Overviews: "Large Tent" Interdisciplinary Approaches in New Legal Realism

Brian Tamanaha, Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997)

New Legal Realism Symposium: Is It Time For a New Legal Realism? Wisconsin Law Review (2005)
... articles by Stewart Macaulay, Martha Albertson Fineman, Arthur McEvoy, Louise Trubek, Guadalupe Luna, Thomas Mitchell, Devah Pager, Laura Beth Nielsen & Robert Nelson, Bruce Price, & a Roundtable with Joel Handler, Orly Lobel, Elizabeth Mertz, Edward Rubin, and William Simon

Symposium: New Legal Realism Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2006) ... articles by Mitu Gulati & L.B. Nielsen, Cheryl Kaiser & Brenda Major, John Conley, Alexandra Kalev & Frank Dobbin, Nicholas Pedriana & Amanda Abraham, Bryant Garth, Elizabeth Heger Boyle & Erika Busse, and Sally Engle Merry

Stewart Macaulay: “The New versus the Old Legal Realism: "Things Ain't What They Used to Be”
2005 Wisc. L. Rev. 365 (2005)

New Legal Realist Research on Judicial Behavior

Frank B. Cross: “Political Science and the New Legal Realism: A Case of Unfortunate Interdisciplinary Ignorance"
92 Nw. U. L. Rev. 251(1997)

Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein: “The New Legal Realism”
75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 831 (2008) [Working Paper]*

*Miles and Sunstein provide an example of "Small Tent" NLR, limited to quantitative study of judicial behavior. By contrast, "Large Tent" approaches follow the original realists in drawing on a variety of social science fields and studying law not only in the courtroom but also in other sites.

New Legal Realist Research on Discrimination
Nielsen, Laura Beth, and Robert Nelson, Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities. Springer (2005)

Albiston, C: "Institutional Perspectives on Law, Work, and Family." 3 Ann. Rev. of Law and Soc. Sci. 397-426 (2007)

Gulati, Mitu, and Laura Beth Nielsen: Introduction: A New Legal Realist Perspective on Employment Discrimination, 31 Law & Soc. Inq. 797 (2006)

Krieger, Linda & Susan Fiske: "Behavioral Realism in Employment Discrimination Law: Implicit Bias and Disparate Treatment," 94 Cal. L. Rev. 997 (2006).

Mitchell, Thomas: "Destabilizing the Normalization of Rural Black Land Loss: A Critical Role for Legal Empiricism," 2005 Wisc. L. Rev. 557 (2005).

EXAMPLES OF thoughtful articles on the steps needed to translate empirical research on discrimination for law:
Bagenstos, Samuel, "Implicit Bias, 'Science,' and Antidiscrimination Law," 1 Harvard Law & Policy Review 477 (2007).

Sturm, Susan, "Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach," 101 Colum. L. Rev. 458 (2001)

More Empirical Studies of Discrimination Law "on the ground"

New Legal Realist Research on Global Law
Garth, Bryant G.: "Taking New Legal Realism to Transnational Issues and Institutions," 31 Law & Soc. Inq. 939 (2006).

Merry, Sally Engle: "New Legal Realism and the Ethnography of Transnational Law" 31 Law & Soc. Inq. 975 (2006).

Shaffer, Greg: ""A New Legal Realism: Method in International Economic Law Scholarship" in International Economic Law: The State and Future of the Discipline 29-42 (Colin B. Picker, Isabella D. Bunn & Douglas W. Arner, eds., Hart Publishing, 2008)

In upcoming months, we will expand our Readings section to cover more topics and areas of fruitful interaction between social science and law