The Volokh Conspiracy has been chosen the Attorney.org Blog of the Year

Written by admin Latest News Nov 17, 2009
volokhThe Volokh Conspiracy, one of the most popular and award winning legal/political blogs, covers mostly issues regarding the United States, generally from a libertarian or conservative perspective.

The blog was founded by Eugene Volokh, a libertarian-leaning conservative, who teaches free speech law, criminal law, tort law, religious freedom law, and church-state relations law at UCLA Law School. He is an accomplished attorney, professor, and author and is frequently cited by national media outlets.

In 2006, Technorati rated his blog as the 100th most popular worldwide.

The blog has more than a dozen contributors, most of whom are law professors, who sign every one of their articles. It is the Conspiracy’s distinguished group of contributors that was most important in deciding the award winner.

Here is the award-winning team of contributors that makes up The Volokh Conspiracy:

Contributors:

  1. Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law professor, one of its eponymous founders.
  2. Alexander “Sasha” Volokh, currently a visiting professor at the Emory University School of Law, the weblog’s other eponymous founder.
  3. Dale Carpenter, professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Adjunct Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law.
  4. David Kopel of the Independence Institute.
  5. David Bernstein, professor at the George Mason University School of Law.
  6. David Hyman, Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
  7. David Post, I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and the Co-Director of ICANNWatch.org, Disputes.org, and the Cyberspace Law Institute.
  8. Eric Posner, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
  9. Erik Jaffe, who runs a law office.
  10. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law.
  11. Jim Lindgren, who is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and director of their Demography of Diversity Project.
  12. Jonathan H. Adler, Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, who contributed under the pseudonym “Juan Non-Volokh” until May 1, 2006.
  13. Kevan Choset (”Puzzleblogger”), a New York attorney.
  14. Orin Kerr, Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School.
  15. Paul Cassell, Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.
  16. Randy Barnett, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
  17. Russell Korobkin, Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.
  18. Stuart Benjamin, Professor of Law at Duke Law.
  19. Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law.
  20. Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice and Director of the James Buchanan Center and the Mercatus Center.

Past regular contributors include:
  1. Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University.
  2. Clayton Cramer, an amateur historian.
  3. Juan Non-Volokh, a pseudonym for Adler before he was tenured.
  4. Michelle Boardman, Assistant Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice.
  5. Phillipe de Croy, a pseudonymous blogger.
Congratulations to the Volokh Conspiracy for being named the Attorney.org Blog of the Year.  Don’t forget to check them out if your not familiar with them at http://volokh.com/.

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