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The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is a sociolegal research institute. We conduct rigorous, empirical research that explores the intersection of law and society—creating insights that underpin today’s most pressing issues.

Deborah Enix-Ross, ABA Past President and Senior Adviser to the International Dispute Resolution Group of Debevoise & Plimpton, closes the Fellows CLE at ABA Annual 2025 in Toronto.
David Driesen, author of Specter of Dictatorship (Syracuse University Press), discusses how presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it at the Fellows CLE Program at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto on August 8, 2025.
Fellows CLE Program at ABA Annual Meeting 2025, “Safeguarding Democracy, a panel moderated by Deborah Enix-Ross, Senior Advisor to the International Dispute Resolution Group of Debevoise & Plimpton and the Past President of the American Bar Association and including Aziz Z. Huq, ABF Collaborating Scholar and Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at The University of Chicago Law School and David M. Driesen, University Professor at the College of Law, Syracuse University
Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror by ABF Research Professor Jothie Rajah (Cambridge University Press), Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
From left to right: Richard Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law; Jeffrey Omari, Gonzaga University School of Law; Elizabeth Mertz, American Bar Foundation; Pablo Rueda-Saiz, University of Miami School of Law; and Riaz Tejani, University of Redlands
Juries in the Americas: Variation and Change / Conference Organizers: Shari S. Diamond, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law/ABF and Valerie P. Hans, Cornell Law School / Wednesday, May 21, 2025 8:00-5:00 PM CT
ABF Research Professor Carol Heimer
"Motivated Reasoning in the Field: Polarization of Prose, Precedent, and Policy in U.S. Circuit Courts, 1891–2013" by Wei Lu (Baruch College, CUNY) and Daniel L. Chen (Toulouse School of Economics)
Moderator Joseph Sung, California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu, and ABF Research Professor Ajay K. Mehrotra present Portrait Project 2.0 at Latham & Watkins LLP.
American Bar Foundation Visiting Scholar Hila Keren of Southwestern Law School
ABF Speaker Series: Aaron Pitluck, Sociology Department, Illinois State University, "Meaning-Making and Control in Islamic Investment Banks," February 5, 2025, 12:00 PM CT