<i>'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!'</i>

- Michael McCann, University of Washington, US,

<i>'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.'</i>

- Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley, US,

<i>’This exciting Research Handbook is an essential resource on the New Legal Realism (NLR), which developed a distinctive genre of empirical research of law. The Research 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 Research Handbook provides valuable insights on legal institutions and the individuals and organizations that encounter law.’</i>

- Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel,

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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Contents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism 1 Shauhin Talesh, Elizabeth Mertz and Heinz Klug PART I VARIETIES OF LEGAL REALISM – THEN AND NOW 2 Realism then and now: using the real world to inform formal law 21 Elizabeth Mertz (with Marc Galanter) 3 East Coast Legal Realism and its progeny 36 Laura Kalman 4 From the periphery to the center and back? A brief history of Midwest Legal Realism 49 Paul Baumgardner and Ajay K. Mehrotra 5 European New Legal Realism: towards a basic science of law 67 Jakob v. H. Holtermann and Mikael Rask Madsen 6 Lessons for new Legal Realism from Africa and Latin America 82 Alexandra Huneeus and Heinz Klug PART II LEGAL REALIST SCHOLARSHIP MEETS CURRENT DILEMMAS SECTION A POLICING 7 Police violence in São Paulo: Between the asphalt and the hill 100 Sebastian Sclofsky 8 Police torture, a case for interdisciplinarity 112 Nick Cheesman 9 A Legal Realist approach to black-on-black policing 124 Devon W. Carbado and L. Song Richardson SECTION B IMMIGRATION 10 Transgressing boundaries through new Legal Realist approaches: Affinity and collaboration within ethnographic research on immigration law and policy 148 Susan Bibler Coutin 11 Enacting immigration politics in a juridical register 161 Leila Kawar and Jonathan Miaz 12 Critical legal rhetoric takes on immigration and refugee law 176 Sara L. McKinnon SECTION C LEGAL EDUCATION 13 New Legal Realism goes to law school: Integrating social science and law through legal education 191 Emily Taylor Poppe 14 Teaching an interdisciplinary law class 208 Marsha Mansfield and Elizabeth Mertz 15 Ambition and reality: Reforms of legal studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen 223 Louise Victoria Johansen and Anne Lise Kjær 16 New Legal Realism, eCRT, and the future of legal education scholarship 240 Meera E. Deo SECTION D INTERNATIONAL LAW, GLOBAL STANDARDS, AND REGIME CHANGE 17 The uses and abuses of global social indicators 263 David Nelken and Mathias Siems 18 “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience”: International legal ethnography and the New Legal Realism 277 Jens Meierhenrich and Richard Ashby Wilson 19 The judicialization of politics? 294 Heinz Klug SECTION E ACCESSING JUSTICE THROUGH LAW 20 A realist perspective on legal strategy in (the) practice 309 Liora Israël 21 Access to justice 323 Rebecca L. Sandefur 22 Planet of the insurers: how insurers shape and influence law and impact access to justice 335 Shauhin Talesh 23 Rendering rural property visible to law: a role for New Legal Realism 353 Thomas W. Mitchell 24 Urban property and housing rights in the time of the coronavirus 375 Lisa T. Alexander PART III DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 25 Anthropology 393 Riaz Tejani 26 Sociology of law and New Legal Realism 412 Calvin Morrill and Lauren B. Edelman 27 The pitfalls and promises of a New Legal Realism rooted in political science 431 Jeb Barnes 28 Psychology and legal realism 445 Tom R. Tyler 29 User’s guide to history 463 Sarah A. Seo 30 Jurisprudence and legal theory 478 Brian H. Bix 31 Law as a discipline: Legal theory, interdisciplinary legal theory, and ways of speaking legitimacy to power 489 Bryant G. Garth Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781788117760
Publisert
2021-03-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
544

Biographical note

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