John P. Heinz
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 measures, to the study of the organization
and delivery of legal services and the relationships among varying types of
lawyers.
He
is perhaps best known as the co-author, with Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago, of Chicago Lawyers: The Social Structure of the Bar, first published
in 1982. A revised edition appeared in 1994. The book argues that urban lawyers
are divided into “two hemispheres,” one serving corporations and other large
organizations, and the other serving individuals and small businesses. His
other books include The Hollow Core:
Private Interests in National Policy Making (1993) and Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar (2005).
Heinz
was trained at the Yale Law School
and at Washington University in St.
Louis, where he did graduate work in political
science. For more than four decades, he was a member of the faculty of the
Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught criminal law. He has
also been affiliated with the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern.
He
is active in civic affairs in Chicago, having served
as president of the John Howard Association, chair of the professional advisory
committee of the Cook
County State’s
Attorney, and chair of the research committee of the Chicago Appleseed Fund for
Justice. He was also the delegate of the Association of American Law Schools to
the American Council of Learned Societies, a member of the board of directors
of the Northwestern University Press, and co-editor of Law and Social Inquiry.
He
has published articles in Harper’s, Sports Illustrated, and journals with
less circulation.