Legal Research

The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs

By jlutz99

An interesting article, Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs by Douglas A Berman has been posted to SSRN.  Here's the abstract:

At the heart of the debate over law blogs as legal scholarship are bigger and more important (and perhaps scarier) questions about legal scholarship and the activities of law professors. First, the blog-as-scholarship debate raises fundamental questions about what exactly legal scholarship is and why legal scholarship should be considered an essential part of a law professor's vocation. And the key follow-up question is whether blogging should be part of that vocation. In this paper, I set out a few initial observations about the evolution and value of legal scholarship, and then share some thoughts on the power, possibilities, and pitfalls of law professors blogging to explain why I hope blogging will become an accepted part of a law professor's vocation.

The paper can be downloaded from here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

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Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on January 10, 2007 (boomark / email).