Last year, we speculated about whether we might soon see an open -
source Bluebook, as the folks that publish it had forgotten to renew the copyright on an older edition, which opened the door to a free electronic version.1 It looks like that will soon be a reality.
Last year, we speculated about whether we might soon see an open -
source Bluebook, as the folks that publish it had forgotten to renew the copyright on an older edition, which opened the door to a free electronic version.
Not exact matches
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.
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Even more, this method has the potential of unifying the various ways to cite to a legal
source, since not all jurisdictions use the
Bluebook.
Yet one
source holds sway in the world of legal information: The Uniform System of Citation, aka the
Bluebook, has held fast.
Among his suggestions, Kolber recommends that Westlaw use
Bluebook citations to all
sources at the top of documents, develop the ability to create multiple projects, stop chopping up long documents into pieces and offer a service that operates as rapidly as Google, the gold standard for regular search engines.
The
Bluebook continues to provide a systematic method by which members of the legal profession communicate important information to one another about the
sources and legal authorities upon which they rely in their work.»
The
Bluebook contains Rules, which are general instructions telling how to cite
sources in legal writing, and Tables, which compile specific information related to particular items that are cited.
Rule 18.3 now catalogs where within The
Bluebook guidance is provided for citing various
sources found on commercial electronic databases.
In a diverse and rapidly changing legal profession, The
Bluebook continues to provide a systematic method by which members of the profession communicate important information to one another about the
sources and legal authorities upon which they rely in their work.
Since the target of the federal trademark act is consumer confusion over the
source of goods or services sold in commerce, those of us who write about citation norms and style guides need not place an «®» next to «The
Bluebook» or otherwise acknowledge the book title's trademark status whenever we write about it and its contents, any more than an auto reviewer need do so when describing the 2014 Nissan Altima.