Law Faculty Blogs and the State of the Blogosphere: Law Faculty Who Blog by Law Schools (as of June 2012)
As of June 2012, there were approximately 302 law school faculty members who actively blogged, a number that has been relatively stable over much of the last decade. (This post has been continuously updated and was most recently updated on August 12, 2012).
Of the law schools represented on the blogosphere, about 8% came from the elite schools in the top 10. Blogging was more common for the remainder of the top 25. Schools 11 through 25 contributed 41 bloggers, or 14%. Law schools ranked 26 through 50 added 50 faculty or 16% to the blogosphere. Thus, the top 50 schools were responsible for 38% (114) of the 300 active full time law faculty bloggers.
By contrast, most active bloggers taught at schools outside of the top 50. These schools were collectively responsible for 62% (188) of law faculty who blogged regularly. Of those, 91 came from schools ranked 51 through 100 and 97 from the third and fourth quartiles.
Please note that this data was difficult to compile. Attempting to uncover all law faculty blogs and all other law blogs where faculty write regularly was not easy. There are no doubt omissions. Please feel free to send queries to me about omitted information or put up comments. The data will be corrected accordingly.
For those who want a look at a complete version of the data (including a citation list for approximately 180 law faculty blogs), it can be found at Law Faculty Blogs and Disruptive Innovation: the Data.
Top 10 Law Schools:
Yale (1); Harvard (4); Columbia (4); Chicago (2); NYU (5); Berkeley (5); Penn (1); UVA (1)
23 (8%)
Law Schools Ranked 11-25:
Duke (1); Northwestern (1); Georgetown (8); Cornell (4); UCLA (6); Texas (2); USC (1); Minnesota (4); George Washington (6); Washington University (St. Louis) (1); Notre Dame (5); Washington & Lee (2)
41 (14%)
First Tier, 26-50:
Arizona State (1), Boston University (2), Indiana University (Maurer) (Bloomington) (1); Boston College (1); Fordham (2); Alabama (1); UC Davis (5); Iowa (1); Georgia (4); Illinois (2); Wisconsin (1); UNC Law (5); BYU (1); George Mason (4); Ohio State (4); Maryland (1); UC Hastings (1); University of Colorado (2); Wake Forest (1); Utah (1); Florida (Levin) (2); American (5); Pepperdine (2)
50 (16%)
Second Tier, 51-100:
Baylor (1); Florida State (2); SMU Law (1); Cardozo (4); University of Houston (1); Lewis & Clark (5); Temple (5); Chicago-Kent (1); UConn (1); Kentucky (1); Brooklyn Law (4); University of San Diego (6); Case Western (2); Loyola – Chicago (1); Seton Hall (5); University of Cincinnati (3); University of Denver (Sturm) (1); University of Miami (3); University of New Mexico (1); University of Pittsburgh (2); University of Tennessee (1); Penn State – Dickinson (2); University of Nevada – Las Vegas (1); Louisiana State (2); St. John’s (5); University of Missouri (Columbia) (2); Catholic University of America (1); Michigan State (3); Seattle University (1); SUNY Buffalo (1); University of Oklahoma (1); University of Oregon (2); DePaul (3); Hofstra (2); Indiana University (Indianapolis) (3); University of Arkansas (1); University of Louisville (2); Marquette (2); Santa Clara (4); Syracuse (1); Rutgers – Camden (1)
91 (30%)
Third Tier, 101-145:
St. Louis University (3); Texas Tech (2); Villanova (3); West Virginia (2); University of San Francisco (1); University of South Carolina (1); Chapman (4); Wayne State (2); Albany (2); CUNY (2); Florida International (1); Drexel (1); Stetson (2); University of Akron (2); University of Maine (1); Vermont (2); William Mitchell (3); John Marshall – Chicago (5); Southwestern (1); University of Toledo (1); Willamette (2); New York Law School (2); Suffolk (2); University of Mississippi (2); University of Missouri – Kansas City (1); Pace (3); University of North Dakota (1);
54 (18%)
Fourth Tier (Unranked):
Barry Law School (1); Campbell (1); Capital (1); Charleston (1); Cleveland Marshall (1); Dayton (3); Hamline (3); Mass (1); Nova (1); Northern Kentucky (1); Regent (1); St. Thomas (7); South Texas (4); Southern Illinois (3); Texas Wesleyan (3); Thomas Jefferson (1); Touro (1); UC Irvine (2); Valparaiso (1); Western New England (1); Widener (5);
43 (14%)
Total: 302