Georgetown Law Blog
Posted on July 11th, 2006 by William McGeveran
The faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center has formed a new blog. The contributors include some old hands in the blogosphere — Mark Tushnet, Marty Lederman (both here and here), Rebecca Tushnet, and Rosa Brooks among them. Given the somewhat leftward tilt of the roster, perhaps it will serve as a parallel to the longer-established University of Chicago’s Law School blog.
I wonder: if more law schools start doing this, will independent law professor blogs dry up? Why would schools choose to hang out their own shingle rather than simply setting up aggregators of their faculty bloggers’ posts (as the Berkman Center does here)?
Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Law School
I think lots of schools don’t realize that setting up their own aggregators is an option. In addition, a controlled single blog offers control over the content in ways the aggregator doesn’t- I know that if the Berkman aggregator gets more popular the inclusion of, say, some of the stuff Charlie or David W. post will become more controversial than it currently is.