Research
Exploring where law, society and culture meet.
For over 70 years, we’ve conducted rigorous, groundbreaking research used worldwide to help ensure that the law embodies principles like dignity, fairness and justice.
Learning and Practicing Law
Advancing research on legal education and practice, the ABF investigates how the law is practiced both in legal and non-legal settings, including a focus on legal careers and the evolving paths of legal professionals.
Protecting Rights and Accessing Justice
Innovative research through the ABF examines the roles that laws have around the world, with a special focus on protecting vital rights and the ways that people from different communities can access the justice system.
Making and Implementing Law
The ABF analyzes the diverse ways laws are created and practiced in the U.S. and around the world, not just by legal professionals, but also by those who enforce the law and put it into action.
Recent Research Publications
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- Newsletters
Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture and the Long War on Terror
Fall 2024
- Chapters
Impeachment in Comparative Perspective
February 2024
Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq and David Landau
- Books
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
September 2023
Dylan C. Penningroth
- Reports
The Making of Lawyers Careers Policy Brief
November 2023
Robert L. Nelson, Bryant Garth, Ronit Dinovitzer, Meghan Dawe, David B. Wilkins and Ethan Michelson
- Books
The Making of Lawyers' Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession
October 2023
Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Bryant Garth, Joyce Sterling, David B. Wilkins, Meghan Dawe and Ethan Michelson
- Chapters
Law’s Governing Centers: A Global Sociolegal Approach
June 2023
Jothie Rajah
- Articles
All Together Now: Building a Shared Access to Justice Research Framework for Theoretical Insight and Actionable Intelligence
April 2023
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Matthew Burnett
- Reports
A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law 2.0: Identity and Action in Challenging Times
2022
Hon. Goodwin Liu, Tyler Dang, Katherine Fang and Michael Tayag
- Reports
Portrait Project 2.0 Policy Brief: Identity and Action in Challenging Times
2022
Tyler Dang, Katherine Fang, Benji Lu, Hon. Goodwin Liu and Michael Tayag
- Articles
Experts, Democracy and the Historical Irony of U.S. Tax Policy: Thomas S. Adams and the Beginnings of the Value-Added Tax
December 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra
- Articles
The Exonerating "Guise of Brotherhood": Intra-Fraternal Sexual Violence Survivors' Accounts of Illegibility
November 2022
David Fishman, Laura Beth Nielsen, , Laura Beth Nielsen, Sino Esthappan and
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Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law
November 2022
Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal