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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Sociology of Law: Speaking for the Dying
May 2020
Susan P. Shapiro
- Newsletters
The ABF Survey on Criminal Justice Administration: Origins of the Modern Criminal Justice Paradigm
Spring 2020
- Articles
A Tale Half Told: State Exclusionary and Inclusionary Regimes, Incarceration of Fathers, and the Educational Attainment of Children
April 2020
John Hagan, Holly Foster, Chantrey J. Murphy and John Hagan
- Articles
COVID-19 Deaths Highlight Need for People to Make End-of-Life Wishes Known
April 2020
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
Looking Back: What Law School Graduates Say About Experiential Learning
March 2020
Stephen Daniels, David I.C. Thomson and Stephen Daniels
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Transnational Law as Drama
March 2020
Jothie Rajah
- Articles
Authoritarian International Law?
February 2020
Tom Ginsburg
- Reports
Portrait Project Policy Brief: Who's Going to Law School
2020
Miranda Li, Phillip Yao and Hon. Goodwin Liu
- Articles
Lessons about Law at Life’s End: Rethinking Advance Directives in the Shadow of a Pandemic
January 2020
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
The New Place of Corporate Law Firms in the Structuring of Elite Legal Careers
January 2020
Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth
- Articles
Why Advance Directives Do Not Direct: A Researcher’s Perspective
January 2020
Susan P. Shapiro
- Articles
"Deserve Got Nothin' to Do with It": The Value of Homicide Victims in The Wire
2019
Janice Nadler