Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, January 28, 2007 1:16:11 PM
You might want to put the Volokh Conspiracy on your favorites list if you are headed for law school and want to excel. It is probably unprecedented for law students to credit a lawblawg for better grades, but that is exactly what happened this week.
I will let the first (there are others) student speak for himself:
I'm writing to thank you for your contribution to the legal blogosphere because it was the primary influence that positively affected my most recent grades. While I can't prove causation, I feel comfortable with the assertion that your blog was a big help. As such, I view your blog as a great legal educational tool in addition to its entertainment value.
I'm currently a 3L. I started reading your blog (daily, sometimes 3 times a day) at the beginning of last summer or maybe in the spring of my 2L year. Over several months of reading entries on the Volokh Conspiracy, I began to acquire significantly better analytical skills. I noticed it in my day-to-day conversations among friends and in my school work.
I'd performed well in my first two years, but I didn't really understand what it meant to write a good law school exam. This last semester, I went into my examines with the confidence that I was going to write 'A' exams (and I did for the most part). My confidence and the knowledge supporting it was, in large part, a product of reading your blog.
There is much more. Read the comments, as well.
FYI "3L" is a third year law school student.