to show how social movement actors disrupt scientific consensus to bring about redistributional goals. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nProfessor Aziza Ahmed recently joined UCI Law from Northeastern University School of Law. Prof. Ahmed has been Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School\, Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School\, visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy Biotechnology\, and Bioethics\, and Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University. \nAziza Ahmed’s scholarship examines the intersection of law\, politics\, and science in the fields of constitutional law\, criminal law\, health law\, and family law. This work advances multiple scholarly conversations including those related to law and social movements\, race and the law\, and feminist legal theory. \nShe is the author of the forthcoming book Feminism’s Medicine: Law\, Science\, and Social Movements in the AIDS Response\, published by Cambridge University Press\, and co-editor of the forthcoming handbook\, Race\, Racism\, and the Law\, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.  \nProf. Ahmed earned a B.A. from Emory University\, a J.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley School of Law\, and an M.S. in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. 
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-aziza-ahmed/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T130000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230221T204237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T140039Z
UID:4437-1650542400-1650546000@abf.spinudev.com
SUMMARY:Illinois Fellows Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeatured Presentation: “The ABF: History\, Achievements\, and Research Highlights” with Ajay K. Mehrotra (ABF Executive Director and Research Professor; Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History\, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law) \nFor nearly 70 years\, the ABF has sought to advance the understanding and improvement of law through research projects of unmatched scale and quality on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world. Join the ABF as Ajay Mehrotra presents an overview of the historical significance of the ABF\, its mission\, contributors\, and real-world results.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/illinois-fellows-virtual-event/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230210T233756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Roseanna Sommers
DESCRIPTION:Consent is often celebrated as liberatory: at its best\, it allows individuals to choose for themselves how to live a good life. But consent is also a tool wielded by the powerful to stifle individual agency. This is particularly so\, I argue\, when consent is operationalized with legalistic and formalistic instruments such as consent forms. In this research\, I study the relationship between consent and victim-blaming\, and identify legal practices that serve to disempower individuals\, all in the name of providing them with choice. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nProfessor Sommers‘ research examines people’s intuitions about legal concepts such as consent\, autonomy\, and moral responsibility. Her work is part of a growing interdisciplinary field known as experimental jurisprudence\, which borrows empirical techniques from the social sciences to clarify core concepts in the law. \nHer work asks questions like: How do people determine whether someone is acting voluntarily? How do we think about interferences to autonomy\, such as coercion\, deception\, incapacity\, and manipulation? Are our legal doctrines defensible in light of empirical insights from the social and cognitive sciences? Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science\, PNAS\, and Psychological Science\, as well as in law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review. She is currently co-leading a study funded by the National Science Foundation on the psychology of compliance. \nPrior to joining the Michigan Law faculty\, Prof. Sommers taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow. She is the founder and director of the Psychology and Law Studies (PALS) Lab\, which conducts original research at the intersection of psychology and law. She also co-organizes the Chicago/Michigan PALS speaker series\, a virtual workshop hosted in collaboration with the University of Chicago Law School.
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-roseanna-sommers/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T015701
CREATED:20230213T154133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T220434Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Fernanda Pirie
DESCRIPTION:How do laws come to constrain the exercise of power? The rule of law is a contemporary ideal\, much discussed in the context of democracy\, social justice\, and human rights. But historically laws have been used to constrain arbitrary power in many different contexts and within many different political regimes. A question rarely addressed is how laws ever came to do this in the first place. What is it about sets of rules\, mere words\, that they can act as a constraint on political power\, and who ever thought that they might? \nIn this presentation\, I argue that the core idea of the rule of law has ancient roots\, almost as ancient as law\, itself. But the idea arose in different ways in very different contexts\, as did laws\, themselves. Comparing some of the earliest examples – from Mesopotamia\, Rome\, and the Islamic world – reveals that centuries ago religious lawmakers and citizens’ assemblies established laws that could\, at least in principle\, have been used to hold political leaders to account. So\, too\, did powerful rulers\, themselves. Yet others\, notably in China\, made concerted and ultimately successful efforts to avoid even the idea of the rule of law. This history speaks to very contemporary concerns about the legal ideals we pursue in the modern world. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________ \nAn anthropologist specializing in Tibetan societies\, Fernanda Pirie uses both ethnographic and historical methods to study and compare legal practices and texts. She has argued for a new anthropology of law\, which engages both with legal theory and legal history: The Anthropology of Law (OUP\, 2013). This builds on themes and debates developed in the Oxford Legalism project\, which brought together scholars from anthropology\, history\, and other disciplines to compare wide-ranging empirical examples (Legalism\, OUP\, 4 vols).
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/speaker-series-fernanda-pirie/
LOCATION:ABF Offices\, 750 N Lake Shore Drive\, 4th Floor Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:ABF Speaker Series,News
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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: “Lies\, Hate Speech\, and Disinformation: First Amendment Dilemmas in the Digital Age” with: \n\nDavid McCraw\, Life Fellow; Deputy General Counsel\, The New York Times; and\nLaura Beth Nielsen\, ABF Research Professor; Professor and Chair\, Department of Sociology\, Northwestern University\n\nThe presentation will take on this important and timely topic by discussing the legal\, sociological\, and philosophical foundations as well as practical considerations for constitutional free expression and its relation to American law and democracy. \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-5/
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:Maryland Fellows Virtual Lunch Program
DESCRIPTION:This event is free to attend. Open to Fellows and nominees only.  \nFeatured Keynote: “Critical Race Theory: Context\, Controversy\, and Call to Action” with Richard Bell (Professor of History\, University of Maryland) \nSuddenly\, everyone is talking about Critical Race Theory\, a set of premises developed by legal scholars decades ago to interpret America’s institutions in the context of race and civil rights. Yet what exactly is CRT? This talk with University of Maryland Professor of History Richard Bell aims to locate the origins of CRT\, establish its core premises\, describe the recent controversy\, and introduce participants to a list of practices that CRT scholars believe all of us can adopt to mitigate the worst legacies of slavery in our supposedly post-slavery world. \nThe Fellows gratefully recognize:
URL:https://abf.spinudev.com/event/maryland-fellows-virtual-lunch-program/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Fellows
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