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
Portrait Project Policy Brief: Who's Going to Law School
2020
Miranda Li, Phillip Yao and Hon. Goodwin Liu
- Articles
Lessons about Law at Life’s End: Rethinking Advance Directives in the Shadow of a Pandemic
January 2020
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
The New Place of Corporate Law Firms in the Structuring of Elite Legal Careers
January 2020
Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth
- Articles
Why Advance Directives Do Not Direct: A Researcher’s Perspective
January 2020
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
"Deserve Got Nothin' to Do with It": The Value of Homicide Victims in The Wire
2019
Janice Nadler
- Reports
Future of Latinos: Southern Roundtable Report
November 2019
- Articles
What Is a Clinic? Relationships and the Practice of Organizational Ethnography
November 2019
Carol A. Heimer
- Articles
Imprisonment, Opioids, and Health Care Reform: The Failure to Reach a High-Risk Population
November 2019
John Hagan, Holly Foster and John Hagan
- Articles
The Promise and Limits of Fundamental Tax Reform: Contrasting the 1986 Tax Reform Act with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
November 2019
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
- Newsletters
ABF Scholar Sheds a Light on Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care
Fall 2019
- Articles
The Perennial (and Stubborn) Challenge of Cost, Affordability, and Access in Legal Education
October 2019
Stephen Daniels and Stephen Daniels
- Chapters
Canaries in the Mines of the U.S. Legal Academy
October 2019
Elizabeth Mertz and Elizabeth Mertz