It’s been a while since we’ve checked the opinions of Court of Appeals Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr., he of the Cheech and Chong and existentialism references. I got to thinking about this after reading ...

From a federal district court opinion I was just reading, The Court strongly disfavors footnoted legal citations. Footnoted citations serve as an end-run around page limits and formatting requirements ...

THE DEVIL’S DETAILS: A History of Footnotes, By Chuck Zerby, Invisible Cities Press: This quirky little essay takes off with the words: “The need for an adequate book on footnotes is obvious. One of ...

The history of footnotes is as long and complicated as the history of scholarship and commentary. Hebrew scholars more than two thousand years ago used systems of glossing and annotation to work on ...

Before I record each episode of “Book-ish,” the script is fact-checked by The Daily Princetonian’s intrepid copy editors. While editing the last episode on Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live,” they marked ...