Welcome

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 hear feedback about which ideas are compelling and which could use some re-tooling.

Posting here over the next many weeks will be a mix of Chicago friends, faculty, and alumni. On the sidebar, we will maintain a running list of who is posting during any given week and also a separate list of the topics then in play.  When we officially start this coming Monday, for example, Saul Levmore, David Strauss, and Cass Sunstein will be with us; soon after, Lior Strahilevitz, Doug Lichtman, and Randy Picker are slated to come aboard.

Lastly, this is obviously still an experiment, and so we welcome feedback and suggestions as we get things off the ground.  With that, we will look forward to talking on Monday.

Comments

[anon]

Great idea, needs more Hutchinson!

[anonalum]

As if I needed another distraction ... but I look forward to it.

[Dale Gribble]

wheres the rss link

[Eh Nonymous]

RSS link can be found by going to bloglines and inputting http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/

Results are:

[http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/rss.xml]

[http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/index.rdf]

[http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/index.rdf]

[Eh Nonymous]

I mean, /atom.xml

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

Nice idea, this "blog" you speak of. :-)

One question: Are there plans to include some women contributors to this blog?

[SR]

I like what this stands for. It may also make me want to go to law school at the old alma mater...

[Observing]

It will be most interesting to read what you all decide to discuss. I'll be looking forward to next week.

[Nick Hernandez]

I think mass media has a much bigger impact on society than the legal profession at this time. I think blogging is a way for anyone to feel like the are an equal in the creation of culture. The legal profession may exercise tremendous social control, but as an organizational actor in the creation of healthy culture the legal profession has a long way to go. Is their a center point where organizational actors (media, law, religion, banking, universities) converge?

[test]

why use typepad?

I'm sure the university has some technology set up for this purpose.

In fact, they do: http://uchiblogo.uchicago.edu/

[test]

what about epstein?

[Patterico]

Great! Maybe now I can finally get Prof. Sunstein to respond to a blog post I did in which I criticized his claim that "the law clearly did not authorize federal judges to order [Terri] Schiavo’s feeding tube reinserted."

http://patterico.com/2005/04/17/2885/a-legal-argument-why-the-federal-courts-should-have-granted-the-schiavo-injunction/

My post makes what I thought was a pretty convincing legal argument that the law clearly *did* allow it. I e-mailed the link to Prof. Sunstein and never got a response.

[DC]

Good luck with the new site!

[14th!]

14th!