Boston's blogging judge

U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner is one of the participants in Slate's new legal blog, Convictions. She starts off:

I am an unlikely blogger. ... Although judges are more limited than other public actors in what they can say about a host of things, like cases pending before me or even cases pending before other judges, we are permitted to speak about the administration of justice and other general legal matters. To me, the issue goes beyond what we are "permitted" to comment about and what we are not "permitted" to comment about. I think judges have a responsibility to participate in the public debate and that's what I hope to do here -- all consistent with, indeed enhancing, my "day" job.

Via Robert Ambrogi, a member of that much larger genus: blogging lawyers.