This book is a comparative study by leading researchers on the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.
This edition of Researching Law features a keynote presentation on the changing role of lawyers in Asian countries in the context of an increasingly globalized world.
This edition of Researching Law presents a new article with Shari Seidman Diamond, which examines how the jury selection process and jury size affect diversity.
This report contains data for Wave II of the After the JD Project, completed in 2007. This Phase studies lawyers’ careers after seven years of practice.
This edition covers the origin story of the ABF’s Center on Law and Globalization Center and the empirical research conducted on law and globalization thus far.
This article with Shari Seidman Diamond examines how the jury selection process and jury size affect diversity.
Tom Ginsburg considers the establishment and development of judicial review through constitutional courts in new democracies across the globe.
Every summer for the last twenty-one years the American Bar Foundation has hosted four young scholars from diverse backgrounds for an eight-week research internship in Chicago, as part of its Summer Research Diversity Fellowship program (now the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship). This edition of Researching Law details the history of the program, notable program alumni, and the work of the current fellows.
This edition details the findings from Wave II of the ABF’s After the JD Project, which details the career progress of lawyers amidst an economic recession.
This book, with Terence Halliday, shows how global actors developed comprehensive norms for corporate bankruptcy laws and how national policymakers responded in turn.
This volume, with Tom Ginsburg, explores the factors behind constitutional durability and explains how countries design systems that withstand the test of time.
This edition of Researching Law features John Hagan’s research on the Darfur genocide and the response from the U.S.
