The magazine Legal Affairs is promoting an online poll to pick “the country’s most influential and important legal thinkers — the ones whose ideas are pushing the law forward (or backward, as the case may be).” The list of 125 names is divided among judges, academics, and writers/commentators (what, no practitioners?). Their selection of nominees (explained here) has already been criticized, and online polls are not likely to mean much given the technical ease of stuffing the ballot box in most cases.
In the “writers/commentators” category, as you’ll see, their search for candidate names led them very far down into the barrel, if not to scrape its bottom. Awfully flattering to be included in such company, though.
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