This new blog, launched in late October, is the brainchild of Ohio State University law professor Douglas A. Berman and, as its name suggests, is devoted to the topic of law-school innovators. Among the topics discussed thus far: innovative course offerings at law schools, the changes made to Harvard’s first-year curriculum, and the relationship between law-school innovation and school rankings by U.S. News & World Report. This blog is still in its early days and has yet to form a devoted following, but given its author’s blogging credentials — he also writes the well-regarded Sentencing Law and Policy blog on capital sentencing — it can be expected to take off soon.

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Educational researchers prefer the term “MUVE” to lend their work a more serious air, but most people are more familiar with the term MMORPG — Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. MMORPGs are hot topics, especially since researchers discovered that their economies rival some nations. Companies in this sector are portraying their technology as analogous to the Web in 1992, a claim that has some credence when you start to appreciate that at its best, MUVEs are platforms and not just products.

In this blog I hope to document the work of pioneering legal teachers in this medium, the early adopters who see the promise of a new medium to push education towards ever more effective, engaging, or even just entertaining directions. I look forward to new experiences that I cannot now even imagine.