CONTRIBUTORS: ** Stewart Macaulay is a founding member of the New Legal Realism Project. He is also a past President of the Law & Society Association and a recipient of the Harry Kalven Prize (the highest U.S. honor awarded to empirical researchers studying law). Macaulay is known for his contributions to the study of "relational contract," which examines how contractual law works on the ground, in action. He is also a longtime jazz fan. His contributions to this column feature observations on law, society, and all that jazz.
**Elizabeth Mertz is an enthusiastic proponent of New Legal Realist approaches to law. She is a law professor and linguistic anthropologist, and has studied the language of law school training in the United States -- as well as Gaelic usage in Canada, the law as it affects children and families, and the translation of social science in legal settings.
