A Bill for taking a census has passed the House of Representatives, and is within the Senate. It contained a schedule for ascertaining the component classes of the Society, a kind of information extremely requisite to the Legislator, and much wanted for the science of Political Economy. A repetition of it every ten years would hereafter afford a most curious and instructive assemblage of facts. It was thrown out by the Senate as a waste of trouble and supplying materials for idle people to make a book. Judge by this little experiment of the reception likely to be given to so great an idea as that explained in your letter of September.
-Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, February 14, 1970
Of course, Madison’s projection was incorrect as Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution eventually provided that “[t]he actual Enumeration [of the population] shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.” Part of the reason that the framers made a decennial census a Constitutional requirement was that “[t]he census serves a vital statistical database that tells us who we are and where we are going as a nation.”
The purpose of this legal educator blog census is similar: telling us which legal educators are blogging and where the blogosphere is headed. Beginning in 2005, Daniel Solove and company began publishing a Law Professor Blogger Census. As an aspiring law professor at the time, I found that census to be an extremely useful tool for putting my finger on the pulse of legal academia. The last Law Professor Blogger Census was posted in August 2007, just as I entered the academy. When I asked Professor Solove earlier this year about whether he had any plans on preparing a new version, he informed me that he had no current plans and that I had his permission to prepare an update.
What follows is the first draft of what I am calling the Legal Educator Blogger Census because I have decided to list anyone who might be involved in the education of students at law schools in the United States: full time professors, adjunct professors, deans, legal writing instructors, law librarians, etc. I used the same methodology as Professor Solove in preparing my census: Anyone who posted at least one entry on a blog during a three month period (January 1, 2009-March 30, 2009) qualified for inclusion (except for guest bloggers). Of course, I am sure that I have failed to identify several bloggers, so anyone with knowledge of an omission, please let me know, and I will include the blogger in version 2.0, which will also include some statistics such as number of blogs per law school, number of blogs per tier of law school, number of blogs by gender of blogger, etc.
I also realize that in the rapidly changing world of the blogosphere, this census is already somewhat out of date. For instance, my Census attributes CrimProf Blog to Mark Godsey, who was running it earlier this year, rather than the folks at the University of San Diego School of Law, who relaunched it a few days ago. These changes will not be included in Version 2.0 but will be in the 2010 Legal Educator Blog Census.
I hope that this Census, which I plan on updating annually, will serve at least three purposes: (1) giving those presently interested in the law a central location to be able to locate every legal educator blog; (2) tracking the changes in the number and type of legal educator blogs/bloggers per year; and (3) giving those interested in the law in the future an ability to track down legal educator blogs that might otherwise have disappeared without a trace.
I would like to thank my wife Zoe for her invaluable assistance in the preparation of this census.
This post lists the blogs containing posts by legal educators at schools starting with the letter A-M. The next post lists the blogs containing posts by legal educators at schools starting with the letter N-Z. For those preferring a PDF of the Census with hyperlinks, you can download a copy from SSRN by clicking here.
Schools A-M
PrawfsBlawg
Best Practices for Legal Education
Law of the Land
Kenneth Anderson’s Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
Opinio Juris
Carrollogos
IntLawGrrls
Best Practices for Legal Education
Dissenting Justice
Collectanea
Feminist Law Professors
Poverty Law Prof Blog
IntLawGrrls
Wendy’s Blog
Feminist Law Professors
National Security Advisors
PrawfsBlawg
ADR Prof Blog
Agricultural Law
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Mirror of Justice
Civil Procedure Prof Blog
RIPS Law Librarian
Unincorporated Business Entities Law
Law School Innovation
Civil Procedure Prof Blog
The Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room Blog
Hunter’s Query
The Conglomerate
clinicians with not enough to do
BLS Library Blog
TSLL TechScans
Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli
Legal Planet
Legal Planet
Legal Planet
Legal Planet
Antitrust Review
Legal Planet
Legal Planet
Mayer Blog
Center for Competitive Politics
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Tillers on Evidence and Inference
Volokh Conspiracy
Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity
AIDP Blog
Agoraphilia
The Technology Liberation Front
Hugh Hewitt
TortsProf Blog
Charlotte Law Library Notes
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Law & Development Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
D’Angelo Law Library Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
D’Angelo Law Library Blog
D’Angelo Law Library Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Volokh Conspiracy
Becker-Posner Blog
D’Angelo Law Library Blog
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
The Gov Docs Guy
Empirical Legal Studies
Mootness: The Moot Court Blog
Info/Law
Securities Law Prof Blog
MoneyLaw
TaxProf Blog
International Law Reporter
CrimProf Blog
Law Librarian Blog
HealthLawProf Blog
Law Librarian Blog
Cleveland Law Library Weblog
Ain’t I a Feminist Legal Scholar Too?
