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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Who Wants to Be a Prosecutor? And Why Care? Law Student's Career Aspirations and Reform Prosecutors' Goals
Winter 2021
Stephen Daniels, Shih-Chun Steven Chien and Stephen Daniels
- Books
Civil Rights in America: A History
December 2020
Christopher W. Schmidt
- Articles
Reasons for the Disappearing Jury Trial: Perspectives from Attorneys and Judges
December 2020
Shari Seidman Diamond, Jessica M. Salerno and Shari Seidman Diamond
- Articles
Who's Going to Law School? Trends in Law School Enrollment Since the Great Recession
December 2020
Miranda Li, Phillip Yao and Hon. Goodwin Liu
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Ordinary People and the Rationalization of Wrongdoing
2020
Janice Nadler
- Articles
Public Theology and Global Governance: Weak Actors in Lawmaking for the World Economy
November 2020
Terence Halliday
- Newsletters
Reliable Research in an Unprecedented Time
Fall 2020
- Articles
America First Populism, Social Volatility, and Self-Reported Arrests
October 2020
John Hagan, Ioana Sendroiu, Ron Levi, John Donohue III and John Hagan
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We Go Totally Subjective: Discretion, Discrimination, and Tenant Screening in a Landlord’s Market
August 2020
Anna Reosti and
- Articles
The Bound Executive: Emergency Powers During the Pandemic
June 2021
Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg
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Legal Advice from Nonlawyers: Consumer Demand, Provider Quality, and Public Harms
2020
Rebecca L. Sandefur
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Balancing Past vs Future Values in Decision-Making
May 2020
Susan P. Shapiro