Additional Conversation: Hajjar and Mertz Respond to Margulies
Joe Margulies: I view this as a very curious thing. We all recognize that emotional attachments figure in the social construction of meaning, including in…
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Category: Law and Society
Margulies on LSA: Ruminations on Law, Legal Realism, and Emotional Attachments
Following the 50th Anniversary Law & Society Conference in Minneapolis, we at NLR Conversations had the idea of sharing some reactions to the…
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Happy Birthday to the Law & Society Association!
We at the New Legal Realism blog want to congratulate the Law & Society Association on the occasion of its 50th anniversary meetings. …
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MARGULIES RESPONDS TO KRISTOF: IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE!
As those who have been following New Legal Realism know, a core question for us is how best to translate social science for…
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Law in action and law on the books: A primer
We are pleased to welcome a guest blogger, Bill Clune, whose post gives us his “primer” on the concept of law-in-action, a concept…
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Comparative institutional analysis and NLR
How do we move from detailed empirical research on law to address broader questions about how law operates? Our blog and website this…
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NLR BLOG FORUM: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO WOMEN IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION – PART 2: LAW PROFESSORS
In this entry, Professors Katherine Barnes and Elizabeth Mertz share some findings on women law professors, drawn from their work on the ABF…
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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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Mertz Pleads for “Slow Reading” and against Academic Isolationism
I ‘d like to add two points to this interesting discussion: 1. I would commend taking some time to read in detail what…
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KT asks: Who Is the Enemy?
A very wise colleague once told me to understand scholarly developments it is helpful to ask, who is the enemy? As John Schlegel…
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