Basic Legal Citation
This site establishes a hierarchy on who sets the citation norms. A new manual has been created, under the name of ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (3d ed. 2006). The object of this work is to solve the problem of the specific citation practices.
This manual is used in U.S. Law Schools and it is overriden by court rules about the content, composition, and format of legal memoranda and briefs.
Some courts, including both the Supreme Court and court systems in a number of states, retain full editorial responsibility for citable, final and official versions of their opinions. This means, if you write something that has not been said by the Supreme Court you can be forced to change it, because you can be held responsable for undermining the court's authority, defamating the court as you clearly changed the courts words, or even negligence, coming from the importance of your job in view to the public
Finally, most "legal citation,", is established by the continious use, reinforced in some cases, altered in others, by the members of distinct communities.
In this web page they talk about who is in charge of setting citations norms. They starts talking about an important book call The Bluebook, which is a citation manual created by four editors of american law journals. This book is very important and many lawyers in the USA have used it.
Now it´s a new manual called ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation. The third edition of this book is from 2006, (so it's more or less new). It´s often used in the U.S.A law schools.
Some courts like for example the Supreme Court and court systems in a number of states have the full editorial responsibility for citable of their opinions.
As noted in the discussion of medium-neutral citation, two important national bodies, the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), have sought to persuade courts, publishers, and lawyers to implement citation standards that are not keyed to print or to any specific publisher's offerings.
To end up we could say that “legal citation”is established by evolving usage, reinforced in some cases, altered in others, by the members of distinct communities.
This text refers in the lack of a national citation standard in USA. Then we can see a briefly historical review in the attempts to create a system which will be the basic citation standard like The Bluebook and the Maroon Book. The state’s norms which are set out in national manuals are not followed for many reasons also the large commercial publisher has their own citation practices. The local courts can affect the means of citation. The Supreme Court has detailed citation norms. This work is coming out from the public court reporter's office. Grate influence in this debate have two national bodies, the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), which are trying to influent those relating to implement citation standards.
This site establishes a hierarchy on who sets the citation norms. A new manual has been created, under the name of ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (3d ed. 2006). The object of this work is to solve the problem of the specific citation practices.
This manual is used in U.S. Law Schools and it is overriden by court rules about the content, composition, and format of legal memoranda and briefs.
Some courts, including both the Supreme Court and court systems in a number of states, retain full editorial responsibility for citable, final and official versions of their opinions. This means, if you write something that has not been said by the Supreme Court you can be forced to change it, because you can be held responsable for undermining the court's authority, defamating the court as you clearly changed the courts words, or even negligence, coming from the importance of your job in view to the public
Finally, most "legal citation,", is established by the continious use, reinforced in some cases, altered in others, by the members of distinct communities.
In this web page they talk about who is in charge of setting citations norms. They starts talking about an important book call The Bluebook, which is a citation manual created by four editors of american law journals. This book is very important and many lawyers in the USA have used it.
Now it´s a new manual called ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation. The third edition of this book is from 2006, (so it's more or less new). It´s often used in the U.S.A law schools.
Some courts like for example the Supreme Court and court systems in a number of states have the full editorial responsibility for citable of their opinions.
As noted in the discussion of medium-neutral citation, two important national bodies, the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), have sought to persuade courts, publishers, and lawyers to implement citation standards that are not keyed to print or to any specific publisher's offerings.
To end up we could say that “legal citation”is established by evolving usage, reinforced in some cases, altered in others, by the members of distinct communities.
This text refers in the lack of a national citation standard in USA. Then we can see a briefly historical review in the attempts to create a system which will be the basic citation standard like The Bluebook and the Maroon Book.
The state’s norms which are set out in national manuals are not followed for many reasons also the large commercial publisher has their own citation practices. The local courts can affect the means of citation. The Supreme Court has detailed citation norms. This work is coming out from the public court reporter's office. Grate influence in this debate have two national bodies, the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), which are trying to influent those relating to implement citation standards.