Bill Ford has posted a wonderful series on "great moments in the history of ignorance and division" on Empirical Legal Studies. Here are the links:
Great Moments in the History of Ignorance and Division I
Great Moments in the History of Ignorance and Division II
And here is a taste from the last post in the series:
Glendon Schubert, whom Jeffrey Segal describes as the “founder of the attitudinal model,” provides many gems in [The Future of Public Law, 34
Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 593, 614 (1965-1966)] . . . Here [is the first of] three: To be perfectly blunt, legal research remains today at the primitive level of development, as a science, that generally characterized political science one or two generations ago. By and large, legal method is no more in phase with modern science than it was in the days of Austin, or (better) Aquinas, or (best) Aristotle, all of the talk about “legal science” and computerized methods of retrieving legal data to the contrary notwithstanding.