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Rew R. Goodenow
Chair
Reno, NV
Reginald Turner
Chair-Elect
Detroit, MI
Ellen M. Jakovic
Secretary
Washington, D.C.
Michael H. Byowitz
Immediate Past Chair
New York, NY
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Fellows in the News
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Congratulations to the
following Fellows for their outstanding achievements.
Ohio Fellow, Honored by the Ohio State Bar Association for 65 Years of Outstanding Service
Oklahoma Fellow, Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who
M. Cabell Clay
North Carolina Fellow, Selected to receive the W. Taylor Reveley Award.
California Fellow, Awarded the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for the firm's victory in the
Smith v. San Jose.
Michigan Fellow
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Provides Essential Support as The Director of District 7 For The Successful Face of Justice Program
California Fellow, Awarded the Sandra Day O'Connor Legacy Award by the Women's Journey Foundation
Patrick F. Geary
Michigan Life Fellow, Awarded the Excellence in Defense Award by the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel
New York Sustaining Life Fellow, and Stephanie Cohen's, New York Fellow, article Awarded the Outstanding Professional Article Award by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR)
Have you won an award or received an honor lately? Published a book? Have you done a Ted Talk?
We give you bragging rights! Please email submissions to
[email protected]
. Submissions are posted to our webpages,
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Recent and Upcoming Events
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Featured ABF Research Professor,
Traci Burch.
"The Impact of Policing on Voting and Other Forms of Political Participation." Hosted by State Co-Chair Gregory M. Bergman. Special thanks to Bergman Dacey Goldsmith for sponsoring.
January 25, 2017
Featured ABF Research Professor,
Susan P. Shapiro,
"End-of-Life Decisions and the Law: The biggest life-and-death decision of your life....will be made by someone else."
Hosted by State Co-
Chairs, Judge
Elizabeth Snow Stong
and Kenneth G. Standard. Special thanks to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for sponsoring.
January 31 - February 4, 2018
February 6, 2018
ABF Research Professor Stephen Daniels and co-author Joanne Martin discussed
their book "
Tort Reform, Plaintiffs' Lawyers, and Access to Justice."
March 1, 2018
Featured ABF Research Professor,
Susan P. Shapiro
,
"End-of-Life Decisions and the Law: The biggest life-and-death decision of your life....will be made by someone else."
In conversation with ABF Board Member and MT Fellows State Co-Chair Tony Patterson, Jr.
March 2, 2018
Keynote speaker, Mayor Francis Suarez, addressed Miami's critical role in promoting a vibrant economy, educational innovation, and broadcasting programs, all of which draw on the needs, interests, and talents of the Hispanic population.
March 6, 2018
Featured District Attorney of New York County,
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.,
"Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in 2018 - the View from the District Attorney's Office."
Special thanks to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for sponsoring.
March 8, 2018
Featuring ABF Research Professor, Tom Ginsburg,
"How to lose--and save--constitutional democracy."
Special thanks to K&L Gates LLP for sponsoring.
March 16, 2018
Featured Assistant United States Attorney and National Security Coordinator, Tony Mattivi,
"National Security Law and a Case Study: US v. John T. Booker."
April 4, 2018
Featured ABF Faculty Fellow, Christoper W. Schmidt, who previewed his recently published book, "The Sit-Ins:Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era."
Special thanks to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for sponsoring.
April 10, 2018
April 13, 2018
Following the 2018 University of Wisconsin Law School Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, Featiring
April 24, 2018
Featuring Andre M. David, Baltimore City Solicitor, and Marilyn J. Mosby, State's Attorney for Baltimore City. "Balancing Civil Liberties and Safety in an Increasingly Dangerous World."
April 25, 2018
Celebrating the publication of ABF Faculty Fellow Christoper W. Schmidt's r
ecently published book, "
The Sit-Ins:Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era."
May 9, 2018
Hosted by New Jersey Co-Chairs, Susan A. Feeney & Lisa J. Rodriguez
May 15, 2018
Featuring Chief Legal Officer of Major League Baseball, Dan Halem. "Legal Issues facing Major League Baseball."
Special thanks to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for sponsoring
May 15, 2018
Featuring ABF Research Professor, Janice Nadler, "The Psychological Mechanisms of Legal Blame."
May 16, 2018
Featuring Jeremy Bash, Founder & Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
"Lessons of Leadership from an Insider's Account of the Osama bin Laden Raid."
May 24, 2018
Featuring ABF Research Professor, Victoria Saker Woeste,
"When Your Church Foments Hate: Speech Rights, Religious Freedom, & the Westboro Baptist Church, 1964 - 2011."
