On the Internet there is no rule against perpetuities. To the contrary our perpetuation seems assured. Latest case in point: the new Legal Blawgs Web Archive from the Library of Congress. Yes, just as the LOC is archiving all of our tweets, turns out it is also archiving a selection of legal blog posts, and has been doing so since March 1, 2007.

Thanks to our tax dollars, future generations of Americans will be assured the opportunity to revisit posts from blogs such as The Volokh Conspiracy, Overlawyered, Slaw, SCOTUSblog, Concurring Opinions and Patently-O. To my eternal disappointment, the LOC did not deem my LawSites blog worthy of preservation. However, I managed to sneak into the collection through my several years of co-authoring Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, which the LOC did find preservation-worthy.

The LOC describes this archive as a “selective collection of authoritative sites” associated with law schools, research institutes, think tanks, and other expertise-based organizations. “These blogs contain journal-style entries, articles and essays, discussions, and comments on emerging legal issues, national and international,” the LOC says.

Despite what the description says, several practitioner blogs, not affiliated with any school or organization, are included in the archive. Among them are Marc Mayerson’s now-defunct Insurance Scrawl, Howard Bashman’s How Appealing, Curacao lawyer Karel Frielink’s Karel’s Legal Blog, Victoria Pynchon’s Settle it Now Negotiation Blog, Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice, Ken Lammer’s CrimLaw, Diane Levin’s Mediation Channel, and Jeff Beard’s LawTech Guru.

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