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RECENT EVENTS
Fellows Events at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation hosted several events at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, August 3-7, 2016. The weekend began with the Fellows CLE Research Seminar "Civil Rights Advocacy: Past, Present and Future" and the Fellows State Chair Luncheon, featuring a keynote from ABF board member and CA Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. At the Fellows Opening Reception, held at the California Historical Society, Fellows enjoyed highlights from the cuisines of San Francisco's local neighborhoods. On Saturday morning, the Fellows Annual Business Breakfast included a fireside chat with William Neukom, an ABF Life Leadership Fellow and founder and CEO of the World Justice Project. For all of the photos from our Fellows Events at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, please visit our Flickr page.
Left to right: CLE Moderator, Dylan Penningroth, ABF and UC-Berkeley ; Panelists, Lauren Edelman, UC-Berkeley, Cheryl Harris, UCLA, Jocelyn Larkin, Impact Fund , and Melissa Murray, UC-Berkeley. ©2016 Paul Sakuma Photography.
At the State Chair Luncheon, CA Sup. Court Justice Tino Cuéllar spoke about his time as a  Summer Research Diversity Fellow at the ABF, & about his changing perspective on law and artificial intelligence. ©2016 Paul Sakuma Photography.


Fred W. Suggs and his wife, Judy, and Dean Rachel Van Cleave, at the Opening Reception.  ©2016  Paul Sakuma Photography .

Bill Neukom and ABF Director Ajay Mehrotra spoke about the Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law , which Neukom helped to establish in 2014. ©2016 Paul Sakuma Photography


Than k you American Bar Endowment for another year of support for ABF research!
August 8: The ABE presents their check to ABF director, Ajay Mehrotra, and incoming president, Ellen Flannery, at the House of Delegates meeting.
August 6: The incoming ABE President, Tony Patterson, and the outgoing ABF President, Dave Collins, at the Fellows Annual Business Breakfast. 
At the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, the American Bar Endowment (ABE), our primary supporter since 1956, presented the ABF with a generous donation of $2,930,998! The ABE is a charitable organization that offers quality, affordable insurance to ABA members, while giving back to the good works of the legal profession.  LEARN MORE>>
Midwest Roundtable of 
The ABF will host a series of regional roundtables across the country for a new major research project, "The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility." The first of these roundtables was held on June 6-7, 2016, in Chicago, and brought together leading members of the Latino community from the Midwest to explore vitally important issues that will shape the prospects for Latinos in the region in coming years. The next roundtable, "The Network for Justice Clinical Planning Summit," will take place at UCLA on November 7, 2016, and is supported in part by the California Bar Foundation. The Future of Latinos project is a nationwide effort devoted to understanding the current condition of Latinos in the United States, the structural barriers that impede full equality and integration for this emerging population, and the sites of intervention that promise to be most effective in promoting opportunity and mobility through law and policy. The project is directed by Rachel Moran, the 2015-16 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law, and Robert Nelson, the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession. READ MORE>>
Cook County Commissioner and former mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia speaking at the final plenary session of the roundtable. 
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Nancy Andrade, lead counsel for the  ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities , leads one of the breakout discussions during the roundtable. ©2016 by John Zich.
2016 Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity
Rima Alaily, Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft Corporation, speaks about "Metrics to Drive Progress." More than 80 people were in attendance throughout the two-day conference. 
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The ABF's Research Group on Legal Diversity (RGLD) recently held its 2016 conference, organized around the theme of "Metrics, Diversity, and Law," on May 5-6, 2016, in Chicago. The conference brought together producers, consumers and scholars of metrics to facilitate the dissemination of research and stimulate new lines of inquiry.Presentations focused on the key role of metrics in law and other professions, in the decision-making processes of gatekeepers at critical junctures throughout careers, and in drawing conclusions about successes and failures in efforts to advance diversity and inclusion. Read a wrap up from participant Dermot Feenan, research fellow at the University of Portsmouth School of Law and a spring 2016 visiting scholar at the ABF.
2016 Law in the History of Capitalism Conference
The ABF and the University of Chicago hosted the 2016 Law in the History of Capitalism Conference on June 27-28, 2016, at the ABF offices in Chicago.  The conference provided junior scholars with a venue in which to share their previously unpublished research on law in the history of capitalism, and to connect with senior scholars in the field. READ MORE>> For more photos, please visit our Flickr page.  

