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: Legal Scholarship
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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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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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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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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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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Shedding Empirical Light on Indigent Defense
Often the new empiricism in law takes the form of advice from social scientists to lawyers. In this interesting post, Professor Michele LaVigne…
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