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Arkansas Law Review's 75th Anniversary Remarks, Steve Caple, Erron Smith
Arkansas Law Review's 75th Anniversary Remarks, Steve Caple, Erron Smith
Arkansas Law Review
It is an exciting time for the Arkansas Law Review, the School of Law, and the University of Arkansas. The journal is celebrating its 75th anniversary, the law school is approaching its 100th year of existence, and the university recently celebrated its 150th birthday.
Stylish Legal Citation, Alexa Z. Chew
Stylish Legal Citation, Alexa Z. Chew
Arkansas Law Review
Can legal citations be stylish? Is that even a thing? Yes, and this Article explains why and how. The usual approach to writing citations is as a separate, inferior part of the writing process, a perfunctory task that satisfies a convention but is not worth the attention that stylish writers spend on the “real” words in their documents. This Article argues that the usual approach is wrong. Instead, legal writers should strive to write stylish legal citations—citations that are fully integrated with the prose to convey information in a readable way to a legal audience.
Citation Literacy, Alexa Z. Chew
Citation Literacy, Alexa Z. Chew
Arkansas Law Review
Citation literacy is the ability to read and write citations.[1] That’s it. The rest of this article will unpack what’s in those ten words and why they matter.