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Balkinization (blog)

Balkinization is a legal blog focused on constitutional, First Amendment, and other civil liberties issues. The weblog was created on January 13, 2003 by Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School.

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Balkinization
Type of site
Legal Blog
Available inEnglish
Created byJack Balkin
URLbalkin.blogspot.com
LaunchedJanuary 13, 2003

Balkinization is a legal blog focused on constitutional, First Amendment, and other civil liberties issues. The weblog was created on January 13, 20031 by Jack Balkin,2 the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School.

Balkinization has been critical of the Bush Administration's record on civil liberties issues in the Global War on Terror following 9/11.

As of June 2017, the weblog has had approximately 11 million visitors since its creation.3

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  1. "Balkinization Blog Celebrates Fifth Anniversary". Yale Law School. January 14, 2008.
  2. Richard Davis (11 August 2014). Covering the United States Supreme Court in the Digital Age. Cambridge University Press. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-107-05245-1.
  3. "Balkinization". SiteMeter.
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