Major Law Professor Blogs Merge

Six major law professor blogs announced, this morning, the most significant mergers since Gordon Smith of Venturpreneur and Christine Hurt of Biz Fems Speak! got together to form Conglomerate back in 2004. 

Prawfsblawg and Concurring Opinions are re-combining. (Co-op was formed when Dan Solove and Kaimi Wenger left Prawfs back in 2005.)  The new blog, PrawfsOpinions, will dedicated entirely to…well, you get the point.

Glenn Reynolds and Brian Leiter have agreed to combine their two blogs into a dizzying mix of news and blog aggregation and critiques of U.S. News rankings.  The new LeiterPundit will appeal to people on both ends of the political spectrum.  Their new motto will be "nothing in moderation."  The original proposed blog title, InstaLeiter, was seen as too frivolous.  Reynolds commented that "with the addition of the most controversial legal philosopher in the blogosphere, I expect our Pundit brand to reach 89 millions viewers daily.  Philosphers are huge these days." 

Finally, Jack Balkin and Eugene Volokh are bringing together their two stables of respected bloggers to create Volkinization.   Eugene Volokh stated that "although this may seem like a play on Vulcanization, the process by which two less durable polymers are combined and made more durable together, we believe that both blogs were durable on their own and would have been completely stable even had we not merged.  We just felt like it."  Another earlier proposed name - The Balkin Conspiracy – was rejected because filmaker Mel Brooks had previously claimed the name for his planned sendup of the Bourne Conspiracy series.

We wish these distinguished bloggers good luck!