Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Query of the Day

Are there any words more chilling to a law review staffer than "find me where it says this in the Clean Water Act"?

On second thought, don't answer that.
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2 comments:

PG said...

Yes. Where they ask you to find something in a document that isn't online and text-searchable.

Perhaps the new generation of law review folks has figured this stuff out, but I struck my editors as a bloody genius because I knew how to do things like search Amazon for terms to verify that a quote really did appear in a book that we didn't happen to have in our library. I figure this appearance of my being technologically advanced will be good for about another two years. It's holding up at work thus far, but only because they're mostly older people.

6:59 PM
David Schraub said...

Well, it isn't that simple -- if it were just "find me this quote", then a text-search is easy. If it is "find me something in the CWA that exhibits the author's views on feasibility analysis," that's less useful.

7:06 PM

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