Blogs and law reviews

Blogs and law reviews. Legal scholarship

Years ago, academics and practioners waited patiently for they law review to arrive at the library. Since the XXI century, they read most articles in advance on SSRN, open access journals and the law review‘s websites. They can also produce and read real-time analysis of court decisions, legislation, and political events through microblogging and other social platforms, including blogs. Who would wait to read a law review for months about a court decision, when we can find out right now by reading the blog of the lawyer involved?

A Wall Street Journal article on law reviews reinvigorated in 2006 the discussion over whether blogging is an acceptable medium for legal scholarship.

Several posts were particularly on-point regarding the relationship between blogs and law reviews. These articles are:

  • Blogging, Legal Scholarship, and Academic Careers, Larry Solum: link
  • Bridging the Divide Between the Blogsphere and Law Reviews, Liz Aloi: link
  • Why Blogs Will Not Replace Law Reviews, Orin Kerr: link

Papers about blogging and legal scholarly

These papers are available here.

  • Are Scholars Better Bloggers? – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship. Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 1025, 2006, U of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 07-12, Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference. Paul L. Caron. University of Cincinnati – College of Law
  • Incl. Electronic Paper A Tale of Two Bloggers: Free Speech and Privacy in the Blogosphere. Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 1195, 2006, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 207, Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference. Daniel J. Solove. George Washington University Law School

Incl. Electronic Paper A Case Study in Bloggership
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference Paper, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1017, Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, 2007
D. Gordon Smith
Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School

Are Modern Bloggers Following in the Footsteps of Publius? (And Other Musings on Blogging by Legal Scholars…)
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-50
Gail L. Heriot
University of San Diego School of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Blog as a Bugged Water Cooler
U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 96
Kate Litvak
Northwestern University – School of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference Paper, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 06-08, Washington Law Review Vol. 84, No. 1071, 2006
Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs
Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 65, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies Working Paper No. 43, Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference
Douglas A. Berman
Ohio State University (OSU) – Michael E. Moritz College of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Scholarship, Blogging and Trade-offs: On Discovering, Disseminating, and Doing
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference Paper, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 06-17
Eugene Volokh
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Why a Narrowly Defined Legal Scholarship Blog is Not What I Want: An Argument in Pseudo-Blog Form
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1021
Ann Althouse
University of Wisconsin Law School

Incl. Electronic Paper Blogging While Untenured and Other Extreme Sports
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference Paper
Christine Hurt and Tung Yin
University of Illinois College of Law and Lewis & Clark Law School

Incl. Electronic Paper Co-Blogging Law
Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-04, Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 06-22, Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference
Eric Goldman
Santa Clara University – School of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Libel in the Blogosphere: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference, 2006
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
University of Tennessee College of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper The Public Face of Scholarship
Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, 2006, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE06-010, Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference
Larry E. Ribstein (Deceased)
University of Illinois College of Law

Incl. Electronic Paper Blogs and the Legal Academy
GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 203, Berkman Center for Internet & Society – Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference
Orin S. Kerr
George Washington University – Law School

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