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This edition of Researching Law summarizes the presentation on jury deliberations by Shari Seidman Diamond at the ABF Fellows Research Seminar in 2007.

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.

This edition details ABF research on the emergence and consequences of the escalation of popular justice initiatives in South Africa.

This edition of Researching Law summarizes the presentation given by Terence Halliday and John Hagan at the Fellows Research Seminar in 2006.

This edition contextualizes the work of Christopher Schmidt and Shari Seidman Diamond, who study the evolving role of the Supreme Court in American politics.

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The Evolving Role of the Supreme Court in the American Polity

Making and Implementing Law
Winter 2006

Researching Law, Vol. 17, No. 1

The media blitz surrounding recent Supreme Court nominees highlights the pivotal role that the highest Court is perceived to play in the contemporary environment. Yet throughout its history, the Supreme Court has not only made headlines with contentious decisions, it has also labored at times in relative obscurity. ABF Researchers, Christopher L. Tomlins and Shari Seidman Diamond, have studied the evolving role of the Supreme Court in American politics in depth. This edition of Researching Law contextualizes some of their recent work with current Court issues.