Systematic filing
of legal citations with county computer programs along with physical paper copies.
You should consider buying the current edition of «The Bluebook» that explains all forms
of legal citations and provides a list of the abbreviations used.
The APA Publication Manual, 6th edition states» References to legal materials... which include court decisions, statutes, other legislative materials, and various secondary sources, are more useful to the reader if they provide the information in the conventional format
of legal citations.»
Law Library) in The Next Generation
of Legal Citations: A Survey of Internet Citations in the Opinions of the Washington Supreme Court and Washington Appellate Courts, 1999 - 2005 [SSRN], 9 J. App.
Would the crowd post answers in the form
of legal citations?
The Bluebook Uniform System of Citation has been in the news a lot lately, especially after Carl Malamud and Public Resource published the open source and freely available Baby Blue's Manual
of Legal Citation.
First - year law students spend countless hours flipping through the Bluebook in hopes of mastering the art
of legal citation.
In 1926, the editor of the Harvard Law Review, Erwin Griswold, produced a pamphlet covering proper forms
of legal citation.
Re omitting the period, I wanted to point out that the «Maroonbook» (2012, PDF) aka The University of Chicago Manual
of Legal Citation, (2010 was the20th anniversary edition), has long omitted it so that U.S. is US.
Perhaps it is time for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to step in and formulate a Model Code
of Legal Citation, as they have done with the Model Code of Professional Conduct, or their task force on the Canadian common law degree.
in scanned PDF format, all freely available on AustLII, but also in developing a uniform and vendor - neutral system
of legal citation for them.
The Bluebook, of course, is the Bible
of legal citation, the inside - baseball of the legal profession that separates a proper citation from an abomination.
As for the other irrational excesses
of legal citation, I and others have written about them at length.
The Canadian public has a right to an accessible standard
of legal citation that will facilitate, not hinder their... [more]
The primary purpose
of a legal citation or reference is to enable the reader to easily locate a cited source.
The usual rationale for the complexity
of legal citation practice is the variety of authorities and sources, especially primary sources, to which a legal writer or researcher must regularly refer.
Of the legal citation guides out there, OSCOLA is my favourite for the reasons you describe — and, of course, because of its Creative Commons licence.
What is the purpose
of legal citation?
With the new fall term just beginning, and thousands of first - year law students across the country entering upon legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice
of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means
of legal citation as currently practised.
Unfortunately, it seems that no one inside the profession, and certainly not the students to whom we have neglectfully devolved all responsibility in the matter, has the will or the experience to question the rationale for the hoary rules
of legal citation.
75 Removing the citations alleviates the risk that the awkward form
of legal citation would undermine the reliability of the readability measures.
1) Raizel Liebler & June Liebert, Something Rotten in the State
of Legal Citation: The Life of a United States Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link (1996 - 2010), 15 Yale J.L. & Tech.
For a more detailed explanation
of legal citation, see the Douglas College Library Legal Citation Online Guide
TITLE: The University of Chicago Manual
of Legal Citation -LSB-: The Maroon Book].
Teachers
of legal citation, paralegal departments, law reviews, and other citation groups will find this feature highly useful and fairly simple.
This introduction is meant to assist you as you begin what will likely become a lifelong relationship with the Bluebook system
of legal citation.
Canadian courts, legal periodicals, law faculties and lawyers rely on the Guide to maintain a uniform system
of legal citation.
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.
(Striking a very different balance, The University of Chicago Manual
of Legal Citation pronounces that «Abbreviations in case names are rarely used.»)
Examples of hard skills that attorneys need include experience with specific legal databases, knowledge
of legal citation, and familiarity with legal research.
Not exact matches
Also, given the correct
citations of portions
of the USC, I suppose there must have been some lawyer involved somewhere, but I wonder if the designation
of the class as aliens «from» as set
of countries shows that any
legal input was fairly low level and probably not from an immigration law specialist: it's terribly vague, and I doubt it was intentionally so.
Not only that, when Traffic Jam Pilot is active, Audi expects to take
legal responsibility for the outcome
of the car's driving, right down to accidents or driving
citations.
Perhaps, the most interesting thing about USEssayWriters.com is that it's 100 %
legal to purchase essay papers from us, because you can use the essays as a source
of ideas for your paper, as research material for your own essays, or as a guide on how to format your paper following a specific
citation style (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc..)
Rather than provide any real smoking gun evidence to the case, this last
citation of Oreskes only begs for a pair
of really troubling questions: are the lawyers for the San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach plaintiffs committing
legal profession suicidal by citing evidence which is not available to read?
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.
The lack
of uptake for
citation management software programs, such as Zotero, EndNote, and RefWorks, by even tech savvy
legal practitioners and scholars has puzzled me for some time.
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.
If your particular
legal specialty requires use
of some special symbols (§ for code
citations, ° for property descriptions, etc.), you don't want to go to the Insert Symbols menu every single time.
With today's update, CARA works with any kind
of legal document, regardless
of whether it contains
citations.
I believe the most logical place to start is for publishers to develop output styles for their electronic services that are compatible with the software, as a
citation style file that will handle the majority
of Canadian primary and secondary
legal materials can be created, and this would only require manual editing
of those materials that fall outside the style.
It seems unlikely that the
legal market in Canada is sufficiently large to make the development
of a custom
citation management software package viable for a software company, as they are not generally very expensive.
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?
Tomorrow, LexisNexis
Legal & Professional will announce a new, enhanced version
of Lexis for Microsoft Office, an application that provides direct access to Lexis research and
citation tools and Web search tools from directly within Microsoft Word and Outlook.
The primary purpose
of a style guide for
legal citation is to ensure that everyone can understand how various combinations
of numbers, letters, brackets and punctuation make it possible for the reader to find the full text
of a case referred to in a book, article or another case.
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.
I assume this is how some
of the people who visit
legal sites also feel when the content starts delving into jargon and
citations of specific
legal code.
Come prepared, not only with
legal citations, but with hard copies
of statutes, authoritative case law, and commentaries.
I agree with Sarah and Kristin that the value
of citation tools and reference managers can be so much better exploited for primary
legal materials drawn from databases or open - web sources, including CanLII, so they are cited as what they are.
I stumbled across part
of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition website, where I found a good swathe
of the 6th edition
of the Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation available online in PDF.
Those who rely «almost entirely (or entirely)» on Canlii for primary sources may depend on paper sources for historic content — a perusal
of legal research with pinpoint
citations to «page number (s)» would suggest such is the case because often content on the commercial databases don't include the page numbers from the original print text from which they were reproduced.