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NLR Events NLR Panels scheduled for May 29-31, 2009 Law & Society Association Meetings DENVER COLORADO Click here to learn about  Collaborative Research Network #28:  REALIST AND EMPIRICAL LEGAL METHODS   SPONSORED BY THE LAW & SOCIETY ASSOCIATION PODCAST AVAILABLE! Session on "New Legal Realism" held at the 2009 AALS Meetings in SanDiego		NLR Reading Corner **NLR Bibliography** **Working Papers** **News of New Legal Realism Travels!** NLR featured in ASA Law Section Presidential column NLR in Law and Society Association Newsletter Seminal NLR article translated in several languages
About NLR The New Legal Realism Project (NLR) challenges scholars in law and social science to develop a more rigorous and productive interdisciplinary method for studying law. Read more about NLR here. Studying law from the ground level up to the top Developing an NLR model A Tripartite Approach:   Translating Law, Social Science and Policy Studying Law from the “Bottom Up to the Top” Beginning with a Practice: A Renewed Pragmatism for Law Bringing Empirical Research to Legal Education New Legal Realism and “Legal Optimism”: Constructive Empirical Research on Law New Legal Realism in the Global Arena
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