Season 2 of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars, kicking off with April Faith-Slaker’s interview of Thomas Mitchell.  Professor Mitchell is a leading figure in the New Legal Realism movement, from the inaugural Wisconsin Law Review NLR Symposium in 2005, to the signal edited NLR volumes from Cambridge University Press in 2016.  He is featured in the upcoming Research Handbook of Modern Legal Realism (2021) as a “Llewellyn and Mentschikoff” figure of today’s realism because of his work combining legal theory, empirical research, and policy/doctrinal reform aimed at remedying black land loss in rural areas.  In October 2020, Mitchell received a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of this pathbreaking work. 

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