Blawgs Affecting Legal World

In thirteen thoughfully written essays published in print and made available online, NeXus, a Journal of Opinion published by Chapman University School of Law, raises an interesting question.

How are Blogs Affecting the Legal World?

• Editor's Note The Times They Are a Changing, by Hugh Hewitt


• The Information Age, Again, by Timothy Sandefur


• Legal Blogs: The Search for Legitimacy, by Lyle Denniston


• Lessons from the Clash Between Campaign Finance Laws and the Blogosphere, by Richard L.Hasen


• Employee Blogs and Trade Secrets: Legal Response to Technological Change, by Vincent Chiappetta


• "Or of the [Blog]," by Paul Horwitz


• Blog You, by Denise M. Howell


• The Impact of Blogging on the Practice of Law: Hit the Snooze Button, by Tom W. Bell


• Legal Blogs and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process, by Tung Yin


• Humanizing the Profession: Lawyers Find Their Public Voices Through Blogging, by Colin Samuels


• The Blogosphere and The New Pamphleteers, by Donald J. Kochan


• Late Night Thoughts on Blogging While Reading Duncan Kennedy’s Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy in an Arkansas Motel Room, by Franklin G. Snyder


• Blogs and the First Amendment, by David L. Hudson, Jr.

This weekend, while Jeremy Blachman and the Anonymous Lawyer were spending their non-billable hours preparing Blawg Review #68, this editor's time was well-spent reading two of these articles written by previous hosts of Blawg Review, Denise Howell and Colin Samuels, who concludes:

The rise of legal blogging is not a matter of a few attorneys riding a new wave of communications technology, but instead marks the legal profession's welcome return to an ongoing community dialogue.

After reading the best of the past week's posts in Blawg Review #68, this editor is going back to check out the rest of those essays.

And I'm going to have a good look at the NeXus blog, too, which is a new one added to this blawgroll.