ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

OSCOLA

OSCOLA stands for the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities. It's a fancy way of saying how you should give credit to other people's work in a legal essay or article.

When you write something, you might use information or ideas from other people. It's important to give credit to those people so everybody knows where the information came from. This is called citing your sources.

OSCOLA is a style of citing your sources. It tells you how to format your citations in a specific way so that people can easily find the sources you used.

For example, if you use a book called "Legal Writing for Dummies" by John Smith in your essay, you would write down the title of the book, the author's name, and the year it was published in a certain way that follows the OSCOLA style.

This might seem confusing, but it's important so that people can trust the information that you're sharing. By using OSCOLA, you're showing that you took the time to research your topic and provide accurate information.