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Speaker Series: Riaz Tejani

ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL

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…

ABF Reception at NAPABA 2022

The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Condesa 1, Las Vegas, NV 3708 Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas

Join the ABF Fellows for a complimentary cocktail reception at the 2022 NAPABA Convention in Las Vegas, NV.    

Speaker Series: Renée Cramer

ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL

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…