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• The Volokh Conspiracy

  This blawg covers and debates news and political issues.

• SCOTUSblog

  SCOTUSblog analyzes the cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and posts breaking news of court decisions. Supreme Court decisions are often posted here before the high court puts them on its own Web site.

• Balkinization

  "Balkinization an unanticipated consequence of Jack M. Balkin." This blawg focuses on constitutional, First Amendment and civil liberties issues.

• LexLibris

  Discussion of legal and research resources available via the University of Minnesota Law Library, with a special focus on Minnesota and the university's 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." 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.

• ContractsProf Blog

  Covers news, cases, legal education and limericks mainly relating to the realm of contracts.

• BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences

  "Environmental law, natural resources law, agricultural law, food and drug law, biotechnology, law and neuroscience, behavioral psychology and evolutionary biology, health law, bioethics."

• Info/Law

  "What is Information Law? We see it as an obvious convergence of intellectual property doctrine, communications regulation, First Amendment norms, and new technology. As information becomes the most precious commodity of the 21st century, the law surrounding it will have to evolve. That’s what we want to talk and think about here—along with various related and not-so-related threads (hey, “information” covers a lot of ground!)."

• No. 634

  "Commentary on life in Minneapolis, law school, and pop law."

• Career & Professional Development Blog

  Posts discuss how to secure legal employment and manage one's legal career. Other lawyers' foibles in these areas are highlighted.

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