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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Brown, History, and the Fourteenth Amendment
November 2022
Christopher W. Schmidt
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Sociolegal Research, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships
Winter 2020
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Shih-Chun Steven Chien, Xiangnong Wang, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
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Civil Procedure as the Regulation of Externalities: Toward a New Theory of Civil Litigation
2022
William H. J. Hubbard and Ronen Avraham
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Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror
November 2022
Jothie Rajah
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Good Law to Fight Bad Bugs: Legal Responses to Epidemics
October 2022
Carol A. Heimer and Clay Davis
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To Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Truth Seeking and Truth Telling in Law (and Other Arenas)
October 2022
Susan P. Shapiro
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Designing Just Solutions at Scale: Lawyerless Legal Services and Evidence-Based Regulation
September 2022
Matthew Burnett, Rebecca L. Sandefur and Matthew Burnett
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Misunderstanding Law: Undergraduates' Analysis of Campus Title IX Policies
August 2022
Laura Beth Nielsen, Kat Albrecht, Lydia Wuorinen, Laura Beth Nielsen and
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Adding Insult to Injury: The Justification Frame in Official Narratives of Officer-Involved Killings
August 2022
Traci Burch
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Alternative Legal Professionals and Access to Justice: Failure, Success, and the Evolution of the Washington State LLLT Program
August 2022
Stephen Daniels and James Bowers
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The Missing U.S. VAT: Economic Inequality, American Fiscal Exceptionalism, and the Historical U.S. Resistance to National Consumption Taxes
August 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Ajay K. Mehrotra
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Fair Juries
May 2023
Shari Seidman Diamond and Valerie P. Hans