Are Law Profs' Blogs Scholarship or a Cyber Chit-Chat?

An article by National Law Journal staff writer, Leigh Jones,
(Blogging law profs assault ivory tower, 2/27/2006) asks
if the increasing number of law professors' blogs are "chipping
away at the ivory tower." The topic is hot enough to be
the theme of a two-day symposium to be held at Harvard Law
School in April. Proponents, such as Law Professor Blogs
Network editor Paul Caron, claim that, "in the not too distant
future ... blogging will become a mainstream component of
legal scholarship." Skeptics like Ann Litvak (Texas) counter
that the blogging "has nothing to do with scholarship."

The article cites a recent survey by Daniel Solove, a law professor
and blogger at George Washington University, who estimates
that 182 law professors have blogs. According to Solove, this
number represented a 40% increase from his earlier count, taken
five months earlier. Of those bloggers, 41 are female and 141 are
male. The schools with the most bloggers are University of Chicago
Law School, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law,
University of San Diego School of Law and George Washington
University. Among the top 20 schools, as ranked by U.S. News &
World Report, there are 59 bloggers.