Managed properly, footnotes offer a useful tool, particularly in academic articles, yet among many in the judiciary, they are viewed as a distraction. An unending debate among legal writers centers on ...

Last week, Broc Romanek posed the question "whether it’s okay to use footnotes when you write". My question for today is whether it is legal to use footnotes. It turns out that this is a question that ...

The proliferation of discursive footnotes in law review articles for as long as we can remember has been joined by a similar proliferation in briefs and judicial opinions over the past generation. The ...

A journalist suing San Diego’s city attorney said in a recent sworn statement that a highly placed and knowledgeable source in City Hall confirmed the veracity of a disputed footnote in a report ...

In Great Britain a student doesn’t major in history, he/she reads history. “Read” is the operative word since a student of history in Britain and the U.S. does read a great deal: commonly hundreds of ...

Firefox/Chrome: Wikipedia's footnote system isn't the best; constantly clicking up and down the page is a pain, and it's easy to lose your place. With this simple userscript (or bookmarklet), you can ...