New Frontiers of Legal Realism:
American, Scandinavian, European, Global

Copenhagen 29-30 May 2012

Venue: The Carlsberg Academy, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby
Getting There

If you have any queries please contact: Jakob v. H. Holtermann ( jvhh@jur.ku.dk ) or Mikael Rask Madsen ( mrm@jur.ku.dk ).

All abstracts can be found here

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14:35-15:15:

Brian Leiter (University of Chicago Law School): Legal Realisms, Old and New

Jakob v. H. Holtermann (University of Copenhagen): Getting Real or Staying Positive : Legal Realism(s), Legal Positivism, and the Prospects of Naturalism in Jurisprudence

Discussion

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16:35-17:15:

Heinz Klug (University of Wisconsin Law School) & Elisabeth Mertz (University of Wisconsin Law School) : Legal Realism : Translating for a Post-Imperial Law

Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen): Making Law Intelligible : From Legal Realism to Reflexive Sociology of Law

Discussion

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Yves Dezalay (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): Beyond the Doctrinal Limits of Legal Realism : The Construction of Legal Markets Through Investments in Social Capital, Knowledge and State Politics

Karen Knop (University of Toronto) & Annelise Riles (Cornell Law School): Resisting the Turn Away From Law : On Post-Post-Essentialist Feminism and US Foreign Policy

Discussion

Jeffrey J. Rachlinski (Cornell University Law School): Does Empirical Legal Studies Shed More Heat than Light?

Gregory Shaffer (University of Minnesota Law School) & Victoria Nourse (Georgetown University): Empiricism versus Experimentalism as Forms of New Legal Realism

Discussion

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Torben Spaak (Uppsala University): Realism about the Nature of Law

Henrik Palmer Olsen & Stuart Toddington (University of Huddersfield): Being Realistic About Legal Theory

Discussion

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Diana Constantinescu (University College London): Reviving Legal Realism: An Updated perspective of the Hunch in Judicial Decision Making

Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia): Legal Realism Untamed

Discussion