American Bar Foundation

As the U.S. presidential election nears, ABF Research Professor and Northwestern Political Science Prof. Traci Burch spoke with ABF Executive Director Mark Suchman about how barriers to participation, including voter registration and ID, affect voter turnout. Learn more ahead of the 2024 election here: ⬇️  https://lnkd.in/gRsSFMRJ 

Don’t miss the opportunity 10/18 to engage in critical discussions about inclusion, "bleached out" identity, and ethics at “Widening the Lens of Justice,” a 20th-anniversary #NewLegalRealism conference cosponsored by the ABF and the HLS Center on the Legal Profession. Register today!  bit.ly/NewLegalRealism

The ABF has elected four new members to its Board of Directors. Hon. Eileen A. Kato (Ret.), Hon. Dolly M. Gee, Darrell Mottley, and Paul M. Smith were elected to serve a five-year term, beginning September 1. Visit our website to learn more about our new board members. https://lnkd.in/gqZHJZMj

The ABF Welcomes John M. Eason as the 2024-25 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. “I am incredibly excited to be a Neukom Chair at the ABF for 2024-25,” said Eason. “I'm looking forward to engaging with and learning from ABF scholars whose work spans the criminal legal system.”

The American Bar Endowment (ABE) has awarded its annual grant to the American Bar Foundation (ABF) of $3.8 million dollars for the 2024-25 fiscal year. This grant supports the ABF’s interdisciplinary, empirical research on #law and #policy. https://lnkd.in/gKwmv5mm

The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) have selected their new Fellows Officers for the 2023-24 fiscal year. Frank X. Neuner, Jr. of NeunerPate has been nominated to serve as Chair of the Fellows for the next fiscal year. Mario L. Barnes, University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of Law, has been nominated to serve as the Secretary of the Fellows.  

The ABF is excited to announce its 2024-25 Visiting Scholars cohort to our research community! Aaron Z. Pitluck is writing an interdisciplinary book describing how investment bankers, Shariah scholars, and the state are co-producing Islamic banking and finance in Malaysia. Michelle Brown is working on her book, Streaming Justice: Movements, Media, and the Problem of Crime, which argues that the problem of crime and the crisis of the criminal legal system are inseparable from a media universe with intensified and conflicting claims for narrative control.

Interested in advancing your research in access to civil justice? The application period for the ABF Access to Justice Early Career Workshop will close this Friday, August 16. This workshop is open to PhD students and early career scholars across a range of social science disciplines. https://lnkd.in/gJ7ztCzK

We're hiring! Join the American Bar Foundation as a Research Professor, and conduct research as part of our diverse and interdisciplinary intellectual community working in law and society. Please share with your communities!  📅 Applications due 9/15. https://lnkd.in/gpmzP6qc

Last week, ABF Research Professor Traci Burch moderated the ABF Fellows #CLE Program, titled "Challenges to Democracy in 2024". Traci Burch, Ray Block, Jr. (Northwestern University), Alexandra Filindra (University of Chicago Illinois), and Brandon Jones (Southern Poverty Law Center; SPLC Action Fund) discussed their latest work on #AccessToJustice issues, covering topics ranging from political violence against women and people of color in office, to information decay and the spread of misinformation.