There is a product, a spiral-bound booklet that sells for $38.50, which is accompanied by a rudimentary web site available to purchasers of the product. It is important to understand, when we are talking about “The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation,” that we are talking about two different things. So, I posted those abbreviations on my web site, and promptly received my own “keep off the grass” missive from an outside law firm hired by the Harvard Law Review. Not only are these abbreviations devoid of creativity, they are required by many legal jurisdictions in the United States before one can plead a case of law before judges. I examined those abbreviations, and they are clearly facts that could only be expressed in one way. He was repeatedly rebuffed with stern “keep off the grass” warnings. Professor Bennett was two years into work on his project when he contacted the Harvard Law Review Association concerning the use, in electronic form, of common abbreviations for U.S. Professor Bennett’s work is an extended variant of an amazingly useful tool called Zotero that is created by developers around the world who want to support scholars in their efforts to “organize, cite, and share research sources.” Frank added features to Zotero that support legal writing.
In 2011, Frank Bennett, a law professor at Nagoya University in Japan, wrote to me about open source software he was developing that he now maintains under the name of Juris-M. Required Abbreviations for Document Subdivisions Required Abbreviations for Explanatory Phrases Required Abbreviations for Publishing Terms Required Abbreviations for Common Words Used In Periodical Names Required Abbreviations for Periodical Names Required Abbreviations for Titles of Judges and Officials
Short Form Citations for Internet Sources Short Form Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles
Full Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, & NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Short Form Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals Full Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals
Capitalization Within the Text of Court Documents and Legal Memoranda Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Another Case Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Your Case Short Form Citation of Legislative and Administrative Materials Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Restatements, and Uniform Acts STATUTES, RULES, REGULATIONS, AND OTHER LEGISLATIVE & ADMINISTRATIVE MATERIALS Weight of Authority and Explanatory Parenthetical Order of Authorities Within Each Signal / Strength of Authority
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