11/12/06

You 1L's Just Think Bluebooking Sucks

Just wait till you get to figure out international law citations. I am about ready to pull my hair out. I don't know how the hell to cite to an international treaty or a CPA order. I found it all on the internet. I can tell you where to find it on the dang internet, but if you want me to give you a cite to a treaty service you are SOL.

I finished the final substantive changes to my memo due Tuesday, and I thought I would let it sit a bit before I went back to proof. Bluebooking seemed mindless enough. Ha! I have been stopped dead in my tracks.

I will never take another international law class as long as I live (not saying much since I only have one semester left). The research is brutal, and once you found the stuff, citing back to it is even worse.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is there a way to use the "available at" signal from Rule 18 in conjunction with the name/other identifying information of the treaty? I like that signal and use it a lot because I find a lot of stuff online.

legally certifiable said...

Yeah, that's what I did when I just couldn't find the treaty in the treaty service, but the Prof's really wanted a cite to the service.