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Virtual Briefing At The Supreme Court, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Allison Orr Larsen
Virtual Briefing At The Supreme Court, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Allison Orr Larsen
Faculty Publications
The open secret of Supreme Court advocacy in a digital era is that there is a new way to argue to the Justices. Today's Supreme Court arguments are developed online: they are dissected and explored in blog posts, fleshed out in popular podcasts, and analyzed and re-analyzed by experts who do not represent the parties or have even filed a brief in the case at all. This "virtual briefing" (as we call it) is intended to influence the Justices and their law clerks but exists completely outside of traditional briefing rules. This article describes virtual briefing and makes a case …
Blogs And The Legal Academy, Orin S. Kerr
Blogs And The Legal Academy, Orin S. Kerr
Orin Kerr
This paper's focus is on today’s technology and ask whether blogs as we know them today are conducive to advancing scholarship. This paper's conclusion is that relative to other forms of communication, blogs do not provide a particularly good platform for advancing serious legal scholarship. The blog format focuses reader attention on recent thoughts rather than deep ones. The tyranny of reverse chronological order limits the scholarly usefulness of blogs by leading the reader to the latest instead of the best.
This doesn’t mean that blogs can’t advance scholarship. The impact of any blog depends on what its author decides …
Kline & Specter: A Professional Corporation, Ibraheem Bussey
Kline & Specter: A Professional Corporation, Ibraheem Bussey
Media and Communication Studies Presentations
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