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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- Chapters
All Leviathan's Children: Race, Punishment and the (Re-)Making of the City
September 2019
Reuben Jonathan Miller
- Articles
The Deserving Worker: Decision About Workplace Accommodation by Judges and Laypeople
June 2019
Laura Beth Nielsen, Jill D. Weinberg, Kat Albrecht and Laura Beth Nielsen
- Books
Speaking for the Dying: Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care
June 2019
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace
June 2019
Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Meghan Dawe and Ioana Sendroiu
- Reports
Legal Tech for Non Lawyers: Report of the Survey of US Legal Technologies
2019
Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Books
Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order
April 2019
Gregory Shaffer, Tom Ginsburg and Terence Halliday
- Articles
Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance
January 2019
Janice Nadler and David A. Dana
- Articles
Emotional Evidence in Court
January 2019
Janice Nadler, Hannah J. Phalen and Jessica M. Salerno
- Newsletters
Fostering the Next Generation: Three Decades of the ABF Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
Winter 2019
- Articles
Soda Taxes as a Legal and Social Movement
2018
Janice Nadler and David A. Dana
- Reports
Research Group on Legal Diversity - Public Documents
November 2018
Ronit Dinovitzer and Robert L. Nelson
- Articles
When Law Calls, Does Science Answer? A Survey of Distinguished Scientists & Engineers
Fall 2018
Shari Seidman Diamond and Shari Seidman Diamond