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
Conceptions of Law During the Civil Rights Movement
Winter 2012
- Articles
Race and Representation: Racial Disparities in Legal Representation for Employment Civil Rights Plaintiffs
2012
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, Amy Myrick and Laura Beth Nielsen
- Chapters
The Grammar of Trust
2012
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
Reference Guide on Survey Research
2011
Shari Seidman Diamond and Shari Seidman Diamond
- Newsletters
Opening Doors to Inquiry: The Summer Research Diversity Fellowship Program
Fall 2011
- Newsletters
The Economics of Inequality: The Value of Early Childhood Education
Summer 2011
- Newsletters
What Defines Competence? A Debate on the Future(s) of Lawyering
Spring 2011
- Reports
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
- Newsletters
Property Rights and the Demands of Transformation
Winter 2011
- Newsletters
Empirical Legal Research at the American Bar Foundation
Fall 2010
- Newsletters
The Social Costs of Incarceration
Summer 2010
- Articles
Individual Justice or Collective Legal Mobilization? Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Post Civil Rights United States
May 2010
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, Ryon Lancaster and Laura Beth Nielsen