Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 3.0)
posted by Daniel Solove
UPDATE: The census has been revised. A new version of the census, Version 3.1, incorporates changes and additions suggested by readers. It includes 20 more bloggers.
Back in June of 2005, I decided to do a census of law professor bloggers. I released Version 1.0, and after receiving comments from readers, released an updated Version 2.0 on June 16, 2005, which is available here.
In Version 2.0 of the census, on June 16, 2005, I listed 130 bloggers (28 female, 102 male), and schools with the largest number of bloggers: San Diego (7), UCLA (5), George Mason (5), Cincinnati (4), Ohio State (4), GW (3), Georgetown (3), Stanford (3), St. Thomas (3), Chapman (3), Villanova (3).
I’ve decided to update the census for this fall, creating Version 3.0. Please email me about your blog if you were left out of this list or if you know of others we overlooked. I will post a revised version after receiving comments.
Current statistics for Version 3.0 are:
Number of Bloggers: 182 bloggers.
Growth: Since the last census on June 16, 2005, the number of bloggers has grown from 130 to 182, an increase of 40%! That’s a big increase in less than 5 months.
Gender: Of the bloggers, 41 are female and 141 are male. There are 13 new female bloggers and 39 new male bloggers. Female bloggers increased by 46% and male bloggers increased by 38%.
Schools: Schools with the most bloggers include:
Chicago (14)
UCLA (7)
San Diego (7)
GW (5)
George Mason (5)
Stanford (4)
Northwestern (4)
Ohio State (4)
U.C. Davis (4)
Cincinnati (4)
Schools in the U.S. News Top 20 rankings account for 59 bloggers
1. Yale (3)
2. Harvard (2)
3. Stanford (4)
4. Columbia (2)
5. NYU (1)
6. Chicago (14)
7. Pennsylvania (0)
8. Michigan (3)
8. Virginia (1)
10. Northwestern (4)
11. Cornell (3)
11. Duke (1)
11. Berkeley (1)
14. Georgetown (3)
15. UCLA (7)
15. Texas (2)
17. Vanderbilt (1)
18. USC (0)
19. Minnesota (1)
20. Boston University (1)
20. George Washington (5)
There are 59 bloggers from Top 20 schools. The number is roughly a third (32.4%) of the total number of bloggers (182). It thus appears that the Top 20 schools have a disproportionately large representation in the blogosphere. Only 2 schools in the Top 20 have no bloggers.
The Chicago Law Faculty Blog partly accounts for the disproportionate numbers among Top 20 schools. Without Chicago, there are 45 bloggers from the Top 20 schools, accounting for 24.7% of the total number of bloggers. Not including Chicago, the average Top 20 law school has 2.25 bloggers.
If we use Brian Leiter’s Top 20 law faculties based on scholarly citations, we must include 3 different schools (Colorado, Emory, Illinois – 4 bloggers) and exclude 3 schools (Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Minnesota – 2 bloggers total). This results in a net increase of 2 bloggers, thus yielding 61 bloggers from the Leiter Top 20.
The schools with the most bloggers generally fare quite well in the Leiter rankings.
Chicago – Blogger Rank = 1, Leiter Rank = 1
UCLA – Blogger Rank = 2, Leiter Rank = 15
San Diego – Blogger Rank = 2, Leiter Rank = 23
GW – Blogger Rank = 4, Leiter Rank = 16
George Mason – Blogger Rank = 4, Leiter Rank = 23
Stanford – Blogger Rank = 5, Leiter Rank = 4
Northwestern – Blogger Rank = 5, Leiter Rank = 12
Ohio State – Blogger Rank = 5, Leiter Rank = 28
U.C. Davis – Blogger Rank = 5, Leiter Rank = Unranked (outside Top 30)
Cincinnati – Blogger Rank = 5, Leiter Rank = Unranked (outside Top 30)
New changes and additions to the census are indicated with the word “NEW.” This designation either means that the blog is new or the blogger is new or both.
November 8, 2005 at 12:03 am
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Responses (12)
The Volokh Conspiracy - November 8, 2005 at 12:15 am
New Law Professor Blogging Census:
Over at Concurring Opinions, Daniel Solove has done another census of law professor blogs. Here are some of the key findings:
The Volokh Conspiracy - November 8, 2005 at 12:15 am
New Law Professor Blogging Census:
Over at Concurring Opinions, Daniel Solove has done another census of law professor blogs. Here are some of the key findings:
David Schraub - November 8, 2005 at 2:06 am
Kenneth Anderson’s Law of War (AU)
Stephen - November 8, 2005 at 10:27 am
Missed one:
http://sports-law.blogspot.com/
Professor McCann teaches at Mississippi College School of Law
law.mc.edu
Stephen
Stephen - November 8, 2005 at 10:29 am
Missed one:
http://sports-law.blogspot.com/
Professor McCann teaches at Mississippi College School of Law
law.mc.edu
Stephen
EN - November 8, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Oh man. I’m going to have to start pestering my professors here at Penn to start blogging. That’s just completely unacceptable. What are we paying tuition for?
Jessica - November 8, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Not only does my law school, Chapman, have 3 blogging professors, but we are also producing a law journal devoted to blogging. Go Chapman!
Kaimi - November 8, 2005 at 7:36 pm
Jessica,
Care to elaborate? Is it a symposium issue? Or a whole journal?
PointOfLaw Forum - November 8, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Lawprof blogs proliferate
Daniel Solove has an incomplete but useful census of the scores of weblogs out there by law professors, including many new ones. Among those worth checking out: ContractsProf Blog, with several contributors; Federal Civil Practice Bulletin, by Benjamin…
PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science - November 9, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Blogging PoliSci Profs
Partially as a result of inspiration from Concurring Opinions’ Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 3.0) and also because it would make for some interesting data for a paper I am co-authoring, I am calling all polisci bloggers to participate in…
Jessica - November 9, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Hi Professor Wenger,
It is a whole journal: Nexus Law Journal. We spoke before by e-mail and we’ll be listing you as an authority in the next edition! The journal will also be posted online at http://www.nexusjournal.org after publication in the spring.
Concurring Opinions - November 13, 2005 at 11:49 pm
Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 3.1)
UPDATED! This version of the census (Version 3.1) incorporates changes and additions to Version 3.0 of the census released last week. Thank you to all readers who pointed out omissions and errors. As a result of the comments, 20 new…
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