Laura Beth Nielsen

American Bar Foundation

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Chicago, IL 60611

United States

Northwestern University - Department of Sociology

1810 Chicago Ave

Evanston, IL 60208

United States

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1.

Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary United States

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, American Bar Foundation Research Paper No. 08-04
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Apr 2008
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson and Ryon Lancaster
American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University and University of Chicago
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sociology, law, discrimination, litigation

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Social Science in Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes: A Reply to the ASA’s Missed Opportunity to Promote Sound Science in Court by Mitchell, Monahan, and Walker

American Bar Foundation Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 May 2011
Laura Beth Nielsen, Amy Myrick and Jill D. Weinberg
American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University - Department of Sociology and American Bar Foundation
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social science, sociology, litigation, employment, social framework analysis, Wal-Mart, discrimination

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The Procedural Attack on Civil Rights: The Empirical Reality of Buckhannon for the Private Attorney General

University of California, Los Angeles Law Review, June 2007, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 937114
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2012
Catherine Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and American Bar Foundation
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public interest litigation, attorney's fees, private attorney general, empirical, Buckhannon

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Contesting Workplace Discrimination in Court: Characteristics and Outcomes of Federal Employment Discrimination Litigation 1987-2003

American Bar Foundation Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, Ryon Lancaster and Nicholas Pedriana
American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University, University of Chicago and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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civil litigation, courts, employment discrimination, employment civil rights

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The Organization of Public Interest Practice: 1975-2004

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 5, 2006
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Laura Beth Nielsen and Catherine Albiston
American Bar Foundation and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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public interest law, legal profession, historical change

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Individual Justice or Collective Legal Mobilization? Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Post Civil Rights United States

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 175-201, June 2010
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 May 2010
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson and Ryon Lancaster
American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University and University of Chicago
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Divergent Paths: Conflicting Conceptions of Employment Discrimination in Law and the Social Sciences

Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Vol. 4, December 2008
Posted: 27 Dec 2008
Robert L. Nelson, Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen
Northwestern University, State University of New York (SUNY) - Buffalo and American Bar Foundation

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systematic discrimination, implicit bias, discrimination litigation, organizations