Blogging and the Future of Legal Scholarship

There is a fascinating collection of essays on “The Future of Legal Scholarship” at the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, all of which are written by law professors who blog. The essays explore the ways in which the online world is changing the nature of legal scholarship.

    

The essays are:

• Let the Law Journal Be the Law Journal and the Blog Be the Blog, by Prof. Ann Althouse (Althouse)
• Online Legal Scholarship: The Medium and the Message, by Prof. Jack Balkin (Balkinization)
• A Blog Supreme?, by Prof. Christopher A. Bracey (Blackprof.com)
• The Long Tail of Legal Scholarship, by Prof. Paul Caron (TaxProf Blog) 
• That's So Six Months Ago: Challenges to Student Scholarship in the Age of Blogging, by Prof. Stephen I. Vladeck (PrawfsBlawg)
• Law Reviews, the Internet, and Preventing and Correcting Errors, by Prof. Eugene Volokh (Volokh Conspiracy) 

I learned of them via this post by Prof. Vladeck at PrawfsBlawg. It is worth pointing out that the print version (pdf) of Prof. Vladeck’s article has 39 footnotes (including 2 citations to 3L Epiphany), while the digital version contains active hyperlinks and thus requires no footnotes at all.