ABSTRACT
This piece offers some personal reflections on method and the communication of research undertaken in the area of law and humanities. It explores the idea of ‘foot notes’ in two ways. I pay attention to the form of legal writing to notice how the footnote functions as a representation of authority in legal scholarship. However, I also use the term as a way to think about a grounded method for undertaking legal research outside of texts – literally as ‘foot notes’. As part of this, I describe the process of making a short video as part of my PhD project. This was intended as a way of recording – for myself – an experience of walking through a street in Berlin. However, it proved also to be a tool in trying to communicate my work to an audience. In this way, I use the idea of a foot note – in both meanings – to explore the potentials and difficulties of trying to express the connection between form and content in scholarly work.
