Introduction: A New Legal Realist Perspective On Employment Discrimination

Co-author(s)

Laura Beth Nielsen

Date

2006

Citation

G. Mitu Gulati & Laura Beth Nielsen, Introduction: A New Legal Realist Perspective On Employment Discrimination, 31 Law and Social Inquiry, 797–799 (2006).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

G. Mitu Gulati

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Center for International & Comparative Law

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

Center for Empirical Studies in Law

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