Category Archives: Blogs

No, not that Presidency — a University Presidency. Inside Higher Ed has a story about a blog that helped bring down Uma G. Gupta, until recently the president of the State University of New York College of Technology at Alfred.

Personally, I’m not sure how significant or surprising it is to learn that an anonymous blog served as a major rallying point in taking down a highly unpopular and perhaps incompetent university administrator. But it’s interesting that some of the commentators over at Inside Higher Ed think it’s an awfully big deal.

University of North Carolina School of Law Prof. Andrew Chin has a new blog, ironically entitled voiceless. Prof. Chin modestly suggests he is “blogging from the long tail” although in fact he’s writing about “the legal and technological structures that keep almost all of us voiceless”.

“Blogging from long tail” almost reminds me of the “On fringes of the public sphere”, so that has to be good. Although I should note that someone one asked me, fairly enough, how a sphere could have a fringe, and I’m still working on a good answer.

Bob Glushko is an original and deep thinker about structured information flows (think XML and its bigger relatives). And he’s smart. But he has a blog anyway. It’s called “Doc or Die” and shared with Tim McGrath.

I was going to suggest that this is today’s best blog posting anywhere–but it seems that the part about the bearded lady and the talking seal was made up.

But most of the rest about the clowns appears to be true.

Eric Muller is publishing a mini-symposium commemorating the life of Mitsuye Endo (of “Ex parte Endo” fame), who passed away last month.

Today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, I will post commemorations of Mitsuye Endo and her quiet legal heroism written by three leading experts on her case and its history and significance.

The first to appear–later today–will be by Greg Robinson, a professor of history at the University of Quebec at Montreal and author of, among many other things, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Harvard University Press 2001).

Tomorrow I will post the commemorative thoughts of Patrick Gudridge, Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and the author of, among many other things, the important article “Remember Endo?”, which appeared in the Harvard Law Review in 2003.

On Wednesday, I will post the thoughts of Professor Jerry Kang of the UCLA School of Law, whose work includes some of the most careful and probing analysis of Endo, Korematsu, and Hirabayashi…

I’m getting to the point where I fear more blogs to read. And Info/Law looks good, so it’s especially scary.

It’s about law and information (good stuff!), and it’s by Minnesota law-prof-to-be William McGeveran and Wayne State law-prof-to-be Derek Bambauer.