Please give a warm blogospheric welcome to a promising new law blog, The CockleBur. The proof of the pudding is in the blogging, but The CockleBur has some terrific academics in the line-up: Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California at Irvine; Ron Sullivan, Susan Farbstein and Tyler Giannini of Harvard; Richard Friedman of the University of Michigan; Dan Ortiz of the University of Virginia; Neil Siegel and Thomas Metzloff of Duke; David Franklin of DePaul; Jacob Huebert of Ohio Northern; Elizabeth Hillman of Hastings; Palma Strand of Creighton. The academics in the group are joined by Georgetown law student Mike Sacks of First One at One First and Stanford JD/PhD student Sara Mayeux of the Prison Law Blog.