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Protecting Rights and Accessing Justice

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ABF researchers produce cutting-edge research on the persistent access to justice gap, identifying the key factors that create and exacerbate the access to justice gap while also uncovering ways to address that gap.

Modest Proposals? Exploring the Potential of Markets and Technology to Promote Access to Civil Justice
The Least of These: Violence, Freedom, and the Promise of a New World
Alternative Legal Professionals
Consent to Sex on Campus: How Undergraduates Understand and Enact Sexual Consent in the Title IX Era
Constructing Feminized Courts and Carceral Institutions: Gender, the Legal Regulation of Race, and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice
Contested Constructions of Discrimination
Employment Civil Rights
Policing and Political Participation
Public Opinion, Private Governance, and the Influence of Source Credibility
Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Paternal Imprisonment, Investment in Families and Schools, and Child Educational Inequality
Regulating the Crisis: An Exploratory Study of Landlord Responses to Pandemic-Era Tenant Protection Regulations
Science and the Legal System
The Hero and the Monsignor: Law, Sexual Violence, and the Catholic Church
Verification of Voter Eligibility: The Process of Disenfranchisement
World Justice Project

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Emotional Evidence in Court

January 2019
Janice Nadler, Hannah J. Phalen and Jessica M. Salerno
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Soda Taxes as a Legal and Social Movement

2018
Janice Nadler and David A. Dana
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The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945

April 2018
Tera Agyepong and
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ABF Scholar is First to Examine Legal History of Iconic Civil Rights 'Sit-In' Movement in New Book

Spring 2018
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Dignity and Discrimination: Employment Civil Rights in the Workplace and In Courts

March 2018
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen
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The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era

March 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
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Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law

January 2010
Robert L. Nelson, Lee Cabatingan and James L. Heckman
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The Social Psychology of Property: Looking Beyond Market Exchange

January 2018
Janice Nadler
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US Criminal Justice Policy and Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Toward the End of Mass Incarceration

2018
Katherine Beckett, Lindsey Beach, Emily Knaphus, Anna Reosti and
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Race and Determinations of Discrimination: Vigilance, Cynicism, Skepticism, and Attitudes about Legal Mobilization in Employment Civil Rights

August 2017
Laura Beth Nielsen, Jill D. Weinberg, David McElhattan and Laura Beth Nielsen
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Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality

June 2017
Robert L. Nelson, Ellen Berrey, Laura Beth Nielsen and Laura Beth Nielsen
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Discrimination Fully Mediates the Effects of Incarceration History on Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress Among African American Men

April 2017
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Shervin Assari, Robert Joseph Taylor, Dawne Mouzon, Verna Keith and Linda M. Chatters
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