I was recently invited to join and support the American Bar Foundation as a Fellow. After reviewing the work of the organization, I felt compelled to offer my support.
The mission statement of the American Bar Foundation gives a broad overview of its purpose:
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) seeks to expand knowledge and advance justice through innovative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous empirical research on law, legal processes, and legal institutions. To further this mission, the ABF will produce timely, cutting-edge research of the highest quality to inform and guide the legal profession, the academy, and society in the United States and internationally.
The areas of research include many topics that will improve the lives of Americans:
- Analyzing the Influential Early Childhood Policies that are Proven to Promote Human Flourishing
- Access to Justice
- Tenant Screening and Fair Housing Law in the Information Age
- Conceptualizing Property Takings
- Contested Constructions of Discrimination
- Consent to Sex on Campus
- The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility
- Employment Civil Rights
- Policing and Political Participation
- Adolescent and Adult Lives of Children of Parents Returning From Prison
- Criminal Defense in China
- Parental Incarceration
- Law and Globalization
- The Lessons for American Law & Public Policy from the Scandinavian Welfare State
- Legal Defenses Against Democratic Decline
- Globalization of Law and Markets
- World Justice Project
- Civil Rights: An American History
- African Americans and Chicago's Criminal Courts, 1896-1964
- The Sit-Ins: Protect and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
- Research Group on Legal Diversity
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