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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- Articles
Funding the Cause: How Public Interest Law Organizations Fund Their Activities and Why it Matters to Social Change
February 2013
Laura Beth Nielsen and Catherine R. Albiston
- Newsletters
The Research Group on Legal Diversity of the American Bar Foundation
Winter 2013
- Articles
Performing Regulation: Transcending Regulatory Ritualism in HIV Clinics
December 2012
Carol A. Heimer and J. Lynn Gazley
- Chapters
Conflict of Interest at the Bedside: Surrogate Decision Making at the End of Life
December 2012
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
What Can Be Done to Stem Gun Violence?
December 2012
John Donohue III
- Newsletters
Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
Fall 2012
- Articles
Advance Directives: The Elusive Goal of Having the Last Word
Fall 2012
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
When to Overthrow Your Government: The Right to Resist in the World's Constitutions
June 2013
Tom Ginsburg
- Newsletters
Your Voice in the Future: The Role of Advance Directives Near the End of Life
Summer 2012
- Books
Authoritarian Rule of Law: Legislation, Discourse and the Legitimacy in Singapore
June 2012
Jothie Rajah
- Articles
Is it Fair? Law Professors’ Perceptions of Tenure
May 2012
Elizabeth Mertz, Katherine Barnes and Elizabeth Mertz
- Articles
Examining Empathy: Discrimination, Experience, and Judicial Decisionmaking
2012
Jill D. Weinberg, Laura Beth Nielsen and Laura Beth Nielsen