"The Uniform System of Citation has inflicted more pain on more law students than any other publication in legal history." - Robert Berring.
He was so right. I like writing and I like editing, and I've done a fair amount of it in recent times, but this isn't editing - this is anal-retentive, deconstructive, elitist nonsense. I think of myself as a careful, somewhat rules-oriented and compulsive person, but in the bluebook I have met my match. I am not looking forward to source citing (where we go through someone's article and their 200+ footnotes to check every little detail about their citations, including how many spaces they put where and how they abbreviate certain words and when to put a comma or when to leave it out in certain forms of citations but not others).
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