Introduction to Basic Legal Citation - access-to-law home

§ 2-820(3) Examples
– John M. Balkin, Nested Opposition, 99 Yale L.J. 1669 (1990) (reviewing John M.
Ellis, Against Deconstruction (1989)).
– Anthony E. Cook, The Temptation and Fall of Original Understanding, 1990 Duke
L.J. 1163 (book review).
– Book Note, Selling One's Birth Rights, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 1074 (1989) (reviewing
Martha A. Field, Surrogate Motherhood (1988)).
Special Case 3 – Book Reviews:
• If the review is by an author who is not student editor, the core citation is followed by
a parenthetical simply identifying the piece as a book review or indicating the work
reviewed.
• If the review by a student editor, it is cited like other student journal writing and given
the category "Book Note".
¡But see § 2-825(1)!
§ 2-820(4) Examples
– Charles Nesson, Agent Orange Meets the Blue Bus: Factfinding at the Frontiers of
Knowledge, 66 B.U. L. Rev. 521 (1986). [Part of a symposium]
– Project, Nineteenth Annual Review of Criminal Procedure: United States Supreme
Court and Court of Appeals 1988-1989, 78 Geo. L.J. 699 (1990).
– Symposium, Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence, 66 B.U. L. Rev. 377
(1986).
Special Case 4 – Symposia and the Like:
• Articles that are part of a symposium or survey are cited independently unless the
name of the symposium must be added to the title of the article for its scope to be
clear.
• If the symposium or survey is cited as a unit, include the appropriate category label
before the title of the unit unless the title already includes the term.
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