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The 2008 ABA Journal Blawg 100

These are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.

The voting period has ended.

Thank you to all who participated. The final results are listed below.

For a printable list of all 100 blogs, click here. Check out the mini profiles of Ann Althouse, Ernie Svenson and Jurist-Paper Chase. For our list of One-Hit Wonders, click here.

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Professors

379
votes

Jonathan Turley

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley keeps his posts short, light and entertaining while focusing on outrageous criminal justice and tort stories in the mainstream media (“bizarre” is this blog’s most populated topic). But be sure to click the “continue reading” links to get this constitutional scholar’s take on how these stories will end.
256
votes

Mirror of Justice

In this virtual space, Catholic law professors highlight events of shared interest and deliberate over canon law. In this election year, politics came to the fore. But while these bloggers are of one church, they are not of one mind, and impassioned intellectual discussions ensue.
231
votes

TaxProf Blog

The University of Cincinnati’s Paul Caron covers all the tax law bases—what’s coming from the headlines, the law journals and the think tanks. Caron is also editor and publisher of the Law Professor Blogs network, reflected in his extensive coverage of law schools and legal blogging generally.
132
votes

Professor Bainbridge

This site is home to UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge’s three blogs devoted to law and business, wine and food, and punditry—the latter located appropriately on the right side of the page. How great for one-stop discussion-shopping in 2008: the economic crisis, the election, and that recipe for chicken fried chicken.
109
votes

The Faculty Blog

Posts here link to writings and media appearances by University of Chicago law professors. There are posts by the profs themselves about the stock market, the political market and other topics of their choosing. The blog also occasionally feeds recorded lectures into its Faculty Podcast.
103
votes

Feminist Law Professors

This blog gives law professors a chance to list themselves on the site as feminist law profs, and more than 200 women and men have done so. Posts cover court cases, legislation and scholarship related to sexual discrimination for like-minded readers, as well as alert them to relevant conferences.
92
votes

The Becker-Posner Blog

If there were ever a time for a weekly point-counterpoint between a Nobel laureate in economics and a scholar in the law and economics movement, it’s now. The name bloggers are, respectively, the University of Chicago’s Gary Becker and 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner—the profs you wish you’d had.
84
votes

Balkinization

This blog has a unique design element: a dozen book titles down its right-hand side—all written by the blog’s authors. Yale University’s Jack Balkin and fellow academic heavyweights take a liberal look at legal issues through the filters of the Constitution and history.
75
votes

Concurring Opinions

Aside from straightforward coverage of academic journals, the “concurrers” display what results when a lawyer’s theoretical brain is loosed on subjects as diverse as the First Amendment, energy policy or a presidential election and Jon Stewart.
65
votes

PrawfsBlawg

Less sidetracked than most by the bailout and the election, Prawfsblawg stayed true to its focus: “prawfs.” It posts about books and papers, law school job openings, and concerns of working professors.
62
votes

The Conglomerate

The Wall Street crisis has kept these law profs focused on the blog’s marketing pitch: business/law/economics/society. We all hope to be as relevant and analytical. But these profs aren’t all work and no play—their Twitter feed, “The Glom,” is a riot.
57
votes

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.
50
votes

Lessig Blog

Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig’s blog chronicles his thoughts on copyright and network neutrality, as well as a contemplated run for Congress in February and his role in the Open Debate Coalition. And we love Lessig’s wonderfully executed Blip.tv webisodes.
39
votes

Law School Innovation

Law professors blog about new innovations and trends—whether entrepreneurial or technological—that are changing both how they relate to their students and how they disseminate their scholarship.
35
votes

Empirical Legal Studies

These law professors are “data junkies,” usually 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.