The Blue Book and blue booking is a gift that keeps on giving law professors. M. Burke Craighead (Law Clerk, Hon. Chad Readler, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), The Bluebook: An Insider’s Perspective, 124 Mich. L. Rev. 1145 (2026) offers perspectives on the latest edition of the Blue Book:

“This Review provides an insider’s look at The Bluebook—the complaints, the revision process, and the politics. It is not a defense of The Bluebook. It is, however, a suggestion that many of the criticisms of The Bluebook are misplaced. From my perch within The Bluebook, I came to realize The Bluebook reflects what is wrong with our culture of legal education. In other words, The Bluebook does not work as well as it should because legal education does not work as well as it should.”