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Newsletter - Researching Law

Researching Law: An ABF Update is a quarterly newsletter designed to acquaint a wide audience with the research activities of the American Bar Foundation. The articles contained in this publication present the findings of ABF research projects in a short, nontechnical format.  The most recent issue includes a report on Christopher Schmidt's article  "Conceptions of Law During the Civil Rights Movement".

Researching Law is written and edited by Katharine W. Hannaford.

Download current issue:  Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter 2012  -- "Conceptions of Law During the Civil Rights Movement"

Download previous issues:

Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall 2011 -- "Opening Doors to Inquiry: The Summer Research Diversity Fellowship Program"
Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer 2011 -- "The Economics of Inequality: The Value of Early Childhood Education," by James J. Heckman
Vol. 22,  No. 2, Spring 2011 -- "What Defines Competence? A Debate on the Future(s) of Lawyering"
Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2011  -- "Property Rights and the Demands of Transformation".
Vol. 21, No. 4, Fall 2010 - Empirical Legal Research at the American Bar Foundation
Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer 2010 - The Social Costs of Incarceration
Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 2010 - Asian Legal Revivals
Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter 2010 - Achieving Diversity on the Jury: Jury Size and the Peremptory Challenge
Vol 20, No. 4, Fall 2009 - The Center on Law and Globalization
Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2009 -- Special Issue: The Summer Research Diversity Fellowship Program
Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 2009 -- New Results from After the JD, II: Seven Years into a Lawyer's Career
Vol. 20, No. 1,  Winter 2009 -- Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 2008   -- The World Justice Forum: Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law
Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 2008  -- The Cambridge History of Law in America
Vol. 19, No. 2,  Spring 2008 --Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary U.S.
Correction: The article “Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary U.S.”in Vol. 19, no. 2 (2008) of Researching Law incorrectly attributed a quote on page 10, top of column 2 to Judge Bernice Donald.   The statement concerning a “vastly different” view of what evidence supports summary judgment was actually made by the Hon. Miriam Shearing.   Researching Law regrets the error.
Vol. 19, No.1, Winter 2008  -- African American Property and Community in the 19th Century South
Vol. 18, No.4, Fall 2007  -- The Language of Law School: Learning to 'Think Like a Lawyer'
Vol. 18, No.3, Summer 2007  -- Death in Darfur
Vol. 18, No.2, Spring 2007  -- How Civil Juries Really Decide Cases
Vol. 18, No.1, Winter 2007  -- Social Origins, Law School Tier, and Lawyer Job Satisfaction
Vol. 17, No.4, Fall 2006 -- The Sarajevo Surveys: Citizen Perceptions of International (In)Justice
Vol. 17, No.3, Summer 2006 -- Popular Justice & Counter-Violence in the New South Africa
Vol. 17, No.2, Spring 2006 -- International Perspectives on Lawyer Professionalism and Ethics
Vol. 17, No.1, Winter 2006 -- The Evolving Role of the Supreme Court in the American Polity