Universal Citation for State Codes

As readers of this blog, you probably already know that we at Justia are big fans of universal citation. With that said, I wanted to give you all a heads up that Courtney, in continuing to fight that good fight, has written a great piece on the topic which is now up  on Cornell’s VoxPopuLII blog. In it, she generally discusses media neutral citation and more specifically provides details of the work we’ve been doing here in applying universal citation to Justia’s corpus of state codes.  Head on over and check it out!

Additional Links & Resources

UniversalCitation.org – current movement to provide the organizational infrastructure needed to facilitate the adoption and use of a uniform set of media and vendor neutral citations that can be used for all American court decisions.  This site also has links to lots of great resources on the history and work that’s been done in the field so far.

From the Onward Blog:

• Down the Rabbit Hole: Establishing Uniform Authentication and Preservation Standards for U.S. Legal Materials
• Illinois Adopts Public Domain Citations
• Open Citation = Open Access
• The Dangers of Bluebook Infatuation
• Public Domain Legal Citations