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Oscola, The Oxford Standard For Citation Of Legal Authorities, John Kleefeld Apr 2013

Oscola, The Oxford Standard For Citation Of Legal Authorities, John Kleefeld

Dalhousie Law Journal

With the publication of the fourth edition of OSCOLA (the first being in 2000), the Oscolites, if I may adopt such a term, have issued an implicit challenge to other contenders in the world of legal citation. I suggest that the challenge has four prongs. The first aims at what may be called the "hegemony of uniformity."' The second, at a tendency to what Judge Posner has declaimed as "hypertrophy" in the size of legal citation manuals. The third, at barriers to accessing such manuals. And the fourth prong, gentler and more tentative than the other three, at the notion …


The Law Of Citation And Citation Of Law, Chin-Shih Tang Jun 1956

The Law Of Citation And Citation Of Law, Chin-Shih Tang

Dalhousie Law Journal

Legal citation is based primarily upon the writing habits of a particular profession - lawyers. In all its form, it is mostly a matter of convention, sometimes learned, always untaught. As one of the technical subjects in law, it may well be the most difficult topic in legal research and writing. This is partly because its method tends to concern more with adopted convention than with the abstraction of principles governing the intricacies of citation. Partly it is because there are more precedents for the adoption of a specific convention than there is for the law of citation itself. The …