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A guide for lawyers for constructing legal citations, covering the format of citations from a variety of legal sources, including court cases, statutes, books, periodicals, electronic media, and international documents. It is an essential tool for anyone engaged in writing legal documents.

Prince’s Dictionary of Legal Citations assists the legal profession in citing legal authorities according to the rules given in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 21st ed. (2020). This title is a Bluebook companion (not a replacement) and applies Bluebook rules to a representative collection of common legal authorities. The citations included are based on Bluebook rules, and the abbreviations are those found in the Bluebook or derived from its guidelines. Prince’s includes both references to state court rules for citing cases and statutes, and examples of how to cite cases according to those rules, as citation rules contained in local rules, state supreme court rules, rules of trial or appellate procedure, and statutes supersede Bluebook rules. Besides updating both Bluebook and state court rule references, this edition has been updated to reflect 21st Edition Bluebook revisions, including T6 abbreviations for cases, institutional authors, and periodicals, and T2 Foreign Jurisdictions references which have been moved to Bluebook’s free-access online website. In addition, this edition of Prince’s includes the Bluebook’s new rule for illustrations and photographs, publication dates for many law journals, more recent journal article examples, and updated references to local citation rules.

A comprehensive list of abbreviations (for nearly 36,000 terms) used in legal encyclopedias, law dictionaries, law reporters, loose-leaf services, law reviews, legal treatises, legal reference books and citators. In addition to providing the meaning of abbreviations and acronyms, the reverse dictionary also enables the user to locate the abbreviations for titles, terms and names used in legal literature.

The most comprehensive source for discovering the meaning
of legal abbreviations worldwide, enabling researchers of foreign laws and legal literature to ascertain the
meaning of various abbreviations and acronyms.
Because most countries have no uniform system or standards for abbreviating legal terms, abbreviation
development has been dependent upon the structure of the country’s language and legal system. In European
legal systems, this may reflect the customary usage for several centuries. The result is frequently a mix of
highly idiosyncratic jumbles of letters with little obvious meaning. Since the same abbreviation may also
have more than one use, researchers may easily be led astray. As the world shrinks and the practice of
law becomes even more “globalized,” it is important to be able to quickly locate the meaning of the many
abbreviations researchers encounter. Published in loose-leaf format for ease in updating and supplementation,
this unique reference work is invaluable to the foreign or international law scholar

Created by the Journal of International Law and Politics at New York University, the Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations is the most comprehensive source for international citations rules. Including 45 country citation systems, as well as citation rules for international organizations, tribunals, and treaties, the updated Second Edition offers updated and expanded coverage. The only reference that focuses entirely on international citation, Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citation, Second Edition, features: manageable length, convenient Wire-O binding, and easy-to-use page format logical three-part organization: Country Citation Guides Citation Guides for International Organizations Citation Guides for International and Regional Tribunals a Country Profile for each listing followed by its Citation Guide examples that reflect acceptable variability of citation in practice