A federal agency brief that a Washington judge threw out recently might be memorable for what the court called "excessive" footnotes—48 of them, stretching hundreds of lines. We asked a few veteran ...

If you use any materials created by someone else in your PowerPoint presentations, you should include a footnote to give credit to the source of the material. Of course, you can include anything you ...

Hoping to combat inattentive, lazy or uninterested students, the authors of Stats: Modeling the World titled their introductory chapter “Chapter 1: Stats Starts Here.” They explained their methodology ...

Tucked in a two-sentence footnote in a voluminous court opinion, a federal judge recently called out immigration agents using ...

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

Women’s stories have often been underrepresented, whether they have been demoted to just a brief acknowledgement, credited to someone else or forgotten altogether. This isn’t true for all women’s ...

Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote crisp judicial opinions. His successor, John Roberts, received writing instruction from him firsthand as a young law clerk. He once described Rehnquist’s ...

Today the Supreme Court decided Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, yet another Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) case. The justices split 8-1 on the judgment, concluding that the FAA "preempts a rule of ...

Last week, at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Jeffrey Toobin recently profiled in the magazine, made a disclosure that deserves more attention than ...

“Having to read a footnote,” the playwright Noël Coward once remarked, “resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.” So why then, in his otherwise ...