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 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.
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 edition of Researching Law features John Hagan’s research on the Darfur genocide and the response from the U.S.
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.
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.
