Hierarchy of Legal Scholarship

J.B. Ruhl has listed his hierarchy of legal scholarship, ranking types of articles from 0 to 10.  His ranking is below.  (Our readers will want to note #9 and #10.) 

0 – Blog posts
1 – Publication of what are essentially blog posts with footnotes
2 – Doctrinal review of the state of the law
3 – Doctrinal study of interesting questions of law
4 – Doctrinal synthesis of developments in law
5 – Normative policy analysis of law
6 – Normative policy analysis of law with substantial reform proposals
7 – Legal theory
8 – “Law and” interdisciplinary studies
9 – Empirical study of legal institutions
10 – Empirical study of law’s impact on society

Hat tip: Solove at Concurring Opinions

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