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Interesting post. It's been a while since I was in law school (and it wasn't in the US) but I don't remember spending anything close to 10 hours a week doing ci
by NoboruWataya 2y ago
Interesting post. It's been a while since I was in law school (and it wasn't in the US) but I don't remember spending anything close to 10 hours a week doing citations. I don't remember it being a significant portion of my workload at all. I was on the editorial board of a journal where I was reviewing a lot of citations, but it was on the authors to actually do them, and if I found they weren't doing them correctly it was a simple matter of "please ensure your citations conform to our house style" (it wasn't Bluebook). I wouldn't have paid to use this software either, though it might have been a worthwhile investment for the journal itself to make (or the law school, as others have mentioned).
- rfw300 2y agoI’d note that most U.S. law journals work very differently from what you describe. Strict Bluebook compliance is their raison d'être, much more than legal scholarship. I am not exaggerating that. (And authors are not generally expected to get it right themselves, fleets of law student editors do the checking and correcting.)