Blogs and Websites of Note
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1: Life Outside the Law
A Miscellany-
(from the world's most prominent ex-lawyer)
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"The Historic True Crime Blog"
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"The purpose of the Centre is to contribute to the general advancement of the human rights research ..." (with a great collection of international links)
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"a venue for informed commentary on European politics and culture from a pan-European perspective"
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(by Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide)
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(literature, dogs and the Caribbean, with wit and style)
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"The Nature blog that rounds up science news from around the world"
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"The Original Multilingual MetaNews Translator" (and more)
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(Scott Horton's Harper's blog)
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"world-changing people, projects and ideas"
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"a blog based in London, England, written by an E.M.T working for the London Ambulance Service"
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(um, it's a blog about books, by Robert McCrum)
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"A weblog covering security and security technology."
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(a whole bunch of 'em)
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2. Law Blogs
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"A Legal Tabloid"
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"'The divine Ms. Althouse' - Terry Teachout"
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"One of the nation’s leading progressive legal organizations"
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"A blog devoted to appellate law and advocacy"
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(the eyes of Texas on the whole system)
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"A blog by Gary Becker and Richard Posner"
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"Dirt poor lawyers in a filthy rich town"
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"Feeling trapped? Head spinning with self-hate? Tired of taking orders from humorless workaholics?"
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"Race, law and culture"
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(weekly roundup of law blogs)
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(lots of links)
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"The Law, the Universe, and Everything"
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"devoted to reporting and commenting on developments related to Crawford v. Washington"
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"... justice, although due to the accused, is due to the accuser also ..."
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"News and court opinions, crime, federalism, and Section 1983"
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(amusing, insightful, and lots of links)
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(from the KC Star -- why don't other newspapers do this?)
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(the title says it all)
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(Dahlia Lithwick is both the funniest and the best Supreme Court reporter; Emily Bazelon is an excellent legal journalist)
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"All the news that gives judges and lawyers fits."
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"Searching for truth and justice (in an unjust world)"
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"Where most of the fun is in the comments"
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"This is a web log community for feminist law professors"
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"Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride"
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"Observations, thoughts, occasional rants, things I find interesting and anything else that I feel moved to share or comment on - sometimes they may even involve the law, lawyers or the judicial system."
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"The Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation" (from Legal Affairs)
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(you know, the biggie)
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"A blog commenting on recently released cases from the appellate courts of New Mexico and other issues surrounding the legal profession in New Mexico."
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"A law professor's musings"
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"A Look at the Law from a Georgia Judge and lawyer"
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(another self-explanatory blog name)
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(up-to-date legal news)
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(The Wall Street Journal's attempt to make up for firing all its legal reporters a few years back. How come no one grabbed that name before?)
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(news, etc., from American Lawyer's parent company)
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(links to 24 of 'em)
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"A daily dose of links to interesting legal news and Other Fancy Stuff, live from San Francisco."
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(articles rather than typical blog posts, addressing many topics besides the law)
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(a former DA's legal commentary)
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(media law, unfortunately, often intersects with criminal law, and not solely in Third World dictatorships)
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(observations of a retired judge)
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"Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature. - Emerson"
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"Keep your 'Yankee From Olympus' -- Give me Sancho Panza from New Jersey!"
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(Stuart Taylor, Jr. columns from National Journal, sadly unavailable to non-subscribers)
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(mostly international law)
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"law, the legal academy, and the legal profession"
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"A companion to the Yale Law Journal"
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"Where Intellectual Honesty Has (Almost Always) Trumped Partisanship Since 2005"
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"Law, business, economics and culture"
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(news, commentary, links, not exclusively about SCOTUS, which is not an anatomical term)
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(Everything about sentencing and more.)
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"A blog devoted to the criminal laws regulating and punishing sex offenders"
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"Crime & punishment / Public policy & community / Law, theory & practice"
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"The Veggie Lions' Heavily Ecclectic and Beautifully Incoherent Take on Law, Life, Politics and other Semi-Interesting Stuff -- Stichwort: 'Fleischereifunk'"
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"legal blogs for normal people"
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"The Politics of Crime"
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(written by former Maine AG Jim Tierney)
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(a single-issue blog)
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"The easiest access, to the greatest law blogs from the best blawgers."
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(an experiment in communal blogging)
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"Useless Ramblings of a Newly Minted J.D."
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"Judiciary in the News"
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(you know, the other biggie)
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(one of those clear, self-explanatory blog titles)
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3. Law School Blogs
Talking back to the professors-
"An escape from the real world"
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"Overcaffeinated, unsolicited observations. You're welcome."
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"The Only Place I Can Talk Without Referencing A Case"
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"Me v. CLS. It's on."
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"Putting the cool back in law school."
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(or maybe the title is Hate Is Easy ... Love Takes Courage - the URL is different from the page header)
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"A twenty-something guy trying to make it as a NYU law student"
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"Legal Commentary and the Hilarity"
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"Yet another law student ... trying to keep law school from killing me slowly on the inside"
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"Riveting insights by a Franklin Pierce Law Center 2L"
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"37 year old fresh-faced 3L female law student"
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"fine-tuning ninja survival skills as a 1L"
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"I wish the rule against perpetuities applied to law school."
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(at this point, a pre-law blog)
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"Law School Can Drive Students to Extreme Measures..."
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(a group blog)
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"Useful/less Dicta from a Non-Traditional & Irreverent Law Student"
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"Snickering in the back row since 2007"
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"Good lord. A pack of cigs and a pregnancy scare and this could be high school."
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4. Legal Resources
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(organization for families of officers killed in the line of duty)
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( more informative than your average law firm website)
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(an interesting experiment)
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(an invaluable reality check)