whoever wrote the bluebook needs to be oppressed
oh, you want to include the author’s name in your citation? well, depending on the document you’re creating, the source you’re citing, whether or not it’s a federalist paper, the phase of the moon, and the name of your first pet, that’s going to either be in smallcaps, italics, underline, or parentheses! :)
surely this is the best way to tell the reader how to locate your source
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Penn Law Reviews compile it. They absolutely deserve to be oppressed cuz every five years they just fuck with the Bluebook to “make their mark” and make themselves feel special.
As a regulatory attorney who uses a billion types of nontraditional sources, Bluebook isn’t even fucking useful. All I ever use is Rule 17.2 and it doesn’t even help me.
Once when I was getting frustrated, the editor in chief of my law review told me, “Just make something up. The important thing is that the reader can find what you’re citing. Bluebook doesn’t matter.”
Burn it
