Publication Date
5-1-1997
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Legal writing, Footnotes
Abstract
The footnote is a familiar tool in legal scholarship. Some of the best law review articles, legal encyclopedias, and legal treatises devote half of each page to detailed, supporting footnotes. Footnotes make sense in this context. Readers of these sources have a dual objective: to glean a general framework for an argument and to find specific authorities to support each point. The Colorado Lawyer is such a research source. It lists authorities in endnotes so its readers may complete an article uninterrupted, but they also may find the more specific sources if they should need them.
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Recommended Citation
K.K. DuVivier, The Footnote=An Interruption, 26 Colo. Law. 47 (May 1997).