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Maroonbook

{{Short description|System of legal citation}}

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The Maroonbook is a system of legal citation that intends to be simpler and more straightforward than the more widely used Bluebook.{{cite journal|last=Posner |first=Richard A. |author-link=Richard Posner |date=1986 |title=Goodbye to the Bluebook |url=http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=journal_articles&article=2797#page=2 |journal=University of Chicago Law Review |volume=53 |pages=1343–1368 |doi=10.2307/1599750 |jstor=1599750 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502011213/http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=journal_articles&article=2797 |archive-date=2015-05-02 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription }} It was developed at the University of Chicago and is the citation system for the University of Chicago Law Review. As a simplified and modernized citation method, it tends to be closer to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities in its conventions.

Conventions

The Maroonbook gives the following examples:{{cite book|title=The Maroonbook: The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation |url=http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/v85%20Maroonbook.pdf |chapter-url=http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/v85%20Maroonbook.pdf#page=9 |chapter=Rule 1: Typefaces |date=2018 |page=1 |editor=The University of Chicago Law Review |editor2-first=Brenton H. |editor2-last=Cooper |editor3-first=Patrick J. |editor3-last=Fuster |editor4-first=John P. |editor4-last=McAdams }}

; (1) Case names

  • See Ferdinand v. Isabella, 14 US 92, 96–98 (1492).

; (2) Titles of periodical articles and articles in edited books

  • Eppard Richstein, Elements of Liberty, 21 U Chi L Rev 45, 60 (1954).

; (3) Book and treatise titles

  • Friedrich W. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extramoral Sense 365 (Oxford 1957) (Edith P. Honeywell, trans).

See also

References

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External links

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Category:Legal citation guides

Category:University of Chicago Press books

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