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: Jan 4, 2010, with Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, 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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“Not that into You”
- American Lawyer
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"Derechos Humanos y Filanthropia Hegemonica"
- Etnografias Contemporaneas
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“Comment: A Revival of Access-to-Justice Research” in Symposium on “Access to Justice,”
- Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
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Presentations
- Settling into the Legal Profession: Elite Advantage, Opportunities for Upward Mobility, and the Paradox of Elites and Large Law Firms
- May 2009 Ronit Dinovitzer
- Making Sense of the Elite Law School Advantage: Symbolic Capital and the Structuring of Opportunities, Expectations, Hopes, and Choices
- May 2009 Ronit Dinovitzer
- Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyer-Compradors and Colonial Strategies in the Reshaping of Asian States
- Apr 2009
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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