Research
Mar 12, 2009, Stephen Daniels, It's Deja Vu All Over Again: Plaintiff's Lawyers and the Evolution of Tort Law and Practice in Texas
Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin
This paper empirically investigates two overlapping propositions: that plaintiffs' lawyers will stop handling certain clients in medical malpractice cases in the…
- Architects of the State: International Organizations and the Reconstruction of States in the Global South
- Sep 23, 2008, Terence Halliday, Globalization of Law and Markets
- Antigone’s Lament, Creon’s Grief: Mourning, Membership and the Institution of Exception
- Sep 10, 2008, Bonnie Honig, Antigone, Interrupted (in development)
- High school graduation rate is a barometer of the health of American society
- Apr 1, 2008, James J. Heckman, The Foundation and Application of Disparate Impact Doctrine
Current projects
- Civil justice
- Criminal justice
- Law and globalization
- Legal history
- Legal profession
- Regulation
- Social justice
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Oral History Program
In 1974 the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation authorized the organization of an Oral History Program for the purpose of assembling a historical record about the legal profession and the organized bar.
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Liaison Research Services Program
The Liaison Research Services Program was created in 1975 to address two primary goals: to compile and disseminate information about the legal profession that is unavailable from any other sources and to provide research expertise to entities of the organized bar for discrete, short-term projects.
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