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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- Reports
Future of Latinos: Midwest Roundtable Report
November 2016
- Reports
Shifting Latinx Demographics and the Infrastructure of Support for the Latinx Community of California
November 2016
- Books
Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work
November 2016
Sida Liu and Terence Halliday
- Articles
The Price of Carceral Citizenship: Punishment, Surveillance, and Social Welfare Policy in an Age of Carceral Expansion
2016
Reuben Jonathan Miller
- Articles
Where Have All the Cases Gone? The Strange Success of Tort Reform Revisited
2016
Stephen Daniels and Stephen Daniels
- Articles
Political Participation and the Criminal Justice System
September 2016
Traci Burch
- Articles
Standing in Another’s Shoes: How Agents Make Life-and-Death Decisions for Their Principals
September 2016
Susan P. Shapiro
- Chapters
“Can You Get There from Here?” Translating Law and Social Science: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
August 2016
Elizabeth Mertz
- Articles
What We Know and Need to Know about the Legal Needs of the Public
2016
Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Articles
Paying Down the Civil Justice Data Deficit
Winter 2016
Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Newsletters
Metrics, Diversity, and Law: 2016 Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity
Summer 2016
- Articles
Hardness Scripts: High-Achieving African American Boys in a Chicago Charter School Navigating Community Violence and School
June 2016
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Desmond Patton, Emma Kornfeld and Adrian Gale