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"BIG-TENT" NEW LEGAL REALISM READINGS:
TRANSLATING EMPIRICAL LAW-AND-SOCIETY FOR LEGAL AUDIENCES

*New Legal Realism Symposium: Is It Time For a New Legal Realism? Wisconsin Law Review 2005 and
*Symposium: New Legal Realism Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fall 2006
----Coordinated publication effort by student-edited and peer-reviewed journals----

Hanoch Dagan: "The Realist Conception of Law," Working Paper

Howard Erlanger, Bryant Garth, Jane Larson, Stewart Macaulay, Elizabeth Mertz, Victoria Nourse, and David Wilkins: "Is It Time For a New Legal Realism?" SSRN version of Wisconsin Law Review article 2005

Kruse, Katherine: "Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism and Clinical Legal Education," 56 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 295 (2011).

Stewart Macaulay: “Contracts, New Legal Realism, and Improving the Navigation of The Yellow Submarine”
80 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (2006).

Victoria Nourse & Gregory Shaffer: “Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?” 95 Cornell L. Rev.62 (2009)

Brian Tamanaha: "Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging," (Princeton Univ. Press, 2010).

Additional Readings: Realist & Empirical Studies of Law

NLR Scholarship in Action: Larson on the Colonias Projects

NLR Working Papers

New! Selected NLR Working Papers posted 2007-2011

Authors include Hanoch Dagan; Gregory Shaffer; Michael McCann; Brian Leiter; Eileen Braman and J. Mitchell Pickerill, Victoria Nourse & Gregory Shaffer; Stewart Macaulay; Elizabeth Mertz; David Wilkins

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DISCUSSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF NEW LEGAL REALIST SCHOLARSHIP WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD

Kitty Calavita: American Sociological Association Law Section Chair’s Column
AMICI, Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the ASA Fall 2006 (Vol. 13:2), pp. 1-3

Thomas Mitchell & Elizabeth Mertz: The Empirical Turn in the Legal Academy: A New Legal Realist Perspective
Law & Society Newsletter November 2006, pp. 4-5

NLR TRANSLATIONS:
Stewart Macaulay: The New Versus The Old Legal Realism: Things Ain't What They Used to Be
*Translated in Chinese by Fan Yu (Renmin University of China, Beijing) in 24 Tribune of Political Science and Law (Journal of China University of Political Science and Law), No. 4, at 54 (2006).
*Also in Chinese in China Legal Science, No. 4, at 38 (2006)
*In Japanese: Translated by Yasuhiro Yamaguchi in 13 Toin Law Review, No. 1 (2006).