The American Bar Endowment (ABE) has approved its annual grant to the American Bar Foundation (ABF), of nearly $3.7 million for the 2023-24 fiscal year. This grant will support the…
ABF’s Access to Justice Researchers Join in $1 Million Grant from the National Science Foundation
Michele Statz, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Matthew Burnett, Senior Program Officer for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation; and Nikole Nelson, Executive…
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Select the 2023-24 Fellows Officers
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) have selected their new Fellows Officers for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The Fellows of the ABF is an honorary organization of attorneys,…
The American Bar Foundation Welcomes Patty A. Ferguson-Bohnee and Judge Peter M. Reyes, Jr. To its Board of Directors
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has elected two new board members to its Board of Directors. Patty A. Ferguson–Bohnee and the Honorable Peter M. Reyes, Jr. were both elected to…
The ABF Announces the 2023-24 Cohort of Doctoral Fellows
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has awarded doctoral fellowships to three Ph.D. candidates who will work in residence in the ABF’s Chicago office beginning in September 2023. Among a highly…
The ABF Welcomes the 2023-24 Cohort of Visiting Scholars
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is pleased to welcome the 2023-24 Visiting Scholars cohort to the ABF research community. This year’s scholars are Leslie Abramson, Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee),…
Caity Curry of University of Minnesota Wins Law & Social Inquiry’s Graduate Student Paper Competition
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is pleased to announce that Caity Curry (they/them), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, has won the 2023…
Brittany Friedman and The Captive Money Lab Co-Founders Receive 1.5 Million Dollars in Funding from Arnold Ventures
ABF Affiliated Scholar and former ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Program Scholar Brittany Friedman has received 1.5 million dollars from Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy dedicated to supporting evidence-based policy research projects…
The ABF Welcomes the 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has chosen five outstanding undergraduate scholars to take part in the 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. These students were selected from a highly…
The ABF Welcomes Jeannine Bell as the 2023-24 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law
Jeannine Bell has been named the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law for the 2023-24 academic year, effective September 1. Bell joined the Loyola University Chicago School…
ABF Scholars to Present Research at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
This year’s Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting, to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 1 to 4, will feature presentations from over 30 ABF scholars.…
Bonnie Honig Receives a Guggenheim Fellowship for Research in Legal Theory and Language
ABF Affiliated Research Professor Bonnie Honig (Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University) is among the list of recipients of the 2023…