Professor of Sociology & Law, Northwestern University
Director and MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession – American Bar Foundation
American Bar Foundation
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Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: +1 (312) 988-6532
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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 the Director of the American Bar Foundation. Professor Nelson has performed 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.
PhD, Northwestern University, 1983
JD, Northwestern University School of Law, 1979
MA, Northwestern University, 1976
BA, Northwestern University, 1974
Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar, with John P.Heinz, Rebecca L. Sandefur, and Edward O. Laumann (University of Chicago Press 2005)
Handbook of Research on Employment Discrimination: Rights and Realities, (L.B. Nielsen & R. Nelson, eds., Springer 2005)
Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation (with L.B. Nielsen), in Handbook of Research on Employment Discrimination: Rights and Realities (L.B. Nielsen & R. Nelson, eds., Springer, 2005)
Rights Realized? An Empirical Analysis of Employment Discrimination Litigation as a Claiming System, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 663 (2005) (with L.B. Nielsen)
From Professional Dominance to Organizational Dominance: Professionalism, Inequality, and Social Change Among Chicago Lawyers, 1975-1995 (with R. Sandefur, J. Heinz, & E. Laumann) in Reorganization and Resistance: Legal Professions Confront a Changing World (W. Felstiner, ed., Hart Publishing 2005)
“Responding to Professor Sander: The Debate over Affirmative Action in Law School,” Federalist Society, San Francisco, January 7, 2005
“Affirmative Action in U.S. Law Schools: Real Myths and Fanciful Realities,” New York Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. New York, New York, March 30, 2005
“Affirmative Action in U.S. Law Schools: Real Myths and Fanciful Realities,” Presentation to Michigan Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, Wayne State University School of Law, Detroit, MI, April 14, 2005
“After the JD: Early Results from a National Survey of Lawyers’ Careers,” Symposium on the Future of the Legal Profession, Connecticut Bar Foundation, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, October 29, 2005
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