Posner Calls Bluebook 'Rubbish' In Legal Profession Critique

By Dani Meyer ( March 29, 2016, 6:34 PM EDT) -- All copies of the Bluebook should be burned, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner recommended in a recent article critiquing the legal system, calling it "560 pages of rubbish" and a "terrible time waster" since readers only pay attention to whether they can find the cited material and not to the format of citations....

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