Description

The American Bar Foundation (ABF), in partnership with Northwestern University, offers this doctoral fellowship to encourage original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions. It supports sociolegal scholarship and social scientific approaches to questions concerning law and justice, including research on social justice.

Research must address significant issues in the field and show promise of making a major contribution to the social scientific understanding of law and justice. The ABF’s doctoral fellowship programs emphasize dissertation completion within a residence-based empirical and interdisciplinary research institute, with coaching and support to prepare fellows for the academic job market.