2019* Jill D. Weinberg and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Hierarchies of Deservingness: Decisions about Workplace Accommodation by Judges and Citizens.” 41(3) Law & Policy 286-309.

2019 Laura Beth Nielsen, “Good Moms with Guns: Individual and Relational Rights in the Home, Family, and Society,” in Guns in Law; Austin D. Sarat, ed. (University of Massachusetts Press).

2017 Laura Beth Nielsen, Ellen C. Berrey, and Robert L. Nelson, “Dignity and Discrimination:  Employment Civil Rights in the Workplace and in Courts,” 92 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1185.

2017* David McEhlhattan, Laura Beth Nielsen, and Jill D. Weinberg, “Vigilance, Litigiousness, and Cynicism: Understanding Race Differences in Perceptions of Discrimination and Legal Mobilization.” 51(3) Law & Society Review 669-703.

2017 Jill D. Weinberg and Laura Beth Nielsen, What Is Sexual Harassment: An Empirical Study of Perceptions of Ordinary People and Judges.” 36 St. Louis University Law Rev. 39-58. 

2016* Catherine R. Albiston, Su Li and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Public Interest Law Organizations and the Two-Tier System of Access to Justice in the United States,” 42 (4) Law and Social Inquiry 990-1022.  

2016 Amy Myrick, Robert L. Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Race and Representation: Racial Disparities in Legal Representation for Employment Civil Rights Plaintiffs,” in Samuel Estricher and Joyce Radice, eds. Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America (Cambridge University Press). 

2014* Laura Beth Nielsen, O direito pensante, o direito pensante em movimento, “Thinking Law, Thinking Law in Motion,” Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito (REED) 1 Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 12-24. 

2014* Catherine R. Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Funding the Cause: How Public Interest Law Organizations Fund their Activities and Why it Matters for Social Change,” 39 Law and Social Inquiry 1, 62-95. 

2013* Laura Beth Nielsen, Nehal A. Patel, and Jacob Rosner, “’Ahead of the Lawmen:’ Law and Morality in Animated Disney Films 1960-1998,” Law, Culture, and Humanities 13:1. 

2012 Amy Myrick, Robert L. Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Race and Representation: Racial Disparities in Legal Representation for Employment Civil Rights Plaintiffs,” 15 New York University Journal of Legislation and Social Policy 705-759 (2012). 

2012* Laura Beth Nielsen, “Power in Public: Reactions, Responses, and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech,” in Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech, McGowan and Maitra eds., (Oxford University Press). 

2012* Ellen C. Berrey, Steven Hoffman, and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Situated Justice: Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ Perceptions of Fairness in Employment Civil Rights Cases,” 46 Law and Society Review 1 – 36. Lead article 

2012 Laura Beth Nielsen and Jill D. Weinberg, “Examining Empathy: Judge and Plaintiff Minority Status and the Viability of Discrimination Claims at Summary Judgment,” 85 University of Southern California Law Review 313.

• The article was originally published and printed with a significant error in Table 4. Online versions are corrected, but original printed versions are incorrect.

2011 Laura Beth Nielsen, Amy Myrick, and Jill D. Weinberg, “Siding with Science: In Defense of ASA’s Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Amicus Brief,” 40 Sociological Methods & Research 4, 646-667. 

2011* Marina Zaloznaya and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Mechanisms and Consequences of Professional Marginality: The Case of Poverty Lawyers Revisited,” 36 Law and Social Inquiry 4, 919- 944. 

2010* Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, and Ryon Lancaster, “Individual Justice or Collective Legal Mobilization? Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Post-Civil Rights United States,” 7 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 175 – 201. 

• Reprinted in Eigen and Estreicher, Labor and Employment Law Initiatives and Proposals under the Obama Administration, Wolters Kluwer, 2011.

2010 Laura Beth Nielsen, “Mixed Methods in Empirical Legal Studies Research,” in Kritzer ed., Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Studies (Oxford University Press). 

2010 Laura Beth Nielsen and Jill D. Weinberg, Book Review, “Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition,” 60 Journal of Legal Education 168-173. 

2009 Laura Beth Nielsen, “Social Movements, Social Processes: A Response to Gerald Rosenberg,” 42 John Marshall Law Review, 671 – 683. 

