Elizabeth Mertz

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Elizabeth Mertz is affiliated with the following schools: University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Chicago, University of California, San Francisco, Duke University

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Elizabeth Mertz

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#274

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#395

Historical Rank

#153

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Elizabeth Mertz's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Mertz is a linguistic and legal anthropologist who is also a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches family law courses. She has been on the research faculty of the American Bar Foundation since 1989. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University and a JD from Northwestern University . Her early research focused on language, identity and politics in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and her dissertation dealt with language shift in Cape Breton Scottish Gaelic, drawing on semiotic anthropology.

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Elizabeth Mertz's Published Works

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The influence of positive affect on the unusualness of word associations. (1985) (843)
Who is Caring for the Underserved? A Comparison of Primary Care Physicians and Nonphysician Clinicians in California and Washington (2003) (253)
The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer" (2007) (220)
Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro (1988) (143)
No exit: an evaluation of measures of physician attrition. (2004) (114)
The Language of Law School (2007) (104)
The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists. (2013) (95)
Ethnography in unstable places : everyday lives in contexts of dramatic political change (2002) (95)
Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives (1986) (88)
Linguistic Ideology and Praxis in U.S. Law School Classrooms (1992) (73)
LEGAL LANGUAGE: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Social Power (1994) (68)
Reforming the Law: Impact of Child Development Research (1987) (65)
Is it Time for a New Legal Realism? (2006) (63)
Introduction: Bureaucracy: Ethnography of the State in Everyday Life (2011) (57)
Conclusion: A New Social Constructionism for Sociolegal Studies (1994) (53)
Beyond Symbolic Anthropology: Introducing Semiotic Mediation (1985) (52)
Legal Reform and Social Construction: Violence, Gender, and the Law (1994) (44)
Toward a New Legal Empiricism: Empirical Legal Studies and New Legal Realism (2010) (40)
How much public health in public health nursing practice? (2004) (39)
Investigating obsolescence: Sociolinguistic creativity: Cape Breton Gaelic's linguistic “tip” (1989) (39)
A dangerous direction: legal intervention in sexual abuse survivor therapy. (1996) (35)
The Uses of History: Language, Ideology, and Law in the United States and South Africa (1988) (32)
Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives. (1987) (31)
The Black dentist workforce in the United States (2017) (28)
The New Legal Realism: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice (2016) (24)
Language, Law, and Social Meanings: Linguistic/Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Law@@@Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working Class Americans@@@Rules Versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse (1992) (23)
Rule-Centrism versus Legal Creativity: The Skewing of Legal Ideology through Language (1985) (23)
Reflexive language: Learning what to ask: metapragmatic factors and methodological reification (1993) (22)
Provider Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Clinical Decision Support Tools in Dental Practice. (2015) (19)
The Hispanic and Latino dentist workforce in the United States (2017) (18)
Tracking workforce diversity in dentistry: importance, methods, and challenges. (2016) (17)
Teaching Lawyers the Language of Law: Legal and Anthropological Translations, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 91 (2000) (2000) (17)
Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader (2007) (17)
Physician Diversity in California: New Findings from the California Medical Board Survey (2008) (16)
Legal loci and places in the heart: community and identity in sociolegal studies (1994) (15)
What Difference Does Difference Make? The Challenge for Legal Education. (1998) (15)
Foreign Versus Domestic Education of Physicians for the United States: A Case Study of Physicians of South Asian Ethnicity in California (2007) (15)
The American Indian and Alaska Native dentist workforce in the United States (2017) (14)
Legal Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Variability and Its Limits (1985) (13)
Introduction Getting it Done: Ethnographic Perspectives on NGOs (2010) (11)
Is it Fair? Law Professors’ Perceptions of Tenure (2010) (11)
From the Editor of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2008) (10)
Ambiguous responsibilities : Law and conflicting expert testimony on the abused woman who shot her sleeping husband (2000) (10)
Inside the Law School Classroom: Toward a New Legal Realist Pedagogy (2010) (10)
Comparative Anthropology of Law (2012) (10)
Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism (2016) (10)
Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Trial:Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Trial. (2003) (8)
CLINICIAN ATTITUDES, SKILLS, MOTIVATIONS AND EXPERIENCE FOLLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS IN A LARGE DENTAL PRACTICE (2017) (7)
Science and Relativism: An Historical View of Anthropology's Unresolved Dilemma (1987) (7)
History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology. JUNE STARR and JANE F. COLLIER, eds (1991) (6)
Undervaluing Indeterminacy: Translating Social Science into Law (2012) (6)
Dental workforce capacity and California's expanding pediatric Medicaid population. (2014) (6)
The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions (2006) (6)
The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Closure (2020) (6)
The role of social science in law (2008) (6)
A pharmacy leadership action study. (2009) (5)
Dental Health Professional Shortage Area Methodology: A Critical Review (2002) (5)
Putting the “Real World” into Traditional Classroom Teaching (2016) (4)
What Should the Courts Do About Memories of Sexual Abuse? Toward a Balanced Approach (1996) (4)
Introduction: New Legal Realism at Ten Years and Beyond (2016) (4)
Preface to The New Legal Realism, Volumes I and II (2016) (4)
