Caption Contest Finalists: A Gunner’s Love Affair With Her Bluebook
Do you love your Bluebook as much as this gunner does?
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?
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A Bluebooking Error In… The Bluebook?
Please, pass this former law school gunner his smelling salts!
Is The Bluebook About To Be Killed Off?
What kind of silver bullet could kill this venerable institution?
Best Parenthetical Ever?
A judge's clever homage to celebrity ridiculousness.
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.
How Time Tracking And Passive Tracking Tools Are Helping Law Firms Capture More Revenue
Discover how passive time-tracking tools help law firms boost revenue, reduce billing errors, and save time—featuring insights from the 2025 MyCase Legal Industry Report.
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 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?
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 […]
Non-Sequiturs: 09.07.11
* I thought the rule for how to cite a blog in your brief was “don’t,” but I have less use for a Bluebook than a homeless orphan (I hear kindling is hard to come by on the streets). [Adjunct Law Prof Blog] * More analysis on the mean mommy lawsuit reminds me of how […]
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A Random Friday Poll: One Space or Two Between Sentences?
Members of this profession really, really like rules, especially rules about proper English grammar and usage. Be it confusion over a homophone, misuse of a hyphen, or incorrect placement of a semicolon, every grammar Nazi has a special place reserved in his heart for the idiot who screws these things up. And that is why the topic of last week's reader poll was about how many spaces one should use between sentences....
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 […]
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. — […]