This episode presents an interview with Professors Riaz Tejani and Emily Taylor Poppe, who recently became co-chairs of the Law and Society Association’s New Legal Realism Collaborative Research Network (CRN). Recorded in advance of the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Tejani and Taylor Poppe discuss the panels sponsored this year by the NLR CRN as well as their plans for the CRN going forward. In addition, they each share how NLR perspectives have informed their research agendas and their teaching in different institutional contexts. Coming from different disciplinary and methodological traditions—Tejani is an anthropologist and ethnographer and Taylor Poppe is a sociologist who relies primarily on quantitative analyses—they reaffirm NLR’s commitment to incorporating diverse social science perspectives into our understanding of law and legal institutions. Having benefitted from the mentorship and examples of other more senior NLR scholars, they reaffirm the CRN’s commitment to providing a space for NLR scholars.  

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