Whether footnotes in legal writing (whether briefs or opinions) are necessary and/or appropriate is a longstanding controversy. Opinions are mixed, and it is difficult to discern a consensus. Some say ...

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 ...

April is "National Poetry Month," and here at Constitutional Law Professors Blog we are celebrating not with a poem a day, but with a footnote a day. Although there certainly are some poems about and ...