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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Tag: empirical law & society
The Trouble with Law and Order
By guest blogger Nick Cheesman What is law and order? How does it differ from the rule of law? And what are the…
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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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“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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Additional Conversation: Hajjar and Mertz Respond to Margulies
Joe Margulies: I view this as a very curious thing. We all recognize that emotional attachments figure in the social construction of meaning, including in…
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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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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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MARGULIES RESPONDS TO KRISTOF: IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE!
As those who have been following New Legal Realism know, a core question for us is how best to translate social science for…
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Comparative institutional analysis and NLR
How do we move from detailed empirical research on law to address broader questions about how law operates? Our blog and website this…
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Tejani on Transnationalism and the Law School Crisis
Transnationalism and Nonpurity: Europe, Law Schools, and ‘Law in Action’ for the Current Crisis Riaz Tejani Having recently completed an ethnography of “crisis”…
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