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The New Old Legal Realism, Mitu Gulati, Tracey E. George, Ann Mcginley
The New Old Legal Realism, Mitu Gulati, Tracey E. George, Ann Mcginley
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Do the decisions of appellate courts matter in the real world? The American judicial system, legal education, and academic scholarship are premised on the view that they do. The authors want to reexamine this question by taking the approach advocated by the original Legal Realists. The current project seeks to add to our knowledge of the relevance of case law by focusing on an area that has received little examination: how pronouncements about employment discrimination law by appellate courts translate into understandings and behavior at the ground level. As our lens, we use evidence of how people talk about the …
Peaceful Penetration: Proxy Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, And Recognition, Kerry Abrams
Peaceful Penetration: Proxy Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, And Recognition, Kerry Abrams
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Legal Culture, Ralf Michaels
Legal Culture, Ralf Michaels
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Written for an encyclopedia on European private law, this brief
article addresses the term legal culture, the relation between law and
culture, the relevance of legal culture, legal culture in the national
and European context, and criticism of the concept.