[blindlaw] The Blue Book

[Kathleen Hagen]

I think the Cornell site does comport to the current blue book.  When I went 
to law school in the dark ages, the Blue Book was done by Harvard alone. 
Now, several top schools are involved in putting it together, and i think 
Cornell is one.
I made no effort to apply for law review because when I was in law school, 
(1984 to 1988) I didn't even have access to computer software.  I used a 
typewriter all the way through school.  The braille-n-speak came on the 
market for the first time the last month I was in school.  So, things have 
definitely changed for the better since then.
Kathy Hagen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nightingale, Noel" <Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] The Blue Book


>
> Jim:
>
> I did not serve on law review so my input may not suit your needs.
> Nonetheless, here it is.
> After I stopped being able to see the Blue Book citations, I just
> memorized the ones that I used most frequently  and used a reader when I
> had an obscure reference to cite.
>
> More recently, I have used an on-line resource provided by Cornell law
> at:
>
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
>
> I do not know whether the Cornell Law citations comport exactly with the
> Blue Book, but it at least gives a good start.
>
> Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of McCarthy, Jim
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:08 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: [blindlaw] The Blue Book
>
> I received some recent inquiry about the Blue Book in other words, the
> citations bible for many law students and an essential companion of
> anyone who participates in law review or other law journals during the
> period of law school.  When I was in law school, admittedly fifteen
> years ago, the Blue Book was available on tape from Recordings for the
> Blind and Dyslexic.  I always thought that this was not the most
> desirable medium to convey its information though the RFB&D readers did
> a conscientious job of illustrating the citations examples.  My
> understanding is that today RFB&D still makes the Blue Book available.
> It is now in DAISY format but they still only utilize the audio function
> and not digital text.  This means that although technology has improved
> a lot, younger students are still listening to explanations of citation
> examples rather than having the ability to look at them in Braille or
> using a screen reader for review.  This though I think the latter two
> options would make them easier to understand.  Apparently, Bookshare has
> a scanned version of the bluebook but they admit it is full of errors,
> so I am told.
>
> This all has me wondering a couple of things.  I want to hear from list
> members who were on Law Review or other law journals.  I would like to
> know how you managed the cite checking required of you in these
> activities.  This would include swapping tasks for a task easier to
> perform, using a reader for the Bluebook citation reviews or whatever
> other methods you devised.  I also wonder if anyone avoided these
> activities because of their access difficulty, perceived or actual?  You
> can respond to me off list if you would feel more comfortable.  My
> intention is not to challenge anyone's competence as a blind person or
> the like.  Instead, I think those of us who are lawyers, and those of us
> on our way to being lawyers should work toward making this essential
> publication usable in today's electronic digital environment and I think
> that having stories will help me play a part in that process.  Your
> stories are most appreciated.  My email address is
> jmccarthynfb at earthlink.net.  Thanks Jim McCarthy
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