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…
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Category: Law and Society
A Summary of Legal Education Research Presented at LSA 2018
In this month’s blog post, John Bliss of Harvard University’s Center on the Legal Profession summarizes the multitude of presentations on legal education…
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Why Should We Care About New Legal Realism? Interview with Michael McCann
Michael McCann, former President of the Law & Society Association, leads off our podcast series – just as his preface led off both…
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Steel on Adjunct Law Profs Training
Legal education is a topic of much concern for NLR scholars, as can be seen in the first book of the recent NLR…
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Empirical Law in Canada: Lessons for U.S.
On Feb. 18-19, 2016, Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto held a marvelous interdisciplinary law conference for graduate law students…
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Galanter on Karl,Soia,& UofC’s Realist Tradition
In this interview, NLR Conversations asked Marc Galanter to talk about his memories of Karl Llewellyn and Soia Mentschikoff during his time at…
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Fineman on Vulnerability and Law
In this provocative and fascinating post, Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University Law School, provides a brief…
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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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Atuahene on NLR and South Africa
New Legal Realism Conversations is excited to welcome our newest blogger, Professor Bernadette Atuahene! Bernadette’s work exemplifies the NLR ideal three-part combination of work on law, social…
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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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