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Befreiung vom "Bluebook"?

Ilya Somin plädiert vehement für die Abschaffung der rigiden Bluebook-Zitierregeln:

The Blue Book.... is the enormously complicated citation system used in most law reviews and (to a lesser extent) legal documents. It is a massive tome, over 400 pages long, with rules for every conceivable situation and some that probably are not conceivable to anyone who has not had the painful experience of reading the Blue Book..... I propose... abolishing this monstrosity and replacing it with a simple citation system such as that used in virtually every other academic field. Here are the reasons why:

Interessante Ausführungen. Näheres zum Bluebook hier, zu juristischen Zitiertechniken hier.

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on May 23, 2010 (boomark / email).