Delgado on Groundhog Day @UALawSchool

Richard Delgado, University of Alabama School of Law, has published Groundhog Law at 21 J. L. Society 1 (2021). Here is the abstract.

Is law an academic discipline like chemistry, history, or English that belongs on a university campus? Rodrigo and the professor discuss an innocent question by a conference attender who wanted to know why legal knowledge never seems to advance. Rodrigo and the professor are struck by how legal scholarship fails to pass law-review muster unless each statement comes accompanied by a footnote reference to a past writer who said exactly the same thing. They ponder the ways this mindset resembles Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the movie Groundhog Day.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.