RE: Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship
Lawrence Solum, professor of law at the University of Illinois, has written this paper titled “Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship.”
From the abstract:
Does blogging have anything to do with legal scholarship? Could blogging transform the legal academy? This paper suggests that these are the wrong questions. Blogs have plenty to do with legal scholarship — that’s obvious. But what blogs have to do with legal scholarship isn’t driven by anything special about blogs qua weblogs, qua collections of web pages that share the form of a journal or log. The relationship between blogging and the future of legal scholarship is a product of other forces — the emergence of the short form, the obsolesce of exclusive rights, and the trend towards the disintermediation of legal scholarship. Those forces and their relationship to blogging will be the primary focus of this paper.
