Overview

This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. Highlighting a contrast with the current Empirical Legal Studies movement, chapters employ a variety of theoretically grounded methods to understand law and address legal problems. They explore an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with an examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR. Incorporating global perspectives, the Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism will be a key resource for scholars and students of legal theory and sociolegal studies. Illuminating the best approaches for combining social science considerations with expert perspectives on legal doctrines, it will also be of interest to practitioners and policy makers working in fields such as criminal and family law.

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'This exciting Handbook is an essential resource on the New Legal Realism (NLR), which developed a distinctive genre of empirical research of law. The Handbook powerfully exemplifies NLR's integrative strategy, which deploys mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative as well as observational and experimental) and is attentive to the challenge of translation between social science and law. Covering a wide range of timely topics, this rich Handbook provides valuable insights on legal institutions and the individuals and organizations that encounter law.' -- Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel

'In every way imaginable this volume is superb. It picks up where the Old Legal Realism left off, and shows what the New Legal Realism has to offer. Its contributors are a who's who in their fields. Their well-written chapters are packed with insights. The book will serve a diverse audience. As a whole, the volume will force everyone who looks at it to place their interests in broad context. It is a stunning achievement.' -- Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley, US 'This exciting Handbook is an essential resource on the New Legal Realism (NLR), which developed a distinctive genre of empirical research of law. The Handbook powerfully exemplifies NLR's integrative strategy, which deploys mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative as well as observational and experimental) and is attentive to the challenge of translation between social science and law. Covering a wide range of timely topics, this rich Handbook provides valuable insights on legal institutions and the individuals and organizations that encounter law.' -- Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel

'This splendid volume displays a wide range of methodologically diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded scholarship that thrives in the big tent of the new legal realism intellectual enterprise. The chapters creatively draw on both disciplinary and interdisciplinary social science frameworks to demonstrate the power and meaning of law in action throughout multiple social, economic, and political contexts around the globe. The book is a major achievement. Highly recommended for scholars and teachers of law!' -- Michael McCann, University of Washington, US 'In every way imaginable this volume is superb. It picks up where the Old Legal Realism left off, and shows what the New Legal Realism has to offer. Its contributors are a who's who in their fields. Their well-written chapters are packed with insights. The book will serve a diverse audience. As a whole, the volume will force everyone who looks at it to place their interests in broad context. It is a stunning achievement.' -- Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley, US 'This exciting Handbook is an essential resource on the New Legal Realism (NLR), which developed a distinctive genre of empirical research of law. The Handbook powerfully exemplifies NLR's integrative strategy, which deploys mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative as well as observational and experimental) and is attentive to the challenge of translation between social science and law. Covering a wide range of timely topics, this rich Handbook provides valuable insights on legal institutions and the individuals and organizations that encounter law.' -- Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Edited by Shauhin Talesh, Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, Elizabeth Mertz, Research Professor, American Bar Foundation and John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law Emerita, University of Wisconsin and Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, US and Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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