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
A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law 2.0: Identity and Action in Challenging Times
2022
Hon. Goodwin Liu, Tyler Dang, Katherine Fang and Michael Tayag
- Reports
Portrait Project 2.0 Policy Brief: Identity and Action in Challenging Times
2022
Tyler Dang, Katherine Fang, Benji Lu, Hon. Goodwin Liu and Michael Tayag
- Articles
Experts, Democracy and the Historical Irony of U.S. Tax Policy: Thomas S. Adams and the Beginnings of the Value-Added Tax
December 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
- Articles
The Exonerating "Guise of Brotherhood": Intra-Fraternal Sexual Violence Survivors' Accounts of Illegibility
November 2022
David Fishman, Laura Beth Nielsen and Sino Esthappan
- Books
Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law
November 2022
Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal
- Articles
Brown, History, and the Fourteenth Amendment
November 2022
Christopher W. Schmidt
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Sociolegal Research, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships
Winter 2020
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Shih-Chun Steven Chien, Xiangnong Wang, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
- Articles
Civil Procedure as the Regulation of Externalities: Toward a New Theory of Civil Litigation
2022
William H. J. Hubbard and Ronen Avraham
- Books
Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror
November 2022
Jothie Rajah
- Articles
Good Law to Fight Bad Bugs: Legal Responses to Epidemics
October 2022
Carol A. Heimer and Clay Davis
- Articles
To Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Truth Seeking and Truth Telling in Law (and Other Arenas)
October 2022
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
Designing Just Solutions at Scale: Lawyerless Legal Services and Evidence-Based Regulation
September 2022
Matthew Burnett and Rebecca L. Sandefur