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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Category: Legal Scholarship
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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Macaulay continues the conversation….
… continuing our July conversation ….. STEWART MACAULAY On defining New Legal Realism: I would stress the term “new” in New Legal Realism. …
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Schlegel Responds to Leiter on Legal Realisms, Old and New
OUR NEXT GUEST BLOGGER: Schlegel! on Leiter We welcome Schlegel! of SUNY-Buffalo Law School, who has sent us a comment on Brian Leiter’s…
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Paul Secunda: Second Post on New Legal Realism
Welcome Back NLR Guest Blogger PAUL M. SECUNDA The Impact of Cognitive Illiberalism on Neutral Decisionmaking By Paul M. Secunda In my last…
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Secunda on New Legal Realism with Discussion
NEW FEATURE! Welcoming NLR Guest Blogger PAUL M. SECUNDA Paul Secunda is an Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School. Culturally-Motivated…
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Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Advocate Mixed Methods, Complex Approaches
Legal scholars seeking rigor in studying the law often turn to single-method solutions — statistical analyses of large data sets, for example, or…
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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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