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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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Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

August 2013
Traci Burch
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Talking about Parental Incarceration at the White House: Creating a National Dialogue Between Researchers, Practitioners and Policy Makers

Summer 2013
John Hagan
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The Juice Isn't Worth the Squeeze: The Impact of Tort Reform on Plaintiffs' Lawyers and Access to Civil Justice

Spring 2013
Stephen Daniels
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Children Left Behind Bars: Sullivan, Graham, and Juvenile Life without Parole Sentences

March 2013
Tera Agyepong
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Funding the Cause: How Public Interest Law Organizations Fund Their Activities and Why it Matters to Social Change

February 2013
Laura Beth Nielsen and Catherine R. Albiston
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The Research Group on Legal Diversity of the American Bar Foundation

Winter 2013
Robert L. Nelson and Ronit Dinovitzer
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Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

Fall 2012
Victoria Saker Woeste
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Civil Rights in Their Own Voices: Situated Justice

March 2012
Laura Beth Nielsen and Ellen Berrey
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Situated Justice: A Contextual Analysis of Fairness and Inequality in Employment Discrimination Litigation

March 2012
Laura Beth Nielsen, Ellen Berrey and Steve G. Hoffman
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Conceptions of Law During the Civil Rights Movement

Winter 2012
Christopher W. Schmidt
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Race and Representation: Racial Disparities in Legal Representation for Employment Civil Rights Plaintiffs

2012
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson and Amy Myrick
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The Economics of Inequality: The Value of Early Childhood Education

Summer 2011
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