Dave Hoffman at Concurring Opinions writes :
"The ELSblog has been on fire recently, including posts on law clerk loyalty and legal research; IRB Boards; the relationship between empirical work and theory; and a little dip into the old student-review incompetence debate. Based on quality-of-post, the blog should be getting more hits than it does. I'm thinking that their current motto ("advancing productive interdisciplinary discourse among empirical legal scholars") is a little unwelcoming. But otherwise, they are doing neat work. Go check 'em out!"
First Dave, thanks for the kind words! Second, I'm now taking suggestions: What should our new motto be? I look forward to comments.
I really like Prof. Solove's idea!
When I did a post on perestroika, i.e. the debate over qualitative vs. empirical political science, I ended it with a very cheesy one liner:
Numbers + Words = Crazy Delicious
Posted by: Belle Lettre | 17 March 2006 at 01:26 PM
New motto idea: "Where everyone counts."
Posted by: Daniel J. Solove | 17 March 2006 at 01:00 PM
In order to answer this vexing question, I convened seven stratified focus groups of internet users, administered an open-ended mail survey of 1,500 bloggers nationwide, and conducted a narrative analysis of the 326 leading blogs. Employing grounded theory I was able to identify the top three suggestions for the new Empirical Legal Studies blog motto:
1. Don't hate us because we're nerds
2. Taking legal studies far too seriously
3. Scholarly advances that no one reads
Remember, any offense taken by these potential monikers is not my doing as they simply bubbled up from the data. Don't kill the messenger, dear colleagues . . .
Posted by: Artemus Ward | 17 March 2006 at 12:19 PM
Data Trumps Talk.
Posted by: Dave Hoffman | 17 March 2006 at 12:01 PM
"Getting a variety of empirical legal scholars talking"?
Posted by: bill | 17 March 2006 at 11:53 AM