Research Professors
Research Professors are listed alphabetically by last name.
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Tera Agyepong
Research Professor
Focus: Intersection of race, gender, history, and the law. Research addresses how historical processes of constructing race and gender have shaped the evolution of criminal and juvenile justice laws.
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Traci Burch
Research Professor
Focus: U.S. criminal justice system, political behavior, and structural inequality
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Stephen Daniels
Research Professor Emeritus
Focus: Law and public policy, legal education, the legal profession, and the American civil justice system. He has published extensively on a broad range of topics that include innovation in legal…
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Shari Seidman Diamond
Research Professor
Focus: Legal decision-making, including conflicts between expertise and impartiality; discretion and control; equality and individuation; and science and law. Research addresses how these conflicts…
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James Thuo Gathii
2022-23 ABF William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law
Focus: Public international law, international trade law, comparative constitutional law, human rights, and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).
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Tom Ginsburg
Research Professor
Focus: The drafting, design, and implementation of national constitutions; legal reform in Northeast Asia; and comparative notions of judicial independence.
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Jacob Goldin
ABF Research Professor, effective September 2023
Focus: U.S. tax policy affecting low-income households, health policy, tax administration, and the application of behavioral economics to policy design
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William H.J. Hubbard
ABF Research Professor
Focus: Economic analysis of litigation, courts, and civil procedures
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John Hagan
Research Professor Emeritus
Focus: The intersection of international criminal law, war crimes, war resistance, mass incarceration, lawyers, and domestic criminality.
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Terence Halliday
Research Professor
Focus: The globalization of law in markets and politics. Research on law and markets focuses on international trade law with special reference to the ways in which international trade organizations (such as…
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Carol A. Heimer
Research Professor
Focus: Sociology of law; global and transnational sociology. Research has focused on the relationship between law and other systems of rules and norms; the diffusion of more legalistic forms of governance…
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John P. Heinz
Research Professor Emeritus
Focus: The social structure of the legal profession, the political activity of lawyers, and interest group politics.
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Ajay K. Mehrotra
ABF Research Professor and Former Director
Focus: Tax law and policy; legal history; history of the legal profession; and comparative and historical approaches to law and political economy
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Elizabeth Mertz
Research Professor
Focus: Research has examined questions regarding language and law, legal education and legal profession, law professors’ professional lives, and how law translates the world around it, through the…
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Reuben Jonathan Miller
Research Professor
Focus: Research examines life at the intersections of race, poverty, crime control, and social welfare policy.
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Janice Nadler
Research Professor
Focus: Social psychology and law, with focuses on compliance with the law; the psychology of property; perceptions of responsibility and fairness; and negotiation and conflict
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Robert L. Nelson
ABF Director Emeritus and MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession
Focus: The social organization of law practice and the relationship between law and social inequality. Research has addressed transformations in the legal profession, the role of corporate counsel, gender…
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Laura Beth Nielsen
Research Professor
Focus: The sociology of law, with particular interests in legal consciousness and the relationship between law and inequalities of race, gender, and class, civil rights generally and employment civil rights…
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Jothie Rajah
Research Professor
Focus: The intersections of law, language, and power in the following areas: law, legitimacy and authoritarianism; international organizations and the global public sphere in constructions of norms for the…
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Anna Reosti
Research Professor
Focus: Law's relation to inequality in the criminal justice and housing settings. Research addresses the consequences of modern background screening practices for rental housing access and discrimination,…
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Christopher Schmidt
Research Professor
Focus: The intersection of social movement mobilization and constitutional change in recent American history; the ways in which constitutional claims emerge and develop outside the courts, and the effect of…
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Susan P. Shapiro
Research Professor
Focus: Social construction, social organization, and social control of fiduciary or trust relationships. Research has examined topics such as white collar crime, ethics, conflict of interest, the…
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