Comments on: Blogging is Not Scholarship http://madisonian.net/2007/10/23/blogging-is-not-scholarship-2/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank http://madisonian.net/2007/10/23/blogging-is-not-scholarship-2/comment-page-1/#comment-224201 Frank Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:36:13 +0000 http://madisonian.net/archives/2007/10/23/blogging-is-not-scholarship-2/#comment-224201 Absolutely yes. One of my friends refers to the dry "problem---->suggested solution" structure of legal scholarship as evidence of its "eccentric normativity." Why not permit people to a) richly, thickly describe legal phenomena (I'm thinking of Geertz's Storrs lectures here) b) pen a series of aphoristic reflections (like Joseph Vining's From Netwon's sleep) c) submit poems that obliquely describe law (Auden's Law Like Love) d) satirize or comment on legal trends (Aoki/Boyle's Bound by Law) e) polemically attack a (perceivedly) corrupt system (Hyman's MEdicare Meets Mephistopheles) f) podcast (see particularly Nate Oman's interview with Berman) g) YouTube or Second Life inquiries about legal matters (see Seton Hall Guantanamo outreach) More prosaically, I like the variety of outlets available in both health and IP law. Particularly the former area gets unfairly shunned by top law reviews, so thought leaders in the area are submitting more (and smaller) pieces to medical journals, public health journals, etc. Absolutely yes. One of my friends refers to the dry “problem—->suggested solution” structure of legal scholarship as evidence of its “eccentric normativity.” Why not permit people to

a) richly, thickly describe legal phenomena (I’m thinking of Geertz’s Storrs lectures here)
b) pen a series of aphoristic reflections (like Joseph Vining’s From Netwon’s sleep)
c) submit poems that obliquely describe law (Auden’s Law Like Love)
d) satirize or comment on legal trends (Aoki/Boyle’s Bound by Law)
e) polemically attack a (perceivedly) corrupt system (Hyman’s MEdicare Meets Mephistopheles)
f) podcast (see particularly Nate Oman’s interview with Berman)
g) YouTube or Second Life inquiries about legal matters (see Seton Hall Guantanamo outreach)

More prosaically, I like the variety of outlets available in both health and IP law. Particularly the former area gets unfairly shunned by top law reviews, so thought leaders in the area are submitting more (and smaller) pieces to medical journals, public health journals, etc.

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