Understanding and Mastering The Bluebook: A Guide for Students and Practitioners |  | Author: Linda J. Barris
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Category: Book
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Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 136
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7 x 0.4
ISBN: 1594603650
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.027
EAN: 9781594603655
ASIN: 1594603650
Publication Date: June 28, 2007
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Product Description
This concise text is a survival manual especially designed to assist readers in navigating the complicated rules for legal citation found in The Bluebook. Effectively utilizing a simple building block approach for each source type, together with hundreds of easy-to-follow illustrations and explanations, the guide gives step-by-step instructions for building citations to the most common authorities cited by legal practitioners. Comparison charts, illustrations, and bullet-point explanations allow users to quickly understand critical citation rules, while frequent tips, hints, and cautions alert students to common trouble spots. Every essential rule and sub-rule is illustrated and fully described in a user-friendly format. This highly accessible guide is an indispensable tool for anyone wanting to master Bluebook citation.
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 Must have for the Law Student or New Associate August 10, 2007
Hannah's mommy (florida)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is an absolute must for the entering first-year law student, the new law review member, or even the new associate. My students have been using this book for three years in my legal research and writing class. Each year they have consistently praised the book as the best text assigned for the course. Most of my students have stated that they simply would have been lost trying to navigate the Bluebook without this supplement.
The book is clear, succinct, and straight to the point. It offers students a brief narrative on the most crucial Bluebook rules along with examples, important notes, pointers, and reminders geared toward addressing students' most frequent mistakes. This book makes explicit for the law student what the Bluebook requires them to surmise.
Excellent for Law Students and Practioners August 13, 2007
A. Niedwiecki (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have required Barris' guide for my class for the past few years, and as a result, the students' citation has been the best I have seen in my ten years of teaching. The guide makes the very complicated Bluebook much easier to understand. It allowed me to use less class time to cover citation because it gives the students a step-by-step approach to citation which is easy to follow. I would recommend this book to every first year law student (and those who never really understood the Bluebook), and I would strongly suggest that every LRW professor require this book for their course.
Essential Legal Education and Practice Tool August 9, 2007
BKLLaw (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is an absolute must for law students and practitioners alike. It provides an easy to use, user friendly step-by-step approach to creating correct citations in both scholarly citation style and practitioner's style. Every type of publication is listed with examples, helpful tips, tables, charts and sample exercises. I have had projects in law school that would have been impossible without it. It has been essential to my legal education.
great March 5, 2008
scooter (Houston, TX)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the most user friendly bluebook guide ever.. it is 100X better than Interactive Citation Workbook for The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 2007 Edition If you're a 1L looking for a great introduction to the bluebook this is it.
Best Resource for Bluebook guidance May 6, 2008
E. Langan (Miami, Florida)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best book ever for learning Bluebook citation. I like its format, illustrating how each rule works. Although a previous reviewer found a couple of mistakes in the book, they are really minor (a couple of misplaced commas), and the book is so helpful this shouldn't stop you from buying it. It's a must have book for anyone trying to learn citation and for practitioners who want a quick reference guide.
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