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A Message from the 2017-18 Fellows Chair:
 Transnational Agreements Studied During a Time of Potential Tariff Wars
A salutary feature of Fellows Membership is early notice of and access
to timely scholarly treatises. One such recent work of particular topical relevance is
Global Lawmakers, International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets, by Susan Block-Lieb and Terence C. Halliday (Cambridge University Press 2017). Prof. Halliday is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, among other notable titles.
Global Lawmakers offers the first extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. In the process, it reveals the dynamics of competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and between international organizations.
Rather than focusing on generalizations derived from statistics obtained from some independent source, or looking for clues in the bylaws, charters other governing documents.
Global Lawmakers
' authors participated directly in the law-making process, gleaning first hand observations, anecdotes, impressions, and analyses of other participants. This produced a candid and "inside" look at the process.
Although not directly relevant to the current steel tariff debate, the book does focus on a trade organization, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). It is the result of a long-standing project, following international lawmaking in real time. The ABF housed the research team and offered extensive and sustained research funding. This important and unique work would not have been possible without the generous contributions of the ABF Fellows organization.
To highlight just one of the findings, the authors concluded that how international commercial law is made influences what law is made. National economic fortunes and international competition turn, in substantial part, on the rules of the market and specifically on international commercial laws, for example, the U.N. Convention on the Intentional Sale of Goods.
In the course of whatever challenges a busy law practice presents, I hope that ABF Fellows will take some time to review Global Lawmakers and its findings. I found that it provided some valuable insights and suggested possible explanations to questions that have arisen about why international trade law developed in certain ways that affect our clients here at home in the U.S. As the authors observe, economic activity increasingly spills over national frontiers, yet politics remain deeply embedded inside nation-states, creating a misfit between markets and political legal orders.
More information on Global Lawmakers can be found here. Copies of this work may be obtained here.
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Make Your Annual Contribution
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We are grateful for your generosity and continued support.
Please take a moment to make your annual contribution for this fiscal year, which began September 1, 2017, by clicking here.
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New Book Examines Legal History of 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-In Movement
The Sit-Ins: Protest & Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era,
a new book by ABF Faculty Fellow
Christopher W. Schmidt
, 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. The Sit-Ins invites a broader understanding of how Americans contest and construct the meaning of their Constitution.
On 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.
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. The students' actions initiated a national conversation over whether the Constitution's equal protection clause extended to the activities of private businesses that served the general public. The courts, the traditional focal point for accounts of constitutional disputes, played an important but ultimately secondary role in this story. The great victory of the sit-in movement came not in the Supreme Court, but in Congress, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that recognized the right African American students had claimed for themselves four years earlier.
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Join us for a Fellows Dinner Cruise in Paris
Seine River Dinner Cruise
June 10, 2018
Whether you'll be in Paris this summer for the ABA's Paris Sessions or for another purpose, we hope you will join us for an exclusive Fellows Dinner Cruise along the Seine River on Sunday, June 10, 2018. Join us for a scenic dinner cruise featuring an elegant meal, music, dancing and iconic views of the magical City of Light at night.
Please note this event is open to all Fellows, whether
registered for the ABA Paris Sessions or not.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
7:00 PM - 11:30 PM
$150 USD per person
Round-trip shuttle transportation provided from the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel.
7:00 PM - Boarding shuttle at InterContinental
8:00 PM - Boarding boat
8:30 PM - Cruise departing
10:45 PM - Return to quay
11:30 PM - Return to the InterContinental
Space is Limited.
(800)-292-5065 with any questions.
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Fellows Events at the 2018 ABA Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, BC
Thank you to those who were able to attend Fellows Events at the 2018 ABA Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, BC.
We would like to thank
Parsons Behle & Latimer for generously sponsoring the Fellows Opening Reception.
We would also like to thank the generous sponsors of the 62nd Annual Fellows Awards
Reception and Banquet:
Platinum Sponsor
Silver Sponsors
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Ellen J. Flannery, ABF Board President and DC Philanthropist Fellow, and
David S. Houghton, ABF Board Vice-President and NE Philanthropist Fellow, attending the Fellows Opening Reception at the Vancouver Lookout
Stephen Daniels, ABF Research Professor, presenting during the
Fellows CLE Research Seminar: "The Perennial (and Stubborn) Challenge of Cost, Affordability, and Access in Legal Education: Has it Finally Hit the Fan?" The panel was
moderated by Rachel Van Cleave, Former Dean and Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law, and
featured Professor Daniels, Barry Currier, Managing Director of Accreditation and Legal Education at the ABA
, Christopher J. Ryan, ABF Doctoral Fellow
, and
Judith Welch Wegner, Burton Craig Professor of Law Emerita and Dean Emerita at University of North Carolina School of Law.
