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Save The Date For an Exclusive Fellows Event in Rome!
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Please join us for an exclusive Fellows Event in Rome, Italy which will follow the ABA Section of International Law's 2016 Europe Forum on May 31, 2016. The Fellows reception, generously sponsored by International Fellow
Francesco Gianni and his firm, Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners, will be held in an elegant, beautiful and historic location built in 1592.
Plans for a dinner immediately following are currently underway, and we will share details as they unfold.
Over the three-day conference, May 29 to May 31, 2016, the Forum will present numerous panels, which include ABF Fellows, and address various areas of law including privacy and data security, mergers and acquisitions, corporate counsel round-table, cross-border estate planning, dispute resolution under TTIP, international ethics, and The International Criminal Court. The interactive conference will address recent developments of the law in Europe and the United States.
The panel, The Statues or Statutes of Rome: Which Will Last Longer? The Successes and Failures of the Rome Statute After 14 Years, will feature American Bar Foundation Research Professor John Hagan, author of Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War: The Legal Cynicism of Criminal Militarism; The Honorable John Tunheim, Chief U.S. District Judge, and a principle adviser in Kosovo on writing their constitution and helping the United Nations to rebuild and restructure their legal structure, and current Minnesota Fellows State Co-Chair; and Colonel Linda Strite Murnane, Chief of the Court Management Services Section for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in Leidschendam, the Netherlands, Chair-Elect of the ABA Judicial Division, and Life Fellow. The panel will be moderated by The Honorable Cara Lee Neville, Chair of The Fellows.
Because the ABF Fellows are a cooperating entity with the ABA Section of International Law, all Fellows who would like to attend the conference may register at the same reduced price as Section members by listing the ABF Fellows as the Cooperating Entity in Section II of the registration form. We are delighted to be able to provide our Fellows with this wonderful opportunity.
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Fellows in the News
| Congratulations to the following Fellows for their outstanding achievements!
Past Chair of The Fellows and Florida Life Patron Fellow, has been selected for the Solo and Small Firm Lifetime Achievement Award by the ABA GPSolo and Group Legal Services Association (GLSA) Washington Life Fellow and Past Washington State Co-Chair, Honored with the 2016 Stonewall Award by the American Bar Association
North Carolina Fellow, Named Winner in the Litigation Category for Business North Carolina's 2016 Legal Elite
International Fellow and Principal at MAAW Law, served as a Panelist in the ELSA Moot Court Competition on Green Energy & WTO Law at Queen's University
Have you won an award or received an honor lately? Published a book? Have you done a Ted Talk?
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Recent and Upcoming Events
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January 28, 2016
Featuring Dean Rachel F. Moran, William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. Hosted by State Co-Chairs Judge Elizabeth Snow Stong and Kenneth G. Standard. Special thanks to Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz for sponsoring
March 9, 2016
Featuring a discussion on mass incarceration. Panelists included ABF Professor John Hagan and John Savarese. Moderated by Chief Judge Johathan Lippman. Hosted by State Co-Chairs Judge Elizabeth Snow Stong and Kenneth G. Standard. Special thanks to Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz for sponsoring
March 24, 2016 Featuring ABF Research Professor Shari Seidman Diamond. Special Thanks to Bergman Dacey Goldsmith for sponsoring
Featuring William Hubbard, Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association. Hosted by State Co-Chairs John S. Skilton and
Robyn S. Shapiro
April 12, 2016
Featuring DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director, National Football League Players' Association and Former D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney. Hosted by D.C. Officers John C. Keeney, Susan M. Hoffman and Darrell G. Mottley
April 15, 2016
Fellows social at Christopher's Restaurant. Hosted by State Chair Paul T. Moxley
May 19, 2016
August 5-9, 2016
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Fellows Emblem
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We are delighted to share with you our Fellows emblem, ready to display on your firm or personal website!
Please email the Fellows Staff with the subject line "ABF Emblem" to receive a copy of the image and display instructions.
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Fellows Online Profiles and Directory
We are pleased to announce our new
Your online Fellows profile now includes updated and new features to help keep you up to date on Fellows news and events, your giving history, and more. You may also access a searchable directory of all current Fellows.
We recently added updates to add your ABA affiliations, area(s) of specialty, and research interests!
If you update your profile by June 1, 2016, your name will be entered in a random drawing to win two free tickets to The Fellows Opening Reception in San Francisco (August, 2016), Miami (February, 2017), or New York (August, 2017). If you have any questions or comments regarding our site, or if you have forgotten your user ID and/or password, please contact The Fellows office at (800) 292-5065 or fellows@abfn.org.
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You can stay current with Fellows and ABF updates, network with other Fellows, view photos from events, read research highlights, and much more!
