2010: CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods
(May 27-30, Chicago, IL)

1: When Legal Cultures Meet: Interdisciplinary, Institutional, and Global Perspectives
Chair: Gregory Shaffer (University of Minnesota)

Participants: Hadi N Deeb (University of California, Los Angeles) Liora Israel (Ecoles des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Joseph Margulies (Northwestern University) Victoria Nourse (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

2. Methods Showcase (Didactic Panel): Methodological Issues in Analyzing Transcripts
Chair: Carol Heimer (Northwestern University/American Bar Foundation)

Participants: Ross Cheit (Brown University), Elizabeth Mertz (American Bar Foundation/University of Wisconsin), JuLeigh Petty (Vanderbilt University)

3.Can We Translate Law and Society?: Toward a New Legal Realist Framework
Chair: Elizabeth Mertz (American Bar Foundation/University of Wisconsin)

Participants: Robert Burns (Northwestern University), Mary Anne Case (University of Chicago), William K. Ford (John Marshall Law School), Katie Gruber (University of Chicago), Winnifred Sullivan (SUNY, Buffalo)

4. Dynamics and Changes in Legal Education: The Training of Elites in Perspective
Chair: Liora Israel (Ecoles des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Participants: Emilie Biland (CNRS France), Rachel Vanneuville (CNRS), Anne Boigeol (ISP/CNRS/ ENS Cachan),Yves M Dezalay (CNRS – MSH Paris), Cédric Moreau de Bellaing (CMH (CNRS-ENS-EHESS)), Rachel Vanneuville (CNRS), Myriam Ait-Aoudia (Sciences Po Bordeaux)