David Ziff on Learning to Love the Bluebook

In this episode, David J.S. Ziff, Director of the Legal Writing Program and Senior Law Lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, discusses his article "Book Review of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation—The Worst System of Citation Except for All the Others," which was published in the Journal of Legal Education. Ziff provides a brief history of the Bluebook, the ubiquitous guide to legal citation that everyone loves to hate, and explains why efforts to replace it have all failed. Among other things, he observes that the complexity of the Bluebook may be its greatest strength, and reflects on how it can and should change in the future. Ziff is on Twitter at @djsziff. He provided the following citation to helpful sources!Richard A. Posner, The Bluebook Blues (reviewing Harvard Law Review Association, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed., 2010))Fred R. Shapiro & Julie Graves Krishnaswami, The Secret History of the BluebookThe Indigo BookDavid Ziff, Six Suggestions for Improving the BluebookAlexa Z. Chew, Citation Literacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.