Bloggership Conference Today at Harvard

Our symposium on Bloggership:  How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship is being held today at Harvard Law School.  The symposium is sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and will be held in the Ames Courtroom.  It is free and open to the public; registration is not required.  Here is the schedule, with links to all of the papers on the SSRN Conference Site:

8:30 - 8:40 a.m.: Welcome: John Palfrey (Executive Director, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society)

8:40 - 9:00 a.m.: Introduction: Paul Caron (Cincinnati; Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Law Professor Blogs Network)

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.: Law Blogs as Legal Scholarship

• Papers:
  • Doug Berman (Ohio State; Sentencing Law and Policy): Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs
  • Larry Solum (Illinois; Legal Theory Blog): Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship
  • Kate Litvak (Texas): Blog as a Bugged Water Cooler
• Commentators:
  • Paul Butler (George Washington; BlackProf)
  • Jim Lindgren (Northwestern; The Volokh Conspiracy)
  • Ellen Podgor (Stetson; White Collar Crime Prof Blog)

11:00 - 12:30 p.m.: The Role of the Law Professor Blogger

• Papers:
  • Gail Heriot (San Diego; The Right Coast): Are Modern Bloggers Following in the Footsteps of Publius? (And Other Musings on Blogging by Legal Scholars...)
  • Orin Kerr (George Washington; OrinKerr.com): Blogs and the Legal Academy
  • Gordon Smith (Wisconsin; Conglomerate): Bit By Bit: A Case Study of Bloggership
• Commentators:
  • Randy Barnett (Georgetown; The Volokh Conspiracy)
  • Michael Froomkin (Miami; Discourse.net)

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.: Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.: Law Blogs and the First Amendment

• Papers:
  • Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee; InstaPundit) (via video conference): Libel in the Blogosphere: Some Preliminary Thoughts
  • Eugene Volokh (UCLA; The Volokh Conspiracy): Extraconstitutional Speech Protections:  Is Blogging Covered?  [Paper:  Scholarship, Blogging and Trade-offs: On Discovering, Disseminating, and Doing]
  • Eric Goldman (Marquette; Technology & Marketing Law Blog): Co-Blogging Law
• Commentators:
  • Betsy Malloy (Cincinnati; Health Law Prof Blog)
  • Dan Solove (George Washington; Concurring Opinions)

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.:  The Many Faces of Law Professor Blogs

• Papers:
  • Larry Ribstein (Illinois; Ideoblog): The Public Face of Scholarship
  • Ann Althouse (Wisconsin; Althouse): Why a Narrowly Defined Legal Scholarship Blog Is Not What I Want: An Argument in Pseudo-Blog Form
  • Christine Hurt (Illinois; Conglomerate) & Tung Yin (Iowa; The Yin Blog): Blogging While Untenured and Other Extreme Sports
• Commentators:
  • Howard Bashman (How Appealing)
  • Peter Lattman (Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog)