blawging
Is Slate Magazine America’s Leading Law Review?
David Schleicher says yes and I tend to agree with him. Here’s his case -
I think it’s safe to say that [Slate] has become America’s leading law review. In the past year, Slate has run stories by Bruce Ackerman, Ahkil Amar, Frank Bowman, Bill Eskridge, David Fontana, Richard Thompson Ford, Bennett Gershman, Jack Goldsmith, […]
A Tag Cloud of this Blog
Created with Wordle, not all too surprising I suppose.
Noted Harris County Prosecutor Kelly Siegler Blogs
Harris County Criminal Justice Blog notes that Kelly Siegler Takes a Shot at Bloggingwith There’s No Such Thing as “Closure” on the Women in Crime Ink Blog
Can you imagine the bottomless pain that a parent endures when they have learned that their child has been murdered? As many times as I have met with and […]
The Waiting Game…
All over America law students are wait for grades to come in. As 1Ls these seemingly have apocalyptic consequences - these are the grades you interview with, get on to law review or another journal with, that decide if you spent part of your summer writing a 30-page note, etc. These grades can take forever […]
Cass Sunstein and Eugene Volokh on Information Cocoons in Blogosphere and Elsewhere
Click the player below to listen to the Audio:
Video available on bloggingheads.tv
Casewatching United States v. Geoffrey Fieger
Norm Pattis has been covering the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit which, in closing argument, famed trail lawyer Gerry Spence has called his last. From the start to the farewell - well almost, the jury’s still out as of this writing - Pattis has given us a unique look at Spence, familiarizing the legendary. Spence, […]
Anonymity and its Discontents - Anonymists and Eponymists
Why do we blog? Reading Emily Gould’s Exposed and David Lat’s new Project Truman spurred some thoughts this weekend that have been long accumulating on the nature of blogging. I’ll tiptoe around the more obvious freudian explanations for the urge to blog to note that there are two distinct camps of bloggers with very […]
BlackBerry Orphans
My girlfriend send me this article from the Wall Street Journal - BlackBerry Orphans: The growing use of email gadgets is spawning a generation of resentful children. A look at furtive thumb-typers, the signs of compulsive use and how kids are fighting back and at first it made me really sad. I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!!!!!!!! […]
Confronting my Inner Law Nerd
Law Nerds occupy a peculiar place in nerd taxonomy. We generally retain the capacity for normal conversation and our fixations on particular theories of judicial interpretation are easily mistaken for the same types of political positions that the normals have.
We can thus avoid detection for long periods of time until our condition is at some […]
Children and the Law, the Blog
Just a shameless plug and an apology for the light blogging - as part of my work with the Center for Children, Law and Policy at the University of Houston Law Center, we’ve launched a new Children and the Law Blog as part of the center’s mission in promoting interdisciplinary scholarship, advocacy and teaching to advance the interests of children through public policy. Visit often.