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
Displaying 12 Results Out of 277
- Articles
Whose Child is This? Improving Child-Claiming Rules in Safety-Net Programs
April 2022
Jacob Goldin and Ariel Jurow Kleiman
- Articles
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest
March 2022
Traci Burch
- Podcasts
Episode 8: Season One Finale: When Law Meets Society
March 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra
- Videos
ABF Access to Justice Program Video
2022
Rebecca L. Sandefur
- Articles
Assigning Punishment: Reader Responses to Crime News
February 2022
Janice Nadler and Kat Albrecht
- Books
Chicago's Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City
February 2022
John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, Daniel Herda and John Hagan
- Books
Trademark and Deceptive Advertising Surveys: Law, Science, and Design, Second Edition
February 2022
Shari Seidman Diamond, Jerre B. Swann and Shari Seidman Diamond
- Articles
Tax Filing and Take-Up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and Benefit Claiming
February 2022
Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Rizwan Javaid and Brenda Schafer
- Articles
Not All Black Lives Matter: Officer-Involved Deaths and the Role of Victim Characteristics in Shaping Political Interest and Voter Turnout
December 2021
Traci Burch
- Podcasts
Episode 7: Rule of Law: World Tour
December 2021
- Articles
Jury Room Ruminations on Forbidden Topics
December 2001
Shari Seidman Diamond, Neil Viadmar and Shari Seidman Diamond
- Reports
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Rental Property Management: Insights from a Chicago Case Study
December 2021
Anna Reosti and Allison Suppan Helmuth