Law students: Bluebook formatting is lighting up Turnitin like a Christmas tree
Every legal memo requires standardized citations: See, e.g., Smith v. Jones, 520 U.S. 321, 325 (1997).
Because Bluebook rules force every law student in the country to write citations with identical typography, spacing, and abbreviations, Turnitin flags legal bibliographies and citation blocks as uniform synthetic strings. Our legal writing professor literally had to issue a blanket waiver for the whole class.
u/ysytree — 8 days ago