Legal Commentary

Over at TVC, Eugene shares his views on why it's a good practice to check with people before responding to their blog posts and to a lesser degree, their law review articles. He and I are on the same wavelength, as I blogged a bit more than a year ago about the ethics of legal scholarship. And happily, Eugene cites that blog post a good bit in the new edition of his excellent book on Academic Legal Writing. Scroll down to see the review by my former student Bart Motes on Amazon.

Interestingly, this discussion just came up in the context of citing blog posts in law review articles and how many times a particular blog has been cited in the JLR database of Westlaw. (How come no one seems to use Lexis-Nexis for this stuff anyway?)  Anyhooo, I spent hours, ok, more like 30 seconds, crunching the numbers. Prawfs comes up about 41 times so far. Pretty good for a blog that started in April 2005. We've got almost the same number of citations TVC had in 2004 and 2005. Not that we're keeping score or anything...