Justice Blogs and Advocacy Sites

Supreme Court and Law Related Sites

• SCOTUS Blog - The SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) blog includes a daily roundup, commentary and analysis, information about new filings, orders and opinions. The site offers an RSS feed, term tracker, and a variety of multimedia files.
• Gonzaga Journal of International Law - The Gonzaga Journal of International Law is a practice-oriented international law journal that is student edited by law review standards. The journal includes articles, essays, comments, and notes from practicing attorneys, law professors, law students, business professionals, and government officials.
• Concurring Opinions - This website is the result of a collaboration of several law professors. In addition to original content, this site includes links to hundreds of law professor blogs
• Insider Scoop - This Supreme Court blog is a project of the Alliance for Justice.
• U.S. Supreme Court blog - Quick Summaries and Commentary on Supreme Court Cases.
• United States Court of Appeals - Seventh Circuit - While the U.S. Courts site lists links to many Federal Courts, the Seventh Circuit take technology a step further by providing RSS feed that include podcasts of oral arguments.
• Oyez - Database on major constitutional cases heard by the United States Supreme Court, with multimedia resources including digital audio of oral arguments. Many multimedia files, including RSS feeds. This site is loaded with content, including podcasts, financial disclosure report's of current Justices, photos or all past Justices, and an interactive map showing the locations of the grave sites of U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
• Justice Learning - Justice Learning uses audio from the Justice Talking radio show and articles from The New York Times to teach students about reasoned debate and the often-conflicting values inherent in our democracy. The site offers a rich combination of multimedia and documents.
• Legal Information Institute - The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. Popular collections include the U.S. Code, Supreme Court opinions, and Wex, a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia. The site also includes a link to the LII bulletin, that provides email updates on important Supreme Court decisions.
• The Curiae Project - The Curiae Project provides Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials free of charge on the Internet. Cases are selected for addition to the site based on a ranking developed from citation data in historical and constitutional texts.
• Jurist - Law news and legal research in real-time, reported and edited by law students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Crime and Criminal Justice

• Crime and Consequences - The Crime and Consequences blog approaches criminal law issues "from the perspective of victims of crime and the law-abiding public." This site includes posts from several contributors and is updated daily.
• Judging Crimes - The Judging Crimes blog discusses criminal law, violent crime, and the judiciary. The site is "dedicated to making the liberal case for greater democratic control of the criminal justice system."
• blackprof.com - The Blackprof blog is written from the perspective of African American law and policy professors.
• Sex Crimes - A blog devoted to criminal laws regulating and punishing sex. (http://sexcrimes.typepad.com/sex_crimes/)
• White Collar Crime Prof Blog - White collar criminal law resources, information, and news for the academic community.
• Law Professor Blogs Network - Law Professor Blogs is a network of blogs designed to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching.
• Public Defender Blogs - This site provides a summary of many public defender blogs, including many of those listed here.
• Criminal Justice Online - Providing criminal justice practitioners, students and academics with online information and resources.
• Crime Scene Blog - Crimesceneblog.com offers a daily crime roundup from around the country.
• History's Miseries - crime blog devoted to historic true crime tales.
• True Crime Blog - Daily Crime News

Commentary on Justice and Legal Issues

• The Becker-Posner Blog - This blog explores current issues of economics, law, and policy in a dialog format.
• Blawgreview - The focus of this blog is the digital world, its impact and legal framework. (http://www.blawgreview.com/)
• CrimProf Blog - Criminal law resources, information, and news for the academic community.
• Grits for Breakfast - This blog looks at the Texas criminal justice system and related topics.
• The Volakh Conspiracy - A collaborative weblog providing analysis of developments in the US legal system and courts, as well as of recent legal news and events.
• Legal Theory Blog - Commentary and reports on recent scholarship from a University of San Diego law professor.
• Overcriminalized - This blog is offered "to encourage discussion, debate, and action in the fight against overcriminalization in the United States."
• Wall Street Journal Law Blog - Commentary and analysis of issues surrounding law and business, from The Wall Street Journal.

Sentencing

• United States Sentencing Commission - This site includes news updates, RSS feeds, e-mail updates, and a variety of publications.
• Sentencing Law and Policy - The Sentencing Law and Policy blog provides information and commentary about sentencing guidelines and capital sentencing.
• The Sentencing Project - The Sentencing project site provides research and publications on incarceration, drug policy, racial disparity, felony disenfranchisement and many other criminal justice issues. In addition to RSS feeds, several e-mail subscription options are available.
• Death Penalty information Center - The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The site includes e-mail subscription options, RSS feeds, and other resources for those learning about the death penalty.
• Capital Defense Weekly - The goal of this site is to "get timely, accurate and germane information to those involved or interested in capital litigation."
• Real Cost of Prisons Weblog - The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, political economists, artists, researchers, and others to create education workshops and materials that explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration.
• Prisonsucks.com - This blog publishes information about studies, statistics, policy reports and other data related to the condition of US prisons, prisoner rights, and connected criminal justice issues.
• Vera Institute of Justice - The Vera Institute of Justice works closely with leaders in government and civil society to improve the services people rely on for safety and justice. An early innovator of web services for justice professionals, this site includes RSS feeds, e-mail newsletter, and other information.

Justice Advocacy

• TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime - TalkLeft features liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news. The mission of TalkLeft is to "intelligently and thoroughly examine issues, candidates and legislative initiatives as they pertain to constitutional rights, particularly those of persons accused of crime."
• ACLU Criminal Justice - The ACLU site offers information about the Supreme Court, current legislation, and others criminal justice issues. The site features RSS newsfeeds, e-mail updates, and other ways to learn about justice.
• Abolish the Death Penalty - This site tells the personal stories of crime victims and their loved ones, people on death row and their loved ones, and activists working toward abolition. This site also includes news articles or press releases related to the Death Penalty. The site's mission is to "put a human face on the debate over capital punishment."
• American Constitutional Society Blog - The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is comprised of law students, lawyers, scholars, and others working to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law.
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums - FAMM is a national organization of citizens working to reform mandatory minimum sentencing laws for nonviolent (e.g., drug use) offenses. The site includes e-mail updates, newsletter, and a variety of resources.
• November Coalition - The November Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots organization that is educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population. This site includes RSS feeds, an electronic newsletter, e-mail subscriptions, and other multimedia content.