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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“Who Speaks for Tax Equity and Tax Fairness?” The Emergence of the Organized Tax Bar and the Dilemmas of Professional Responsibility
2018
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Joseph J. Thorndike, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
October 2018
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq
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The Myth of the "Overtaxed" American and the VAT That Never Was
September 2018
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
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Section 5's Forgotten Years: Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment Before Katzenbach v. Morgan
September 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
- Books
The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945
April 2018
Tera Agyepong and
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The Forgotten Issue? The Supreme Court and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
August 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
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The Front End of the Carceral State: Police Stops, Court Fines, and the Racialization of Due Process
June 2018
Reuben Jonathan Miller
- Newsletters
ABF Scholar is First to Examine Legal History of Iconic Civil Rights 'Sit-In' Movement in New Book
Spring 2018
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Damage Caps and Access to Justice: Lessons from Texas
April 2018
Stephen Daniels, Joanne Martin and Stephen Daniels
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If You Build It, They Will Come: What Law Students Say About Experiential Learning
Spring 2018
Stephen Daniels, David I.C. Thomson and Stephen Daniels
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Dignity and Discrimination: Employment Civil Rights in the Workplace and In Courts
March 2018
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen
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The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
March 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt