Sally, It has something to do with one-upmansship.  Keep science and
social science in its place.  Bevo

ps  Brace yourself for the rebuttals (send them to Sally).

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>OK -- I know I'm going to start a fight. But can anyone please advise
>when law writers elected to write academic articles without
>bibliographies and why?  Please note, I am not commenting on the
>absolutely ridiculous number of footnotes (tho' my frustration re
>bibliographies or lack thereof has something to do with reading 300 plus
>endnotes in a crappy article to try to determine whether certain
>articles were cited.)
>
>Sally