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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to the Biden administration’s ghost gun ban. If overturned, it could significantly impact federal regulators. Hear from Stanford Law School's John J. Donohue III on the lasting effects this case might have: thetrace.org/2024/10/suprem…

As the U.S. presidential election nears, ABF Research Professor and Northwestern Political Science Prof. Traci Burch spoke w/ ABF Exec. Director Mark Suchman about how barriers to participation, incl. voter registration and ID, affect voter turnout. Watch the interview⬇️: youtube.com/watch?v=_3m9gO…

🎉Join us in congratulating former @ABF/U.S. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory) on receiving the #WHA2024 Vicki L. Ruiz Award from Western History Association

As the 2024 U.S. presidential election nears, American Bar Foundation/Northwestern Law Professor Ajay K. Mehrotra explores the historical context of Trump’s tariff proposals in his latest article for TIME.

How might autocratic leaders be reshaping democratic systems across the globe? In NYT Magazine, Amanda Taub examines their tactics, referencing frameworks from American Bar Foundation/UChicago Law School Profs. tomginsburg and Aziz Huq in How to Save a Constitutional Democracy. UChicagoPress

It's Election Day! If you haven't voted and have last-minute questions, you'll find substantive and nonpartisan information at the ABA's Election Center: ambar.org/ehx2szuc

SLS's Legal Design Lab and Executive Director Margaret Hagan were mentioned by The American Lawyer in "K&L Gates Looks to Extend Gen AI Expertise to Access to Justice Fight." Read more here: stanford.io/3YIb9ZM

🚨 Seeking a doctoral or postdoctoral program? Applications are now open for American Bar Foundation's doc/postdoc fellowships! These fellowships support research in law, social science, and higher education, offering the opportunity to engage with our intellectual community.

🚨Applications for American Bar Foundation's 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) are now open! SURF offers undergrad students considering careers in law or social science to gain a hands-on learning experience for eight weeks during the summer. bit.ly/SURF25

Check out American Bar Foundation/Northwestern Law Prof. Shari Diamond and LII @ Cornell Law Prof. Valerie Hans in Vol. 20 of Annual Reviews' Law and Social Science Journal. Their new article, Judgment by Peers: Lay Participation in Legal Decision Making, is out now!📔📔 bit.ly/lay-participat…

🔖American Bar Foundation's @mjburnett & Rebecca Sandefur offer a framework to designing and evaluating community justice programs in the U.S. Learn about how community justice worker models have been serving low-income and excluded communities in the United States. bit.ly/justice-work

Want to learn more about the human side of Black legal history? American Bar Foundation Prof. Dylan C. Penningroth shares seven texts exploring topics of community organization, critical race theory, and the transformation of American politics through Black lawyers. lithub.com/seven-essentia…

American Bar Foundation, in partnership with LSA and U.S. National Science Foundation, is accepting applications for their Doctoral Fellowship in #Law and #Equality! Learn more here: bit.ly/DocFellow25 #LawAndSociety #SocialJustice #AccessToJustice

Are Seattle's tenant protection laws impacting "mom-and-pop" landlords and their tenants? American Bar Foundation Prof. Anna Reosti explores this in her latest study, placing Seattle landlords at the center of the case. Read more through Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

🔖How does the carceral state shape rental housing? From tenant screenings to building code enforcement, #ABF Research Prof. Anna Reosti and Prof. robin bartram explore rental housing as a liminal space shaped by a decentralized carceral presence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

🎙️ In our new podcast, tomginsburg reflects on the potentially authoritarian nature of international law in its function of enabling relations between states. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ye2wjdt4

📅Join us this January for the Access to Justice and AI: New Frontiers for Research, Policy, and Practice conference. This event explores AI's impact on civil justice access with interdisciplinary insights from researchers, policymakers, & practitioners! na.eventscloud.com/website/79050/…

As Trump's return to office draws nearer, American Bar Foundation affiliated scholar Dr. Brittany Friedman 🌹 looks to the past as a caution against pardons for Jan. 6 rioters in a new @TIMEHistory OpEd. Learn more: time.com/7204977/jan-6-…

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