What constitutes good legal scholarship?

Harvard Law School's professor Daryl Levinson give advice to aspiring law professors among his students. Some of my favourite quotes are:

• ... what exactly law professors do: "Scholarship and teaching, in that order."
• Q: What constitutes good legal scholarship?
  A: Legal scholarship is very heterogeneous. There is less doctrinal scholarship these days, although there is still a fair amount of it. Increasingly there are policy papers and interdisciplinary papers. The tools that students are formally taught in law school tend to be inadequate, since students basically just learn case analysis. You likely need to do more than that, but you can only get a sense of what "that" is by reading scholarship. Most would say your best bet is to be interdisciplinary.
• ... practical legal experience is not a good predictor of scholarly ability,
  and, ... "is pretty nearly disqualifying."
• Approximately twenty-five percent of entry-level professors hired last year had Ph.D.'s ... [Blogger's note: There's no Ph.D. programme in law in the US, which means that all these Ph.D.'s are likely to be in fields other than law.]
  

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