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
After the JD II: Second Results from a National Study of Legal Careers
2009
Ronit Dinovitzer, Robert L. Nelson, Joyce Sterling, Rebecca L. Sandefur, Bryant Garth, John Hagan, David B. Wilkins, Gabriele Plickert, Terry K. Adams, Gita Z. Wilder and John Hagan
- Newsletters
The Center on Law and Globalization
Fall 2009
Terence Halliday
- Articles
Achieving Diversity on the Jury: Jury Size and the Peremptory Challenge
August 2009
Shari Seidman Diamond, Destiny Peery, Francis J. Dolan, Emily Dolan and Shari Seidman Diamond
- Books
Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases
July 2009
Tom Ginsburg
- Newsletters
The Summer Research Diversity Fellowship Program
Summer 2009
- Newsletters
New Results from After the JD, II: Seven Years into a Lawyer's Career
Spring 2009
Bryant Garth
- Books
Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis
2009
Terence Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers
- Books
The Endurance of National Constitutions
January 2009
Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins and James Melton
- Newsletters
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Winter 2009
- Newsletters
The World Justice Forum: Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law
Fall 2008
- Newsletters
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Summer 2008
- Newsletters
Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary U.S.
Spring 2008
Robert L. Nelson