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**WHAT IS CRN 28?**

CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods 2011 Panel
San Francisco, CA (June 2-5, 2011)...conducting interviews and surveys

East Coast Workshop: Global Legal Regulation and Social Science Measurements
Princeton, NJ (May 20, 2011)...Anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, and policy scholars meet to assess how social science metrics are translated for global law, taking seriously the central new legal realist concern with appropriate translation of empirical research in legal settings. Program Details

CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods 2010 Panels
Chicago, IL (May 27-30, 2010)...translating law across boundaries, analyzing transcripts,
the language of law, French legal education

CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods 2009 Panels
Denver, CO (May 28-31, 2009)...combining qualitative and quantitative research; New Legal Realism;
relational antidiscrimination research

American Association of Law Schools Open Source Program Panel: New Legal Realism
San Diego, CA (January 8, 2009) Program Details

CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods 2008 Panels
Montreal, Quebec (May 29- June 1, 2008)...qualitative research on the trial; transnational legal orders;
ecological validity in sociolegal experiments

Working From the World Up: Equality's Future -- A New Legal Realism Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project
Madison, WI(March 14-15, 2008) Conference Website

Joint NLR and FLT Conference: "New Legal Realism Meets Feminism & Legal Theory II"
Madison, WI (October 5-6, 2007) Conference Program

CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods 2007 Panels
Berlin, Germany (July 25-28, 2007)...experimental, quantitative, and qualitative methods; U.S. legal education; institutions and law; contract law

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