Leadership Development: A Critical Need in the Dental Safety Net (2012) (4)
“Fielding” Legal Realism: Law Students as Participant-Observers? (2016) (4)
Language-and-Law Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Conversation and a Post-9/11 Example (2014) (4)
Language, Law, and Social Meanings: Linguistic/Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Law (2014) (4)
Introduction: New Legal Realism: Law and Social Science in the New Millennium (2016) (4)
A New Legal Empiricism? Assessing ELS and NLR (2010) (3)
The Role of Social Science in Law: Introduction (2010) (3)
Dental workforce capacity and California's expanding pediatric Medicaid population. (2014) (2)
Courtroom Narration: A Capsule Essay (2005) (2)
Attorneys as Gatekeepers to the Court: The Potential Liability of Attorneys Bringing Suits Based on Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse (1998) (2)
A New Legal Realism: Elegant Models and the Messy Law in Action (2016) (2)
Legal Language and American Law: Authority, Morality, and Linguistic Ideology (2007) (2)
Combining methods for a new synthesis in law and empirical research (2016) (2)
Building Leadership among Laboratory‐Based and Clinical and Translational Researchers: The University of California, San Francisco Experience (2014) (2)
A Roundtable on New Legal Realism, microanalysis of institutions, and the new governance: Exploring convergences and differences (2005) (2)
Legal Storytelling as a Variety of Legal Realism (2016) (2)
Creative Acts of Translation: James Boyd White's Intellectual Integration (1992) (2)
Legal Ethics in the Next Generation: The Push for a New Legal Realism (1998) (2)
Law School Climates: Job Satisfaction Among Tenured US Law Professors (2018) (2)
Social Science and the Intellectual Apprenticeship: Moving the Scholarly Mission of Law Schools Forward (2012) (2)
Publishing Your Work: The Joy of Editing PoLAR (2012) (1)
Sociology of Law and New Legal Realism (2020) (1)
Teaching an interdisciplinary law class (2021) (1)
Forty-five years of law and literature: reflections on James Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination and its impact on law and humanities scholarship (2019) (1)
Translating Law across Cultures and Societies: A Conversation with David Bellos and Kim Lane Scheppele (2016) (1)
Leadership in Action: The Role and Impact of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program's California Health Improvement Project (CHIP) (2013) (1)
Multimodal conduct in the law: Language, gesture and materiality in legal interaction by Gregory Matoesian and Kristin Enola Gilbert (review) (2021) (1)
Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures (2019) (1)
The New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice Abstracts (2016) (1)
“Can you get there from here?” Translating Law and Social Science (2016) (1)
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism (2021) (1)
Introduction: Translating Law and Social Science (2016) (1)
Realism then and now: Using the real world to inform formal law (2021) (1)
Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism (2021) (1)
The Clinical Corner: Third-Party Liability in Repressed Memory Cases: Recent Legal Developments (1998) (0)
Editor's Introduction (2000) (0)
Nursing For The Public's Health: A Profile of Public Health Nurses in Five California Counties (2002) (0)
Entering the World of U.S. Law (2007) (0)
The New Legal Realism Volume II - Table of Contents (2016) (0)
Introduction — Modern Legal Realism: Paving the Way for Theoretically-Informed Empirical Research in the Legal Academy (2020) (0)
Translating Science into Family Law (2010) (0)
Emerging legal education [series editor] (2012) (0)
Law Professors in New and Old Terrain (2013) (0)
THE DENTAL GAP: MISMATCH BETWEEN POLICY AND ORAL CARE DELIVERY NEEDS FOR INDIVIDUALS IN LONG-TERM CARE SETTINGS (2017) (0)
Professorial Style in Context (2007) (0)
Law in Reality, Law in Context: On the Work and Influence of Stewart Macaulay (2020) (0)
The Financial Crisis and Moral Accountability: Translating Practices of Risk, Profit, and Uncertainty (2016) (0)
Student Participation and Social Difference: Race, Gender, Status, and Context in Law School Classes (2007) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Translating Social Science in Legal Arenas : Some Fundamental Challenges (2006) (0)
32. Attitudes Toward Emerging Workforce Models Among Underrepresented Minority Dentists: Implications For Improving the Oral Health of the Public (2019) (0)
On Becoming a Legal Person: Identity and the Social Context of Legal Epistemology (2007) (0)
Study Design, Methodology, and Profile (2007) (0)
Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure by Paul Kockelman. (2014) (0)
Editor's Introduction (1998) (0)
Translating Science into Family Law: An Overview (2014) (0)
Susan Philips, Ideology in the language of judges: How judges practice law, politics, and courtroom control. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 17.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 205. Hb $59.00, pb $29.95. (2001) (0)
Learning to Read Like a Lawyer: Text, Context, and Linguistic Ideology (2007) (0)
#WHOAMI?: HARM AND REMEDY FOR YOUTH OF THE #METOO ERA (2021) (0)
Editor's Introduction (2002) (0)
Editors’ Introduction: At Disciplinary Edges (2010) (0)
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment (2022) (0)
Foreign Versus Domestic Education of Physicians for the United States: A Case Study of South Asian Physicians in California (2007) (0)
Editor's Introduction: Anthropology at Many Crossroads (2010) (0)
Business Disputing Symposium (1996) (0)
A Cape Breton System of personal names: Pragmatic and semantic change (1983) (0)
Lenguaje, derecho y significados sociales: contribuciones de la antropología lingüística al estudio del derecho (2017) (0)
In Honor of Herb Jacob (1998) (0)
Epistemology and Teaching Styles: Different Forms, Same Message (2007) (0)
Canaries in the Mines of the U.S. Legal Academy (2019) (0)
New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice (2016) (0)
List of Contributors (2021) (0)
Balanced Judicial Realism in the Service of Justice: Judge Richard D. Cudahy (2018) (0)
Table of U.S. Law School Mission Statements, 2019 & 2021 (2021) (0)
Cultural and organizational differences in dental leadership attributes (2016) (0)
Editors' Introduction (2000) (0)
Law, Language, and the Law School Classroom (2007) (0)
Symposium on Gender, Agency, Violence, and the Law (2000) (0)
The Moment of Possibles: Some New Legal Realism about a “Reality Thriller” Case (2016) (0)

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