A little light reading: PSLawNet’s periodical/blog reading list!
By: Maria Hibbard (and the PSLawNet staff and Advisory Group!)
A few weeks ago, the PSLawNet staff and Advisory Group contributed their recommendations to PSLawNet’s Summer Reading List. If you can’t bring yourself to read a whole book this summer–or you just want to stay informed–here are some favorite online periodicals and blogs to peruse. As a student I’m often tempted to stay focused on my little “law school bubble” and not know what’s happening in the “real world,” but staying updated on both the daily news and trends in the legal profession gives me perspective. In addition to these suggestions, you can find even more at the ABA’s annual Blawg 100 list.
General sources of information for being an educated person/lawyer:
- Clearinghouse for major legal news: http://law.com/jsp/law/index.jsp
- Keep updated on Supreme Court decisions as they happen: http://www.scotusblog.com/
- Broad coverage of court decisions and the legal industry: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
- ABA Journal: http://www.abajournal.com/
- The Am Law Daily: http://www.americanlawyer.com/amlaw_daily.jsp
- NALP’s own news digest, published every Friday: http://www.nalp.org/newsdigest
General non-profit/public interest/access to justice blogs:
- Nonprofit Law Blog: http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/home/
- Equal Justice Works Blog: http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/blog/
- ABA Center for Pro Bono Exchange blog: http://centerforprobono.wordpress.com/
- Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice blog: http://accesstojustice.net/
- Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now blog: http://blog.amnestyusa.org/
- The Brennan Center for Justice Blog: http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/
Public Health
- The Shriver Brief: http://www.theshriverbrief.org/
A number of larger cities have daily law bulletins or law journals, some of which require a subscription or login. A sampling:
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/
- New York Law Journal: http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/
- Los Angeles Daily Journal: http://www.dailyjournal.com/
Academia
- Class Bias in Higher Education: http://classbias.blogspot.com/
- Law Professor Blogs: http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/
What’s the easiest way to keep track of all of these resources? Use an RSS reader/aggregator! After you set one up, this service gathers the data from all your favorite sources and combines it into one readable format. Here’s a post on a number of RSS aggregators that are available—although I personally check my Google Reader every day: http://email.about.com/od/rssreaderswin/tp/top_rss_windows.htm.