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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Tag: law-in-action
Rudy Elmer, the Panama Papers and Deconstructing Offshore
In this post, Sol Picciotto, Emeritus Professor of Lancaster University, provides an update on developments pertaining to the case of Rudolf Elmer which…
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Fineman on Vulnerability and Law
In this provocative and fascinating post, Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University Law School, provides a brief…
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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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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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