Elizabeth Mertz

University of Wisconsin - Madison

716 Langdon Street

Madison, WI 53706-1481

United States

American Bar Foundation

750 N. Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60611

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  • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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1.

Is it Time for a New Legal Realism?

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2005, No. 2, pp. 335-363, 2005
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 May 2006
Howard S. Erlanger, Bryant Garth, Jane E. Larson, Elizabeth Mertz, Victoria Nourse and David B. Wilkins
University of Wisconsin Law School, University of California, Irvine School of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Georgetown University Law Center and Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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new legal realism, empirical legal studies, legal pragmatism, interdisciplinary translation

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Metalinguistic Awareness

HANDBOOK OF PRAGMATICS HIGHLIGHTS, Jef Verschueren & Jan-Ola Östman, eds., Kluwer, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel
University of Wisconsin - Madison and NYU School of Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice
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Metalinguistic awareness, Metalanguage, Metaparagmatics, Linguistic performance, Language aquisition

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The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions

HANDBOOK OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Austin Sarat, ed., Blackwell, 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2006
Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth Mertz
NYU School of Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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adjudication, law and social change, law and knowledge, law and science, law and social science, Daubert, evidence, philosophy of social sciences

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Comparative Anthropology of Law

COMPARATIVE LAW AND SOCIETY: RESEARCH HANDBOOKS IN COMPARATIVE LAW, David Clark, ed., Edward Elgar, 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Jan 2012
Elizabeth Mertz and Mark Goodale
University of Wisconsin - Madison and George Mason University
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legal anthropology, empirical legal studies, new legal realism, law and social science, legal ethnography

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The Role of Social Science in Law: Introduction

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN LAW, Elizabeth Mertz, ed., Ashgate, 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Nov 2010
Elizabeth Mertz
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Social Science and Law, Legal Translation, Methodology, Law and Society, Law and Literature

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Introduction: Bureaucracy: Ethnography of the State in Everyday Life

Polar: Political & Legal Anthropology Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 08 Jul 2012
Anya Bernstein and Elizabeth Mertz
University at Buffalo Law School and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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bureaucracy, ethnography, legal anthropology

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Is it Fair? Law Professors’ Perceptions of Tenure

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 61, No. 4, May 2012
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2012
Katherine Y. Barnes and Elizabeth Mertz
University of Arizona Rogers College of Law and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Tenure system, Legal Education

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Courtroom Narrative

ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NARRATIVE THEORY, David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan, eds., Routledge, 2005
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2013
Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel
University of Wisconsin - Madison and NYU School of Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice
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law and language, litigation, narrative theory, empirical legal studies, coherence, legal rhetoric, courtroom narrative

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A New Legal Empiricism? Assessing ELS and NLR

Annual Review of Law and Social Science Vol. 6, pp. 555-579, 2010
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2011
Mark C. Suchman and Elizabeth Mertz
Brown University and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Sociolegal Studies, Law and Society, Social Science, Empirical Research, Theory

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Inside the Law School Classroom: Toward a New Legal Realist Pedagogy

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 483, 2007
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Dec 2010
Elizabeth Mertz
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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law school education, legal language, new legal realism, empirical legal research

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Undervaluing Indeterminacy: Translating Social Science into Law

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 397, 2011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Jan 2012
Elizabeth Mertz
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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indeterminacy, empirical legal studies, social science and law

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The New Legal Realism Volume I: Table of Contents

The New Legal Realism: Translating Law-and-Society for Today’s Legal Practice, Volume I Editors: Stewart Macaulay, Elizabeth Mertz, and Thomas W. Mitchell (2016)
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 28 Sep 2017
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay and Heinz Klug
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School
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Introduction: New Legal Realism at Ten Years and Beyond

6 UC Irvine Law Review 121 (2016)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 May 2017
Elizabeth Mertz and Bryant Garth
University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of California, Irvine School of Law
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New Legal Realism, Empirical Law, Social Sciences

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Social Science and the Intellectual Apprenticeship: Moving the Scholarly Mission of Law Schools Forward

Legal Writing, Vol. 17, No. 427, 2011
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Jan 2012
Elizabeth Mertz
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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empirical legal studies, legal education reform, new legal realism, legal scholarship, legal theory

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Translating Science into Family Law

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, p. 799, 2007
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Dec 2010
Elizabeth Mertz
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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science, family law, biology and law, children, trauma

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The New Legal Realism Volume II - Table of Contents

VOLUME II, Studying Law Globally: New Legal Realist Perspectives, Volume II Editors: Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry (2016)
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 28 Sep 2017
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay and Heinz Klug
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School
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The New Legal Realism: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice Volume I: Table of Contents

American Bar Foundation Research Paper No. 5-17
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 11 Oct 2017
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay and Thomas W. Mitchell
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin Law School and Texas A&M University School of Law
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Attorneys as Gatekeepers to the Court: The Potential Liability of Attorneys Bringing Suits Based on Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1998
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 09 Aug 2012
Cynthia Grant Bowman and Elizabeth Mertz
Cornell University - Law School and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Recovered memories, Child sexual abuse

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Balanced Judicial Realism in the Service of Justice: Judge Richard D. Cudahy

67 Depaul Law Review 655 (2018)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jun 2018
Elizabeth Mertz and Cynthia Grant Bowman
University of Wisconsin - Madison and Cornell University - Law School
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Judicial Realism, Richard Cudahy, Judicial Legacy, Judicial History, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

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The New Legal Realism Volume II: Studying Law Globally: Abstracts

The New Legal Realism Volume II: Studying Law Globally (2016)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 28 Sep 2017
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay and Heinz Klug
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School
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The New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice Abstracts

The New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice (2016)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 28 Sep 2017
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay and Heinz Klug
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School
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What Should the Courts Do About Memories of Sexual Abuse? Toward a Balanced Approach

35 Judges Journal 1996
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Aug 2012
Cynthia Grant Bowman and Elizabeth Mertz
Cornell University - Law School and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Courts, Sexual Abuse, Memories

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New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice

Elizabeth Mertz, Thomas W. Mitchell, Stewart Macaulay (eds.), New Legal Realism Volume 1: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice, Cambridge University Press: New York (2016).
Posted: 06 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2017
Elizabeth Mertz, Stewart Macaulay and Thomas W. Mitchell
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin Law School and Texas A&M University School of Law

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Legal Realism, Law and Society, financial crisis, disenfranchisement, social sciences, intellectual property, socio-legal studies

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Language-and-Law Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Conversation and a Post-9/11 Example

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 10, pp. 169-183, 2014
Posted: 05 Nov 2014
Elizabeth Mertz and Jothie Rajah
University of Wisconsin - Madison and American Bar Foundation

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Toward a New Legal Empiricism: Empirical Legal Studies and New Legal Realism

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 555-579, 2010
Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Mark C. Suchman and Elizabeth Mertz
Brown University and University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Semiotic Anthropology

Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 36, October 2007
Posted: 04 Dec 2007
Elizabeth Mertz
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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pragmatics, C.S. Peirce, power, indexicality, metalinguistic