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• A Copyfighter’s Musings

  Discussion of copyright law and policy issues focused on developing optimum copyright law.

• ACS Blog

  This decidedly left-leaning blog from the American Constitution Society covers court cases and proposed legislation that threatens individual rights. Editorials coming from the likes of the ACLU, the First Amend­ment Center and gay-rights groups appear regularly.

• Campus—ADR Tech Blog

  "My work explores innnovative ways to support conflict resolution knowledge and skill development, with recent efforts focused on the use of technology and the world wide web," and this is reflected on the blawg, which discusses various conflict resolution-related topics.

• Collaborative Divorce Newsblog

  "Helping people make respectful, civilized, values-based transitions from couple to single."

• Concurring Opinions

  Concurring Opinions is a general-interest blawg.

• Eminent Domain

  Features commentary and musings about case law and legal topics.

• Empirical Legal Studies

  "The ELS blog serves as an online forum to discuss and provide links for emerging empirical legal scholarship, provide conference updates, discuss empirical claims that have emerged in public and political discourse, facilitate discussion for guest empirical scholars and assess current empirical findings and methodologies." These law professors are “data junkies” not likely to share an anecdote or a theory without a study to back it up. They find and dissect law-related studies that appear in both the mainstream media and legal scholarship, and they also provide details about up­coming conferences in their field.

• Feminist Law Professors

  Highlights the work of feminist law professors and contains information about articles and events that are likely to be of interest to them. Posts cover court cases, legislation and scholarship related to sexual discrimination for like-minded readers, as well as alert them to relevant conferences.

• Jurisdynamics

  "Jurisdynamics describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law's endogenous adaptive capacity. This blog focuses on tools (mathematics, linguistics, complexity theory, and biology) and subjects (regulation, innovation, environmental law, and natural disasters) that invite jurisdynamic analysis."

• Legal Ruralism

  Using her University of California, Davis, scholarship as a backdrop, law professor Lisa Pruitt blogs about the intersection of law with rural life and culture. Topics are varied and include recent news and academic commentary, but all share an emphasis on rural settings.

• Legal Theory Blog

  Legal Theory Blog says it contains "all the theory that fits." It posts links to articles in law reviews and elsewhere that discuss constitutional and legal theory.

• Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

  "News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture ... and a bit of poetry."

• Mirror of Justice

  A blog devoted to the development of Catholic legal theory.

• PrawfsBlawg

  "Where intellectual honesty has (almost always) trumped partisanship—albeit in a kind of boring way until recently—since 2005." The authors post about books and papers, law school job openings, concerns of working professors, and "a variety of topics related to law and life."

• The Becker-Posner Blog

  The Becker-Posner Blog explores current issues in economics, law and policy.

• The Faculty Blog

  The Faculty Blog posts articles and observations by scholars associated with the University of Chicago Law School and links to the related The Faculty Podcast.

• The Legal Workshop

  The site aggregates the work of its member law reviews—which so far are the Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, and the Stanford Law Review—by featuring distilled "op-ed" versions of upcoming articles from member law reviews that are written for a more general audience by those articles' authors.
  

• The Party of the First Part

  The origin and meaning of legal language; legal humor; word of the week; and news regarding the eternal battle between plain English and legalese. Also includes Adam Freedman's past columns for New York Law Journal Magazine.
  

• The Right Coast

  The Right Coast has "thoughts from San Diego on law, politics and culture."

• Tillers on Evidence and Inference

  Covers news and developments relating to evidence, legal theory and legal education.

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