Open Source Program (A program competitively selected by the AALS Committee on Open Source Programs)
Coronado, South Tower/Level 4, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
New Legal Realism
The term new legal realism has appeared over 200 times in the law review literature but has widely divergent meanings to different groups of scholars in different disciplines. To some, it simply means empiricism, to others behavioral economics, to others institutional analysis, and still others reflexive inquiry and qualitative research. Obviously, the old legal realism had many branches and the new may have as many, too. However, given an explosion of interest in empirical work in the academy, we believe it time to bring together scholars, junior and senior, with divergent views about the meaning of new legal realism to engage with each other in a single forum. The participants include scholars associated with widely divergent subject matter areas, from international law to constitutional law, from employment law to poverty law, from evidence to criminal law. Together we will examine the differences and similarities in our approaches to a new legal realism.
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