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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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Property Rights and the Demands of Transformation

Winter 2011
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The Social Costs of Incarceration

Summer 2010
John Hagan and Traci Burch
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Individual Justice or Collective Legal Mobilization? Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Post Civil Rights United States

May 2010
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson and Ryon Lancaster
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Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice

March 2010
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The World Justice Forum: Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law

Fall 2008
Robert L. Nelson
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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the 19th Century South

Winter 2008
Dylan C. Penningroth
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Death in Darfur: The Science of Human Rights, War Crimes, and Humanitarian Emergencies

Summer 2007
John Hagan
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The Sarajevo Surveys: Citizen Perceptions of International (In)Justice

Fall 2006
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Popular Justice & Counter-Violence in the New South Africa

Summer 2006
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License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech

March 2006
Laura Beth Nielsen
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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

May 2001
John Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt
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For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home

Carol A. Heimer and Lisa R. Staffen
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