Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also leads the ABA access to justice research initiative. Published first-ever national and state-by-state portrait of the legal aid services available.
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Links: Bio | ABF affiliation | (Current as of: April 14, 2015)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, Rebecca L. Sandefur has published Access Across America, the first-ever national and state-by-state portrait of the services available to assist the U.S. public in accessing civil justice. The report, released by the American Bar Foundation, was co-authored with University of California-Berkeley Ph.D. student Aaron C. Smyth.
Rebecca L. Sandefur has published “‘Golden Age,’ Quiescence, and Revival: How the Sociology of Professions Became the Study of Knowledge-Based Work,” Work and Occupations 38(August):275-302 (2011), co-authored with Elizabeth H. Gorman. The article introduces a special issue of Work and Occupations on professions and professional work that the two co-edited.
A.M., Ph.D. University of Chicago. B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Also, at the American Bar Foundation, she is Faculty Fellow and leads the access to justice research initiative.
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