Professor of Sociology & Law, Northwestern University
Director and MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession – American Bar Foundation
American Bar Foundation
750 N. Lakeshore Drive, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: +1 (312) 988-6532
Fax: +1 (312) 988-6579
E-mail: rnelson@abfn.org
Professor Nelson is an affiliated faculty member with the Program on the Legal Profession and Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry. He is a professor of sociology at Northwestern University and Director of the American Bar Foundation. Professor Nelson has done extensive research on the changing legal profession and award-winning work on discrimination and the law.
Professor Nelson is a former chair of Northwestern University’s sociology department and the founding director of the American Bar Foundation’s Center for Legal Studies. His book “Legalizing Gender Equality: U.S. Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women,” which he co-authored with William Bridges, received the Distinguished Publication Award from the American Sociological Association for best book in sociology. He has served on the Council of the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Law, the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Law and Society Review.
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Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: +1 (773) 702-6515
Fax: +1 (773) 702-4849
E-mail: rlancast@uchicago.edu
Ryon Lancaster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He spent 2004-05 as a graduate fellow with the Program on the Legal Profession. Professor Lancaster will work as an additional principal investigator in the Corporate Purchasing Project. He will play a key role in analyzing and drawing conclusions from the myriad qualitative interview data collected already, as well as the numerical and statistical data that will be collected in the quantitative survey component of the project.
Ann Southworth is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University where she teaches courses on the legal profession, professional responsibility, and civil procedure. Her research focuses on the norms and practices of the legal profession. She has written extensively about civil rights and poverty lawyers, and is now writing a book on lawyers of the conservative coalition.
From 2004-05, Professor Southworth was the Covington & Burling Distinguished Visitor at Harvard Law School. In addition to her other collaborative work with the Program, she taught a special seminar on “Cause Lawyering” during her time with the Program at HLS in conjunction with Professor Wilkins.
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