Friday, March 10, 2006
Bloggership Conference at Harvard on April 28
I am delighted to announce that I have helped organize a symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship to be held at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 28. 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. Here is the schedule:
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 Academic Blogs
- Larry Solum (Illinois; Legal Theory Blog): The Role of the Blog in the Dissemination of Legal Scholarship
- Kate Litvak (Texas): Law Prof Blogs: Useful, Yes; Scholarship, No
- 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): Was Publius Our Nation's First Blogger?
- Orin Kerr (George Washington; The Volokh Conspiracy): Law Professors As Public Intellectuals
- 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, the First Amendment, and Bloggers
- Eugene Volokh (UCLA; The Volokh Conspiracy): Cheap Speech and What It Has Done
- Eric Goldman (Marquette; Technology & Marketing Law Blog): Joint and Guest Blogger Arrangements
- 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): Bloggership as Amateur Journalism
- Ann Althouse (Wisconsin; Althouse): Why a Narrowly Defined Legal Scholarship Blog Is Not What I Want: The Joys of Well-Rounded Blogging
- Christine Hurt (Illinois; Conglomerate) & Tung Yin (Iowa; The Yin Blog): Pre-Tenure Blogging: Is It Worth It?
- Commentators:
- Howard Bashman (How Appealing)
- Peter Lattman (Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2006/03/bloggership_con.html