American Bar Foundation

Laura Beth Nielsen Elected President of the Law and Society Association

Five former American Bar Foundation scholars also elected to the Class of 2023 Board of Trustees

Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation (ABF) Research Professor and Northwestern University Sociology Professor, has been elected President of the Law and Society Association (LSA). The association announced the results of the 2020 elections on Tuesday, November 10. Nielsen will become LSA’s 32nd president in 2021 and will serve a two-year term. Five former ABF scholars were elected to the Class of 2023 Board of Trustees.

Watch: An ABF Event on the 2020 Election and the Fate of U.S. Constitutional Democracy Nov 2, 2020

On Thursday, October 29, the ABF hosted a virtual conversation about the 2020 election and the fate of U.S. Constitutional Democracy. The event featured: Tom Ginsburg, ABF Research Professor and… more

Professor Thomas W. Mitchell, a Collaborator on the New Legal Realism Project, Receives MacArthur Fellowship Oct 29, 2020

Thomas W. Mitchell, a property law scholar and Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, was recently named a 2020 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. His work… more

Events

12/9	Eli Savit, law, University of Michigan Law School
1/13/21	Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics, University of…
1/20/21	Greg Shaffer, Law, University of California,…