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  • The American Bar Foundation (ABF), founded in 1952, has become one of the major centers for inter-disciplinary research in the field of law and society. It began as a combination of grants to outside researchers and in-house researchers, exclusively law-trained, whom the board of directors charged with doing research to help the various initiatives of the American Bar Association (ABA). [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; American Bar Foundation]

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