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 School.
TAGS: Legal informatics databases; Legal citation;
Legal citation standards; Legal metadata; Legal descriptive metadata; Legal metadata standards; Legal metadata content standards; Legal descriptive metadata content standards.
TAGS: Legal citation;
Legal citation standards; Legal metadata; Legal descriptive metadata; Legal metadata standards; Legal metadata content standards; Legal descriptive metadata content standards.
Is it possible to co-ordinate uniform
legal citation standards with our British and Australian colleagues?
Not exact matches
Not only are the software packages not able to address the nuances of
legal materials, but there are types of
legal materials, such as looseleafs, which were not considered by the developers of the
standards for data format and
citation type.
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.
Saskatchewan has never had a single or
standard set of rules for
legal citations.
Why would Carswell / Thomson / McGill want to make the McGill guide free when the BCCA has recently mandated that the 7th ed will be the
standard for
citation of
legal material?
The Canadian public has a right to an accessible
standard of
legal citation that will facilitate, not hinder their... [more]
It provides a block quote in
standard legal -
citation form from the Supreme Court's opinion that is both
citation - heavy and more stylistically vivid than the lawyer's own writing in this descriptive post:
This is true in many other areas of specialized knowledge, but
citation standards in the
legal realm seem to be particularly cluttered with minute details and exceptions, especially in Canada and the United States.
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?
The
standard methods for American
legal citation are defined by two competing rulebooks: the ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of C
citation are defined by two competing rulebooks: the ALWD
Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of C
Citation Manual: A Professional System of
Citation and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of C
Citation and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of
CitationCitation.
To date, the
standard legal citation manuals, the McGill Guide (8th ed.)
The Neutral
Citation Standard for Case Law was developed in 1998 by the Canadian
Citation Committee, an informal group that brought together various specialists in
legal information from the judiciary, academia and the publishing industry, including slawers Martin Felsky and Daniel Poulin.
TITLE: OSCOLA: The Oxford
Standard for
Citation of
Legal Authorities.
The first section, consisting of rules 1 through 9, establishes general
standards of
citation and style for use in all forms of
legal writing.
There are many
standards used for citing Oxford uses OSCOLA (Oxford
Standard for
Citation of
Legal Authorities).
The generally accepted
standard for U.S.
legal citations is the BlueBook, and in this case Rule 14... but this excerpt might get you going in the right direction.
Settling on a
standard method for
legal citation is one of the many daunting tasks that we will need to tackle as we move toward a linked data model for
legal resources.
Let it be a guide that is truly uniform, a
standard for
legal citation practice in publishing, in the courts, in practice and in the academy.