MORE ON BLOGGING AS SCHOLARSHIP, from Professor Bainbridge. My previous Dean made a big point of counting my blogging as scholarship, but I never claimed it as such on my Faculty Activities Report. His theory was that whether the individual posts were scholarly or not, the whole blog was an ongoing experiment in media and communications technology.

Meanwhile, I’m somehow reminded of this post from years ago, and of these comments from Ann Althouse:

And speaking of U.S. News, wouldn’t it be funny if it used faculty blogging as a factor? There would be all these blogs by lawprofs trying to move their school up the rankings.

And every law school dean, everywhere, would be as supportive as mine have always been!