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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- 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
- Books
Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice
March 2010
- Newsletters
Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire
Spring 2010
- Newsletters
Achieving Diversity on the Jury: Jury Size and the Peremptory Challenge
Winter 2010
- Reports
After the JD II: Second Results from a National Study of Legal Careers
2009
Ronit Dinovitzer, Robert L. Nelson, Joyce Sterling, Rebecca L. Sandefur, Bryant Garth, John Hagan, David B. Wilkins, Gabriele Plickert, Terry K. Adams, Gita Z. Wilder, John Hagan and Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Newsletters
The Center on Law and Globalization
Fall 2009
Terence Halliday
- Articles
Achieving Diversity on the Jury: Jury Size and the Peremptory Challenge
August 2009
Shari Seidman Diamond, Destiny Peery, Francis J. Dolan and Emily Dolan
- Books
Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases
July 2009
Tom Ginsburg