Books written by Elizabeth Mertz
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The Language of Law School: Learning to "think Like a Lawyer"
Comaroff, Jean. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Comaroff, Jean, and John Comaroff. Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, ...
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Law in Action: A Socio-legal Reader
This text is designed for law students and for courses in legal studies programs.
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The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward ...
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Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures
Finally, this collection examines how structural barriers replicate injustice even within institutions representing themselves as democratic and open, revealing common dynamics across cultural and institutional forms.
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Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
... cases as well as language issues arising in the area of statutes, statutory interpretation, courtroom discourse, ... Gaines Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates Karen Tracy Translating the Social ...
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Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism
This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations.
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Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives
LANGUAGE,. THOUGHT,. AND. CULTURE. Advances in the Study of Cognition Under the Editorship of E. A. HAMMEL ... Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change Susan Ervin-Tripp and Claudia Mitchell-Kerman (Eds.), Child Discourse Lynn A.
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The Role of Social Science in Law
The legal system relies on social science for answers to many tough questions. Social scientists study issues relevant to law. But are law and social science talking past one another?...
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Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation" as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili.
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The New Legal Realism: Volume 1: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice
This is the first of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism as a field of study.
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Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures
Based on original, empirical research, this book investigates this myth from myriad perspectives.
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The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward ...
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The New Legal Realism: Volume 1: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice
This is the first of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism as a field of study.
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Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
... Grand Theft Video: Running and Gunning for the U.S. Empire.” In The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto, edited by Nate Garrelts, 104–114. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Reed, Thomas B. 1894. Reed's Rules: A Manual of General ...