A law review article without footnotes? Unthinkable. But what about an article with only footnotes - and footnotes to footnotes? Thinkable. And here it is
In this short article written for the New England School of Law\u27s March Symposium on Justice Ruth...
This is the first sentence of a generic law review article. Just like the opinions, treatises, and o...
That said, Judge Posner’s response here is off the mark (he doesn’t distinguish citational from subs...
The footnote is a familiar tool in legal scholarship. Some of the best law review articles, legal en...
For decades, legal footnotes have been the deserving target of both ample criticism and self-mockery...
Ipropose that judges, in their opinions, put citations in footnotes and generally abstain from using...
I would have liked to have written an essay about the relationship of law to literature-to deconstru...
When Professor Fred Rodell announced his first Goodbye to Law Reviews in 1936, he established the ac...
Let\u27s face it-legal citations can interrupt the flow of sentences and make them harder to read. I...
The obvious objection to footnotes is that they force the reader to interrupt the reading of the tex...
It has become fashionable to deride the use of footnotes in judicial opinions and to call for their ...
Constant citation to legal authorities presents a unique problem for legal writers. Although these a...
In early July, when I opened the Sunday New York Times, I was surprised to see a front- page article...
These essays were part of a mini-symposium, “Of Correspondence and Commentary,” published by the Con...
The essence of footnoting is communication with the reader, but footnote communication that is liter...
In this short article written for the New England School of Law\u27s March Symposium on Justice Ruth...
This is the first sentence of a generic law review article. Just like the opinions, treatises, and o...
That said, Judge Posner’s response here is off the mark (he doesn’t distinguish citational from subs...
The footnote is a familiar tool in legal scholarship. Some of the best law review articles, legal en...
For decades, legal footnotes have been the deserving target of both ample criticism and self-mockery...
Ipropose that judges, in their opinions, put citations in footnotes and generally abstain from using...
I would have liked to have written an essay about the relationship of law to literature-to deconstru...
When Professor Fred Rodell announced his first Goodbye to Law Reviews in 1936, he established the ac...
Let\u27s face it-legal citations can interrupt the flow of sentences and make them harder to read. I...
The obvious objection to footnotes is that they force the reader to interrupt the reading of the tex...
It has become fashionable to deride the use of footnotes in judicial opinions and to call for their ...
Constant citation to legal authorities presents a unique problem for legal writers. Although these a...
In early July, when I opened the Sunday New York Times, I was surprised to see a front- page article...
These essays were part of a mini-symposium, “Of Correspondence and Commentary,” published by the Con...
The essence of footnoting is communication with the reader, but footnote communication that is liter...
In this short article written for the New England School of Law\u27s March Symposium on Justice Ruth...
This is the first sentence of a generic law review article. Just like the opinions, treatises, and o...
That said, Judge Posner’s response here is off the mark (he doesn’t distinguish citational from subs...