Bryant G. Garth
ABF Director Emeritus/Dean, Southwestern Law School
Education
Ph.D., European University Institute; J.D., Stanford Law School
Research focus
The legal profession, dispute resolution, and internationalization. The topics intersect around the question of how internationalization—seen as the import and export of ideas, technologies, approaches, resources, and hierarchies—affects the position and importance of law in regulating the economy and the state; and the changing role of the legal profession in the United States.
Projects
- After the JD
- Latest finding: Feb 11, 2008, with Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Joyce Sterling
- The After the JD (AJD) project is an empirical study of the career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 new lawyers, offering both a nationally representative picture of lawyer career trajectories…
- International Strategies, Law, and the Reconstruction of Asian States
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Yves Desalay
- Lawyers and the Construction of the Rule of Law: National and Transnational Processes
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Yves Dezalay
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Publications
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“Exporting and Importing Democracy and the Rule
of Law: Understanding Colonial Processes and their
Impacts”
- NACLA
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A International Strategies and Local Transformations:
Preliminary Observations of the Position of Law in the
Field of State Power in Asia
- Harvard University Press
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“Rebuilding International Law after the September 11
Attack: Contrasting Agendas of High Priests and Legal
Realists”
- Loyola International Law Review
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Presentations
- The Changing Role of Urban Law Schools
- Sep 2007
- Building and Revamping Legal Virtue: Legal and
Colonial Strategies in the Construction of Asian States:
The Example of the Philippines
- Sep 2007
- Social Science Perspectives on Legal Education and the
Legal Profession
- Jun 2007
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Chair, Advisory Board, Law School Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Member, Executive Coordinating Committee for Study of AAfter the J.D.: The First Ten Years@
- Member, Hughes Committee, University of Denver College of Law
- Chair, Research Committee, Association of American Law Schools
- Member, Curriculum Committee, ABA Section of Legal Education
- Member, Board of Trustees, Beverly Hills Bar Association