Collaborative Research Networks
Organizers
Riaz Tejani, Emily Taylor Poppe
For many decades, the law-and-society movement has served as a vibrant meeting point for scholars interested in empirical research on law. Despite this success, LSA has had relatively little impact within the worlds of legal scholarship and law schools. As part of the new legal realist effort, this CRN focuses explicitly on supporting efforts to translate sociolegal scholarship within the legal academy, while also encouraging empirical researchers to take legal logics seriously. Building on the LSA tradition, scholars involved in this CRN work with the full range of available empirical methods – qualitative and quantitative, ethnographic and statistical. Our goal is to encourage a truly interdisciplinary approach to researching law “in action” and “in books.” We also offer support and networking for LSA members who are actively involved in law schools and/or law practice, and who are committed to social science approaches to studying law.
More extensive discussion of these ideas, and also links to further resources can be found at www.newlegalrealism.org