Jotwell

The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (known by its abbreviated name Jotwell) is an online legal journal based at and financially subsidized by the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.

Jotwell was founded in 2008, with the editorial mission of publishing short reviews (called “jots”) by law professors of what they believe to be the best recent scholarship relevant to their field.

Jotwell states that its objective is to help academics and others identify the best recent legal scholarship, a task editors deemed important as law review journals have proliferated, now exceeding 350 in North America alone.

[1] In a 2012 Jotwell article, Ross E. Davies, a law professor at George Mason University School of Law and the editor-in-chief of The Green Bag suggested that if Jotwell were to expand "its coverage to include the best old (as well as new) legal scholarship, and occasionally narrowing its focus to the questions presented in a Supreme Court case, it could produce first-rate amicus briefs of scholarship," which would help the Supreme Court in finding scholarship relevant to its decisions.

[2] In 2014, the ABA Journal, published by the American Bar Association, selected Jotwell as one of the top legal blogs of 2013, listing it in its "Blawg 100.