"Blogging law profs assault ivory tower: Is it scholarship, or cyber chit-chat?"

This week's National Law Journal has this article, which begins:

As more law professors are tapping away at their computers on blogs that cover everything from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to the death penalty, they also may be chipping away at the ivory tower.

An increasing number of law professors are using blogs-online journals or newsletters-to break free from traditional modes of legal scholarship. With an immediacy and ability to reach millions of readers, blogs are proving an attractive vehicle among legal scholars for spouting and sharing ideas.

But they are also raising concerns that they may lead to a dumbing down of the profession.

I disagree with that, but I do think that blogs by law professors serve a different function and are drafted from a different point of view than blogs by practicing lawyers. [Hat tip: How Appealing]

Comments

[Mary]

I also don't think blogs are going to get them tenure. They have to publish in peer reviewed journals.

[Kimberly]

Yes, I think you're right. There's also an interesting controversy in the blogosphere right now about whether blogging is actually dangerous for non-tenured professors.