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A few years ago, it was all the rage for law schools to start up faculty blogs. All the professors at the school could post to the blog, making the blog a good place to go to know what a faculty was doing. At the time, I wondered if the new blogs would challenge more […]

Lawyers often explore legal arguments by offering “hypotheticals,” or “hypos” for short. A hypothetical is a “what if” scenario designed to question a legal principle. The idea is to change the facts to something very different than the one before us to see how the offered legal principle would apply to that set of facts. […]

The Question: What is the maximum number of comments permitted by VC’s blogging software? (As determined by the “ultimate legal blog comment” thread.) You might think reaching the maximum of 1,281 comments as we did in that thread shows that the Internet is one grand waste of time. But I ask you this: Have two […]

In case you’re wondering about the fate of the Ultimate Legal Blog Comment thread, it seems that it is now at 1,032 comments and is still going. Fraud!!! UPDATE: I have amended the post, as it seems that my earlier conclusion that the thread had been shut down by the software was incorrect.

On August 19th, Justice Kennedy gave an address that included an interesting passing remark about the role of blogs. Justice Kennedy was talking about how law review case comments generally come out too late to be of use to the Court (especially in the context of deciding whether to grant certiorari in a case). As […]

The comment thread to Monday’s post, The Ultimate Legal Blog Comment, is now at 585 comments. Many are by “Mick” himself, who left the original comment on Jonathan Turley’s blog. And it’s still going: It was at 583 comments when I started writing this post, and I had to update the number when I was […]

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that the comment thread to my post from yesterday, The Ultimate Legal Blog Comment?, is now at 314 comments.

I found this gem in a comment thread at the blog of my collegue Jonathan Turley by commenter “Mick” at 4:42 am, May 22, 2010: How do you live with yourself? A supposed Constitutional expert that doesn’t know what a Natural Born Citizen is? I would say that you probably do. You know, and are […]

This new study looks interesting. The study is sort of hard to read, but its basic finding seems to be that prominent liberal blogs are more often based on a community group model while prominent conservative blogs are more often based on a single-blogger no-comments model. I suppose that’s true, although I wonder if there’s […]