Christopher Schmidt explores the historical and conceptual divide between civil rights and civil liberties in the U.S., highlighting their different origins, strategies, and goals.
This article explores the role of the courts in the civil rights movement, focusing on the sit-ins and their impact on American law and society.
Featuring Anna Reosti, this article illustrates the lack of empirical evidence of a relationship between a criminal record and an unsuccessful tenancy.
This article analyzes the politics of urban poverty management and prisoner reentry, exploring how race and the carceral state intersect in American cities.
Tom Ginsburg explores the importance of the constitutional amendment rule, analyzing how differences in amendment cultures and the difficulty of change.
This article with ABF’s Stephen Daniels explores curricular innovation and institutional change in American law schools.
This article by Bryant Garth offers a sociolegal perspective on the latest crisis in legal education and the legal profession.
This study, pulling data from ABF’s After the JD Project, analyzed the prevalence of buyers’ remorse for lawyers with outstanding educational debt.
Ronit Dinovitzer and John Hagan explore the impact of hierarchical structures on gender dissimilarity in American legal labor markets in this article.
Tera Agyepong addresses the particular lack of information about African American girls’ experiences in the early juvenile justice system in this article.
This article details the history of Black police officers in Chicago organizing to combat the department’s routine mistreatment of the city’s Black communities.
Carol Heimer explores the role of regulated organizations in promoting regulatory success in the context of global HIV treatment and research.
