Law & Law Enforcement Blogs

Blogs by, for or about lawyers and law enforcement professionals that cover a variety of topics from criminal investigation to current legal decisions.

Resources in this category:

beSpacific
http://www.bespacific.com/

From the site’s "about" web page: "beSpacific focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information…Sabrina I. Pacifici has been an active member of the online legal community for many years. She created the webzine LLRX.com in 1996 and is the site’s owner, editor, publisher and web manager. She created the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, and served as its only editor and publisher until 1996. Sabrina has authored many articles on legal technology topics delivered numerous presentations at professional conferences nationwide, and has been a law firm librarian in Washington, DC for 25 years, the past 20 with a global 50 law firm. She is the web manager of the firm’s cyberlaw site and firmwide research intranet, authors in-house blogs, and provides research and practice technology services."

Crime and Clues
http://blog.crimeandclues.com/

Maintained by a Crime Scene Technician, provides news and links to all aspects of "The Art and Science of Criminal Investigation," including different types of evidence and investigations.

Elder Law Prof Blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/elder_law/

From the "Web Profile" page: "Professor Kim Dayton is a nationally-known expert in the field of elder law. She is a co-author of Advising the Elderly Client...and Elder Law: Readings, Cases, and Materials...She founded the Kansas Elder Law Network, a web-based compendium of resources on elder law, in 1995. In 2003, KELN was renamed the National Elder Law Network, www.neln.org. In 2005, Professor Dayton started Elder Law Prof Blog, a member of the Law Professor Blogs Network. Professor Dayton’s current research interests include end-of-life issues, financing long term care for the elderly and disabled, and the allocation of health care resources across generations."

Election Law
http://electionlawblog.org/

Rick Hansen is a Professor of Law and is nationally known for his expertise in election law and campaign finance regulation. He shares this expertise in his blog covering and commenting on news and events related to these issues.

Groklaw
http://www.groklaw.net/

Pamela Jones, editor of this blog, is a journalist with paralegal background who fell into learning IT and then fell in love with it and with open source software. When SCO, the makers of Unix, filed its lawsuit against GNU\Linux, Jones began to follow all the developments of the case. Now, the blog is a detailed reference resource covering this ongoing, potentially historic case of proprietary software vs. free/open source.

IPKat - fishing for IP stories for YOU
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/

A blog by Jeremey Philips and Ilanah Simon who cover Intellectual Property law news and issues in London.

Lessig Blog
http://www.lessig.org/blog/

A blog maintained by Lawrence Lessig, author of "Code and other laws of cyberspace," and professor at Stanford Law School. Lessig frequently argues that Intellectual Property (IP) law does more to stifle creativity than digital piracy (e.g. old Napster, P2P file sharing, bootleg DVDs) does.

SCOTUSBlog
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/

Blog from Goldstein & Howe, P.C., the only law firm in the United States that is principally devoted Supreme Court litigations. Provides expert analysis of recent federal and supreme court cases (SCOTUS being, of course, the Supreme Court Of The United States).

Sports Law Blog
http://sports-law.blogspot.com/

Two law professors and other sports fans discuss sports from a legal perspective--"All things legal relating to the sports world." The site also maintains a quality index of links to sports and legal blogs.

The Trademark Blog
http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/contact.html

Blog from Martin Schwimmer, a lawyer who has represented some of the most famous trademarks in the world. Cases and legal news regarding trademark law are covered/discussed.