| 英文摘要 |
The driving forces behind knowledge production serve as both a key to understanding the current situation of the legal discipline and a catalyst for constructing an autonomous system of legal knowledge. Big data analysis reveals that legal knowledge production in China from 1999 to 2023 has been primarily driven by three forces: legal policies, law-society interactions, and motivations of individual scholars. The interaction between these external and internal forces has shaped two models of knowledge production. The first is the tender model. In this model, the legislative planning and policies resemble a centralized tender call; the research topics, agendas, and types of knowledge are directed by these legal policies, with scholars aligning their research to accommodate policy shifts. The second is the market- oriented model. Its research topics, agendas, and styles primarily stem from the collective choices of the professional community in responding to the needs of law-society interactions. This helps maintain a sustained and coherent driving force for knowledge production. The prosperity of legal science necessitates intellectual diversity. While the tender model can concentrate resources to address immediate concerns, it falls short of fostering a pluralistic and sustainable academic ecosystem. The components of a robust academic ecosystem can only be cultivated within the market-oriented model. |