Programs
The ABF is committed to fostering the next generation of scholars in the field of law and social science. For more than 30 years, we have supported fellowships for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, doctoral candidates, and undergraduate students. ABF fellowships encourage significant and original research.
William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law
The Neukom Chair is a year-long visiting position awarded to an outstanding scholar with a distinguished record of scholarship in law and the social sciences who conducts empirical research on diversity and law, broadly conceived.
The ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholars Program
The ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholars Program brings together small cohorts of faculty scholars to support their research, mentor their progress, and foster the relationships between research, policy, and practice needed to grow the access to justice field.
ABF Visiting Scholar Program
The American Bar Foundation invites scholars to join our intellectual community throughout the year, as space allows, on a visiting and temporary basis. We encourage national and international scholars on leave or sabbatical to take advantage of our diverse sociolegal community and excellent facilities.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Law & Inequality
With support from the National Science Foundation and the Law and Society Association, the ABF hosts the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Law & Inequality. Postdoctoral Fellows work in residence at the ABF to develop original and significant empirical and interdisciplinary research on the study of law and inequality.
ABF/AccessLex Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Legal & Higher Education
The ABF partners with the AccessLex Institute to support emerging scholars studying issues of access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. This fellowship assists Postdoctoral Scholars who are addressing significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of legal or higher education.
ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Postdoctoral Fellow
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) and the JPB Foundation invite emerging scholars interested in studying access to civil justice to join the ABF’s intellectual community for the ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholars Program. The program expands empirical access to civil justice scholarship by encouraging scholars to engage with this bourgeoning research field.
ABF/LSA/NSF Doctoral Fellowship in Law and Inequality
With support from the National Science Foundation and the Law and Society Association, the ABF hosts the Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law & Inequality. This fellowship in residence at the ABF supports original empirical and interdisciplinary research on the study of law and inequality.
ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law & Social Science
The ABF partners with Northwestern University to offer the ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellowship Program. The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions.
ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellowship Program in Legal & Higher Education
The ABF partners with the AccessLex Institute to support emerging scholars studying issues of access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. Doctoral research must address significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of legal or higher education.
ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social Science
The ABF partners with the University of Chicago to offer the ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social Science. Selected scholars participate in this fellowship in residence at the ABF where their original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions will be supported.
ABF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
The SURF program promotes broader inclusion in the legal profession by breaking down barriers experienced by individuals from diverse backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the fields of law and social science. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Support the ongoing projects of ABF Research Professors, affording them the opportunity to be mentored by and take part in sociolegal research with experienced scholars.