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The New Legal Realism
Authors: Elizabeth Mertz, University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies, Emory University School of Law, Updated Jul 30, 2009
Lawyers and law professors frequently draw on social science, and there are many social scientists who devote their careers to studying legal institutions and processes. Yet despite their apparent…

Legal profession

Senior Status in the Legal Academy
Authors: Elizabeth Mertz, Katherine Barnes , Wamucii Njogu, Updated Jul 30, 2009
This is the first national study examining the post-tenure experiences of law professors in the United States. Tenured law professors shape many aspects of the institutional settings within law…