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(Re)learning Legal Citation

There are many systems of legal citation, beyond The Bluebook and ALWD .   While the systems are fairly similar, transitioning from one to   another may be challenging.   Maybe you learned how to cite with ALWD during your 1L year and then became a research assistant for a professor who needs citations conforming to The Bluebook .   Maybe you learned how to use The Bluebook , but at your summer firm, you need to use Ohio’s citation method, as described in the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Writing Manual:   a Guide to Citations, Style, and Judicial Opinion Writing .   Here are a few tools to help you navigate this transition: Peter W. Martin, Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (online ed. 2015).   This ebook includes examples from ALWD , The Bluebook , and some state court citation styles.   It concludes with cross reference tables addressing ALWD and The Bluebook as well as a state citation chart.  The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) offers correlation tables

CBA Summer Associate Legal Research Seminar on June 3

If you are a law student working in Columbus this summer, be sure to ask your employer about attending the Summer Associate Legal Research Seminar , presented by the Legal Research and Information Resources Committee of the Columbus Bar Association. The seminar will be on Friday June 3, from 8:30am to 2:30pm at the Columbus Bar Association . Presenters will include Moritz law librarians Paul Gatz and Ingrid Mattson and Assistant Dean Sara Sampson. The seminar is free, but you must register by May 26.

Moritz Librarians Win National Award for Paper

Two of Moritz Law Library's reference librarians, Susan Azyndar and Ingrid Mattson, won an American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)/LexisNexis Call for Papers award for their short paper, Show and Tell in the Legal Research Classroom: Screencasting as an Effective Presentation Format . In their paper, they discuss the use of the screencasting software, Jing , as a way to assess student learning in two advanced legal research courses. Azyndar and Mattson recently shared their work at a Moritz Teaching Innovation Group brown bag, and will present their paper at the July AALL annual meeting in Chicago.