Talk:Bluebook

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Contents 1 Interesting article on the subject 2 Inconsistencies between editions 3 Fair use rationale for Image:The Bluebook 18th ed Cover.gif 4 Chapters

[edit] Interesting article on the subject

Christine Hurt, Network Effects and Legal Citation: How Antitrust Theory Predicts Who Will Build a Better Bluebook Mousetrap in the Age of Electronic Mice, 87 Iowa L. Rev. 1257 (2002).

It gives a brief history of the Bluebook and its competitors. --Tregonsee 22:44, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistencies between editions

The article states that the 17th and 18th editions have an inconsistency between them in terms of omitting the jurisdiction when it is indicated by the reporter, but not the court abbreviation. The language quoted does not strike me as an inconsistency. It strikes me that the format that is proper in the 18th edition was the only proper format in the 17th edition, and the parenthetical insertion for the 18th edition serves to clarify this point. 65.42.16.135 22:34, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:The Bluebook 18th ed Cover.gif

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[edit] Chapters

Is it necessary to identify the title of each chapter? We don't do that for any other book. The Bluebook is a comprehensive guide for all legal citation. Most of what's in the chapter titles is implied.--Lindsay 03:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I concur that we should not need to include the chapter structure here. I've seen several Wikipedia editors doing weird stuff like that in a number of articles (like copying in sections of the FRE or FRCP wholesale rather than summarizing key aspects). I think such editors are nonlawyers or first-year law students at mediocre schools! --Coolcaesar 03:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Not familiar with the Bluebook's chapters themselves, it appears to me to merely be a listing of the topics addressed, rather than simply a recitation of the table of contents. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 15:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)