Strange (Leiter) Poll on Best Law Blogs
posted by Lawrence Cunningham
As Dan Solove notes below, a law professor at the University of Chicago, named Brian Leiter, who appears to be an avid blogger, early Monday morning posted a poll. He invited anyone who cared to rank their favorite law bloggers. Strangely, and without detailing why, the blogster cancelled the poll in the early evening that same day, after 86 votes had been cast.
The blogster’s explanation said, in all capital letters, “some have resorted to using Facebook to stack the voting, specifically against someone else.” He added: “Pretty pathetic, but what can one do.” There were no details concerning who the “some” or “someone else” were. Some bloggers and others were moderately curious. Theories run wild.
In the original poll, the blogster declared he chose the candidates on his list according to those “I find myself reading regularly” or who “colleagues mention as ones they read regularly.” He added: “To even make the list is, of course, a great honor.”
That must be a joke, of course. Humor aside, since the blogster aborted the poll after a day, and 86 votes, it seems worth wondering what the poll looked like then.
The results are posted on the Internet for public view here. Following is a simplier version, for those curious about results when the poll was aborted. Notably, they do not include the blogster. They do include several fellow bloggers here at Co-Op.
Larry Solum (Legal Theory Blog)
Jack Balkin (Balkinization)
Gene Volokh (Volokh Conspiracy)
Orin Kerr (Volokh Conspiracy)
Dick Posner (Becker-Posner)
Kim Krawiec (Faculty Lounge)
Al Brophy (Faculty Lounge)
Sandy Levinson (Balkinization)
Steve Bainbridge (Professor Bainbridge)
Dan Solove (Concurring Opinions)
Rick Hills (Prawfs)
Paul Horwitz (Prawfs)
David Luban (Balkinization)
William Henderson (ELS)
Dan Markel (Prawfs)
Danille Citron (Concurring Opinions)
Frank Pasquale (Concurring Opinions)
Bridget Crawford (Feminist Law Professors)
Larry Ribstein (IdeoBlog)
Ann Bartow (Feminist Law Professor)
March 9, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Posted in: Humor
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Responses (4)
dave hoffman - March 9, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I think BL planned the entire thing to boost his traffic during March sweeps.
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Michael Risch - March 10, 2010 at 4:57 am
“Notably, they do not include the blogster.”
No surprise here – he wasn’t on the list – the original post said it was only a list of people who posted on legal issues, which he does not.
Kaimipono D. Wenger - March 13, 2010 at 5:59 pm
I can check, but I would suspect that it may have been targeted at one or more vocal feminist bloggers. They get a disturbing amount of personal, targeted hate mail.
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