Bluebooking
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In-House Counsel, Law Schools
Want To Work In-House? Burn Your Bluebook
Locating the proper Bluebook citation is far less important than locating the right answer as fast as possible. -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Litigators
Benchslap Of The Day: Don't You Dare Put Citations In The Footnotes
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Politics, Supreme Court
Ted Cruz Screwed Up Citation In SCOTUS Brief
Ted Cruz doesn't want the Supreme Court to realize he is a shameless self-promoter.
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Law Reviews, Law Schools
Is This The Biggest Bluebook Error Of Them All?
Who deserves credit (or blame) for the authoritative (and often criticized) legal citation manual? -
Law Professors, Law Reviews, Law Schools
A Modest Proposal For Bluebook Reform
Two law professors offer their (humorous and satirical) idea for improving the dominant system of legal citation. -
Screw-Ups
WTF Bluebook?! Even More Bluebooking Errors In The Bluebook
Come on, Bluebook editors. We -- perhaps mistakenly -- thought you were better than this. -
Screw-Ups
An Embarrassing Typo... In The Bluebook?
Is it just us, or have the editors of The Bluebook been getting sloppier with each edition that's printed? -
Caption Contests
Caption Contest Finalists: A Gunner’s Love Affair With Her Bluebook
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Caption Contests
Caption Contest: A Gunner's Love Affair With Her Bluebook
In law school and in legal practice, there are gunners, and then there are gunners. Do you love your Bluebook as much as this gunner does? -
Screw-Ups, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
A Bluebooking Error In... The Bluebook?
Please, pass this former law school gunner his smelling salts! -
Books, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Law Professors, Law Reviews, Law Schools
Is The Bluebook About To Be Killed Off?
What kind of silver bullet could kill this venerable institution? -
Alex Kozinski, Celebrities, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, State Judges, Twittering
Best Parenthetical Ever?
A judge's clever homage to celebrity ridiculousness. -
English Grammar and Usage, Law Reviews, Law Schools
Law Review Editor Goes On Ironic Power Trip
A journal editor calls out the staff for sub and cite errors in a poorly edited email.
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9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Betty Fletcher, Deaths, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, Weirdness, William Fletcher
Quote of the Day: What's the Bluebook Parenthetical for That?
A Ninth Circuit potpourri: a highly unusual opinion, and the passing of a prominent liberal judge. -
Law Reviews, Law Schools, Legal Research
Law Student Revolts Against Law Review's Bluebook Exam
Is it any wonder that a student from a law school in Virginia is raging against the law review's upcoming Bluebook exam? Several law students have written to us about this student's "guerilla campaign" against the school's annual exercise in "academic hazing," and they have even provided us with copies of this kid's manifesto. Who is this revolutionary, and why does he think the school's Bluebook exam needs to go? -
English Grammar and Usage, Federal Judges, Law Reviews, Legal Research, Richard Posner
Grammer Pole of the Weak: Backburner for the Bluebook?
Welcome to the latest edition of Above the Law’s Grammer Pole of the Weak, a column where we turn questions of legal writing and English grammar and usage over to our readers for discussion and debate. Last week, we found out that only 29% of our readers lie back and think of England when dealing […] -
Howrey LLP, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.05.11
* Harvard Law School exams used to be easier. Think about that the next time you hear about grade inflation. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * Speaking of things getting harder, this seems like proof that the Bluebook exists to propagate sales of the Bluebook. [Josh Blackman’s Blog] * And yet the Bluebook hasn’t been updated to […] -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Law Reviews, Legal Research, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner
Quote of the Day: Judge Posner Benchslaps the Bluebook
[N]eedless to say, I have not read the nineteenth edition. I have dipped into it, much as one might dip one’s toes in a pail of freezing water. I am put in mind of Mr. Kurtz’s dying words in Heart of Darkness — ‘The horror! The horror!’ — and am tempted to end there. — […]