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
, S
upreme Court of Canada, delivering the keynote address at the
62nd Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet at the Vancouver Club
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Life Fellow Giving Societies
We would like to thank the Philanthropist Fellows, Visionary Fellows, and Leadership Fellows for their generosity and dedication to support the work of the American Bar Foundation.
Philanthropist Fellows
Contributed an aggregate of $50,000
Michael H. Byowitz, New York, NY
David A. Collins, Beverly Hills, MI
Ellen J. Flannery, Washington, DC
David S. Houghton, Omaha, NE
William H. Neukom, Seattle, WA
Visionary Fellows
Contributed an aggregate of $25,000
Jacqueline Allee, Coral Gables, FL
Mortimer M. Caplin, Washington, DC
John J. Creedon, Larchmont, NY
Robert C. Knuepfer, Jr., Hinsdale, IL
William G. Paul, Oklahoma City, OK
David K.Y. Tang, Seattle, WA
Rebecca Jean Westerfield,
San Francisco, CA
Leadership Fellows
Contributed an aggregate of $17,500
Jimmy K. Goodman, Oklahoma City, OK
James T. Halverson, University Park, FL
Michael J. Horvitz, Cleveland, OH
Toni Rembe, San Francisco, CA
Jonathan D. Schiller, New York, NY
Miriam Shearing, Las Vegas, NV
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Welcome to the New Members in our Life Fellow Giving Societies
Welcome to the newest members of our Visionary, Leadership, Benefactor, and Patron Giving Societies since December 1, 2017. We greatly appreciate their continued support and contributions to the ABF.
Visionary Fellows
Contributed an aggregate of $25,000
Robert C. Knuepfer, Jr.
, Hinsdale, I
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Contributed an aggregate of $17,500
James T. Halverson, University Park, FL
Jonathan D. Schiller, New York, NY
Miriam Shearing, Law Vegas, NV
Benefactor Fellows
Contributed an aggregate of $10,000
Elizabeth J. Cabraser, San Francisco, CA
Leonard H. Gilbert, Tampa, FL
John F. Harkness, Jr., Tallahassee, FL
Virginia Guild Watkin, Washington, DC
Patron Fellows
Contributed an aggregate of $5,000
Peter Buscemi, Chevy Chase, MD
Frank J. Carroll, Des Moines, IA
Lauren James Caster, Phoenix, AZ
Robert L. Childers, Memphis, TN
J. Michelle Childs, Columbia, SC
Howard Coleman Coker, Jacksonville, FL
Mark D. Colley, Washington, DC
Paul R. D'Amato, Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Allen D. Evans, Oklahoma City, OK
John A. Gaberino, Jr., Tulsa, OK
Bruce A. Green, New York, NY
Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr., Nashville, TN
Barbara J. Howard, Cincinnati, OH
William F. Kroener III, Washington, DC
Diana C. Liu, Chicago, IL
Robert A. Longhi, Plainfield, NJ
Irving H. Picard, New York, NY
Richard J. Rappaport, Mundelein, IL
Jack A. Rounick, Norristown, PA
Edward F. Ryan, Burr Ridge, IL
Robert W. Sacoff, Chicago, IL
Sara P. Sandford, Seattle, WA
Michael L. Schler, New York, NY
Leopold Z. Sher, New Orleans, LA
Jonathan H. Sherman, Washington, DC
Carole Silver, Chicago, IL
Rodney G. Snow, Salt Lake City, UT
Preston McCullough Torbert, Chicago, IL
We would also like to thank our recent Sustaining Life Fellows
for their support and continued generosity. Sustaining Life Fellows are Life Fellows who contribute a minimum of $250 annually. To view a list of new Sustaining Life Fellows since
We also want to welcome our newest
Life Fellows. Life Fellows are Fellows who have completed their initial Fellows pledge. We truly appreciate their generous support. To view a list of new Life Fellows since
December 1, 2017, please click
here.
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For a complete list of all Life Fellow Giving Society Members, please click
here
. Lists are updated at the end of each month.
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Welcome New Fellows
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Please join us in welcoming the newest Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. For a complete list of new Fellows inducted since December 1, 2017, please click
here.
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The ABF's primary funding is provided by the American Bar Endowment (ABE), a ยง501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity whose mission is to support law-related research, educational and public service projects. ABE provides opportunities for ABA Members to get quality, affordable insurance, underwritten by New York Life Insurance Company, a trusted insurer, while giving back to the good works of the legal profession.
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