Legal Commentary

I?m usually not a huge fan of ?Year in Review? lists. I don't even watch ?I Love the 70s/80s/90s.?  But over the past few weeks, decade retrospectives have become about as consciousness-permeating as holiday music, and somehow I find that I can?t resist the urge to look back.

So let?s hear it: What was the most significant development in legal academia this decade?  I mean the question to be as broad as possible, so feel free to nominate areas of study, hiring practices, or whatever else you think matters.

Since I started the thread, I?ll also grab what seems to me to be the lowest-hanging fruit: blogging.  Whether or not its influence it will be ?transformative? in a lasting way remains to be seen, I suppose, but it?s certainly transformed the way that legal scholars write, think, and exchange ideas.

And be thinking about your votes for Article of the Decade (i.e., anything with a publication date between 2000 and 2009). I'll start a thread for that sometime soon.