The new legal realism
"This is the first of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism as a field of study. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Volume I. Translating law-and-society for today's legal practice / edited by Elizabeth Mertz (American Bar Foundation and University of Wisconsin School of Law), Stewart Macaulay (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Thomas W. Mitchell (Texas A & M University School of Law and Texas A & M Department of Agricultural Economics). Preface / Michael McCann
- Introduction : new legal realism : law and social science in the new millennium / Elizabeth Mertz
- A new legal realism : elegant models and the messy law in action / Stewart Macaulay
- Putting the "real world" into traditional classroom teaching / Jane H. Aiken and Ann Shalleck
- Some realism about realism in teaching about the legal profession / Ann Southworth, Bryant Garth, and Catherine Fisk
- "Fielding" legal realism : law students as participant- observers? / Riaz Tejani
- Legal r/realism and jurisprudence : ten theses / William Twining
- Legal realism in context / Brian Z. Tamanaha
- Legal storytelling as a variety of legal realism / Robert W. Gordon
- Combining methods for a new synthesis in law and empirical research / Elizabeth Mertz and Katherine Barnes
- New legal realism and inequality / Thomas W. Mitchell
- The financial crisis and moral accountability : translating practices of risk, profit and uncertainty / Alex Tham
- The moment of possibles : some new legal realism about a "reality thriller" case / Hadi Nicholas Deeb
- Translating law across cultures and societies : a conversation with David Bellos and Kim Lane Scheppele / David Bellos and Kim Lane Scheppele
- Is there a lingua franca for the American legal academy? / Mary Anne Case
- Volume II. Studying law globally / edited by Heinz Klug (University of Wisconsin School of Law) and Sally Engle Merry (New York University). Preface / Michael McCann
- Introduction / Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry
- African constitutionalism from the bottom-up / Martin Chanock
- Human rights monitoring, state compliance, and the problem of information / Sally Engle Merry
- Intellectual property and the creation of global rules / Susan K. Sell
- Colonizing the clinic : the adventures of law in HIV treatment and research / Carol A. Heimer and Jaimie Morse
- The politics of Islamic law and human rights : Sudan's rival legal systems / Mark Fathi Massoud
- Women seeking justice at the intersection between vernacular and state laws and courts in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
- New legal realism and international law / Gregory Shaffer
- The deconstruction of offshore / Sol Picciotto
- The changing role of lawyers in China : state bureaucrats, market brokers, and political activists / Sida Liu
- The irreconcilable goals of transitional justice / Bronwyn Leebaw
- Pushing states to prosecute atrocity : the Inter-American Court and positive complementarity / Alexandra Huneeus
- When law and social science diverge : causation in the international law of incitement to commit genocide / Richard A. Wilson