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May 1, 2024
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Featured Research
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Impeachment in Comparative Perspective
This chapter examines impeachment from a global perspective by exploring the ways in which it is set up and used in diverse national contexts.
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In the News
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Walter G. Johnson, Australian National University Ph.D. Candidate, Wins Law & Social Inquiry’s Graduate Student Paper Competition
June 18, 2024
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is pleased to announce that Walter G. Johnson (he/him), a Ph.D. candidate at the Australian National University in the School of Regulation and Global Governance with a J.D. from Arizona State University, has won the 2024 Graduate… Read More
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The ABF Announces the 2024 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
June 4, 2024
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has awarded doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships to five outstanding scholars. Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, these scholars were chosen for their significant empirical and interdisciplinary research proposals in law and social science. This year, the selected scholars are: … Read More
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The ABF Welcomes the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows
June 4, 2024
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has chosen five outstanding undergraduate students from across the nation to take part in the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program. These young scholars were selected… Read More
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Featured Researcher
Carol A. Heimer
ABF Research Professor
Carol A. Heimer is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and a Professor of Sociology Emerita at Northwestern University. In this feature, Heimer discusses findings from her forthcoming book, Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine (University of Chicago Press), a comparative study of the “legalization” of American medicine and the broad impact on the role of law in medicine, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in HIV/AIDS clinics in the United States, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand.
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- Podcasts
Episode 8: Season One Finale: When Law Meets Society
The season finale of Season 1 of Whose Law is it Anyway explores the impact of ABF's research with our Executive Director, Ajay K. Mehrotra.
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- Videos
ABF Access to Justice Program Video
Watch to learn more about the ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholars Program.