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After Tenure: Phase I Report

Apr 2, 2011, Elizabeth Mertz, After Tenure:  Senior Status in the Legal Academy

The initial Project Report for Phase I of the "After Tenure" study is now available on the ABF website: http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/publications/367

'The Juice Simply Isn't Worth the Squeeze in Those Cases Anymore:' Damage Caps, 'Hidden Victims,' and the Declining Interest in Medical Malpractice Cases
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
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)

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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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