This seems like a great time to point out that law is not a discipline, so its practitioners (and teachers) aren’t disciplined. Rather, they are trained advocates. To them, the goal is not truth but to win an argument, and clever law profs enjoy trying to win silly arguments.
In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.
