This review explores the creation and transformation of the field of international human rights in the period after World War II. The narrative proceeds through an examination, based on documentary evidence and interviews, of three generations of human rights nongovernmental organizations: the...

Drawing on sociological research, the article explores the question of "spillover" at national and transnational levels. It asks, in particular, whether both sides of a potential transnational legal order -- the private law side of economic law and corporate law firms on one side, and the world...

Drawing on the sociological tools of Pierre Bourdieu, this chapter traces the role of law in U.S. foreign policy over the course of the twentieth century, showing the rise of the so-called Foreign Policy Establishment led by corporate lawyers representing themselves and their clients - while...

This article starts from the useful image of professions as “Lords of the Dance” playing central roles in constructing and managing institutions. Drawing on our own comparative research and Pierre Bourdieu's sociological approach, we present an alternative and in part complementary analysis...

The growth of high stakes disputes between corporations and states has triggered a surge of interest for the professionals of international justice: the ‘club' of international arbitrators or the ‘invisible college' of the International court of justice (ICJ). Scholarly accounts on these...

On the basis of qualitative interviews as part of the After the J.D. Project, the paper explores the attrition of associates in corporate law firms. One aspect of the paper explores the continuing high attrition among women and minorities and how that is produced. The other aspect focuses on the...

This article, a comment on Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar's empirically-based article on “Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Programs: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who They Are,” seeks to situate U.S. foreign-oriented LLM (and more generally graduate law) programs within a global and even...

This Foreword introduces a Symposium issue of the Wisconsin Law Review devoted to the New Legal Realism Project. The NLR Project is aimed at developing a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach for translating social science in legal settings. One core focus is combining qualitative and...