Richard Abel

6.4k citations
152 papers · 2.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 23

Impact in

  • Law top 0.02%
    • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
    • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
    • Law in Society and Culture

Papers in

  • Law 60
    • Legal Education and Practice Innovations 38
    • Comparative and International Law Studies 19
    • Law in Society and Culture 9
    • Judicial and Constitutional Studies 9
    • Cinema and Media Studies 27
    • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems 16

Richard Abel

119 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming . . . 1981 · 719 citations
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Peers

Richard Abel
Comparison fields: 5 of 110
  • Law 984
  • Public Administration 132
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 114
  • Political Science and International Relations 552
  • Economics and Econometrics 631
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All Works

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Making Public Interest Lawyers In A Time Of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach
20205
3
How Marc Galanter Became Marc Galanter
20143
4
An American Hamburger Stand in St. Paul's Cathedral: Replacing Legal Aid with Conditional Fees in English Personal Injury Litigation
20140
5
General Damages Are Incoherent, Incalculable, Incommensurable, and Inegalitarian (but Otherwise a Great Idea)
20149
6
Forecasting Civil Litigation
20141
7
Charge and Countercharge: "Documentary" War Pictures in the USA, 1914–1916
20102
8
Lawyers in the dock : learning from attorney disciplinary proceedings
20109
9
THE PARADOXES OF PRO BONO
20101
10
How the Plaintiffs’ Bar Bars Plaintiffs
20062
11
Judges Write the Darndest Things: Judicial Mystification of Limitations on Tort Liability
20023
12
The Law & society reader
19952
13
French film theory and criticism : a history/anthology, 1907-1939
199343
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Evaluating Evaluations: How Should Law Schools Judge Teaching?.
19903
15
The common law world
19881
16 19883
17 19862
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Should Tort Law Protect Property against Accidental Loss
19862
19
A Socialist Approach to Risk
198210
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Case method research in the customary laws of wrongs in Kenya
19691

About Richard Abel

Richard Abel is a scholar working on Law, Economics and Econometrics, History, Library and Information Sciences and Political Science and International Relations, having authored 152 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Legal Education and Practice Innovations (38 papers), Cinema and Media Studies (27 papers), Comparative and International Law Studies (19 papers), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (16 papers), French Historical and Cultural Studies (12 papers), Law in Society and Culture (9 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (9 papers) and Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Law (984 citations), Public Administration (132 citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (114 citations), Political Science and International Relations (552 citations) and Economics and Econometrics (631 citations). Richard Abel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Latvia. Frequent co-authors include Austin Sarat, William L. F. Felstiner, Peter Fitzpatrick, Kim Economides, Gerard W. Gawalt, Dudley Andrew, Alison M. Parker, Max Rheinstein, Mark J. Osiel and Carroll Seron. Their work appears in journals such as The American Journal of Comparative Law, Logos, Law & Society Review, Publishing Research Quarterly and Cinema Journal.

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