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Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings has listed the 10 or 20 (depending on field) most cited faculty by specialty. FSU College of Law faculty J.B. Ruhl was listed under Environmental Law and Adam Hirsch was listed under Wills, Trusts and Estates.
You can see the entire listing here.
Posted by Jon Lutz
Daniel Solove on Concurring Opinions has posted his now annual Law Professor Blogger Census. This census reports on how many law professor bloggers there are, their breakdown by gender, which schools have the most bloggers, what proportion of bloggers are at top ranked schools, etc.
Posted by Jon Lutz
An interesting article, Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs by Douglas A Berman has been posted to SSRN. Here's the abstract:
At the heart of the debate over law blogs as legal scholarship are bigger and more important (and perhaps scarier) questions about legal scholarship and the activities of law professors. First, the blog-as-scholarship debate raises fundamental questions about what exactly legal scholarship is and why legal scholarship should be considered an essential part of a law professor's vocation. And the key follow-up question is whether blogging should be part of that vocation. In this paper, I set out a few initial observations about the evolution and value of legal scholarship, and then share some thoughts on the power, possibilities, and pitfalls of law professors blogging to explain why I hope blogging will become an accepted part of a law professor's vocation.
The paper can be downloaded from here.
Posted by Jon Lutz
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There is an interesting discussion on the blog Balkinization on the topic of how blogs change legal education.
Read it here.
Posted by Jon Lutz
There may be as many as 2000 law blogs which discuss topics from bioethics, to legal theory, to environmental law and everything in between, but an ethical problem has arisen as to how much of the content is speech and how much is advertising. An article in the October 6, 2006 National Law Journal Law blogs raising prickly ethical issues discusses this:
Many states are in the process of revamping their attorney ethics rules, and part of that process involves the prickly issue of whether blogs should be regulated as advertising.
On the one hand, states want to protect consumers from unscrupulous lawyer advertising presented under the guise of an online diary. On the other hand, they want to preserve the free flow of ideas-and valuable legal information presented in a public forum-that the new technology has fostered.
And thanks to Mary McCormick for another source on this, from the November 7, 2006 Chicago Tribune, Lawyers face right to blog; Kentucky
has rules that broadly define advertising to include virtually any communication to the public by a lawyer that contains any information about the lawyer or the lawyer's practice. The rules also require that ads must be submitted for commission approval, along with a $50 filing fee.
Read the whole article:
Law blogs raising prickly ethical issues
Lawyers face right to blog
Posted by Jon Lutz
How many law blogs are there? According to the blogs Inter alia well over 1500 and Robert Ambrogi's Lawsites maybe around 2000.
Posted by Jon Lutz
The Pocket Part, A Companion to The Yale Law Journal, is currently running a series of articles on The Future of Legal Scholarship. This includes submissions by Christopher Bracey, Ann Althouse, Paul Caron, Stephen Vladeck, Eugene Volokh and Jack Balkin. You can view here and here.
Posted by Jon Lutz
CALI's Pre-Law Blog had posted several podcasts for incoming law students:
Advice for 1Ls from Prof. Douglas McFarland
Preparing to Study Torts by Ron Eades
Study Advice from Professors Joe Grohman and Ron Brown for 1Ls
Also see my earlier post for more advice for 1Ls.
Posted by Jon Lutz
Judge Reprimands Temp Prosecutor for Blog Posts
A California attorney with the firm of
Keker & Van Nest, while participating in a job swap with the San Francisco DA's office, was reprimanded by the judge overseeing a misdemeanor case he was prosecuting. The judge found out about comments made in the attorney's personal blog!
"[The judge] didn't find the postings prejudicial enough to throw out the entire case, as the defense wanted. But in turning down that motion to dismiss this week, the judge still came down hard on ex-prosecutor Jay Kuo, calling his conduct "juvenile, obnoxious and unprofessional." Karnow also stated his intention to send his written ruling to the State Bar.
The contents of the blog posts were not available online Wednesday, but according to Karnow's ruling, Kuo at various points called his opposing counsel "chicken" when she asked for a continuance, directly alluded to her with some posting titles obscene enough that the judge did not repeat them and mentioned a prior conviction that had not yet been deemed admissible at trial."
It was not only the judge who didn't appreciate the attorney's blog entries. "Kuo, who declined to comment on the ruling itself, did say he resigned from the temporary position after his posts on the Web site livejournal.com had made their way around the DA's office. "It was just not a comfortable environment to be in any more," he said."
Remember: You never know who is reading your blog out there, so be smart about what you post.
Excerpt taken from http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1146139204085 on Law.com
Posted by Marin Dell
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