Bumping to the front 10/2
Since 2012, I've been compiling a user-populated census of law professors on Twitter, now known as X. Given the recent changes to that social media platform, my anecdotal sense is that the overall volume of law professor dialogue there has declined and that some (many?) colleagues have migrated to other platforms.
In an effort to capture the X diaspora, this year's census asks users to list their names, school affiliation, and areas of interest (as before). New this year is the option to list handles on X (formerly Twitter), Meta, Blue Sky, Mastodon, and any other network.
If you're already in the census, please confirm your details and update as necessary. Users can make changes directly to the spreadsheet here.
If you're not in the census and you'd like to be listed, please read on.
As with prior versions, the list is meant to cover individual law professor accounts only (not accounts of groups, programs, blogs, law schools, print publications, students, practitioners, staff). Folks should be full-time law school faculty members (not, say, law-trained profs working in business schools or lawyers working in law schools in roles other than full-time faculty). Law profs outside the U.S. very, very welcome. Anonymous and pseudonymous accounts are not eligible for inclusion.
The downloadable, sortable spreadsheet can be edited directly by accessing this link. If you’d like to add your name, or if you would like to add to or modify your existing listing in census, the census calls for:
(a) Your name
(b) Your handle on Twitter X, Meta, Blue Sky, Mastodon, or any other social networking site
(c) Your school affiliation
(d) Up to three subject-matter areas of interest that related to your teaching, scholarship or tweeting.
Here are customary responses to some anticipated questions from inquiring minds who want to know:
1. How was the census developed?
The list is based on previous censuses. I have added or deleted very few names myself, based on law prof accounts that I have happened to encounter (typically because they follow me on a platform or I follow them) or if I knew someone had changed schools, left the academy, etc. I have made no concerted effort to update the list myself.
2. How accurate is the census?
Not at all.
If there are corrections, additions, etc., please feel free to make them directly to the spreadsheet. As a last resort, you can email me directly at bcrawford at law dot pace dot edu. The deadline for changes is October 16, 2023, 5pm eastern. I'll republish again shortly thereafter via posting here on the Lounge, and then not again until next year, most likely.
3. Why isn't my information listed in the census? Why isn't my colleague's information listed?
The census relies almost exclusively on self-identification. To be included in the list, you must actively add yourself to it or update your own information.
4. Why is your list limited to full-time law school faculty members?
Because that's the population about which I wanted to capture data. Want a different survey? A better one? Feel free to start one, and I'm happy to publicize it here, if relevant to legal education.
The current census is embedded below, too (but edit via links above).
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