I have a new paper on ranking law schools with LSAT scores, employment outcomes, and
law review citations.
They were under the false impression that checking some professor's
law review citations would be of more benefit to their career than building niche expertise.
«Adding
law review citations to judicial opinions helps us rank search results more intelligently, for example, giving a relevance boost to cases that aren't cited by courts, but are cited by law review articles.
The ridiculous pseudo-scientific detail of the Bluebook,
the law review citation manual, is emblematic for him of problems with American law.
For a more coherent abstract of Smith's
law review citation study, read a blog entry written by Tom Smith himself.
The law review citation study results will be incorporated in this working paper later.
Not exact matches
The
citation appears in an Education Department manual, «Guidance on New York's Annual Performance
Review Law and Regulations,» first issued in October 2012 and updated earlier this month.
How many of the
law professor blogs have been cited in
law reviews — and do
law professors view
citation as a benefit of blogging worth mention?
The WisBlawg had a very helpful post last week on two new free tools that allow lawyers to have legal
citations on Web pages automatically converted to hyperlinks to the actual opinions, statutes,
law review articles and so on.
He hates it so much that when he writes his
law review articles about hating the Bluebook, he asks the
law review editors not to make his
citations conform to the Bluebook (his request was granted).
In 1926, the editor of the Harvard
Law Review, Erwin Griswold, produced a pamphlet covering proper forms of legal
citation.
Generally speaking,
law review editors and other academicians demand that authors support every claim with a
citation, or, at the very least, require extensive research to support claims or theses.
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.
There was at least two occasions that upon the
law review's
citation check and quote
review of a case that we found the online version having and extra word or missing a word which changed the outcome: e.g. changing «the appeal is allowed» to «the appeal is not allowed.»
So, I recommend to all
law review editors out there who are no doubt using this rule regularly to exercise their discretion to adopt a more enlightened
citation format for blog postings!
During
law school, Maureen volunteered with the Community Legal Aid clinic and was a
Citation Editor for the Windsor
Review of Legal and Social Issues
law journal.
Inspired by the Bluebook published by the Harvard
Law Review Association, the Guide is intended be the definitive style guide for legal
citation in Canada.
It has been adopted as the official standard for
citation by both French language and English language
law reviews and by a number of courts.
A recently published
law review article concludes that «[i] n this battle between the no -
citation rule and judicial notice [under Evidence Code 452 (d)(1)-RSB-, the statute overrides the rule.
The publication contains only new
citations to chases or secondary material such as
law review articles.
A couple of weeks back I wrote about a brief study that ranks schools based on their rank on median LSAT score of the class entering in fall 2013, employment outcome for the class of 2013, and
citations to their main
law review.
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The Maroonbook, first published in the late 1980s, still followed and revised by the University of Chicago
Law Review, aimed to supplant The Bluebook's complex and detailed dictates with «a simple, malleable framework for
citation, which authors and editors can tailor to suit their purposes.»
Teachers of legal
citation, paralegal departments,
law reviews, and other
citation groups will find this feature highly useful and fairly simple.
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of
Citation is compiled by the editors of the Columbia
Law Review, the Harvard
Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania
Law Review, and The Yale
Law Journal.
See, e.g., Brent E. Newton,
Law Review Scholarship in the Eyes of the Twenty - First Century Supreme Court Justices: An Empirical Analysis, 4 Drexel L. Rev. 399 (2012)(discussing citations of law review articles by the Supreme Cour
Law Review Scholarship in the Eyes of the Twenty - First Century Supreme Court Justices: An Empirical Analysis, 4 Drexel L. Rev. 399 (2012)(discussing citations of law review articles by the Supreme C
Review Scholarship in the Eyes of the Twenty - First Century Supreme Court Justices: An Empirical Analysis, 4 Drexel L. Rev. 399 (2012)(discussing
citations of
law review articles by the Supreme Cour
law review articles by the Supreme C
review articles by the Supreme Court).
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.
Surely if there is one thing student
law review editors are good for it's fixing indifferent professors»
citations.
If you received a traffic
citation, pay the fine and take our 4 - Hour Basic Driver Improvement course to
review the
laws that make driving less dangerous.