BTW: Am I the only person who is dissapointed
with the legal citation software out there?
This can make locating cited material difficult for those who are unfamiliar
with legal citation formats.
Come prepared, not only
with legal citations, but with hard copies of statutes, authoritative case law, and commentaries.
Not exact matches
With today's update, CARA works with any kind of legal document, regardless of whether it contains citati
With today's update, CARA works
with any kind of legal document, regardless of whether it contains citati
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.
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.
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.
In addition to covering opinion writing, the Guide has helpful reviews of
legal research, writing, and
citation pertinent to writing opinions complete
with useful charts and a sample generic research plan.
which uses natural language in connection
with IBM's Watson to search cases, statutes and regulations to provide
legal information ranging from
citations to full
legal briefs.
Many results have been posted on various
legal websites by so called SEO professionals, and in most of them they have shown that, in conjunction
with compelling content that answers questions, AND that content being picked up by other sites, in the form of
citations to the original document, using the tool has helped their clients» websites get better rankings.
AustLII is doing just that
with the Australasian Colonial
Legal History Library: As cases are added to the Library, they are provided
with a neutral
citation.
is a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome built by Michael Poulshock now in collaboration
with Cornell's
Legal Information Institute that turns legal citations into hyperlinks to open access versions of the material c
Legal Information Institute that turns
legal citations into hyperlinks to open access versions of the material c
legal citations into hyperlinks to open access versions of the material cited.
of the Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation and I must say that in my experience
with the 7th ed., it is far closer to the 7th circle of hell than the 7th sphere of heaven.
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.
As Thomas Smith observed in Web of Law, the U.S.
citation network is highly skewed,
with much of the
legal authority concentrated in very few cases and the majority of it «dead.»
However, as a result of concerns
with the seventh edition of the McGill Guide, a project was undertaken to develop a Saskatchewan
legal citation guide.
Zotero comes
with a variety of bibliographic and
citation styles built in (though not, I think, the Canadian
legal citation format).
Your friend should insist on talking to the investigator's supervisor and reviewing the relevant
legal citations,
with a lawyer, if necessary, if she wants to press charges.
If you would like to publish
with the MJDR please follow the Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation, used by all major Canadian legal journals and accessible on
Legal Citation, used by all major Canadian
legal journals and accessible on
legal journals and accessible online.
If you would like to publish
with us, please ensure to follow the Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation — used by all major Canadian legal journals and accessible on
Legal Citation — used by all major Canadian
legal journals and accessible on
legal journals and accessible online.
But
with the proliferation of free
legal citations and commentary online, some are turning to Google.
A Halsburys Title is not intended to be a digest of all reported case law, but rather a narrative statement of
legal principles
with citations that support the principles.
If you find yourself
with a burning passion to write regex for
legal citations, I recommend you check out this open source project and contribute.
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As I described in my previous post, Citepad allows
legal professionals to easily insert
citation words and commonly used symbols
with a single click.
We accept
citations to primary
legal authorities (court decisions) and short, concise arguments in favor of cited authorities, along
with community voting of responses.
As well, a
citation of the extent to which foreign, comparative, and international law is cited
with approval in Canadian appellate courts would be informative and helpful to
legal scholars and
legal researchers generally.
Although this post doesn't use traditional full
legal citation format, it does use traditional formatting for quotations,
with brackets indicating omitted letters in a quote from case law.
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.
Given that The Blue Book is edited by law students, and law students being... well, law students, it should come as no surprise to learn that «the definitive style guide for
legal citation» is sprinkled
with inside jokes.
Citations are like links, the more QUALITY and
legal focused you are, the better your overall results will be
with Google.
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.
Most recently, LexBlog launched an integration
with the
legal research platform Fastcase, enabling a user, while writing a blog post, to search for a case from within WordPress and then add a
citation or hyperlink to the case to the blog post.
The McGill Guide causes me to confront my own internal confluct between a desire for precision, uniformity and a sense of superiority borne of my supposed knowledge of
citation rules and the reality that, given all other complexities of
legal practice, keeping up
with the ever - changing and sometimes unexpected rules can seem like an unnecessary burden.
With the removal of the word «
legal», this could be the definition of the
citation system for any academic discipline: the MLA style for the humanities (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed, Modern Language Association, 2009), the APA style for the social sciences (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed, 2010), or the CSE style for science writers (Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Writers, Editors and Publishers, 7th ed, Council of Science Editors, 2006).
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 practi
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 pract
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 practi
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 pract
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 pr
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 pract
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 pr
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 pract
legal citation as currently pr
citation as currently practised.
The review does not mention that there is only a draft version of a
citation style for the Blue Book, and nothing in the works to make Zotero work with our own inimitable Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal C
citation style for the Blue Book, and nothing in the works to make Zotero work
with our own inimitable Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal CitationCitation.
From Editorial Board retreats in a conference room on the Stetson campus where we developed and refined our mission and later worked
with the editorial board of
Legal Communication and Rhetoric: JALWD to ensure that both publications had complementary but not overlapping objectives; to reading hundreds of submissions looking for the most insightful and meaningful scholarship to publish or the newer scholars to mentor; to long nights poring over page proofs looking for one last typo or
citation error before sending the final version to the printer, the experiences were many and the memories are great.
With over 20 years of combined experience, Finebloom and Haenel is the
legal team you should want on your side while contesting your traffic tickets, commercial drivers tickets, red light
citations, suspended drivers license, speeding tickets, toll violation, or DUI charges.
Lawyers
with legal ethics issues should use this site only as a starting point for their research and should assume that any
citations contained herein have not been updated and that other cases not cited here may exist.
With dozens of examples demonstrating the
legal concepts and thousands of
citations to the law, regulations, and court cases, the reader will be thoroughly prepared to do the
legal research necessary to successfully support clients towards applying for and winning naturalization.
Readers not familiar
with legal research would have a fairly good chance of finding the case (or CanLII) through Googling and sophisticated researchers will know that they can use the neutral
citation to find the case in multiple locations.
What is really interesting is how he likens the Web of Law formed by statutes, cases, and other
legal authorities linked together by
citations to the World Wide Web and his suggestion that
legal research technology can be improved
with network science (see his working paper, «The Web of Law», available on SSRN).
A major step forward would see the McGill Guide including in the Appendix a comprehensive list of the specific databases available from recognized providers of
legal information in the same way in which the Guide includes comprehensive lists of print law reports and journals
with their
citations.
Legalcite, if the draft proposal is approved, will come up
with a «tagging model» that would let content producers affix a variety of metadata to a case or statute
citation in such a way that a computer could, first, recognize that the
citation was just that: a
legal citation; and then «understand» a number of things about that
citation.
The Coordinating Editor of The Bluebook is Mary Miles Prince, Associate Director, Vanderbilt University Law School Library,
with special editorial assistance on the
citations of foreign jurisdictions from the Directorate of
Legal Research of the Law Library of Congress.
The next five rules, R10 — 14, deal
with citation of official (governmental) American
legal sources.
Like the ALWD Guide to
Legal Citation, first published in 2000, it endeavors to instruct those who would write legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S. legal materials in complete conformity with the system of citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's copyr
Legal Citation, first published in 2000, it endeavors to instruct those who would write legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S. legal materials in complete conformity with the system of citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's co
Citation, first published in 2000, it endeavors to instruct those who would write
legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S. legal materials in complete conformity with the system of citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's copyr
legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S.
legal materials in complete conformity with the system of citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's copyr
legal materials in complete conformity
with the system of
citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's co
citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's copyright.
This introduction is meant to assist you as you begin what will likely become a lifelong relationship
with the Bluebook system of
legal citation.
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