Law Blogs in Other Countries
posted by Miriam Cherry
A reader (Anton) left a (kind) comment about how’s he enjoying what goes on here at Concurring Opinions (aw shucks, thanks!). At the same time, though, he wondered whether such law blogs were a uniquely American phenomenon. His concern – I’m paraphrasing a bit – was that in a smaller country, bloggers might be worried about some amount of professional backlash if they expressed strong political views. He also asked whether there were any law blogs – resembling this one – written by lawyers / academics in other countries. Not about international law – but about local matters. I am wondering whether some of our readers might have suggestions? If so, leave them in the comments, because I know that I’d love to check them out.
June 6, 2006 at 2:23 pm
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Responses (7)
Bruce - June 6, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 IP blogs that largely cover developments in the professor’s home country: http://weatherall.blogspot.com/ and http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ . I’m sure there’s more.
William McGeveran - June 6, 2006 at 4:45 pm
IPKat, a blog (by practitioners not professors) focusing on British and European intellectual property law:
Kristi Bowman - June 6, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Hi Miriam, glad to see your visit has been extended! I was discussing this very same question with a colleague from a British law school recently, and she was intrigued by the more-or-less mainstream nature of our legal academic blogs. So, I think we can say there’s not as much law prawf blogging (yet) in the UK, despite the fact that they have many law schools (140, I am thinking – law is an undergraduate degree in the UK).
Roger Alford - June 6, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Miriam,
The one that comes readily to mind is TransAtlantic Assembly, a blog that focuses on European law and politics.
Roger Alford
Opinio Juris
John - June 6, 2006 at 6:21 pm
“Elephants and the Law” http://laws179.blogspot.com/ is a blog written by a legal academic in New Zealand.
claudio - June 6, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Hey, I know it’s not a very good practice, but I’m a Chilean legal blogger and I post about local matters on IP and technological and iLaw stuffs.
best!
http://www.quemarlasnaves.net
C.
Carlos - June 6, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Well, well, well. You can check at blawg.org the world blawgs category and in this other site Observatory of the Legal Blogosphere: http://www.estig.ipbeja.pt/~obsblogjur/homepageeng.html
BTW: i’m also a blawger or legal blogger. In fact i’m also chilean and happen to know Claudio, the quemarlasnaves guy.
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