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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Colonizing the Clinic: The Adventures of Law in HIV Treatment and Research
May 2016
Carol A. Heimer and Jamie Morse
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Combining Methods for a New Synthesis in Law and Empirical Research
May 2016
Elizabeth Mertz, Katherine Barnes and Elizabeth Mertz
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Introduction: New Legal Realism: Law and Social Science in the New Millennium
May 2016
Elizabeth Mertz and Elizabeth Mertz
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The New Legal Realism: Volume 1: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice
May 2016
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay, Thomas W. Mitchell and Elizabeth Mertz
- Newsletters
The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility
Spring 2016
- Books
Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers
April 2016
Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Spencer Headworth and David B. Wilkins
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The End of an Era? Understanding the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform
March 2016
Katherine Beckett, Anna Reosti, Emily Knaphus and
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ABF Professor Terence Halliday Presents at World Bank Panel on Money Laundering
Winter 2016
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Organizations and the Democratic Representation of Interests: What Does It Mean When Those Organizations Have No Members?
December 2015
Traci Burch, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady
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Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory
November 2015
Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
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The Living Will as Improvisation
November 2015
Susan P. Shapiro
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Baldwin’s Mill: Race, Punishment, and the Pedagogy of Repression, 1965–2015
October 2015
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Desmond Patton, Jelena Zeleskov Djoric and Janice Williams Miller