Rebecca Sandefur

Rebecca L. Sandefur is Assistant Professor of sociology and affiliated with the JD/PhD Program in Law and Sociology, the Center for Study of Poverty and Inequality, and the Committee on Urban Studies. Her research focuses on inequality and civil justice, and her published work includes writing on lawyers, legal aid, civil justice problems, and access to justice. She currently holds the elected positions of Secretary/Treasurer of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association and Trustee of the Law and Society Association. She is a participant in Harvard University’s Bellow-Sacks Legal Services Seminar, an affiliate of the Centre for Research into Diversity in the Professions at Leeds Metropolitan University, and a member of the Executive Coordinating Committee of the After the JD Study, the first longitudinal study of American lawyers’ careers. The editor of Access to Justice, (2009, in the Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance series), she has also served on the sitting editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology, and as consulting editor for that journal, as well as for Law and Social Inquiry and Law and Society Review.

 

Curriculum Vitæ
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RESEARCH AREAS

Inequality, Social Stratification and Mobility; Law and Society; Work, Occupations and Professions; Labor Markets

OTHER APPOINTMENTS/ORGANIZATIONS

Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
Member, Committee on Urban Studies
Secretary/Treasurer, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association
Trustee, Law and Society Association

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

  • 2008 “Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class and Gender Inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology 34 (in press).
  • 2007 “Lawyers’ Pro Bono Service and American-Style Civil Legal Assistance.” Law and Society Review 41:79-112.
  • 2005 Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (with John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, and Edward O. Laumann)

  • 2001 “Work and Honor in the Law: Prestige and the Division of Lawyers’ Labor.” American Sociological Review 66:382-403.


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