Legal Research

The annual hunt for law review topics is another seasonal activity revealed by ZiefBrief's current usage statistics.

Immersing yourself for a time in the legal news is a great way to get at least a kernel of a topic. The following collections of law blogs let you skim a vast number of posts in a short time, so that you can get a sense of what's new, hot, and ? most important of all ? interesting to you.

• Alltop.com's "Law" category - current headlines from about 150 major legal blogs, all displayed on one page for easy skimming
• LexMonitor - a daily review of legal blogs, with the option of browsing by topics ("channels")
• Justia's BlawgSearch - currently covering over 2800 legal blogs in 62 categories
• ABA Journal - current legal news and a Blawg Directory

For more ways to get a foothold on your law review topic, see our previous post, Summer Reading - Finding Paper & Law Review Topics.

Once you have that kernel, you can flesh it out with the techniques outlined in chapter two ("Inspiration: Choosing a Subject and Developing a Thesis") of Elizabeth Fajans & Mary R. Falk, Scholarly Writing for Law Students (3d ed. 2005).