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What is New Legal Realism? What is New Legal Realism?
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- Society & Culture
Why is law so slow to get what's really happening? Why is it often so far away from our real-world experiences? The New Legal Realism movement springs from this frustration. The social sciences study how law really works, using systematic methods. But lawyers and policymakers don't often use that social science knowledge. Law students are never taught about the full range of social science that they could draw on to solve legal problems. At best, our lawyers and judges grab at bits and pieces -- some statistics here, interviews there, observations, experiments -- all jumbled up and often just plain wrong. Social scientists may be baffled about what lawyers need from them -- or how law approaches the world. And THAT'S why we need New Legal Realism, or "NLR." NLR doesn't choose one method or one kind of social science. It doesn't ignore the standards social sciences use to judge good research. But it also doesn't ignore how law works, or how lawyers talk. Law uses its own weird language. So do the social sciences. It's time to find more productive ways to communicate, so that law can get real in addressing our problems. That's the job a new generation of NLR scholars is tackling. Join our conversation!
In 2016, three books that laid out foundations for NLR appeared: The New Legal Realism, Volumes 1 & 2 from Cambridge University Press, and Translating the Social World for Law from Oxford University Press. Season 1 of our NLR podcast features interviews with authors from these books.
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An Interview with John Bliss
John Bliss is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and an affiliate faculty member at the Harvard…
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An Interview with Alexandra Huneeus
Alexandra Huneeus is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her PhD, JD and BA from…
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An Interview with Deepa Das Acevedo
Deepa Das Acevedo is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. In addition to being a legal anthropologist,…
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New Legal Realism and CRN 28: An Interview with Riaz Tejani and Emily Taylor Poppe
This episode presents an interview with Professors Riaz Tejani and Emily Taylor Poppe, who recently became co-chairs of the Law and Society Association’s…
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Theoretically-Informed Empirical Research in the Legal Academy: Shauhin Talesh’s New Legal Realist Vision
Season two of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars. This third episode presents an interview with Professor…
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Putting Empirical Research into Action: Bernadette Atuahene’s New Legal Realism
Season 2 of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars. This second episode presents an interview with Professor Bernadette Atuahene, who has…