Not exact matches
And, of course, in order to use the systems of
citation common, if not mandated, in
legal work, one must have access to volumes published by Westlaw or LexisNexis in which the
citations and pagination appear — although online portals like Google Scholar and Fastcase are doing pretty well
at adding this information.
E.g., is it
at all possible to make a fully informed decision about which of the options to take on a
citation (prior to the original 4 - week appearance date), after having all the facts on the case, or is there no such
legal rights
at all?
Robin Cover, Director of Information Services
at OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), has released version 2 of his annotated bibliography on standards for
legal citation.
Looks like the good people
at the Harvard Law Review who have been aggressively protecting the copyright of our be-loathed Bluebook against all those who would let
legal citation free into the wild forgot to renew the copyright on the 10th Edition.
While the Divine Comedy ``... describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven;
at a deeper level it represents allegorically the soul's journey towards god (truth)»; am I going so far as to say that that
legal citation is an allegory for the
legal soul's journey towards truth?
This will be done because this is how it has always been done, and despite the fact that 99 % of a student's (and a practising lawyer's)
legal citation needs are more than adequately addressed by online, open - access guides prepared by law libraries
at the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Queen's University and others.
These practices —
legal citation and casebooks — are but two among many that would encourage a re-evaluation of our
legal information processes and the way we teach and practice
legal research
at the institutional level in light of methods that are not only fairer and more accessible but perhaps even more responsive to and reflective of the realities of
legal education and practice, and that address the needs of a public hungry for
legal information.
As for the other irrational excesses of
legal citation, I and others have written about them
at length.
At a basic level, «opening up»
legal citation would be to make the text of any
citation manual available to the public freely on an open - access basis and without copyright restrictions.
Why is it, then, that
citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for
Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
Citation of
Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to
Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other
citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation systems, offering a system of
citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation that bears little relation to these others,
at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive in scope?
Canada's pathbreaking vendor - neutral
legal citation standard, and CanLII's innovative RefLex citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov's new post, entitled Environmentally - Friendly Citations, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law Sc
legal citation standard, and CanLII's innovative RefLex citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov's new post, entitled Environmentally - Friendly
Citations, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the
Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law Sc
Legal Information Institute
at Cornell University Law School.
One of the more frequently asked questions I would receive when I was
at the Faculty of Law
at U of Toronto was: «Is there an online version of the McGill Guide (the Canadian guide for
legal citation)?
Other useful guides are the Canadian Judicial Council's Practice Direction on the Use of Neutral
Citation for Case Law (2008) and
Legal Research Materials:
Legal Citation prepared by the William R. Lederman Law Library
at Queen's University.
An important
legal research translation skill is the ability to look
at a case
citation and... [more]
Last Summer, the 7th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (the «McGill Guide») introduced this «General Rule»
at p. E-3:
An important
legal research translation skill is the ability to look
at a case
citation and understand what it means.
At least for student and desktop reference purposes, it should be replaced with a new, shorter guide, one that is first a guide to
legal citation practice, not a compendium of arcane and international
legal resources or a style guide manqué.
The editors of the Guide
at the McGill Law Journal are asking for reader input about any changes to make the famous
legal citation bible more user friendly.
There is, however, an online «American»
citation guide — Peter W. Martin's Introduction to Basic Legal Citation at http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/– but this does not have Canadian
citation guide — Peter W. Martin's Introduction to Basic
Legal Citation at http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/– but this does not have Canadian
Citation at http://www.law.cornell.edu/
citation/– but this does not have Canadian
citation/– but this does not have Canadian content.
at the end of every speech he delivered in the Roman Senate, I think we must «disestablish» the McGill Guide as the arbiter either of
legal writing style or of
legal citation practice in Canada.
At a very elementary level, the students» initial involvement is not a desire to advance
citation practice (something they were probably unaware of before their first
legal research and writing course) but more likely the pursuit of an extra-curricular credit, one to which the glamour of «law review» can be attached.
I have tried Mendeley for
citations and bibliography for writing law papers
at my university, but it seems not to be designed for
legal citations.
If you are a minor (you were under 18 years of age
at the time you received your
citation), one of your parents (or
legal guardian) must appear in person with you.