John P. Heinz
Research Professor
Joint appointment
Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University School of Law
Education
LL.B, Yale Law School
Bio
For the past thirty years, Jack Heinz’s research has focused primarily on the social structure of the legal profession. This work applies sociological methods, often using quantitative…
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Research focus
The legal profession, especially its social structure and organization of work, and the roles of lawyers in politics. Some of this research uses network analysis to depict the interrelationships (or lack thereof) among varying kinds of lawyers.
Projects
- Networks among Lawyers Active in National Policymaking
- Latest finding: Mar 6, 2013, with Ann Southworth
, Anthony Paik
- This study examines the networks of relationships among lawyers engaged in a broad range of political issues, including abortion, gun control, judicial selection, eminent domain, bankruptcy, medical…
- Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar
- Latest finding: Sep 24, 2008, with Robert L. Nelson, John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, Rebecca L. Sandefur and Edward O. Laumann
- Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2005
Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an…
- Lawyers of the Right, Networks and Organization
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Anthony Paik
, Ann Southworth
- Lawyers for conservative and libertarian causes are active in organizing interest groups within the conservative coalition, and networks of relationships among those lawyers help to maintain and…
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Publications
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“Lawyers in National Policymaking”
- Law and the Possibility of Justice
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“Lawyers’ Professional and Political Networks Compared: Core and Periphery”
- Arizona Law Review
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“Political Lawyers: The Structure of a National Network”
- Law & Social Inquiry
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Commentary
Jun 12, 2009
Professor John P. Heinz, "When Law Firms Fail" Suffolk University Law Review, forthcoming, 2009
Abstract: Large firms had, until last year, been advised to grow, enter new markets, and concentrate…
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Presentations
- Lawyers’ Professional and Political Networks Compared: Core and Periphery
- Jan 2011
- The Characteristics and Roles of Lawyers Active in National Policymaking
- Sep 2009 with A. Southworth & A. Paik
- Evolution of Labor Markets, Types of Lawyers, and Practice Settings
- May 2009
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Associate Editor,
- Law & Social Inquiry
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, October 2011
- Co-Chair, Evaluation of the Cook County Criminal Justice System
- Member, Advisory Board, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University
- Member, Board of Directors, Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice