Postdoctoral Fellowships
The ABF’s Postdoctoral Fellowship programs launch careers. Through these programs, the ABF assembles and coordinates a professional network of scholars who produce innovative, objective, empirical, and interdisciplinary research in the field.
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.