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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Misunderstanding Law: Undergraduates' Analysis of Campus Title IX Policies
August 2022
Laura Beth Nielsen, Kat Albrecht, Lydia Wuorinen, Laura Beth Nielsen and
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Adding Insult to Injury: The Justification Frame in Official Narratives of Officer-Involved Killings
August 2022
Traci Burch
- Articles
Alternative Legal Professionals and Access to Justice: Failure, Success, and the Evolution of the Washington State LLLT Program
August 2022
Stephen Daniels and James Bowers
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The Missing U.S. VAT: Economic Inequality, American Fiscal Exceptionalism, and the Historical U.S. Resistance to National Consumption Taxes
August 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
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Fair Juries
May 2023
Shari Seidman Diamond and Valerie P. Hans
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Mind the Gap: Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy
June 2022
Meghan Dawe and CJ Ryan
- Books
A Half Century with the Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey
May 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Lawrence Zelenak, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
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Whose Child is This? Improving Child-Claiming Rules in Safety-Net Programs
April 2022
Jacob Goldin and Ariel Jurow Kleiman
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Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest
March 2022
Traci Burch
- Podcasts
Episode 8: Season One Finale: When Law Meets Society
March 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
- Videos
ABF Access to Justice Program Video
2022
Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Articles
Assigning Punishment: Reader Responses to Crime News
February 2022
Janice Nadler and Kat Albrecht