Chicawgblawg?

If they followed our lead, that's what they'd call it....

Comes now the news that the University of Chicago Law School faculty will, as of Monday, be launching their own blog.  Doug, Lior -- we give you the training and you don't even invite us to join the faculty as tenured professors?  That's gratitude for you!  You could at least send us some maroon-colored coffee mugs or gift shares in the Seminary Co-Op!

Seriously, this will be a blog to watch.  Chicago has a ridiculously superb and prolific faculty full of interesting ideas.  Here's hoping the Pos will divert at least some of us writing from his own blog to this new site, although even if he doesn't there'll still be an embarrassment of riches to choose from. 

One piece of advice: when your interest in (to quote the blog's introductory post) "nascent ideas" and "open, often lively conversation" does not win you a "wider audience," remember these words: "Rory Gilmore sex boat."  I, for one, would like to hear more from Posner on the oeuvre of Meg Ryan and the merits of "That Darn Cat." Or Tracey Meares could write about how shaming sanctions would provide a perverse incentive in criminal cases involving Li'l Kim...or Randy Picker could write a computer program to model the rise in social norms favoring hour-long sci-fi/horror shows on TV...or Adrian Vermeule could write about voting rules and faculty meetings, and demonstrate that the optimal rule involves stripping the faculty of their votes altogether....the possibilities for productive Chi-style writing on the topics that really engage the blogosphere are endless!  Welcome and best of luck to all.