{"id":70,"date":"2013-12-04T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2021-12-11T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:14:03","slug":"origins-of-the-bluebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Origins of the Bluebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Bluebook,<\/em> currently produced as a (quite profitable) joint venture by the law journals of Columbia, Harvard, Penn, and Yale, has long been <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/law.resource.org\/pub\/us\/code\/blue\/harvard.response.20130718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought by Harvard people to have begun there in 1926<\/a>. Now comes Fred Shapiro of Yale with evidence that the first Harvard Bluebook was <a href=\"http:\/\/joshblackman.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/yale-law-school-librarian-bookslaps-harvard-law-review-over-complicated-bluebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cribbed without attribution from a 1921 <em>Yale Law Journal<\/em> pamphlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bluebook, currently produced as a (quite profitable) joint venture by the law journals of Columbia, Harvard, Penn, and Yale, has long been thought by Harvard people to have begun there in 1926. 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