This edition details Stephen Daniels’ presentation at ABF’s Fellows CLE, titled “The Impact of Tort Reform on Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and Access to Civil Justice”.
To further our commitment to diversity, the ABF seeks to establish a new Research Center on Diversity and Law to investigate urgent questions surrounding diversity in the legal profession, as well as equal justice and opportunity. This edition of Researching Law outlines the functions of the Center and details the kick-off conference held in May of 2012.
This edition of Researching Law details the findings in Victoria Saker Woeste’s book, Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech (2012).
A study done by ABF Research Professor Susan P. Shapiro found that 70 percent of Americans who require decisions about medical treatment in the final days of life lack decision-making capacity. Studies of intensive care units, where patients are much sicker, have found that of all decisions to withhold or withdraw life support, only 3 or 4 percent were made by the patients themselves; the others lacked decisional capacity. This edition of Researching Law explains how fiduciaries who act on behalf of those unable to make end-of-life decisions exercise their responsibilities.
This edition of Researching Law celebrates the ABF’s John P. Heinz and his 40 years of rigorous scholarship of the legal profession.
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 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.
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.
