“BIG-TENT” NEW LEGAL REALISM READINGS:
TRANSLATING EMPIRICAL LAW-AND-SOCIETY FOR LEGAL AUDIENCES
The New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-And-Society for Today’s Legal Practice. 2016. Edited by Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay, and Thomas W. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press…chapters by Michael McCann, Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay, Jane H. Aiken, Ann Shalleck, Ann Southworth, Bryant Garth, Catherine Fisk, Riaz Tejani, William Twining, Brian Z. Tamanaha, Robert W. Gordon, Katherine Barnes, Thomas W. Mitchell, Alex Tham, Hadi Nicholas Deeb, David Bellos, Kim Lane Scheppele, and Mary Anne Case
The New Legal Realism Volume II: Studying Law Globally. 2016. Edited by Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry. New York: Cambridge University Press…chapters by Michael McCann, Heinz Klug, Sally Engle Merry, Martin Chanock, Susan K. Sell, Carol A. Heimer, Jaimie Morse, Mark Fathi Massoud, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, Gregory Shaffer, Sol Picciotto, Sida Liu, Bronwyn Leebaw, Alexandra Huneeus, and Richard A. Wilson
Translating the Social World for Law. 2016. Edited by Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford, and Gregory M. Matoesian. New York: Oxford University Press….chapters by M. Catherine Gruber, Gregory Matoesian, Christopher Roy, Michael Silverstein, Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Robert P. Burns, Susan Gal, and Peter Brooks.
The New Legal Realism at Ten Years. UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 6, No.2 (June 2016)….articles by Bryant Garth, Elizabeth Mertz, Brian Bix, Stewart Macaulay, Anna Offit, Riaz Tejani, Mario L. Barnes.
New Legal Realism Symposium: Is It Time For a New Legal Realism? Wisconsin Law Review (2005)
… articles by Stewart Macaulay, Martha Albertson Fineman, Arthur McEvoy, Louise Trubek, Guadalupe Luna, Thomas Mitchell, Devah Pager, Laura Beth Nielsen & Robert Nelson, Bruce Price, & a Roundtable with Joel Handler, Orly Lobel, Elizabeth Mertz, Edward Rubin, and William Simon
Symposium: New Legal Realism Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2006) … articles by Mitu Gulati & L.B. Nielsen, Cheryl Kaiser & Brenda Major, John Conley, Alexandra Kalev & Frank Dobbin, Nicholas Pedriana & Amanda Abraham, Bryant Garth, Elizabeth Heger Boyle & Erika Busse, and Sally Engle Merry
Bjarup, Jes. The Philosophy of Scandinavian Legal Realism. Ratio Juris 18(1) 1-15. (2005)
Cross, Frank B. “Political Science and the New Legal Realism: A Case of Unfortunate Interdisciplinary Ignorance” 92 Nw. U. L. Rev. 251 (1997).
Dagan, Hanoch. “The Realist Conception of Law.” Working Paper
Dagan, Hanoch. Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory. Oxford University Press. (2013).
Erlanger, Howard, Bryant Garth, Jane Larson, Stewart Macaulay, Elizabeth Mertz, Victoria Nourse, and David Wilkins. “Is It Time For a New Legal Realism?” SSRN version of Wisconsin Law Review article 2005
Krawietz, Werner. “The Concept of Law Revised—Directives and Norms in the Perspectives of a New Legal Realism.” Ratio Juris 14 (March 2002)
Kruse, Katherine. “Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism and Clinical Legal Education.” 56 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 295 (2011).
Macaulay, Stewart. “Contracts, New Legal Realism, and Improving the Navigation of The Yellow Submarine” 80 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (2006).
Macaulay, Stewart: “The New versus the Old Legal Realism: “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be” 2005 Wisc. L. Rev. 365 (2005)
Miles, Thomas J., and Cass R. Sunstein. “The New Legal Realism” [Working Paper]. 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 831 (2008)
*Miles and Sunstein provide an example of “Small Tent” NLR, limited to quantitative study of judicial behavior. By contrast, most other authors on the list follow the “big tent” approach of the original realists in drawing on a variety of social science fields and studying law not only in the courtroom but also in other sites.
Mitchell, Thomas, and Elizabeth Mertz. The Empirical Turn in the Legal Academy: A New Legal Realist Perspective
Law & Society Newsletter. November 2006, pp. 4-5
Nourse, Victoria, and Gregory Shaffer. “Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?” 95 Cornell L. Rev.62 (2009)
Suchman, Mark, and Elizabeth Mertz. “Toward a New Legal Empiricism: Empirical Legal Studies and New Legal Realism” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, No. 1: 555-579 (December 2010).
Tamanaha, Brian. “Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging,” (Princeton Univ. Press, 2010).
Tamanaha,Brian. Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997)