PROGRAMS IN LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

This article sketches briefly a picture of the major current programs which have developed under the aegis of the Russell Sage Foundation. These impressions are based on a review of grant applications and annual reports on file with the Russell Sage Foundation, on the author's own experiences working at Berkeley and at Denver and on visits by his New York University colleagues to the Sage-sponsored centers at Wisconsin and Northwestern. The decision of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1959 to support formal centers of interdisciplinary cooperation between law and social science with the expenditure of over a million dollars by 1963, has substantially formed the institutional structure of the law and social science movement. The latter-day followers of the legal realist tradition in the law schools, for example and large numbers of sociologists working in the specialty of criminology, were very much aware of the "opposite" disciplines. The Sage program, however, has been responsible for transforming much of this interest into familiarity and knowledge.