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The Maroonbook: The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation
The Maroonbook: The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation
The Maroonbook: The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation
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For more than twenty years, the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review have offered a simple, clear, and efficient system of legal citation and referencing for use by lawyers, students, and judges. The Maroonbook, as it is commonly called, provides an alternative to cumbersome and detailed methods of legal citation and produces consistent, straightforward results in books, law journals, briefs, and judicial opinions.

The Maroonbook is now presented in a convenient and quality ebook format for use as a handy, searchable reference book. This digital edition is properly formatted and features an extensive, active Table of Contents, as well as the full appendices of the print edition

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Release dateDec 20, 2013
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The Maroonbook: The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation
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    The Maroonbook - University of Chicago Law Review

    THE MAROONBOOK

    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

    MANUAL OF LEGAL CITATION

    edited by

    The University of Chicago

    Law Review

    2013

    THE MAROONBOOK

    The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation

    Smashwords edition: Published in the 2013 digital edition by Quid Pro Books, at Smashwords.

    Copyright © 1989, 2000, 2009 and 2013 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This work or parts of it may not be reproduced, copied or transmitted (except as permitted by sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), by any means including voice recordings and the copying of its digital form, without the written permission of the print publisher.

    The publisher of various formats is The University of Chicago Law Review, who authorized exclusively Quid Pro Books to reproduce it in ebook formats: Digitally published in ebook editions, for The University of Chicago Law Review, by Quid Pro Books. Available in major digital formats and at leading ebook retailers and booksellers.

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    Cataloging for this book’s electronic text edition:

    ISBN-10 161027931X (eBook ed., 2013)

    ISBN 978-1-61027-931-4 (eBook ed., 2013)

    Dedication

    To the past boards, who have made the Maroonbook what it is today.

    Volume 80

    Edited by Bradley G. Hubbard, Taylor A.R. Meehan,

    and Kenneth A. Young

    Table of Contents

    The students at the University of Chicago Law School have mounted a bold challenge to the Bluebook’s hegemony: the University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation.

    Richard A. Posner, Goodbye to the Bluebook, 53 U Chi L Rev 1343, 1343 (1986).

    * * *

    The determination by University of Chicago Students to compete, and thereby allow the market to decide which is the more efficient guide to legal citation, seems entirely apt . . . .

    Mary I. Coombs, Lowering One’s Cites: A (Sort of) Review of The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation, 76 Va L Rev 1099, 1101 (1990).

    * * *

    To the Maroon Book’s authors, the [Bluebook] commits the most heinous of sins: It’s inefficient.

    David Margolick, At the Bar, NY Times B7 (Nov 4, 1988).

    Preface to the Anniversary Edition

    The original Maroonbook was a response to cries for a simpler system of legal citation. These cries, driven by many factors, including the dramatic increase in the use of electronic research tools and dissatisfaction with the dominant citation format, resulted in a number of laudable but unsuccessful efforts to devise such a system. In part, we believe, these efforts have failed because they attempt to dictate a comprehensive set of citation rules.

    This manual, whose publication twenty years ago preceded most of these efforts, takes a dramatically different approach. Rather than try to provide a rule for every possible situation—an endeavor which, by definition, is doomed to fail—the Maroonbook, as this manual is commonly called, offers a simple, malleable framework for citation, one which authors and editors can tailor to suit their purposes. Users should be guided by the following four principles, listed in order of importance:

    (1) Sufficiency: The citation should give the reader enough information to locate the cited material without further assistance.

    (2) Clarity: The citation should be comprehensible to the reader, using plain English and following a well-recognized form whenever possible, and avoiding the use of confusing words.

    (3) Consistency: Citations should be consistent within a piece, though they need not be uniform across all legal materials.

    (4) Simplicity: Citations should contain only as much information as is necessary to meet the goals of sufficiency, clarity, and consistency.

    Rule 1 Typefaces

    (a) Everything in roman, except as noted

    All material should appear in roman type except as otherwise specified below. Roman text is plain text—no underlining, italicization, bolding, special capitalization, or unusual positioning.

    The following should be italicized:

    1. Case names

    See Ferdinand v Isabella, 14 US 92 (1492).

    2. Titles of periodical articles and articles in edited books

    Eppard Richstein, Elements of Liberty,

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