In July of 2008 over 400 attorneys, statesmen, human rights activists, artists and scholars convened in Vienna, Austria as invited participants to the World Justice Forum, the inaugural meeting of the World Justice Project, a multinational, multidisciplinary effort co-sponsored by the American Bar Association, whose purpose is to strengthen and promote the rule of law throughout the world. This edition of Researching Law features the highlights from this conference.
This edition outlines the finding from The Cambridge History of Law in America, the first comprehensive history of American law in a generation.
This edition of Researching Law highlights Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert Nelson’s joint research on employment discrimination litigation.
Arguing with Tradition by Justin Richland is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system.
This edition explores the research of ABF’s Dylan Pennigroth, who studies African American and U.S. legal history.
This edition details the content of Elizabeth Mertz’s recent work on the language of law school.
This edition of Researching Law details the work of ABF’s John Hagan to produce the first scientifically rigorous estimate of the death toll of the Darfur genocide.
This edition of Researching Law summarizes the presentation on jury deliberations by Shari Seidman Diamond at the ABF Fellows Research Seminar in 2007.
This book explores how students learn how to “think like a lawyer”, and the language and culture of law schools that shape their education.
This edition details the data collected from the ABF’s After the JD study, which studies the job satisfaction and mobility plans of law school graduates.
ABF’s John Hagan conducted a pathbreaking study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and reported on it in a recent book. Now, he and his collaborator, Professor Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovi, have taken a second look at this international court from another vantage point—through the eyes of the citizens of Sarajevo who endured years of relentless attacks that killed or injured thousands of the city’s residents. The findings from this new study are explored in this edition of Researching Law.
In this article, Susan P. Shapiro investigates the role of ethics rules that insure fiduciary loyalty in the delivery of services in private legal practice.
