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41 Pace L. Rev. 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/pace41 and id is 1 raw text is: HIERARCHIES OF ELITISM AND GENDER: THE BLUEBOOK AND THE ALWD GUIDE Steven K. Homer*l TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................3 II. LEGAL CITATION ACCULTURATES LAW STUDENTS INTO THE VALUES AND HABITS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION.......7 A. SUBSTANTIVE AND FORMAL CITATION.......................8 B. CITATION IS A FORM OF SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR LAW STUDENTS ............................................................9 III. THE BLUEBOOK AND THE HISTORY OF ELITISM IN LEGAL EDUCATION ...........................................................16 A. A BRIEF HISTORY OF HIERARCHIES OF ELITISM IN LEGAL EDUCATION.....................................................16 B. THE BLUEBOOK WAS NOT CREATED BY PROFESSIONALS WHO TEACH LEGAL WRITING ..........18 C. THE WORLD IN WHICH THE BLUEBOOK ORIGINATED IS A CULTURE OF ELITISM THAT SUBORDINATES PRACTITIONERS ................................20 IV. THE ALWD GUIDE IS THE PRODUCT OF THE EXPERTISE OF A FEMALE-GENDERED FIELD, AN EXPERTISE THAT THE LEGAL ACADEMY DEVALUES .........26 A. THE ALWD GUIDE IS THE PRODUCT OF THE EXPERTISE OF A FEMALE-GENDERED FIELD ..............27 B. LEGAL WRITING IS A FEMALE-GENDERED FIELD.......32 C. THE REJECTION OF THE ALWD GUIDE IS CONSISTENT WITH AND PERPETUATES THE LEGAL ACADEMY'S REJECTION OF WOMEN'S EXPERTISE GENERALLY ................................................................41 * Steven K. Homer, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Legal Analysis & Communication Program, University of New Mexico School of Law. B.A., University of Chicago; J.D., Harvard Law School. My thanks to my community at the University of New Mexico School of Law, especially Lauren ChAvez, Elizabeth Elia, Paul Figueroa, Sonia Gipson Rankin, Marc-Tizoc GonzAles, Vinay Harpalani, Joshua Kastenberg, Ernesto Longa, Nathalie Martin, Alfred Mathewson, Gabriel Pacyniak, Joseph Schremmer, Sarah Steadman, and Heather Tanner. Thanks also to the editors of the Pace Law Review. My deep gratitude to Jan M. Levine and Coleen M. Barger and to UNM's legal writing faculty: Scott England, Lucrecia Jaramillo, Lysette Romero C6rdova, and David Stout. 1. Editors' Note: Pace Law Review uses The Bluebook as its citation guide to edit all articles. 1