Congrats to @lbthatsme.bsky.social of Northwestern University and @abfresearch.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Ronald Pipkin Service Award!
View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026
This Wed., 5/6, Boston College Law Prof. Aziz Rana will lead the ABF Speaker Series on "The Breakdown of the American Constitutional Compact." Rana will examine the contours of today’s U.S. constitutional crisis, tracing its roots over three decades, the 1930s through the 1960s.
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The @polar-journal.bsky.social's Annual Student Paper Prize Competition is taking submissions! The deadline is July 31, 2026, and the prize is open to current students in degree-granting grad programs (MA, PhD, JD, etc.)
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This Wed., 5/13, Chicago-Kent College of Law Prof. Cary Martin Shelby will lead the ABF Speaker Series on "Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity." Shelby will discuss her upcoming book, and touch on for-profit companies commodifying black pain, and its cycles of harm.
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ABF Research Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social
and Gita Wirjawan discuss what sustains constitutional democracy, and what erodes it from within, on the Endgame podcast.
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In a recent Bar and Bench article, ABF Research Prof. @tomginsburg.bsky.social, discusses democratic backsliding, judicial independence, AI, and more.
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ABF Affiliated Scholar @hollyfoster.bsky.social's new book, We All Do the Time, examines how incarcerated women maintain family and community ties, and why those connections matter for well-being, belonging, and rehabilitation. Published by @nyupress.bsky.social
🔗: nyupress.org/978147981588...
The Pennsylvania Gazette discusses former LSS Doctoral Fellow Shaun Ossei-Owusu's Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System. Highlighting Ossei-Owusu's journey, time at the ABF, and collaboration with Research Prof. @lbthatsme.bsky.social.
🔗: thepenngazette.com/witness-and-...
At the American Identity Summit 2026, a recent panel by the Chicago Thinker, ABF Research Prof. @tomginsburg.bsky.social discusses the health of American democracy, the state of constitutional order, and what renewal looks like at 250 years.
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Tomorrow, the ABF hosts a New York City reception honoring the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—featuring remarks from Judge Arun Subramanian (Ginsburg's former clerk) and visual artist Josh Montgomery.
Supporting the RBG Fund for Civil Rights and Gender Equality Research.
Scholars and commentators increasingly worry that the United States is facing a constitutional crisis, but the exact contours of this crisis remain underspecified. In this talk, Aziz Rana argues that…
Call for participants… Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) sponsors a series of special workshops in which small groups of graduate studen…
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Professor Shelby will discuss several chapters of her upcoming book, Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity, which introduces “Markets for Black Pain” as a novel theoretical…
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, working on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinar
Breaks new ground by showing how women in prison and their families interact through prison boundariesAlthough women make up only 7% of the overall prison po...
