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  1. The new legal realist movement seeks to foster inter-disciplinary studies that combine the best of legal scholarship and the social sciences. This goal is laudable but results can vary. Sometimes fresh eyes and different skills discover new insights and avenues of inquiry, but sometimes scholars imperfectly translate theory, methods or data from outside their fields. In other instances, progress is piecemeal, as scholars cobble together substantive findings across theoretically and methodologically diverse work that address complementary questions and topics. The accumulation of empirical insights can be useful but falls short of a theoretically integrated, inter-disciplinary research agenda. 
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  2. Litigation is part of the American policymaking playbook as diverse groups routinely turn to courts to pursue their agendas. All of this litigation raises questions about its consequences. This essay examines the literature on the political risks of litigation. It argues that this literature identifies four potential risks - crowd out, path dependence, backlash, and individualization - but offers less insight into the likelihood of these risks in practice. It ends by offering suggestions about how to advance our understanding of when litigation casts a negative political shadow in the current age of judicialization. 
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