Blog Emperor Caron, who never met a ranking he didn’t like, has updated his periodic report on the blogs run by law professors with the most visitors. Of the top five, four have almost nothing to do with law, and four are right-wing or far right-wing in their political orientation. What this tells us, I think, is that the market for actual legal analysis on blogs is not as big as one might hope.
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