NLR’s Big Umbrella: Interview with Stewart Macaulay and Elizabeth Mertz

In the fourth episode of our NLR podcast series, April Faith-Slaker talks with Stewart Macaulay (Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School) and Elizabeth Mertz (Senior Research Faculty at the American Bar Foundation and Professor of Law Emerita at the University of Wisconsin Law School).  Macaulay and Mertz are co-editors (with Thomas W. Mitchell) of The New Legal Realism, Vol. I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today’s Legal Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2016).  In this podcast, they discuss the law and society and new legal realism movements as well as new legal realism in legal education and the challenges of integrating law and social science.