Faculty Blogs

Keep up to date on the latest legal news by checking out our faculty weblogs...

Choose Your Judges

Professor Ric Simmons is the creator and editor of Choose Your Judges, which assists voters in choosing candidates in judicial elections. The web site allows voters to take a quiz to determine their preferences for the type of judge they want, and then provides a recommendation based on those preferences. The web site also contains commentary about the judicial election process, and a blog with current news regarding judicial election campaigns.. Visit Choose Your Judges commentary

Corporate Justice Blog

Professor Creola Johnson's blog... Visit Corporate Justice Blog

Election Law @ Moritz

Election Law @ Moritz is a nonpartisan research, education, and outreach program conducted by faculty and staff of the The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. As a center of election law expertise, EL@M is a resource for lawyers, academics and educators, journalists, policymakers and other civic leaders, election administrators and citizens interested in election law issues. Formed in 2004, EL@M represents a collaboration among the many Moritz faculty members with expertise in election law and related fields. EL@M offers a rich commentary section. Visit Election Law @ Moritz

Financial Watch

Professor Dale A. Oesterle's blog... Visit Financial Watch

Free & Fair

Professor Edward B. Foley, one of the nation's preeminent experts on election law, writes on all aspects of election law. His primary areas of expertise include campaign finance especially regarding the role of 527 organizations and provisional voting. "Free & Fair" is a collection of Professor Foley's writings that he has penned for Election Law @ Moritz. Visit Free & Fair

The Huffington Post Blog

Professor Peter M. Shane contributes regularly to The Huffington Post. Visit The Huffington Post Blog

Indisputably

The ADR Law Professors Blog, Indisputably, intends to provide useful, timely, and insightful commentary about developments in the ADR field. Comments on the individual dispute resolution processes, latest law review articles and relevant books, interesting empirical research, as well as the various ways ADR is used every day in this country and around the world. Professor Sarah Rudolph Cole is one of the editors of this blog. Visit Indisputably

Law School Innovation

Professor Douglas A. Berman is one of the primary contributors to the Law School Innovation blog, which provides information about on-going law school innovations and discusses the future of legal education. Visit Law School Innovation

Sentencing Law and Policy

Professor Douglas A. Berman is the sole creator and author of the widely-read and widely-cited Sentencing Law and Policy blog. The blog receives nearly 100,000 "hits" per month (and had over 20,000 hits the day of the Supreme Court's major sentencing decision in United States v. Booker). Professor Berman's work on the Sentencing Law and Policy blog, which he describes as a form of "scholarship in action," has been profiled or discussed at length in articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Legal Affairs magazine, Lawyers Weekly USA, Legal Times, Columbus Monthly, and in numerous other print and on-line publications. In addition, Sentencing Law and Policy has the distinction of being the first blog cited by the U.S. Supreme Court (for a document appearing exclusively on the site), and substantive analysis in particular blog posts has been cited in numerous appellate and district court rulings, in many briefs submitted to federal and state courts around the country, and in dozens of law review articles. Visit Sentencing Law and Policy

Shane Reactions

Professor Peter M. Shane's blog discusses mostly (a) the Presidency and (b) Democracy and Communication. Visit Shane Reactions