Jim Chen recently launched a new blog, more precisely a collection of blogs, called Jurisdynamics, where he will share the main stage with Dan Farber, J.B. Ruhl, and a writer by the name of "Gil Grantmore" (I'm pleased to see that Jim and Gil are teaming up on this project--see here for more information.) The site will have a variety of sub-blogs, including one called "biolaw," which will discuss the many ways in which law is informed by the life sciences.
As the most recent Jurisdynamic Idol, you'll find that I'm entirely unbiased when I encourage you to check out the site. Here's part of Jim's description of the overarching project from an early post:
This blog openly embraces a dynamic model of legal change. Jurisdynamics describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law's own endogenous capacity for adaptation. The world that law tries to govern has become "so vast that fully to comprehend it would require an almost universal knowledge ranging from" economics and the natural sciences "to the niceties of the legislative, judicial and administrative processes of government." Queensboro Farms Prods., Inc. v. Wickard, 137 F.2d 969, 975 (2d Cir. 1943). Within the realm of legal scholarship, this blog aspires to the goal that historian David Christian set out for his discipline: "that the appropriate time scale for the study of history may be the whole of time." David Christian, The Case for "Big History," 2 J. World Hist. 223, 223 (1991). Jurisdynamics will present the case for "big law," for the proposition that the substantive scale on which law should be studied, taught, and learned is the entirety of human experience.
Adam, congrats on your recent designation!
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