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.
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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).
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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).
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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,