This edition of Researching Law details Christopher Schmidt’s research on the origins of the lunch counter sit-ins movement during the 1960s Civil Rights movement.
This article examines the racial disparities in legal representation for plaintiffs in employment civil rights cases.
This article underlines the importance of developing conceptions of trust in legal settings and the role that the language of trust plays in the academy.
Shari Seidman Diamond provides an overview of survey research methods, including the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. This article is intended as a resource for researchers, policymakers, and others who use survey research to gather data and make decisions.
This edition marks the 24th annual session of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and its scholars.
This edition is an essay on the values of early childhood education written by ABF’s James Heckman.
The forces of globalization and technological change and their impact on the legal profession were the focus of the ABF Fellows Research Seminar, held on February 12, 2011, in Atlanta, Georgia, during the American Bar Association Midyear Meeting. This edition of Researching Law summarizes the discussion on the future of the legal profession.
The After Tenure study, jointly funded by the American Bar Foundation and the Law School Admission Council, is the first in-depth examination of the professional lives of post-tenure law
professors in the United States. It combines a national survey of post-tenure law professors in the U.S. (undertaken in 2005-2006) with a set of follow-up interviews (conducted with a subset
of the survey respondents in 2007-2008).
This edition details the findings from a new article about the first free democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.
This edition of Researching Law sheds light on empirical research and its place in legal scholarship by reviewing the research of Laura Beth Nielsen and Shari Seidman Diamond.
This edition of Researching Law presents recent research from ABF’s Traci Burch and John Hagan to explore the consequences of the modern carceral system on the lives of the people it criminalizes.
The article, featuring Bob Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, analyzes employment discrimination lawsuits filed in federal court from 1988 to 2003.
