International Law

Vote China Law Blog. Because We Don't Want Anyone Else To Win.

By Dan

I hate blog contests. Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. They are just popularity contests for the well-established blogs, and as such, they inherently favor blogs on more mainstream topics. A China law blog ought to be able to beat a Palau law blog every time, regardless of any quality differential. 

So for years, we have made absolutely no effort to get in on any blog competitions nor once chosen, have we made any effort to prevail. In fact, our standard operating procedure is to ask the blog contests to remove our name. You should either like us or not; our popularity with others should be irrelevant. 

Having said all this, I freely admit to being a hypocrite in that there is one blog competition in which we keep competing and that is the ABA (American Bar Association) Journal competition. I guess my excuse is that it is so prestigious among lawyers that I went along with it the first year and then when we won in our category, it became addictive. We have been in that competition for all three years and we have won in our category all three years. 

I was planning to ignore it this year and with less than two weeks left in the competition, we have made absolutely no mention of it anywhere. But now I just can't take it any more. The thought of anyone else winning this competition is really bugging me and so I have decided to make a late effort to try to win it. Four years would be so nice.

And for that we really really need your help.  

So if you have enjoyed this blog please go here and register and then go here and vote for China Law Blog. You do NOT need to be a member of the American Bar Association to register, nor do you need to be a lawyer.

Thanks much.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).