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• 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.

• Concurring Opinions

  Concurring Opinions is a general-interest blawg.

• 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."

• 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.

• Mirror of Justice

  A blog devoted to the development of Catholic legal theory.

• The Right Coast

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

• 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."

• Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

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

• Unclaimed Territory

  Glenn Greenwald launched Unclaimed Territory in 2005 as a political and legal blog. He is credited with breaking numerous legal affairs stories on his blog, and in 2006, he won the Koufax Award for best new blog. Unclaimed Territory now resides at Salon.com.

• 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.

• The Becker-Posner Blog

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

• Collaborative Divorce Newsblog

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Tillers on Evidence and Inference

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

• 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.

• A Copyfighter’s Musings

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

• TortDeform

  TortDeform says it "confronts and transcends the arguments put forth by the tort 'reform' movement, working to ensure that all Americans can access the courts." Many posts deal with fairness in the justice system.

• 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.
  

• Eminent Domain

  Features commentary and musings about case law and legal topics.

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