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Organizing legal citation into 40 thoroughly cogent and illustrated rules, the Guide is the ideal coursebook, supplement, or stand-alone reference for American legal citation. Students, law review staff, scholars, and practitioners can rely on the Guide 7E to provide precise citation rules for the full spectrum of legal sources, consistent with national standards. The clear explanations, examples, diagrams, and quick-reference tables in the Guide make teaching and researching legal citation efficient and stress-free for all.
New to the Seventh Edition:
Expanded and updated coverage of how to cite to the multitude of e-sources that practitioners and students use when conducting legal research in the real world today, including new and revised component diagrams and examples
New appendix helps law review staff writers cross-reference the Guide’s citation rules with traditional legal citation standards
Updated and revised Guide rules that are consistent with traditional legal citation standards
Appendix 5 free online access to expanded list of periodical titles that can be updated frequently
Appendix 2 free online access to coverage of local legal citation rules that can be updated frequently
Professors and student will benefit from:
Coverage of online media, such as e-books, listservs, forums, blogs, and social media
Tips and directions for finding local rules
Citing to case reporters, statutes, legislation, and regulations found on e-sources
“Academic Formatting” icons note differences in citation style between academic legal writing and professional legal writing
Fast Formats preview and refresh understanding of essential citation components
Screenshots from electronic sources and snapshots of actual pages
Sidebars explain the “why” of legal citations and how to avoid common errors
Sample citation diagrams that illustrate the essential components of citation construction
Cross-references within each rule connects content in other rules or in the Appendices
Over 140 subsections with information not found in a traditional legal citation manual
Detailed Appendices with abbreviations for use in citations and with information not found in other sources such as:
Peer reviewed local court citation conventions, websites, and other resources
Additional periodicals with full title abbreviations so writers do not have to memorize spacing rules to assemble abbreviations themselves
Comprehensive rules for citing federal taxation materials
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University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Carolyn V. Williams is an Associate Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where she teaches legal writing, research, and advocacy courses. In law school, she was Editor-in-Chief of the iArizona State Law Journali. As a professor, she became the faculty advisor for the iJournali and mentored subsequent EICs. She is now an Article Editor of the iJournal of Appellate Practice and Processi, a faculty-edited law review that has used iALWD Guidei citation format since 2000. Carolyn is also a sought-after consultant who frequently teaches continuing legal education courses for those in the larger legal community, including lawyers in the Air Force, court staff, and law review editors. Carolyn holds positions in each of the national legal writing organizations, including ALWD, the Legal Writing Institute, and the Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section of AALS.
Before joining academia, Carolyn spent eight years in big firm practice where she litigated a range of complex commercial and land use matters, including cases involving condemnation, data breach class actions, complex judgment collections, and shareholder disputes at the state and federal levels. Super Lawyers named her a Rising Star in 2016, an honor bestowed on no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in Arizona.