The Trouble with Law and Order
By guest blogger Nick Cheesman What is law and order? How does it differ from the rule of law? And what are the…
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Category: Anthropology
Chicago & Wisconsin During the Eisenhower Years
In this post, NLR blogger Stewart Macaulay responds to Marc Galanter’s comments here (as Guest Blogger in January 2016) about the University of…
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Mertz on Studying Social Science Ethics
In recent months, prompted by media coverage of research by sociologist Alice Goffman, a number of law professors have stumbled upon a longstanding…
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“Reality” and Justice
“Reality” as a Claim for Justice — by Beth Mertz In these oddly jaded times within the social sciences, it is interesting how…
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Tejani on Transnationalism and the Law School Crisis
Transnationalism and Nonpurity: Europe, Law Schools, and ‘Law in Action’ for the Current Crisis Riaz Tejani Having recently completed an ethnography of “crisis”…
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Introducing 2 new legal realists and 2 old legal realists…
In our September 2011 post, we introduce two members of a younger generation of new legal realists, and re-play some nuggets of wisdom…
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Welcome!
We are starting a new format for the New Legal Realism Conversations,which have been posted as part of the NLR Project webpage since…
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