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Protecting Rights and Accessing Justice

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ABF researchers produce cutting-edge research on the persistent access to justice gap, identifying the key factors that create and exacerbate the access to justice gap while also uncovering ways to address that gap.

Modest Proposals? Exploring the Potential of Markets and Technology to Promote Access to Civil Justice
The Least of These: Violence, Freedom, and the Promise of a New World
Alternative Legal Professionals
Consent to Sex on Campus: How Undergraduates Understand and Enact Sexual Consent in the Title IX Era
Constructing Feminized Courts and Carceral Institutions: Gender, the Legal Regulation of Race, and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice
Contested Constructions of Discrimination
Employment Civil Rights
Policing and Political Participation
Public Opinion, Private Governance, and the Influence of Source Credibility
Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Paternal Imprisonment, Investment in Families and Schools, and Child Educational Inequality
Regulating the Crisis: An Exploratory Study of Landlord Responses to Pandemic-Era Tenant Protection Regulations
Science and the Legal System
The Hero and the Monsignor: Law, Sexual Violence, and the Catholic Church
Verification of Voter Eligibility: The Process of Disenfranchisement
World Justice Project

Recent Research Publications

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  • Chapters

The Rule of Law is Fragile: The Importance of Legitimacy and Access

March 2025
Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin
  • Books

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

September 2023
Dylan C. Penningroth
  • Articles

All Together Now: Building a Shared Access to Justice Research Framework for Theoretical Insight and Actionable Intelligence

April 2023
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Matthew Burnett
  • Articles

The Exonerating "Guise of Brotherhood": Intra-Fraternal Sexual Violence Survivors' Accounts of Illegibility

November 2022
David Fishman, Laura Beth Nielsen and Sino Esthappan
  • Articles

Designing Just Solutions at Scale: Lawyerless Legal Services and Evidence-Based Regulation

September 2022
Matthew Burnett and Rebecca L. Sandefur
  • Articles

Misunderstanding Law: Undergraduates' Analysis of Campus Title IX Policies

August 2022
Laura Beth Nielsen, Kat Albrecht, Lydia Wuorinen, Laura Beth Nielsen and
  • Articles

Adding Insult to Injury: The Justification Frame in Official Narratives of Officer-Involved Killings

August 2022
Traci Burch
  • Articles

Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest

March 2022
Traci Burch
  • Articles

Assigning Punishment: Reader Responses to Crime News

February 2022
Janice Nadler and Kat Albrecht
  • Books

Chicago's Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City

February 2022
John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, Daniel Herda and John Hagan
  • Articles

Not All Black Lives Matter: Officer-Involved Deaths and the Role of Victim Characteristics in Shaping Political Interest and Voter Turnout

December 2021
Traci Burch
  • Reports

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Rental Property Management: Insights from a Chicago Case Study

December 2021
Anna Reosti, Allison Suppan Helmuth and
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