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The New Legal Realism and The Realist View of Law

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Mertz Elizabeth., Macaulay Stewart., and Mitchell Thomas W.., eds. 2016. The New Regal Realism: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxi + 303.
Klug Heinz., and Merry Sally Engle., eds. 2016. The New Regal Realism: Studying Law Globally. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxiii + 282.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Hanoch Dagan  and
Roy Kreitner
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New legal realism (NLR) furthers the legal realist legacy by focusing attention on both the pertinent social science and the craft that typifies legal discourse and legal institutions. NLR's globalized ambitions also highlight the potential of a nonstatist view of law. The realist view of law raises three challenges facing NLR: identifying the “lingua franca” of law as an academic discipline within which NLR insights on translation and synthesis should be situated; conceptualizing NLR's focus on bottom-up investigation, so that it does not defy the rule of law; and recognizing the normative underpinning for NLR's reformist impulse.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , Spring 2018 , pp. 528 - 553
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