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 tha…
Dr. Richard Ashby Wilson is a Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Anthropology and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He…
Amy Cohen is the inaugural holder of the Robert J. Reinstein Chair in law. Before joining Temple, she was the John C. Elam/Vorys…
John Bliss is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and an affiliate faculty member at the Harvard…
Alexandra Huneeus is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her PhD, JD and BA from…
Deepa Das Acevedo is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. In addition to being a legal anthropologist,…
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…
Season two of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars. This third episode presents an interview with Professor…
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…
Season 2 of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars, kicking off with April Faith-Slaker’s interview of Thomas…
In the fourth episode of our NLR podcast series, April Faith-Slaker talks with Stewart Macaulay (Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of…
In our third NLR podcast, Elizabeth Mertz interviews Sally Engle Merry, Silver Professor of Anthropology at NYU and former President of the Law…
In the second of our NLR podcast series, April Faith-Slaker talks with Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law…
Michael McCann, former President of the Law & Society Association, leads off our podcast series – just as his preface led off both…