LATEST PUBLICATIONS
New Legal Realism volumes  connect socio-legal studies with today's legal questions
Professor Mertz with the volumes
Cambridge University Press  has released a new  two-volume book series  on  New Legal Realism (NLR) , an ABF  research project  that has evolved into a major contemporary school of legal study. The volumes were co-edited by ABF Research Professor  Elizabeth Mertz   The New Legal Realism, Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice and  The New Legal Realism, Volume II: Studying Law Globally  introduces readers to NLR scholarship, while demonstrating the value of thoughtful interdisciplinary translation between law and social science. A third volume is set to be published by Oxford University Press at the end of August.  READ MORE>>
Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers
One of the latest publications from ABF faculty is the broadest study of diversity in professional careers to date.  Diversity in Practice  reveals the reality of diversity practices in contemporary law firms, corporations, and law schools. The book is co-edited by four American Bar Foundation scholars: Spencer Headworth, Robert L. NelsonRonit Dinovitzer, and David WilkinsNelson, Dinovitzer, and Wilkins co-direct the ABF's Research Group on Legal Diversity , and Headworth managed the group during his time as a Graduate Research Coordinator at the ABF. Diversity in Practice is a part of  Cambridge Studies of Law and Society , a series of the best scholarly work on legal discourse and practice in social and institutional contexts. It is available for purchase on the Cambridge University Press website and on Amazon. READ MORE>>


New summer issue of Law & Social Inquiry now available 
The latest issue of Law & Social Inquiry (LSI), the academic journal of the ABF, is now available on Wiley-Blackwell. A preview of the issue, as well as access to a new volume of LSI Forum, can be found  here. The Spring 2016 issue of LSI is also available online. To stay up to date with issues, follow LSI on Facebook and Twitter. To receive complimentary copies of LSI in the mail, or to request a previous issue, please email Cheyenne Blount at cblount@abfn.org.
ABF NEWS
2016 Montgomery Summer Research Diversity Fellowship
Top: The SRDF Fellows meeting with associates from  Kirkland & Ellis LLP at their Chicago office. Bottom left: The SRDF Fellows meeting with the Honorable Sophia H. Hall, an ABF Board Member and the  Administrative Presiding Judge of the Cook County Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Resource Section and Circuit Judge of the Chancery Division. Bottom right: The SRDF Fellows visiting the Cook County Criminal Court, where they shadowed Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer Coleman. 

Each year, the ABF selects four exemplary undergraduate students for its Montgomery Summer Research Diversity Fellowship (SRDF) in Law and Social ScienceThe 2016 Fellows-- Bara Ahmad, Francesca Hidalgo-Wohlleben, Kavya Rallabhandi, and Daniella Zessoules-- were chosen from a highly competitive group of over 200 applicants. Each fellow worked closely with a specially designated  ABF Research Professor on the design and implementation of a research project, affording them the rare opportunity to do socio-legal research with experienced scholars. They also attended seminars, conferences, and went on several field visits to become acquainted with the legal system in Chicago.  Look for a full wrap up of our 2016 SRDF Program in an upcoming issue of Researching Law READ MORE>> For more photos, please visit our Flickr page
ABF Scholars Win Awards for their Outstanding Contributions to Law and Society
Left to right: Shari Diamond, Ellen Berrey, and Sida Liu.
Three ABF Scholars were selected as recipients of the 2016 Awards of the Law and Society Association (LSA). Shari Diamond, ABF Research Professor, won the Ronald Pipkin Service Award for sustained and extraordinary service to the LSA. Ellen Berrey, an ABF Affiliated Scholar, won the Herbert Jacob Book Award for the best book in law and society scholarship. Sida Liu, ABF Faculty Fellow, received an Honorable Mention for the LSA Article Award for exceptional scholarship in socio-legal studies. Liu's article was published in Law & Social Inquiry, the ABF's academic journal. READ MORE>>
Researching Law: An ABF Update
Click on the cover images below to access the Spring and Winter 2016 issues of Researching Law, our quarterly print newsletter. To be added to the  Researching Law mailing list, please email Cheyenne Blount at cblount@abfn.org.

                 
UPCOMING EVENTS
September 16: New Legal Realism Book Launch Reception
Join us on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, at  5:30 p.m., for a cocktail reception in celebration of the publication of three new books on the New Legal Realism research:  The New Legal Realism, Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal PracticeThe New Legal Realism, Volume II: Studying Law Globally , and Translating the Social World for Law. The event will begin with a short seminar featuring Volume I co-editor Thomas W. Mitchell ( Texas A&M University School of Law), followed by a cocktail reception. It will be held at the ABF Offices, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611. RSVP is required. If you wish to attend, please RSVP here.
 

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