Research
Exploring where law, society and culture meet.
For over 70 years, we’ve conducted rigorous, groundbreaking research used worldwide to help ensure that the law embodies principles like dignity, fairness and justice.
Learning and Practicing Law
Advancing research on legal education and practice, the ABF investigates how the law is practiced both in legal and non-legal settings, including a focus on legal careers and the evolving paths of legal professionals.
Protecting Rights and Accessing Justice
Innovative research through the ABF examines the roles that laws have around the world, with a special focus on protecting vital rights and the ways that people from different communities can access the justice system.
Making and Implementing Law
The ABF analyzes the diverse ways laws are created and practiced in the U.S. and around the world, not just by legal professionals, but also by those who enforce the law and put it into action.
Recent Research Publications
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Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order
April 2019
Gregory Shaffer, Tom Ginsburg and Terence Halliday
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Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance
January 2019
Janice Nadler and David A. Dana
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Emotional Evidence in Court
January 2019
Janice Nadler, Hannah J. Phalen and Jessica M. Salerno
- Newsletters
Fostering the Next Generation: Three Decades of the ABF Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
Winter 2019
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Soda Taxes as a Legal and Social Movement
2018
Janice Nadler and David A. Dana
- Reports
Research Group on Legal Diversity - Public Documents
November 2018
Ronit Dinovitzer and Robert L. Nelson
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When Law Calls, Does Science Answer? A Survey of Distinguished Scientists & Engineers
Fall 2018
Shari Seidman Diamond and Shari Seidman Diamond
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“Who Speaks for Tax Equity and Tax Fairness?” The Emergence of the Organized Tax Bar and the Dilemmas of Professional Responsibility
2018
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Joseph J. Thorndike, and
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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
October 2018
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq
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The Myth of the "Overtaxed" American and the VAT That Never Was
September 2018
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and
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Section 5's Forgotten Years: Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment Before Katzenbach v. Morgan
September 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
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The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945
April 2018
Tera Agyepong and