Information Law Possum (discontinued)

Returning from a vacation I saw today that Professor Solove posted a new paper to SSRN on July 12, the very day I went on holiday. I returned on July 21, the day the last tome of the Harry Potter saga went on sale–the lines at the bookstores’ cashiers at Dublin airport were almost as long as the ones at the security check.
Now legal scholarship appears to have its new J.K. Rowling: Professor Solove’s paper was downloaded 39′000 times within thirteen days (it’s now 4th on the all-time ranking), and there are 30,000 Google hits for the terms “daniel solove” “nothing to hide”. This is absolutely fascinating and — from this side of the atlantic — hard to explain, given that Professor Solove’s other SSRN papers are popular, too, but not on this scale.
One reason for the paper’s popularity could be that it is based on and a reaction to a discussion on the author’s blog, but I’m not sure whether this is the only reason for the paper’s success.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 at 8:53 am and is filed under A2K, media, privacy.