The operative part of the assignment “ … criteria for interesting legal scholarship” is not only confusing but a recipe for disaster in eliciting an intelligent response and marking peer reviews. Just consider the converse: “ … criteria for non-interesting legal scholarship”. I can now understand why there is substancein Richard A. Posner of Chicaga Law School’s comment that:

“One is not surprised that academic law today is driven by affirmative action, and has been weakened by it.”