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July 31, 2007
Law Professor Blogger Census (2007 Version)
NEW VERSION 2007
UPDATED VERSION: This is an updated version of the 2007 census. With feedback from readers plus the assistance of our intern, Sam Yospe, I have added a number of bloggers we missed. I also did something that has not been done on previous censuses – I deleted "deadwood" bloggers and retired bloggers – those on group or solo blogs who haven’t posted in the past 3 months (since April 1)
The culling from deadwood and retired bloggers from the census has resulted in a decrease in the number of bloggers since the last census. Because previous versions didn’t seek to eliminate deadwood bloggers, the chart of the blogosphere’s growth is potentially misleading. I believe that the legal blogosphere did grow since the last census, as I assume that there were many retired or deadwood bloggers on the rolls of previous censuses that inflated the numbers.
A quick plea to those running active group blogs – please update the names of your bloggers, as not doing so makes tallying the census quite difficult. I would be very thankful – and more so than me, our intern who painstakingly checked to see who was actively blogging and who was not.
I used to do the census bi-annually, but the law professor blogosphere has stabilized sufficiently to do this annually. This version of the census incorporates changes to the law professor blogosphere made after the last census was completed in October 2006.
I would like to thank our intern, Sam Yospe, who provided much-needed assistance with this project.
Earlier Versions of the Census:
2005 -- In June 2005, there were 130 bloggers (28 female, 102 male). By In November 2005, there were 202 bloggers (50 female, 152 male).
2006 -- In March 2006, there were 235 law professor bloggers (58 female, 177 male). By October 2006, the number had grown to 309 law professor bloggers (74 female, 235 male).
NEW 2007 STATS:
Number: There are 307 law professor bloggers.
Growth: Since the last census in October 2006, there are 75 new bloggers and 30 departed bloggers, increasing the blogosphere from 309 bloggers to 354 bloggers – an increase of about 15%. However, a search of the group blogs and individual blogs turned up 47 deadwood bloggers who have not posted since April 1. This decreases the total legal blogosphere to 307 bloggers.
Gender: Of the bloggers, 76 are female and 231 are male. Thus, about 25% are female and 75% are male. There has been a small increase in the percentage of female bloggers since the last census (24% were female and 76% were male in October 2006.)
Schools: Schools with the most bloggers include:
Chicago (8)
GW (8)
San Diego (8)
George Mason (6)
Georgetown (6)
Illinois (6)
Temple (6)
Temple (6)
William Mitchell (6)
Baylor (5)
UC Davis (5)
Cincinnati (5)
Pittsburgh (5)
St. Thomas (5)
Villanova (5)
Wayne State (5)
Schools making their first appearance on the census include: Arkansas-Little Rock, Connecticut, Baylor, Boston College, Charleston, Denver, Hawaii, Indiana-Indianapolis, New England, Oregon, and USC.
Schools in the U.S. News Top 25 rankings account for 74 bloggers
1. Yale (3)
2. Harvard (6)
2. Stanford (2)
4. NYU (1)
5. Columbia (1)
6. Chicago (8)
6. Pennsylvania (0)
8. Berkeley (2)
8. Michigan (2)
10. Duke (1)
10. Virginia (0)
12. Northwestern (3)
13. Cornell (2)
14. Georgetown (6)
15. UCLA (4)
16. USC (1)
16. Vanderbilt (0)
18. Texas (4)
19. Washington U.(2)
20. Boston U. (0)
20. Minnesota. (4)
22. GW (8)
24. Iowa (3)
25. Fordham (3)
25. Illinois (6)
25. W&L (0)
The Top 25 schools have a disproportionately large representation in the blogosphere--24% of the total number of bloggers (307). Five schools in the Top 25 have no bloggers – Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Boston University, and W&L.
In the chart that follows, I indicate new bloggers with NEW. Since the chart has grown too large for a single blog post, I had to cut the chart in half. The chart below the fold consists of schools beginning with the letters A-M. For the second half of the chart, schools N-Z, click here.
For the second half of the chart, schools N-Z, click here.
Posted by Daniel J. Solove at July 31, 2007 12:36 AM
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Thanks for the excellent survey. However, you left me, (St. John's Law School and New York Law School),the Editor of Adjunct Law Prof Blog out and you also left out one of our Contributing Editors, Gail Richmon Levin (Nova Law School). However, you did include our other Contributing Editor, Eric Lustig. My posting about this can be found here
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2007/07/concurring-law-.html
Thank You.
Posted by: Mitchell Rubinstein at July 31, 2007 02:14 PM
Mitchell,
Unfortunately, my policy is to only list full-time faculty members. At GW, we have hundreds of adjunct professors; likewise at Georgetown and many other schools. Adjuncts change from semester to semester, so tracking them all down is too much for me to do.
Dan
Posted by: Daniel J. Solove at July 31, 2007 02:46 PM
Dear Dan,
Thank you for providing this very useful resource again. Susan Stabile has moved from St. John's to St. Thomas-Minnesota. Elizabeth Schiltz at St. Thomas-M also is on the Mirror of Justice blog, so St. Thomas-Minnesota is among the schools with 5 faculty bloggers.
Thanks very much.
Tom Berg
Posted by: Tom Berg at July 31, 2007 10:21 PM
what about the harvard corporate governance blog?
Posted by: anon at August 1, 2007 01:28 AM
How absolutely wonderful! I read several of the law bloggers without knowing they are into the law in one way or another!! But, they are all, atleaset the ones I read, intelligent, reasonable and moderate. Just another judgment valuation on my outlook. Thank you!
Posted by: sue at August 1, 2007 12:54 PM
Dan - many thanks for this interesting compilation. Berkeley-Boalt Hall's Jonathan Simon deserves inclusion as well for the "Berkeley Jurisprude" Blog, found at http://www.berkeleyjurisprude.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Ken Bamberger at August 1, 2007 10:53 PM
Jon Hanson (HLS) is blogging at the Situationalist, as is Mike McCann (Ole Miss.)
Posted by: Dave Hoffman at August 1, 2007 11:26 PM