John P. Heinz

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University School of Law

Education

LL.B, Yale Law School

Bio

For the past thirty years, Jack Heinz’s research has focused primarily on the social structure of the legal profession. This work applies sociological methods, often using quantitative…

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Research focus

The legal profession, especially its social structure and organization of work, and the roles of lawyers in politics. Some of this research uses network analysis to depict the interrelationships (or lack thereof) among varying kinds of lawyers.

Projects

Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar: Latest finding: Sep 24, 2008, with Robert L. Nelson, John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, Rebecca L. Sandefur and Edward O. Laumann; Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2005 Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an…
Networks among Lawyers Active in National Policymaking: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008; This project examines patterns of contact among lawyers active in organizations spanning the full ideological range of American domestic politics. Network analysis techniques enable us to examine…
Lawyers of the Right, Networks and Organization: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Anthony Paik , Ann Southworth; Lawyers for conservative and libertarian causes are active in organizing interest groups within the conservative coalition, and networks of relationships among those lawyers help to maintain and…