Bryant G. Garth
ABF Director Emeritus/Dean, Southwestern Law School
Education
Ph.D., European University Institute; J.D., Stanford Law School
Research focus
The legal profession, dispute resolution, and internationalization. The topics intersect around the question of how internationalization—seen as the import and export of ideas, technologies, approaches, resources, and hierarchies—affects the position and importance of law in regulating the economy and the state; and the changing role of the legal profession in the United States.
Projects
- After the JD
- Latest finding: Oct 19, 2012, with Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Gabriele Plickert, Joyce Sterling
- The After the JD (AJD) project is an empirical study of the career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 new lawyers, offering both a nationally representative picture of lawyer career trajectories…
- International Strategies, Law, and the Reconstruction of Asian States
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Yves Desalay
- Lawyers and the Construction of the Rule of Law: National and Transnational Processes
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Yves Dezalay
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Publications
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“Corporate Law Firms, NGOs, and Issues of Legitimacy for a Global Legal Order”
- Fordham Law Review
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“Introduction: Symposium on Exploring Power, Agency & Action in a World of Moving Frontiers”
- Southwestern Law Review
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“Not that into You”
- American Lawyer
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Presentations
- After the JD and Its Lessons for Studying Lawyers’ Careers Within and Outside of the US
- Apr 2012
- Are Law Schools in Crisis? The New York Times Debate and its Discontents
- Mar 2012
- Social Capital and Legal Capital: A Perspective on Asian Legal Developments
- Feb 2012
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Co-Editor, Journal of Legal Education
- Chair, Advisory Board, Law School Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Member, Executive Coordinating Committee for Study of AAfter the J.D.: The First Ten Years@
- Member, Hughes Committee, University of Denver College of Law
- Chair, Research Committee, Association of American Law Schools
- Member, Curriculum Committee, ABA Section of Legal Education
- Member, Board of Trustees, Beverly Hills Bar Association