Malcolm Feeley Reflects on Frank Remington,the ABF Survey & Wisconsin
In this post, Malcolm Feeley of Berkeley’s Boalt Law School writes of a particular Realist legacy in criminal law. He focuses on a…
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Category: Original Legal Realists
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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“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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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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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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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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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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