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The American Bar Foundation Appoints Two New Research Faculty Members in Anthropology
August 12, 2025
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has appointed Natacha Nsabimana and Alana Ackerman, both scholars in anthropology, to join its community as Research Professors beginning fall 2025. These scholars will join a robust community of researchers advancing understandings of law and society through empirical and interdisciplinary research.   … Read More
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Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine

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The American Bar Foundation Announces 2025-26 Cohort of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows

August 12, 2025
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has awarded doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships to six exceptional scholars. Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, these scholars were chosen for their impressive empirical and interdisciplinary research proposals in law and social science. The research of these doctoral and postdoctoral fellows focuses on… Read More
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The American Bar Foundation Appoints Two New Research Faculty Members in Anthropology

August 12, 2025
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has appointed Natacha Nsabimana and Alana Ackerman, both scholars in anthropology, to join its community as Research Professors beginning fall 2025. These scholars will join a robust community of researchers advancing understandings of law and society through empirical and interdisciplinary research.   … Read More
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American Bar Foundation Names Bryant Garth as Interim Executive Director Ahead of Upcoming Search

July 25, 2025
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has announced the reappointment of ABF Affiliated Research Professor and University of California, Irvine School of Law Distinguished Professor Emeritus Bryant Garth as Interim Executive Director, effective September 2, 2025. Garth steps into the role as Mark C. Suchman… Read More

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September 17, 2025
Speaker Series: Michelle Brown
Sociology and Law, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
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Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)

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Speaker Series: Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan
Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University Chicago; Criminal Justice, Governors State University
Skyscraper Jails in New York City
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Speaker Series: Michelle Brown
Sociology and Law, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
More information coming soon!
Hybrid: Virtual/In-Person (ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL)
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Stephen Daniels

ABF Research Professor Emeritus

Stephen Daniels is a Research Professor Emeritus at the American Bar Foundation. His ABF research project, Alternative Legal Professionals, examines legal technician programs, which license non-lawyers to practice certain aspects of law in a limited capacity with the goal of expanding access to legal services at a more affordable cost. In this feature, Daniels discusses how this concept emerged, spread, and continues to evolve across multiple states.

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ABF Fellows are a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities.
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Episode 8: Season One Finale: When Law Meets Society
The season finale of Season 1 of Whose Law is it Anyway explores the impact of ABF's research with former Executive Director, Ajay K. Mehrotra.
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Shaping the Future of Sociolegal Research: ABF Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Watch to learn more about the ABF Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships.
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