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
ABF Scholar is First to Examine Legal History of Iconic Civil Rights 'Sit-In' Movement in New Book
Spring 2018
- Articles
Damage Caps and Access to Justice: Lessons from Texas
April 2018
Stephen Daniels, Joanne Martin and Stephen Daniels
- Articles
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
- Articles
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
- Books
The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
March 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
- Reports
Future of Latinos: Miami Leadership Summit
March 2018
- Articles
How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy
March 2018
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq
- Chapters
"Jury Research," in The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History
March 2018
Shari Seidman Diamond and Shari Seidman Diamond
- Books
Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law
January 2010
Robert L. Nelson, Lee Cabatingan and James L. Heckman
- Articles
The Social Psychology of Property: Looking Beyond Market Exchange
January 2018
Janice Nadler
- Articles
The Financial Rewards of Elite Status in the Legal Profession
December 2018
Ronit Dinovitzer
- Articles
US Criminal Justice Policy and Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Toward the End of Mass Incarceration
2018
Katherine Beckett, Lindsey Beach, Emily Knaphus, Anna Reosti and