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Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?

By immigrationprof

in “Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?,” Margaret A. Schilt in Legal Times writes blogging and the legal academy:

“If you are looking for the future of legal scholarship, chances are that you may find it not in a treatise or the traditional law review but in a different form, profoundly influenced by the blogosphere. Law-related blogs are proliferating on the Internet — more than 80 are listed on the blogroll of one popular law-related blog, Concurring Opinions. A significant number of the blogs . . . — are hosted by law professors.”

The article talks about blogging as scholarship and as possible professional service.  I may be a traditionalist but I tend to agree with Brian Leiter that most blogging does not qualify as scholarship.  Some of us bloggers, however, like to think we perform a general service by providing information and insights into the subjects on which we blog.

KJ