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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- Amici Curiae
Brief of Amici Curiae Professors in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants
April 2017
John Donohue III
Roles Beyond Lawyers: Evaluation of the New York City Court Navigators Program
March 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Reports
A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law
2017
Hon. Goodwin Liu, Eric Chung, Samuel Dong, Xiaonan April Hu and Christine Kwon
- Articles
Fiscal Forearms: Taxation as the Lifeblood of the Modern Liberal State
February 2017
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and
- Articles
What is Sexual Harassment? An Empirical Study of Judges and Ordinary People
2017
Laura Beth Nielsen, Jill D. Weinberg and Laura Beth Nielsen
- Newsletters
Opening Doors to Inquiry: The Summer 2016 Summer Research Diversity Fellowship
Winter 2017
- Articles
Introduction: New Legal Realism at Ten Years and Beyond
2016
Bryant Garth, Elizabeth Mertz and Elizabeth Mertz
- Reports
Future of Latinos: Midwest Roundtable Report
November 2016
- Reports
Shifting Latinx Demographics and the Infrastructure of Support for the Latinx Community of California
November 2016
- Books
Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work
November 2016
Sida Liu and Terence Halliday
- Articles
The Price of Carceral Citizenship: Punishment, Surveillance, and Social Welfare Policy in an Age of Carceral Expansion
2016
Reuben Jonathan Miller
- Articles
Where Have All the Cases Gone? The Strange Success of Tort Reform Revisited
2016
Stephen Daniels and Stephen Daniels