Nov. 6, 2024 – Lawyers, including new attorneys learning the practice of a specialized subject area, can benefit from discussions and news reported in legal blogs.
Like any secondary source, a blog should be evaluated for its content and reliability and can be an informative and lively way to get deeper or stay updated on trending issues in a legal discipline.
Unsurprisingly, administrative law offers a variety of hot topics suited to the blog format. Here is a short list of credible, popular, regulatory sites that are accessible at no cost.
Notice & Comment is an online blog published jointly by the Yale Journal on Regulation and the ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. You’ll find a list of its blog authors on the main page in the Notice & Comment tab.
Deborah Darin is a lawyer, librarian, and adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School. She is a former practitioner and a past president of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin (LLAW), a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries.
This blog engages scholars and practitioners who contribute and interact on administrative law generally, and about corporate, bankruptcy, tax, environmental law, and financial regulation. Subscriptions to the blog via email are free.
The Regulatory Review is affiliated with the Penn Program on Regulation and is an excellent online source for regulatory news and opinions. Published weekdays on its website by students from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, it is accessible with a direct email subscription at no cost. Contributors include judges, scholars, and regulatory law practitioners.
The content presentation is purposefully visual, and topics are very current, like a recent article by several writers who discussed election security and misinformation in the U.S. and internationally. Essays are well-archived, and links are plentiful and easy to navigate, including to programs offered by the Penn Program on Regulation in live formats and saved on its YouTube channel. Check out some of Penn’s commentary and programming after Chevron, in the wake of Loper Bright and Corner Post.
Administrative Law on Jotwell, the Journal of Things We Like (Lots), is one of more than 20 legal subject areas featured on this site, hosted at the University of Miami School of Law. The list of regulatory writers is a mix of familiar scholars and newer talent, and plenty of each. Academic articles, reviewed by scholarly experts, are the focus of this platform.
If you are looking for curated scholarship from the past year or so, you will find it front and center on each specialty’s page. There is a combined subject archive that goes back to 2009 but the clear mission of Jotwell is to bring new and relevant scholarship to one place, something like the best books of the year but for legal journals by specialty. Reader participation is invited: “Tell us what we ought to read!”
The Harvard Law Review (HLR) Administrative Law Topic webpage is a pleasant browse and a relatively easy way to discover what the HLR has published in its many categories (articles, blog essays, leading case, recent cases, recent regulations, notes, responses, and book reviews). The materials are arranged on the topical webpage in descending order by date, reaching back almost 20 years. Titles, authors, and dates make the walk as efficient as searching the HLR on HeinOnline for items of recent vintage and arguably is more pleasant for a browsing explorer. And the Harvard Law Review pages are free.
LawProfessorBlogs.com is a small, curated list of blogs including several that publish about regulated areas including tax, securities, immigration, environmental law, health, and M&A, among others. It is worth a look.
Last, but certainly not least, check out Blawgsearch, the Blawg Directory, and Most Popular Blawgs on Justia.com. Or start with its Administrative Law blog list and you will find several subspecialty regulatory blogs and the broader, established ones featured in this article.
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