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5 Blogs Incoming (& Current) Law Students Should Follow
Published August 22, 2019
When entering law school, staying up-to-date on everything that’s happening in the world of law can seem like an overwhelmingly daunting task. After a year or more of late nights, countless cups of coffee, and diligent studying, staying up-to-date on everything that’s happening in the world of law can still seem like an overwhelmingly daunting task. To make things easier, below are five law blogs that incoming (and current) law students should follow to help them stay in the know.
For anyone looking for continually fresh posts about a myriad of legal topics, Above The Law is a must. It provides news, opinions, and insights on big law, small law, law schools, government affairs, and much, much more. Above The Law makes it easy to stay on top of the most prominent legal news stories and events.
In the increasingly technological world that we live in, technology law ensures that things don’t come to a screeching halt. The Security, Privacy, and The Law blog provides readers with unique insights into the world of privacy and security law. The blog author, Foaly Hoag, has represented clients all around the world in matters of cyber security and privacy.
This tech-law blog focuses on many of the security and privacy issues that so many businesses encounter, relating to information and data security, identity theft, surveillance, and more. The lawyers behind the blog have helped clients:
- Take down infringing websites
- Investigate abusive emails
- Maintain surveillance of facilities & information systems
- Remediate breaches of security
The LSAC blog discusses the different avenues of both law and legal education. Blog topics often include:
- The future of the legal profession
- Access to justice
- Diversity & inclusion
- Testing & assessment
- Law & technology
This clean, well-organized blog provides readers with several monthly articles focused around law school goings-on and ideas on how to make the most out of law school.
Law Professor Blogs is a resource of blogs edited primarily by law professors. Law Professor Blogs includes 59 different blogs on varying topics from Administrative Law, Evidence, to White Collar Crime and most topics in between. Editors include leading scholars and educators who are committed to providing the web source of legal news, information, commentary, and analysis for law professors, practitioners, government and nonprofit lawyers, and students in their respective fields.
For those of us who are constantly on-the-go, and have trouble finding a few free minutes in our busy days to sit down and read even more blogs and articles, Bloomberg has a solution. The podcasts on the Bloomberg Law podcast website cover many of the most popular legal topics today.
A few of the (many) legal topics that Bloomberg addresses are:
- Environmental law
- Copyright law
- SCOTUS
- Capital punishment cases
- Antitrust cases
The ability to stream these podcasts on-site or download them on iTunes makes this blog a necessity for busy, on-the-go law students.
Each of the blogs and podcasts mentioned here will help to provide both new and experienced law school students with valuable insight into current events surrounding different areas of law. These blogs are written by well-respected lawyers and authors, and can help make the overwhelmingly daunting task of staying up-to-date just a little less daunting.