2008* Robert L. Nelson, Ellen C. Berrey, and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Diverging Paths: Changing Conceptions of Employment Discrimination in Law and the Social Sciences,” Hagan, Scheppele, and Tyler, eds., 4 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 103. 

2008* Arthur L. Stinchcombe and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Consent to Sex: The Liberal Paradigm Reformulated,” Journal of Political Philosophy, available 4 March 2008 online, 2009 print. 

2007 Laura Beth Nielsen, “Public Opinion and Legal Consciousness” in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, (Sage Publications). 

2007 Catherine R. Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen, “The Procedural Attack on Civil Rights: The Empirical Reality of Buckhannon for Public Interest Litigation,” 54 UCLA Law Review, 1087 – 1134. 

• Reprinted in, Public Interest Lawyering: A Contemporary Perspective, Alan K. Chen and Scott L. Cummings (eds) (Kluwer 2012).

2007 Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Rights of Inclusion: Integrating Identity at the Bottom of the Dispute Pyramid,” 32 Law & Social Inquiry 233 - 260. 

2006 Mitu Gulati and Laura Beth Nielsen, “A New Legal Realist Perspective on Employment Discrimination,” 31 Law & Social Inquiry 797 – 800. 

2006* Laura Beth Nielsen, “Understanding Rights,” in Laura Beth Nielsen ed., Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Rights, (Ashgate). 

2006* Laura Beth Nielsen, “The Power of Place in the Construction of Rights,” in Ben Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen eds., New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach, (Dartmouth/Ashgate Press) 

2006 Ben Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Introduction,” in Ben Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen eds., New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach, (Dartmouth/Ashgate Press). 

2006 Laura Beth Nielsen and Catherine R. Albiston, “The Organizational Environment of Public Interest Law 1975 – 2000,” 84 University of North Carolina Law Review 1592 – 1621. 

2005* Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert L. Nelson, "Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation," in Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert L. Nelson, eds., Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities, (Springer, 2005) 

2005 Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert L. Nelson, “Rights Realized? An Empirical Analysis of Employment Discrimination Litigation as a Claiming System” Wisconsin Law Review 663-711.

2004 Laura Beth Nielsen and Aaron Beim, “Media Misrepresentation: Title VII, Print Media, and Public Perceptions of Discrimination Litigation,” 15 Stanford Law & Policy Review 101 – 130.

2004* Laura Beth Nielsen, “The Work of Rights and the Work That Rights Do,” in Austin Sarat, ed., Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Blackwell) 

2002* Laura Beth Nielsen, “Subtle, Pervasive, Harmful: Racist and Sexist Remarks in Public as Hate Speech,” 58 Journal of Social Issues 265 – 280. 

2000* Laura Beth Nielsen, “Employee Termination Practices in the United States and Canada,” in Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism, Robert Kagan and Lee Axelrad, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press) 

2000* Laura Beth Nielsen, “Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment”, 34 Law and Society Review 1055-1090. 

• Law and Society Association Best Article Prize 2002

• Reprinted in Patricia Ewick, Legal Consciousness (Ashgate, 2006)

• Reprinted in Analyzing Law’s Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society (American Bar Association, 2009).

2000* Robert L. Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Cops, Counsel and Entrepreneurs: Constructing the Role of Inside Counsel in Large Corporations,” 34 Law & Society Review 457. 

• Reprinted in Lauren B. Edelman and Mark Suchman, The Legal Lives of Private Organizations (Ashgate, 2006)

• Reprinted in Tanina Rostain, Lawyers and the Legal Profession, Volume II (Ashgate, 2008)

• Reprinted in Analyzing Law’s Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society (American Bar Association, 2009)

1999* Laura Beth Nielsen, “Paying Workers or Paying Lawyers: Employee Termination in the United States and Canada,” 21 Law and Policy 247. 

• Law and Society Association Graduate Student Paper Prize winner 1998

1995 Catherine R. Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen, “Welfare Queens and Other Fairy Tales: Welfare Reform and Unconstitutional Reproductive Controls,” 38 Howard Law Journal 473 

1995 Laura Beth Nielsen, “What’s Not So New about Welfare Reform,” 10 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 165. 

1995 Laura Beth Nielsen and Catherine R. Albiston, “Gender Roles and Date Rape,” in The Other Side of Silence (Christine L. Carter, ed. Avocus Press, Washington D.C.)