ABF in Review: Producing Research That Advances Justice
 
Quarterly Newsletter
Spring 2014

The American Bar Foundation is the nation's leading research institute for the empirical study of law. An independent, nonprofit organization for more than sixty years, the ABF has advanced the understanding and improvement of law through research projects of unmatched scale and quality on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world.


Center on Law and Globalization Releases Report on Global Fight Against Money Laundering and  Financing of Terrorism
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In This Issue

clg logo globe The Center on Law and Globalization has released a report which questions the effectiveness of the global fight against worldwide money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

 

Read the full report and press release.

 

The assessment is timely, given that major international banks in the UK, US, and Europe have admitted to massive violations of money laundering controls over long periods in the last few years. The international regulation and surveillance of dirty money is at a crossroads, states the report.

 

Co-authors, Professors Terence Halliday, Michael Levi, and Peter Reuter believe the report can strengthen systems for fighting money laundering and the financing of terrorism, while helping policy-makers recognize the potential costs and harms of financial surveillance and enforcement.

 

Follow international coverage of the report: 

 

Wall Street Journal article

 

World Bank Blog post

 

Washington Times article

 

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Researcher Profile & ABF News
Researcher Profile: Dr. Laura Beth Nielsen

Dr. Laura Beth Nielsen is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Legal Studies at Northwestern University. 

Her primary field is the sociology of law, with particular interests in legal consciousness and the relationship between law and inequalities of race, gender, and class.
 
 
 
 


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Multimedia: Civil Rights in Their Own Voices

The Employment Civil Rights Project is generating findings on the changing dynamics of employment discrimination litigation. The first publication using the qualitative data from this project, Situated Justice: A Contextual Analysis of Fairness and Inequality in Employment Discrimination Litigation, by Ellen C. Berrey, Steve G. Hoffman, and Laura Beth Nielsen, was published in Law & Society Review in April 2012. Readers can listen to some of the audio clips from the interviews to hear the data in respondents' "own voices." 


Access the recordings �
CLE Webinar on Employment Discrimination

"Is Employment Litigation Perceived as Fair by Litigants and Attorneys? An Empirical Study of Employment Civil Rights Litigation in the United States"

In this webinar sponsored by the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Laura Beth Nielsen will discuss the findings of Situated Justice and uses it to analyze perceptions of fairness among 100 plaintiffs, defendants, and lawyers interviewed about their involvement in employment civil rights litigation. 

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Spotlight on ABF Leadership: Mariano-Florentino Cu�llar
Mariano-Florentino Cu�llar
Copyright Stanford University
 
Welcoming a New Board Member
 
Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cu�llar is the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. A 1992 recipient of the Summer Research Diversity Fellowship in Law and Social Science, Cu�llar has continued his relationship with the ABF as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and now as a member of our Board of Directors.

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The Fellows & ABF Initiatives and Partners
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The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation

The Fellows is an honorary organization of attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars who support the work of the ABF through annual contributions.
2014 Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity: May 8 & 9, 2014

Please join us for our third
annual conference, in which we bring together leading researchers and practitioners working on diversity issues to examine bias and law in private and public arenas.

Space is limited.



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The American Bar Endowment

Key supporter of the American Bar Foundation
 
The American Bar Endowment provides quality insurance for ABA member attorneys while giving back to the good works of the legal profession.
 


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