Rebecca Sandefur

Rebecca L. Sandefur is Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Law and director of the co-terminal master’s program in sociology. Her scholarly work lies at the intersection of the study of law and the study of inequality. She is currently completing a major research project investigating inequality and civil justice, and is in the early stages of major projects on lawyers who serve the public and on clinical legal education. She has written on lawyers’ work and the legal profession, the impact of representation, legal aid, access to justice, and public experience with civil justice problems. She serves on the Right to Counsel Committee of the California Access to Justice Commission and the Research Advisory Board of the Civil Right to Counsel Leadership and Support Initiative.

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

  • (forthcoming) “Lawyers' Pro Bono Service and Market-Reliant Legal Aid.” In Private Lawyers in the Public Interest, edited by Robert Granfield and Lynn Mather. Oxford University Press.

  • (forthcoming) “The Fulcrum Point of Equal Access to Justice: Legal and Non-legal Institutions of Remedy.” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review .
  • 2009 “Access to Justice: Classical Approaches and New Directions.” In Access to Justice, edited by Rebecca L. Sandefur. Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance, Volume 12. Bingley, UK: Emerald/JAI Press.
  • 2008 “Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class and Gender Inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology 34:339-58.
  • 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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