Vol - I Introduction : new legal realism : law and social science in the new millennium / E -- A new legal realism : elegant models and the messy law in action / Putting the "real world" into traditional classroom teaching / Some realism about realism in teaching about the legal profession / "Fielding" legal realism : law students as participant- observers? / Legal r/realism and jurisprudence : ten theses / Legal realism in context / Legal storytelling as a variety of legal realism / Combining methods for a new synthesis in law and empirical research / New legal realism and inequality / The financial crisis and moral accountability : translating practices of risk, profit and uncertainty / The moment of possibles : some new legal realism about a "reality thriller" case / Translating law across cultures and societies : a conversation with David Bellos and Kim Lane Scheppele / Is there a lingua franca for the American legal academy? / Mary Anne Case.

Volume II. Introduction / Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry -- African constitutionalism from the bottom-up / Human rights monitoring, state compliance, and the problem of information / Intellectual property and the creation of global rules / Colonizing the clinic : the adventures of law in HIV treatment and research / The politics of Islamic law and human rights : Sudan's rival legal systems / Women seeking justice at the intersection between vernacular and state laws and courts in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / New legal realism and international law / The deconstruction of offshore / The changing role of lawyers in China : state bureaucrats, market brokers, and political activists / The irreconcilable goals of transitional justice / Pushing states to prosecute atrocity : the Inter-American Court and positive complementarity / When law and social science diverge : causation in the international law of incitement to commit genocide / Richard A. Wilson.