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Life Fellow Spotlight
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James T. Haight
Life Patron Fellow
Q: You've been a Fellow for over 40 years. What does being a Fellow mean to you?
A: I like the opportunity to support practical research by the ABF into how the law actually operates. From the beginning, the Foundation has worked with law schools to better understand the place of law and social justice in American society. I've met some great fellow Fellows. I'm honored to be a Life Patron Fellow.
Q: Where were you born and raised?
A: Racine, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan. I'm a combat veteran of World War II who benefited from the GI Bill of Rights. I received my undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin. I also earned credit from the Universities of Nebraska, Biarritz, Bordeaux, and Paris, France.
Q: What type of law did you practice, and how did you become interested in that particular area?
A: In 1951, I started in antitrust law with Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. However, I have been a corporate law department attorney most of my career. Initially, I specialized in international business law, helped by proficiency in languages. I co-founded The International Lawyer in 1965, and served as Chair of the ABA Section of International Law in 1974-75. Finally, I headed the law department of a large retail chain headquartered in Los Angeles, cutting my travel considerably.
Q: If you had decided not to pursue a career in law, what would you have done?
A: Journalism.
Q: What do you like to do in your free time?
A: Aquatics exercise, playing bridge, follow a golf collecting hobby, enjoy family events.
Q: Anything else you'd like to share with us?
A: I joined the ABA in the 1950s. Thinking it was somewhat stodgy for the time, I hoped to see some change. I think the Association has become more objective, diverse, and effective over the decades. On a more personal note, I'm proud that my wonderful wife and I have been married 63 years, with five marvelous daughters and five fine grandchildren.
For more Fellows Spotlights, click here.
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ABF International Research Highlights
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Tom Ginsburg
ABF Research Professor and Leo Spitz Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
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Constitutional Design for Territorially Divided Societies: The Future of the Middle East
Tom Ginsburg
Professor Tom Ginsburg's research is looking at the role of territorial divides in constitutional design and constitution making. While territorial nation-states are the main organizational unit for international society, no nation-state is homogeneous. This internal diversity poses a several challenges for political and legal systems and is central to current debates on constitution-making.Within the last decade, there have been several countries that have had to confront territorial cleavages. However, the differences posed with each circumstance suggest no one process or institutional design can provide policy-makers with a simple formula to address the territorial divides in constitution making. The current turmoil in the Middle East is likely to produce a new set of territorial challenges, in particular Iraq, where the spatial organization of the region is increasingly becoming segregated. Ginsburg's research tries to advance the understanding of these divides in constitutional design. It aims to draw lessons from recent experiences to generate policy proposals for the future, with a focus in the Middle East and North Africa. | |
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Terence Halliday
ABF Research Professor and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
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Sida Liu
ABF Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Rise of Lawyer Activism in China
Terence Halliday and Sida Liu
Professor Terence Halliday, Research Professor at the ABF and specialist in globalization and law, and ABF Faculty Fellow Sida Liu, are researching leading activist lawyers. Their study looks at elite criminal defense and human rights lawyers as part of an emerging network of lawyer-activists and their role in legal change.
Their past research includes studies on the policy debates over China's Criminal Procedure Law, national and international media coverage of criminal trials in China, and the everyday practice of criminal defense lawyers. In 2009, Halliday and Liu co-authored the publication " Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China's Criminal Procedure Law," which appeared in the socio-legal journal, Law & Social Inquiry. They have also co-authored the book, Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work, that will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. In the book, the original data show how ordinary criminal defense lawyers and activists seek to protect the basic legal rights of detainees in China. Based on extensive interviews, a survey, and media data over ten years, the research shows how everyday criminal practice can be seen as an arena for struggle over the future law and politics of China.
on January 18th. The letter, which was signed by twenty renowned lawyers and jurists in Europe, North America, and Australia, called for the release of Chinese human rights lawyers who had been forcibly detained or incarcerated in a recent crackdown. The lawyers in question are being held, detained, or otherwise prosecuted, on several charges of "inciting subversion of state power." The letter received coverage from several international news outlets.
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Carol A. Heimer
ABF Research Professor and Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
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The Legal Transformation of Medicine: How Rules Work in the International World of HIV/AIDS
Carol A. Heimer
A Professor of Sociology, Carol Heimer's research has focused on the relationship between law and medicine. In her ongoing book project, tentatively titled The Legal Transformation of Medicine: How Rules Work in the International World of HIV/AIDS, she studies how laws, regulations and other rules are actually used in HIV research and treatment in the United States, Uganda, South Africa and Thailand. It investigates what happens when laws, regulations, and guidelines are transported to new sites where they confront the realities of medical care, clinical research, and healthcare administration in developing countries.
