NLR Scholarship
New Legal Realism Scholarship
A strong focus on developing systematic, rigorous translations between law and social science has characterized the NLR project since its inception. This focus was evident in a series of exchanges that appeared during the late 1990s in Law & Social Inquiry, a leading sociolegal journal sponsored by the American Bar Foundation. Under the heading of “From the Trenches and Towers,” these exchanges brought practitioners and scholars together to discuss topics of mutual concern:
"FROM THE TRENCHES AND TOWERS"
LSI 23:2 1998 Legal Ethics in the Next Generation: The Push for a New Legal Realism
LSI 23:3 1998 Social Science Study of the American Law Institute
LSI 24:4 1999 Evidentiary Privilege for Social Scientists
LSI 25:2 2000 Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: The University of Michigan Study
LSI 27:3 2002 Current Illusions and Delusions about Conflict Management
LSI 29:3 2004 MDPs after Enron/Andersen
New legal realist scholarship brings social science and legal research together in a new synthesis. This scholarship has appeared in special issues of journals (both peer-reviewed and law student-edited), individual published articles, and working papers available on the NLR website.
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