William Baude Remembers Professor and PrawfsBlawg Founder Dan Markel

Prawfs and Gratitude

I have felt Prawfsblawg's tenth anniversary with both fondness and despair. Fondness because of what this blog and Dan gave to both the blogosphere generally and to me; despair because like so many people who knew Dan, I now know that I'll never be able to give him the thanks I owe him.

Dan invited me to guest-blog at Prawfsblawg in its first year of operation, 2005. I was already a blogger at the time, but I was not a "Prawf." I was just a second year law student who had no idea how impertinent I was.  On the level plane of the internet, it just seemed natural to engage with and criticize law professors as if we were all part of a shared intellectual enterprise.

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