The project combines an examination of what has happened at the level of national and international policy making with a close look at how the laws, regulations, rules, guidelines, codes, protocols, frameworks, and standard operating procedures actually affects how healthcare workers do their jobs. The research is grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules in HIV/AIDS clinics in four countries. Heimer is looking at clinics in Chicago, IL; Atlanta, Georgia; Kampala, Uganda; Bangkok, Thailand; and Durban, South Africa. The clinics were chosen to reflect important differences in prevalence rates, patient access to health insurance, distance between rule makers and rule followers, and government stances on HIV.
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ABF Center on Law and Globalization
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The Center on Law and Globalization at the American Bar Foundation strives to identify and provide understanding of situations and problems within the international legal environment, utilize existing research and provide new research data, and offer proposed courses of action, future projections and potential solutions. It focuses international human and legal rights issues, notably justice and security, the international economy and marketplace, and health. It aims to explicitly to help international legal agencies, advance the research and scholarly frames available to global leaders, enable national legal professions to catch a vision of the contributions they can make to advance participatory democracy and help global and local leaders better understand the constraints, ideologies, and difficulties of advancing global agendas in a world of nation-states.
The center is co-directed by Tom Ginsburg, ABF Research Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Chicago College of Law; John Hagan, ABF Research Professor and John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University; and Terence Halliday, ABF Research Professor and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. |
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Recap of the Fellows Events at the 2016 ABA Midyear Meeting in San Diego
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Thank you to everyone who attended the Fellows Events at the ABA Midyear Meeting in San Diego! We would also like to thank KPMG for generously sponsoring the 60th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet!
View more photos from our events on our website and our
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We would like to thank our Life Leadership Fellows for their generosity and dedication to support the work of the American Bar Foundation! Life Leadership Fellows, our highest giving society, are Life Fellows who have contributed an aggregate of $25,000.
Jacqueline Allee, Coral Gables, FL
Michael H. Byowitz, New York, NY
Mortimer M. Caplin, Washington, DC
David A. Collins, Beverly Hills, MI
John J. Creedon, Larchmont, NY
Ellen J. Flannery, Washington, DC
David S. Houghton, Omaha, NE
Robert MacCrate, New York, NY
William H. Neukom, Seattle, WA
Wm. T. Robinson III, Florence, KY
David K.Y. Tang, Seattle WA
William F. Womble, Winston Salem, NC
To learn more about Life Leadership Fellows and our other Life Fellow Giving Societies, click here.
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Welcome to the New Members in our Life Fellow Giving Societies
Welcome to the newest members of our Life Benefactor Fellow and Life Patron Fellow Giving Societies since December 1, 2015! We greatly appreciate their continued support and contributions to the Foundation.
Life Benefactor Fellows Contributed an aggregate of $10,000
James T. Halverson, University Park, FL
Linda A. Klein, Atlanta, GA
Dennis Arnold Schoville, San Diego, CA
Timothy W. Bouch, Charleston, SC
Douglas R. Young, San Francisco, CA
Life Patron Fellows Contributed an aggregate of $5,000
Edward A.K. Adler, Port Washington, NY Deborah A. Agosti, Reno, NV Susan Frelich Appleton, Saint Louis, MO Scott J. Atlas, Houston, TX Martin D. Beirne, Houston, TX Stephen S. Bowen, Chicago, IL Steve A. Brand, Minneapolis, MN John T. Cabaniss, Houston, TX Robert J. Cunningham, Chicago, IL Ellen Conedera Dial, Seattle, WA William B. Dulany, Sykesville, MD Paul F. Eckstein, Phoenix, AZ Susan Beth Farmer, University Park, PA Thomas M. Fitzpatrick, Seattle, WA Norman Goldberger, Philadelphia, PA Robert J. Grey, Jr., Richmond, VA E. Stewart Jones, Jr., Troy, NY William F. Kuntz II, Brooklyn, NY Joseph G. Nassif, Saint Louis, MO John J. Okray, Ithaca, NY Charity Scott, Atlanta, GA Woon-Wah Siu, Shanghai, China Don Slesnick, Coral Gables, FL Rayman L. Solomon, Canden, NJ Joseph Thacker, Naples, FL J. David Tracy, Forth Worth, TX Reginald M. Turner, Jr., Detroit, MI
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 December 1, 2015, please click here.
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, 2015, please click here. For a complete list of all Life Fellow Giving Society Members, please click here. |
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Welcome New Fellows!
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Please join us in welcoming the newest members of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation! For a complete list of new Fellows inducted since December 1, 2015, please click here!
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