Law in Action: A UW Law School Podcast

David Trubek and Richard Abel Podcast Interview- Episode 23

Law in Action: A UW Law School Podcast

Show Notes

An interview with the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, David Trubek and the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA Law, Richard Abel.


Profs Trubek and Abel discuss their recent symposium, “The Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization: From the Cold War to Comparative Legal Sociology and Critical Legal Studies.” Profs Trubek and Abel were the main professors managing this program at Yale Law School and they talk about each of their research interests and how the program came about and its goals and ideas.

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