Despite this success, LSA has had comparatively little influence inside the world of authorized scholarship and regulation schools, though in recent years they have shown renewed interest in drawing on and incorporating social scientific and empirical views. As part of the brand new legal realist effort, this CRN focuses explicitly on supporting efforts to translate social science into authorized scholarship, while additionally encouraging a broader understanding of authorized logics that usually function independently of empirical analysis. Building on the LSA custom, students concerned in this CRN work with the complete range of obtainable empirical strategies – qualitative and quantitative, ethnographic and statistical. Our aim is to encourage a very interdisciplinary approach to researching legislation “in action” and “in books.” We additionally provide support and networking for LSA members who’re actively involved in law schools and/or law follow, and who are dedicated to social science approaches to studying law.

In a global economic system, there is a want for brand spanking new approaches to the age-old problem of protecting employees’ rights and improving labor requirements. Globalization impacts the nature of work and the character of the employment relationship around the world. Pressures on firms to enhance competitiveness via restructuring workforces and production throughout national borders have led to increased challenges for nation-states.

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The legal realist movement was impressed by John Chipman Gray and Oliver Wendall Holmes and reached its apex within the Nineteen Twenties and 30s through the work of Karl Llewellyn, Jerome Frank, and Felix Cohen. The realists …