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Learning and Practicing Law

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ABF researchers explore all aspects of legal education, from the financing of law schools to diversity and inclusion in the legal academy. Working on one of our fundamental research projects, After the JD researchers continue to mine our unique data set on the career trajectory and satisfaction of legal professionals.

Juries in the Americas: Variation and Change
After the JD: A National Study of Lawyer Careers
Alternative Legal Professionals
Criminal Defense in China
Portrait Project 2.0: Asian Americans in the Legal Profession
Research Group on Legal Diversity
Senior Status, Gender, and Race in the Legal and Liberal Arts Academies
The Financing of Legal Education
The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility
The Hero and the Monsignor: Law, Sexual Violence, and the Catholic Church
The Language of Law Professors
World Justice Project

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Talking about Parental Incarceration at the White House: Creating a National Dialogue Between Researchers, Practitioners and Policy Makers

Summer 2013
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Is it Fair? Law Professors’ Perceptions of Tenure

May 2012
Elizabeth Mertz, Katherine Barnes and Elizabeth Mertz
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Lawyers Structure and Power: A Tribute to John Heinz

Spring 2012
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Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

February 2012
Traci Burch, Jennifer H. Hochschild and Vesla M. Weaver
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Conceptions of Law During the Civil Rights Movement

Winter 2012
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Opening Doors to Inquiry: The Summer Research Diversity Fellowship Program

Fall 2011
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What Defines Competence? A Debate on the Future(s) of Lawyering

Spring 2011
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After Tenure: Post-Tenure Law Professors in the United States

March 2011
Elizabeth Mertz, Frances Tung, Katherine Barnes, Wamucii Njogu, Molly Heiler, Joanne Martin and Elizabeth Mertz
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Empirical Legal Research at the American Bar Foundation

Fall 2010
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Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice

March 2010
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Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire

Spring 2010
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Achieving Diversity on the Jury: Jury Size and the Peremptory Challenge

Winter 2010
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