Research Advancing Justice
This event is free to registerees. Featured Keynote: "Incarceration of Fathers, State Investment in Families, and Educational Success of Children" with John Hagan (ABF Research Professor; John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University) The U.S. leads the world in per capita incarceration, with parents making up about half of all adults imprisoned. Moreover,…
This event is free to registerees. Featured Keynote: "Access to Justice Way Out West: The Uncertain Fate of a Potential Innovation" with Stephen Daniels (ABF Senior Research Professor) Innovations addressing a widening justice gap once anathema (even odious) to the legal profession are gaining traction. Washington State’s Limited Licensed Legal Practitioner program, an access-enhancing experiment, is…
This event is free to registerees. Featured Keynote: "Constitutions, Courts and COVID: Legal Responses to a Pandemic Around the World" with Tom Ginsburg (ABF Research Professor; Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago) As it has made its way around the globe, the coronavirus has not only threatened lives,…