Balkinization is a law blog focused on constitutional, First Amendment

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...

, and other civil liberties issues. The weblog was created in 2003 by Jack Balkin

Jack Balkin

Jack M. Balkin is an American legal scholar. He is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School...

, a professor of U.S. constitutional law

United States constitutional law

United States constitutional law is the body of law governing the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution.- Introduction :United States constitutional law defines the scope and application of the terms of the Constitution...

 at Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

. Balkinization has been critical of the Bush Administration's

George W. Bush administration

The presidency of George W. Bush began on January 20, 2001, when he was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States of America. The oldest son of former president George H. W. Bush, George W...

 record on civil liberties issues in the Global War on Terror

War on Terrorism

The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...

 following 9/11. As of April 2010, the weblog has had approximately 5 million visitors since its creation. http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15balkinization

Contributors

The Balkinization weblog has many contributors including:

• Ian Ayres
  Ian Ayres
  Ian Ayres is an American academic who is the William K. Townsend Professor at the Yale Law School and a Professor at the Yale School of Management.-Biography:...
  
  
• Heather Gerken
• Mark Graber
• Stephen Griffin
• Robert (Scott) Horton
• Andrew Andrew Koppelman
  Andrew Koppelman
  Andrew Koppelman is professor of law and political science at Northwestern University.As of May 2007, Koppelman is a contributing writer to the legal blog Balkinization.-Education:...
  
  
• Marty Lederman
  Marty Lederman
  Martin "Marty" S. Lederman is a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel , appointed by President Obama in January 2009. He previously served as an Attorney Advisor in OLC from 1994 to 2002...
  
  
• Sanford Levinson
  Sanford Levinson
  Sanford Victor Levinson is a prominent American liberal law professor and acknowledged expert on Constitutional law and legal scholar and professor of government at the University of Texas Law School...
  
  
• David Luban
• Rick Pildes
• Kim Scheppele
• Dan Solove
• Brian Tamanaha
• Mark Tushnet
  Mark Tushnet
  Mark Victor Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A prominent scholar of constitutional law and legal history, he is the author of many books and articles.-Career:...