Programs
The ABF is committed to fostering the next generation of scholars in the field of law and social science. For more than thirty years, we have supported fellowships for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, doctoral candidates, and undergraduate students. ABF fellowships encourage significant and original research.
William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law
The Neukom Chair is a year-long visiting position awarded to an outstanding scholar with a distinguished record of scholarship in law and the social sciences who conducts empirical research on diversity and law, broadly conceived.
ABF Visiting Scholar Program
The American Bar Foundation invites scholars to join our intellectual community throughout the year, as space allows, on a visiting and temporary basis. We encourage national and international scholars on leave or sabbatical to take advantage of our diverse sociolegal community and excellent facilities.
ABF/AccessLex Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Legal & Higher Education
The ABF partners with the AccessLex Institute to support emerging scholars studying issues of access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. This fellowship assists Postdoctoral Scholars who are addressing significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of legal or higher education.
ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law & Social Science
The ABF partners with Northwestern University to offer the ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellowship Program. The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions.
ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellowship Program in Legal & Higher Education
The ABF partners with the AccessLex Institute to support emerging scholars studying issues of access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. Doctoral research must address significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of legal or higher education.
ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social Science
The ABF partners with the University of Chicago to offer the ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social Science. Selected scholars participate in this fellowship in residence at the ABF where their original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions will be supported.
ABF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
The SURF program promotes broader inclusion in the legal profession by breaking down barriers experienced by individuals from diverse backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the fields of law and social science. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Support the ongoing projects of ABF Research Professors, affording them the opportunity to be mentored by and take part in sociolegal research with experienced scholars.