Welcome to the Blogosphere: Jurisdynamics
posted by Daniel Solove
Jim Chen (law, Minnesota) has a new blog called Jurisdynamics. From the introductory post:
This blog openly embraces a dynamic model of legal change. Jurisdynamics describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law’s own endogenous capacity for adaptation. The world that law tries to govern has has become “so vast that fully to comprehend it would require an almost universal knowledge ranging from” economics and the natural sciences “to the niceties of the legislative, judicial and administrative processes of government.” Queensboro Farms Prods., Inc. v. Wickard, 137 F.2d 969, 975 (2d Cir. 1943). Within the realm of legal scholarship, this blog aspires to the goal that historian David Christian set out for his discipline: “that the appropriate time scale for the study of history may be the whole of time.” David Christian, The Case for “Big History,” 2 J. World Hist. 223, 223 (1991). Jurisdynamics will present the case for “big law,” for the proposition that the substantive scale on which law should be studied, taught, and learned is the entirety of human experience. . . .
Jurisdynamic tools include:
* Mathematics, statistics, and empirical analysis, including bibliometrics
* Language, linguistics, and interpretation
* Complexity theory
* Evolutionary biology and behavioral psychology
Naturally jurisdynamic subjects include:
* Innovation policy and intellectual property
* Economic regulation, antitrust, and competition policy
* Environmental protection, natural resources, and agriculture
* Natural disasters and other emergencies
* Trade, development, and public finance
* Constitutional law and democratic governance
Jim is a wide-ranging scholar and is always fascinating. Not only has he written dozens of law review articles and several books, but he has also penned seven articles as alter ego Gil Grantmore, making him the only law professor who would have a claim to tenure under two different names. Some of his Gil Grantmore articles include But cf., 20 Const. Comment. 5 (2003); Lex and the City, 91 Geo. L.J. 913 (2003); The Phages of American Law, 36 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 455 (2003); and The Death of Contra, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 889 (2000). Welcome to the blogosphere, Jim! And I look forward to Gil’s blog sometime soon.
July 16, 2006 at 6:46 pm
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Jim Chen - July 16, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Hi Dan,
Thanks for promoting my new blog. I really appreciate it.
I do want to correct one assertion you made about me, because it gives me far too much credit. Gil Grantmore’s accomplishments must be credited to my wife, Kathleen Chen, and to Dan Farber as well as to me. Here is a complete list of Grantmore articles, classified by their hidden authorship:
By Jim Chen –
True Blue, 20 Const. Comment. 5 (2003)
The Phages of American Law, 36 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 455 (2003) (available online at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=785524)
The Death of Contra, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 889 (2000)
Mark My Words, 3 Green Bag 2d 121 (2000)
By Kathleen Chen –
Lex and the City, 91 Geo. L.J. 913 (2003)
By Daniel A. Farber –
The Headnote, 5 Green Bag 2d 157 (2002)
By Jim Chen and Daniel A. Farber –
Constitutional Law Haiku, 18 Const. Comment. 481 (2001)
I’m sure Gil would be happy to accept a tenured position at any law school that would accept him. Or her — it’s hard to be male or female when you don’t have a body. When Gil gets ready to blog, the announcement will come straight to Concurring Opinions.
Thanks again for promoting my blog. Gil and I will be seeing you in the blogosphere.
Jim
Nate Oman - July 17, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Jim: I want to know what this blog is going to have to say about that font of jurisprudential wisdom, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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