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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.

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

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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
  • Articles

The Social Psychology of Property: Looking Beyond Market Exchange

January 2018
Janice Nadler
  • Articles

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

2018
Katherine Beckett, Lindsey Beach, Emily Knaphus and Anna Reosti
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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 and David McElhattan
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Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality

June 2017
Robert L. Nelson, Ellen Berrey 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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What is Sexual Harassment? An Empirical Study of Judges and Ordinary People

2017
Laura Beth Nielsen and Jill D. Weinberg
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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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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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