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Blawg Directory: University of Chicago

Ms.JD
"Serving women in law school and the legal profession, Ms. JD is an online community that provides a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers." The blawg features issues relating to the numbers of women who opt out of the legal profession and the poor representation of women in the courts and legal community. The site also addresses the role of gender in legal careers.
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.
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."
Convictions
"Slate's blog on legal issues."
Lag Liv
Lag liv, Swedish for "law life," is an anonymous blog featuring a law student who posts about being a new mom, wife and law student, turned gripping in the fall of 2007, when the author began detailing the horror of losing her son and the ensuing legal and child protective services battle to get him back.
Open University
This is one of The New Republic's blogs. "To the best of our knowledge, this blog is unlike any other out there. It's dedicated to thinking about not just the news of the day but also the news from the academy: Controversies in campus politics that warrant thoughtful discussion. Scholarship from our various disciplines that we think deserves a broader hearing. Ideas we had in doing our research that seem eerily relevant to something we read in The New York Times today. Our bloggers range widely over the political spectrum. They include both novices and old hands."