Law Professor Blogger Census (2007 Version)
posted by Daniel Solove
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 4 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 308 law professor bloggers.
Growth: Since the last census in October 2006, there are 76 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 308 bloggers.
Gender: Of the bloggers, 76 are female and 232 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 75 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. Emory (2)
22. GW (8)
24. Iowa (3)
25. Fordham (3)
25. Illinois (6)
25. W&L (1)
The Top 25 schools have a disproportionately large representation in the blogosphere–24% of the total number of bloggers (308). Four schools in the Top 25 have no bloggers – Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vanderbilt, and Boston University.
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.
August 6, 2007 at 12:36 am
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Responses (20)
Mitchell Rubinstein - July 31, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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.
Daniel J. Solove - July 31, 2007 at 2:46 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
Tom Berg - July 31, 2007 at 10:21 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
anon - August 1, 2007 at 1:28 am
what about the harvard corporate governance blog?
sue - August 1, 2007 at 12:54 pm
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!
Ken Bamberger - August 1, 2007 at 10:53 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/
Dave Hoffman - August 1, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Jon Hanson (HLS) is blogging at the Situationalist, as is Mike McCann (Ole Miss.)
James Grimmelmann - August 5, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Missed me (NYLS)! I’ve been blogging since 2000. Can anyone else in the census top that?
Also, Arthur Leonard (also NYLS) is male.
Daniel J. Solove - August 6, 2007 at 12:17 am
Thanks James. I edited the census to add you and correct the error for Leonard. Since you are a new law professor, you count as a new law professor blogger.
At this point, this year’s census is final. The notice and comment period is closed, and omissions will be added to next year’s census.
Melissa Waters - August 6, 2007 at 11:19 am
In the list of Top 25 Schools with bloggers, Washington & Lee is erroneously listed as having zero bloggers. In fact, W&L has one permablogger, currently blogging on CoOp itself …
Melissa
Daniel J. Solove - August 6, 2007 at 11:30 am
Melissa — Whoops! It’s now fixed.
Allison Hayward - August 6, 2007 at 11:35 am
Me! Me! I’m new to George Mason and post at http://www.skepticseye.com on campaign finance and ethics issues.
Howard Wasserman - August 6, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I have been blogging at Sports Law Blog since last winter.
Patricia Salkin - August 6, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Please add a new blog – first at Albany Law School – on land use law.
http://www.lawoftheland.wordpress.com
The blog is a week old!
Patty Salkin
Dave Levine - August 7, 2007 at 12:24 pm
While I use my blog (I’m a new prof at Charlotte School of Law and Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society) largely to allow access to and supplement my radio show/podcast, Hearsay Culture, I also blog there in the more traditional sense. Thanks for creating this list.
Paul Stephan - August 17, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Did you look at the International Economic Law Blog?
trademark registration - April 8, 2008 at 6:56 pm
How interesting! Great to see all this information aggregated in one place. Thanks for posting.
Steven D. Schwinn - January 21, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Excellent survey; thanks, Dan!
The Constitutional Law Prof Blog (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/) came online in the beginning of October (First Monday) 2008. Editors: Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall; Ruthann Robson, CUNY; Nareissa L. Smith, Florida Coastal.
Tracy McGaugh - July 31, 2009 at 12:36 pm
The link to the N-Z part of the list isn’t working.
Tracy McGaugh - July 31, 2009 at 12:37 pm
The link to the N-Z schools is missing.
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