Abstract
Today's outside view of law and legal scholarship has been made possible primarily by the anthropology of law and by the study of law in remote, unknown, dead or even exterminated cultures. Most legal scholars, however, know very little about the legal facts that have been gathered by this discipline, which would appear to be avoided or distorted within the standard study of law.
We would thus like to point out that taking an outsiders'view of law does not necessarily involve preventing the enterprise of law from achieving its goals of becoming more just, coherent and rational.