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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

Recent Research Publications

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What is Sexual Harassment? An Empirical Study of Judges and Ordinary People

2017
Laura Beth Nielsen, Jill D. Weinberg and Laura Beth Nielsen
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Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work

November 2016
Sida Liu and Terence Halliday
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Political Participation and the Criminal Justice System

September 2016
Traci Burch
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What We Know and Need to Know about the Legal Needs of the Public

2016
Rebecca L. Sandefur
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Paying Down the Civil Justice Data Deficit

Winter 2016
Rebecca L. Sandefur
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Metrics, Diversity, and Law: 2016 Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity

Summer 2016
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Hardness Scripts: High-Achieving African American Boys in a Chicago Charter School Navigating Community Violence and School

June 2016
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Desmond Patton, Emma Kornfeld and Adrian Gale
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The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility

Spring 2016
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The End of an Era? Understanding the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform

March 2016
Katherine Beckett, Anna Reosti, Emily Knaphus and
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The Fellows CLE Seminar: Communities in Crisis: The Effects of Immigration Law and Politics on American Communities

Spring 2015
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The Fellows CLE Seminar: Perspectives on Race, Communities and Policing in 21st Century America

Spring 2015
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Tenant Screening in an Era of Mass Incarceration: A Criminal Record is No Crystal Ball

March 2015
Anna Reosti, Merf Ehman and
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