Abstract This article concerns the question of how legal academics imagine ‘outsiders’ perceive legal academia. Centralising our empirical work undertaken at a UK research intensive University which explored the attitudes, beliefs and knowledges of non-legal academics about the field of legal academia, we focus on the findings flowing from benchmarking surveys with legal academics which invited self-evaluations of the field of legal academia as well as imagining how non-legal academics (’outsiders’) might evaluate the field of legal academia. Of particular interest, we note the presence of a curious divergence between self-perceptions of legal academia and their ‘imaginaries’ as to how ’outsiders’ will perceive the field. Supported by a review of the legal scholarly literature, our study reveals a persistently bleak ‘folklore’ surrounding the question of how ‘outsiders’ will regard legal academia – though critically, one which on the basis of our empirical work, finds little root in reality. Providing the first study of its kind, and offering a range of novel analytical techniques, we highlight the significant purchase of empirical meta-disciplinary work of this nature for better understanding legal academia and its relationship with other fields. While undertaken as a scoping study, we identify potential opportunities for raising the profile of legal academia in wider spheres, as well as enhancing opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration. As we argue by reference to our findings, part of that work may simply involve legal academics projecting their more positive self-perceptions of their field and the value of their work to the outside world.

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法律学术界的恐惧与厌恶：法律学者对其领域的看法以及对“局外人”看法的好奇想象

摘要本文涉及法律学者如何想象“外部人士”如何看待法律学术界的问题。集中我们在英国研究型大学进行的实证研究工作，该研究探索了非法学学者对法律学术领域的态度，信念和知识，我们着重于对法学学者进行基准调查的结果，这些调查邀请了法学学者进行自我评估。法律学术领域以及如何想象非法律学者（“局外人”）如何评估法律学术领域。特别令人感兴趣的是，我们注意到法律学术界的自我认知与他们的“想象力”之间关于“局外人”如何看待这一领域的好奇分歧。在对法律学术文献的评论的支持下，我们的研究揭示了围绕“外部人”如何看待法律学术界问题的持续惨淡的“民俗学”-尽管严格地说，基于我们的实证研究，这一点在现实中几乎没有根源。提供此类研究，并提供一系列新颖的分析技术，我们重点介绍了这种性质的经验性元学科研究的重要成果，以更好地理解法律学术界及其与其他领域的关系。在进行范围界定研究的同时，我们确定了潜在的机会，可以在更广泛的领域内提高法律学术界的知名度，并增加跨学科合作的机会。当我们参考我们的发现进行辩论时，