Read on to discover which ABF Researchers won 2022 Law and Society Association Awards, who's been elected to state bar positions, events on the horizon and a new Fellows spotlight! |
|
ABF Researchers in the News |
|
ABF Research Professors Win 2022 Law and Society Association Annual Awards
Professor Elizabeth Mertz won two awards, the Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize for empirical scholarship and the advancement of research in law, and the Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award.
Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller won the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for new, outstanding work in law and society scholarship for his book Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration.
Dr. Spencer Headworth, an ABF Affiliated Scholar, and Professor Swethaa Ballakrishnen, a former ABF/AccessLex Visiting Scholar, were both honorable mentions for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize.
|
|
ABF Executive Director Ajay Mehrotra Interviewed by Tax Notes
Ajay Mehrotra, along with his co-author Lawrence Zelenak, spoke to Tax Notes about the life and memoirs of U.S. tax scholar Stanley S. Surrey and their recent publication A Half-Century with the Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey.
Watch the interview here.
|
|
Fred D. Gray, Alabama Life Fellow, Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
Fred D. Gray, Alabama Life Fellow, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on July 7th, 2022. The award recognizes his contributions as an attorney representing Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
|
|
Judge M. Margaret McKeown, California Life Fellow, Awarded the 2022 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit
Judge McKeown was named as the 2022 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit recipient. McKeown has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998.
|
|
Gary Lesser, Florida Life Fellow, Sworn in as President Elect of Florida State Bar.
Gary Lesser, Florida Life Fellow and Managing Partner of Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC was sworn in as the President Elect of the Florida State Bar on June 24, 2022 at the Florida Bar's Annual Convention in Orlando, FL.
|
|
Fellows Events Spotlight:
ABA 2022 Annual Meeting
|
|
Tomorrow, Friday, July 22, is the last day to register for Fellows Events at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting with the 15% discount!
|
|
Ruth Bader Ginsberg Endowed Fund for Research in Civil Rights and Gender Equality Cocktail Reception
This reception will be held at the University Club of Washington D.C., just steps away from the U.S. Supreme Court where the late Justice spent her career fiercely advocating for equal rights under the law.
This event will feature Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent, in conversation with E. Thomas Sullivan, President, American Bar Foundation and President Emeritus & Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont. Kelsi Brown Corkran, past law clerk to Justice Ginsburg and current Supreme Court Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and Senior Lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, will also provide remarks. The ABF is grateful for the many sponsors who have generously supported the event. Gold Sponsors are: Susman & Godfrey; Weil; and, WilmerHale. Silver Sponsors are: Bertram Law; Markham Law Group; and, Sandra Chan & Gary Yoshimura. Bronze Sponsors are: Morrison & Foerster; Potomac Legal Group; and Sidley.
The RBG Fund supports significant and groundbreaking research and programming on civil rights and gender equality. This endowed fund is dedicated to preserving and upholding Justice Ginsburg’s legacy by championing empirical and interdisciplinary scholarship that will engender a more fair, equitable and just future. To attend the event, purchase your ticket here. To donate to the RBG Fund, click here.
|
|
National Bar Association’s Annual Convention Cocktail Reception
The ABF is honored to, once again, host a cocktail reception at the National Bar Association’s Annual Convention. All convention registrants are invited to join us in Memphis on Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm. We are delighted that Judge Carlos E. Moore, President of the NBA and Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, will join us to say a few words. This is a free event, but requires registration. You may register here.
|
|
Fellows Spotlight:
Angela W. Russell is a Maryland Fellow, outgoing Co-Chair, and regional managing partner at Wilson Elser. She is also the chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. Her practice focuses on professional liability matters, general casualty matters and toxic tort matters. She is a former co-chairperson of the Civil Jury Instructions Committee for the Bar Association for the District of Columbia and a former adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN.
|
|
Fellow, Outgoing Maryland Co-Chair
Q: What does being a Fellow mean to you?
A: Being an ABF Fellow means that I have the opportunity to interact and work with distinguished attorneys from all over the country. The Fellows provides a network of professionals with expertise in many different subject areas and also provides access to cutting-edge research on important legal issues.
Q: Where were you born and raised?
A: My hometown is Buffalo, New York. One of my favorite things about Buffalo is the wings, from the Anchor Bar! I also appreciate the resilient, hard-working people of the city. Despite changes in the industries that originally caused Buffalo to thrive in the past, the city has managed to rebuild and recover.
Q: Why did you decide to pursue a career in law?
A: I decided to become a lawyer in the eighth grade when I looked at what I considered to be my skills and talents, mainly writing, speaking in public and interacting with others, and decided I may be well suited for the field. I was also encouraged by my school headmaster and many other influences in my young life, to pursue a legal career. I was attracted to the idea that it would give me the ability to solve people’s problems, which I am fortunate enough to do on a regular basis.
Q: If you hadn’t pursued a career in law, what would you have done?
A: My dream, at one point, was to become a singer and/or a classical pianist. The law seemed more practical…
Q: What do you do in your free time?
A: I like to garden, run/work out and listen to books on tape. I also enjoy traveling and spending time with my husband and two children.
Q: Anything else you'd like to share with us?
A: I’ve enjoyed being Maryland State Co-Chair for the ABF and would encourage others to become involved in the organization. The perspectives and shared viewpoints are enlightening, and the work being done by the ABF is extremely important. It has been very gratifying to be a part of it.
|
|
Welcome New Fellows!
We have had the pleasure of welcoming over 140 New Fellows to the ABF community since April 2022. Click here to see a list of our newest members.
|
|
Nominate a Fellow
Do you have a colleague that you believe would love to learn about the ABF and support the research being done? Click here to submit their name for consideration.
|
|
Support the ABF
We are grateful for your generosity and continued support. Please click here to make your contribution for this fiscal year which began on September 1, 2021.
|
|
Primary funding for the ABF is provided by the American Bar Endowment and the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
|
|
The American Bar Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) organization. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in publications or presentations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Bar Foundation, nor the policy positions of the American Bar Association or its affiliates. The AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION, ABF and related seal trademarks as used by the American Bar Foundation are owned by the American Bar Association and used under license.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
