Blawg Review #140
The Blawg Review is a weekly review of the best law-related posts from a variety of blogs. Having enjoyed hosting Blawg Review #103 (the BaseBlawg Review) in April, I eagerly volunteered to host another installment. However, other than to direct your attention to the Sports Law Blog’s summary of commentary on the Mitchell report, this edition of the Blawg Review will have no references whatsoever to baseball. Like many other legal bloggers do at this time of year (like here, here, here, here, and here), I’ll stick with a holiday theme.
Since today is Christmas Eve, I thought about drawing inspiration for this issue from Twas the Night Before Christmas before the Blawg Review’s intrepid editor pointed out that a similar framework had been used, years ago, by Wired GC. Undeterred, I turned to another holiday favorite, the Twelve Days of Christmas.
According to Wikipedia, "the Twelve Days of Christmas and the associated evenings of those twelve days (Twelve-tide), are the festive days beginning the evening of Christmas Day (December 25) through the morning of Epiphany (January 6). Currently, the 12 days and nights are celebrated in widely varying ways around the world. For example, some give gifts only on Christmas night, some only on Twelfth Night, and some each of the 12 nights. What remains constant is celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25th, and a period of twelve days and nights leading up to Epiphany"
One of the best-known references to Twelve-tide is the Christmas carol, the Twelve Days of Christmas, in which the narrator receives gifts of twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking, seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves, a partridge, and a pear tree. Each year, PNC bank totals the cost of these gifts to calculate its Christmas Price Index (CPI), "a fun, lighthearted way to look at the increasing cost of goods and services bought by the True Love in the holiday classic, 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'"
If a bank can use the Twelve Days of Christmas to report on the present state of the economy, I can certainly use it to round up this week's most interesting posts in legal blogging. And, so, without further ado, we present . . .
The Twelve Days of Blawg Review
On the first day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the second day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Views on listservs [Carolyn Elefant’s and Steve Lombardi’s]
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the third day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the fourth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the fifth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the sixth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the seventh day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
"It’s a Wonderful Life"
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the eighth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Inmate release plans
"It’s a Wonderful Life"
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the ninth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Some room for new blawgs
Inmate release plans
"It’s a Wonderful Life"
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the tenth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Patent protections
Some room for new blawgs
Inmate release plans
"It’s a Wonderful Life"
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the eleventh day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
Cancel "Zoey 101"?
Patent protections
Some room for new blawgs
Inmate release plans
"It’s a Wonderful Life"
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
On the twelfth day of Blawg Review
blawgers gave to us:
The Winter Solstice
Cancel "Zoey 101"?
Patent protections
Some room for new blawgs
Inmate release plans
"It’s a Wonderful Life"
The Magna Carta
Taxed kidney swaps
Thoughts on Justice
Nice stories
Views on listservs
and a thoughtful discussion of fonts.
Last Minute Stocking Stuffers
The need to describe blawg posts in four to seven syllables is remarkably constraining, so many great posts had to be left out of the lyrics above. As a holiday bonus, we've stuffed your stocking with these great gifts:
Lowering the Bar's Accused Robber Gets New Trial After Jurors Find New Evidence in Coat
White Collar Crime Prof Blog's Fifth Circuit Recommends Impeachment of Federal District Judge
The Inspired Solo's Aligning Your Work Day with Your Higher Purpose
The Volokh Conspiracy's post on the unconstitutionality of stopping drivers to distribute good driving rewards
Denise Howell's post on the dismissal of a lawsuit against lawyer-rating site Avvo (Eric Goldman also weighed in)
LawGeeks's Copyright, fair use and the struggle against online image misappropriation
Conglomerate's Sign of the Apocalypse: Suing Over Grades
Slaw.ca's discussion of the practice of law in the "Amazon.law era"
New York Personal Injury Law Blog's post on the practice of using a blog to directly solicit clients
Jim Hassett's The most important difference in legal selling: Time
f/k/a's experience with virtual elves
Speaking of the virtual world, Virtually Blind has picked up on the announcement that the 2007 Blawg Review Awards will be announced in Second Life
Happy Holidays!
Blawg Review has information about next week's host, and instructions on how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcoming issues.
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