Victoria Nourse and Gregory Shaffer (University of Wisconsin Law School and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law) have posted Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory? (A Synopsis) (The Legal Workshop, January 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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This synopsis is to our article Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory? The synopsis and article map and analyze three varieties of a new legal realism. We contend that these varieties of new legal realism provide responses to a “new formalism,” that of neoclassical law and economics. We conclude by outlining a “dynamic new realism” which builds from what we consider to be the best of the new legal realism.
