10/11/2015
Curiosidades:
Who Sets Citation Norms
There is no national citation standard-setting authority, and despite the tendency of citation manuals to attach the word "rule" to specific citation practices, their authoritative reach is, at best, limited to a specific sector – those writing for particular journals, editing material for one or another commercial publisher, submitting briefs to a particular court. For most law writing, the relevant citations norms are set by widely accepted professional usage.
The citation manual created by the editors of four law journals, the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal, invariably referred to as The Bluebook, was for decades the most widely used codification of national citation norms. Now in its twentieth edition, The Bluebook governs the citation practices of the majority of U.S. student-edited law journals and has, through its successive editions, shaped the citation education and resulting citation habits of most U.S. lawyers.
The much newer ALWD Guide to Legal Citation (5th ed. 2014) has gained a wide following in U.S. law schools, and since it aims to reflect current usage. Its current edition is highly consistent with The Bluebook. . . .
[T]wo 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. The AALL has gone further and published a Universal Citation Guide. This guide sets out a blueprint for courts designing medium-neutral citation schemes for their own decisions, as well as complementary approaches to other types of legal authority that can be implemented simply through professional acceptance.
In the end, most of "legal citation," like most of any language, is established by constantly evolving usage, reinforced in some cases, altered in others, by the members of distinct communities.
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
by Peter W. Martin https://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/1-600.htm
There is no national citation standard-setting authority, and despite the tendency of citation manuals to attach the word "rule" to specific citation practices, their authoritative reach is, at best, limited to a specific sector – those writing for particular journals, editing material for one or an…
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