The Conglomerate
Feminist Law Professors
Gender & Sexuality Law Blog
Gender & Sexuality Law Blog
Concord Law School
Native American Law Blog
Native American Law Blog
Law School Academic Support Blog
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
The Librarian at Law
b-screeds
Dorf on Law
Dorf on Law
Empirical Legal Studies
Legal In-sur-rec-tion
dotCommonweal
Mirror of Justice
Mirror of Justice
Legal Ethics Forum
Cases and Materials on Business Entities New Developments
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Feminist Law Professors
BioLaw
IntLawGrrls
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Family Law Prof Blog
Feminist Law Professors
IntLawGrrls
Anupam Chander
ImmigrationProf Blog
ImmigrationProf Blog
Nota Bibliothecae
CYB3RCRIM3
Juries
Nota Bibliothecae
Nota Bibliothecae
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
The Race to the Bottom
Tech Law Prof Blog
Aviation Law Prof Blog
Aviation Law Prof Blog
DePaul University College of Law Vincent G. Rinn Law Library
Family Law Prof Blog
The Yellow Shoe Civil Law Blog
Law and Technology Theory
Feminist Law Professors
The Faculty Lounge
Dorf on Law
Volokh Conspiracy
Elon Law Library
Hearsay Culture
Elon Law Library
Elon Law Library
Mirror of Justice
The Conglomerate
Volokh Conspiracy
MoneyLaw
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog
Sports Law Blog
BioLaw
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Feminist Law Professors
PrawfsBlawg
Sports Law Blog
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Tech Law Prof Blog
FSU College of Law Research Center Blog
PrawfsBlawg
Jursidynamics
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Counterfeit Chic
Mirror of Justice
The Trade Secrets Vault
Pierce Law Library
Pierce Law Library
Pierce Law Library
Pierce Law Library
Pierce Law Library
Volokh Conspiracy
Cafe Hayek
GMU Law Library Circulation Blog
Point of Law
GMU Law Library Circulation Blog
Volokh Conspiracy
Truth on the Market
Volokh Conspiracy
Dorf on Law
Feminist Law Professors
International Economic Law and Policy Blog
Chinese Law Prof Blog
Concurring Opinions
Volokh Conspiracy
Law Prof on the Loose
Concurring Opinions
Jonathan Turley
Volokh Conspiracy
Legal History Blog
Legal Profession Blog
Feminist Law Professors
hunter of justice
Credit Slips
Balkinization
43(B)log
The Conglomerate
Golden Gate University School of Law
Janet Fischer
GGU Library Blog
Hamline University School of Law
Feminist Law Professors
Et Seq.
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Et Seq.
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
The Situationist
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Meg Kribble
Lessig Blog
Eon
Et Seq.
John Palfrey
Et Seq.
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Et Seq.
Balkinization
Credit Slips
Et Seq.
UC Hastings Law Library News
PrawfsBlawg
UC Hastings Law Library News
LawLibrary Blog
UC Hastings Law Library News
The Faculty Lounge
Legal Ethics Forum
Opinio Juris
Consumer Law & Policy Blog
University of Houston Law Center Faculty Blog
University of Houston Law Center Faculty Blog
Sexual Orientation and the Law Blog
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
The Conglomerate
Volokh Conspiracy
Credit Slips
Ideoblog
Legal Theory Blog
Law & Econ Prof Blog
Empirical Legal Studies
BLAWg IN Bloom
BLAWg IN Bloom
BLAWg IN Bloom
BLAWg IN Bloom
IntLawGrrls
IntLawGrrls
Blackprof.com
Credit Slips
Professional Responsibility Blog
Torts Blog
Empirical Legal Studies
Commercial Law Blog
Credit Slips
Feminist Law Professors
EvidenceProf Blog
Feminist Law Professors
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
IPWatchdog
International Law Prof Blog
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Sex Crimes
Administrative Law Prof Blog
Administrative Law Prof Blog
BioLaw
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
SarahGlassmeyer(dot)com
Law Librarian By Day
Jack Bog’s Blog
Truth on the Market
The Fire of Genius
Native America, Discovered and Conquered
The Yin Blog
BioLaw
Commercial Law
Jurisdynamics
MoneyLaw
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog
Law & Humanities Blog
Law and Magic Blog
Media Law Prof Blog
Robert Araujo
Mirror of Justice
Madisonian.net
Tom Boone
Election Law Blog
Brian Huddleston
Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
Shark and Shepherd
Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
Ratio Juris
ADR Prof Blog
Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
Concurring Opinions
The Conglomerate
Balkinization
Blackprof.com
Velvel on National Affairs
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Legal Ethics Forum
Statutory Construction Blog
Discourse.net
ICANNWatch
The Confrontation Blog
Volokh Conspiracy
Products Liability Prof Blog
SCOTUSblog
Law Librarian Blog
Mississippi College Law Library Blog
Law Career Blog
Patently-O
Truth on the Market
Opinio Juris
Feminist Law Professors
Family Law Prof Blog
Best Practices for Legal Education
International Economic Law and Policy Blog
-CM
