There are a lot of good science bloggers out there, but overall we are way behind other areas of academia in the realm of scholarly blogging. Social scientists and law professors, in particular -- that is, disciplines that regularly interact strongly with the larger social context -- seem to have taken to blogging more readily, including at least one Nobel laureate (economist Gary Becker). Here's what looks like a major step: a new blog by the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School.
The University of Chicago School of Law has always been a place about ideas. We love talking about them, writing about them, and refining them through open, often lively conversation. This blog is just a natural extension of that tradition. Our hope is to use the blog as a forum in which to exchange nascent ideas with each other and also a wider audience, and to ...
