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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- Newsletters
Analyzing Carnegie's Reach: The Contingent Nature of Innovation
Summer 2014
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Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty
May 2014
Tom Ginsburg and James Melton
- Reports
The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy
May 2014
Abhay Aneja, John Donohue III and Alexandria Zhang
- Newsletters
The Fellows CLE Seminar: A Profession in Crisis? New Results from the After the JD Study of Lawyers Careers
Spring 2014
Ronit Dinovitzer
- Articles
Analyzing Carnegie's Reach: The Contingent Nature of Innovation
May 2014
Stephen Daniels, Martin Katz, William Sullivan and Stephen Daniels
- Newsletters
Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
Winter 2014
- Reports
Global Surveillance of Dirty Money: Assessing Assessments of Regimes to Control Money-Laundering and Combat the Financing of Terrorism
January 2014
Terence Halliday
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Crises, Crisis Rhetoric, and Competition in Legal Education: A Sociological Perspective on the (Latest) Crisis of the Legal Profession and Legal Education
2013
Bryant Garth
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Buyers' Remorse? An Empirical Assessment of the Desirability of a Legal Career
November 2013
Bryant Garth, Ronit Dinovitzer and Joyce Sterling
- Newsletters
The Comparative Constitutions Project
Fall 2013
- Articles
Hierarchical Structure and Gender Dissimilarity in American Legal Labor Markets
October 2013
Ronit Dinovitzer, John Hagan and John Hagan
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Aberrant Sexualities and Racialized Masculinization: Race, Gender and the Criminalization of African American Girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva, 1893–1945
July 2013
Tera Agyepong and