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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- Articles
Protecting Basic Legal Freedoms: International Legal Complexes, Accountability Devices, and the Deviant Case of China
November 2021
Terence Halliday, Shira Zilberstein and Wendy Espeland
- Podcasts
Episode 6: Courting Civil Rights
November 2021
Christopher W. Schmidt
- Articles
Authoritarian Rule of Law's Strategic Lexicon: Singapore Legislates Against "Fake News"
2021
Jothie Rajah
- Newsletters
The ABF Neukom Chair: Expanding Diversity and Equity in Law and Society
Fall 2021
- Articles
Interventions to Reduce Meat Consumption by Appealing to Animal Welfare: Meta-analysis and Evidence-based Recommendations
September 2021
Janice Nadler, Maya B. Mathur, Jacob Peacock, David B. Reichling, Paul A. Bain, Christopher D. Gardner and Thomas N. Robinson
- Books
Democracies and International Law
September 2021
Tom Ginsburg
- Podcasts
Episode 5: Raising the Bar on Diversity
September 2021
- Articles
Race, the Construction of Dangerous Sexualities, and Juvenile Justice
September 2021
Tera Agyepong
- Books
Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation–US Engagements
September 2021
Justin Richland
- Chapters
Within and Beyond the Anthropology of Language and Law
September 2021
Elizabeth Mertz
- Podcasts
Episode 4: The Health Equity Variant
August 2021
- Books
Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective
August 2021
Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, Nancy S. Marder and Shari Seidman Diamond