Gordon Smith has some interesting thoughts on blogging as a law professor. He writes:
I have come to view blogging as an integral part of the process by which I stay on top of recent developments and think through emerging legal issues. Moreover, writing about those issues is a form of public service that I hope has value to those who read here. In short, blogging has become part of my job description, not just a sideline pursuit.
Well, so far my own blogging hasn’t been 100% on-topic. It’s been a combination of work-helpful posts, work-tangential posts, and just-for-fun posts. But I find that blogging keeps me thinking about interesting legal issues, and that can’t be a bad thing. Plus, I’ve made contacts through blogging, and the academic importance of making contacts cannot be understated.
So I think I agree with Gordon. For me, blogging isn’t really a hobby like model-airplane-building. Rather, it has become a channel of communication for interacting with other people interested in legal academia. It’s not the only channel, of course, but it’s a serious channel nonetheless.
Posted by Kaimi Wenger on May 19, 2005 at 11:51 AM
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I agree with you.I am a judge practicing criminal law in Japan.I am very interested in knowing what are being discussed hot in bloggging.
Posted by: Shinji Higami | May 23, 2005 7:14:07 AM