Comparative law history

Within legal history, comparative techniques and perspectives are increasingly regarded as a welcome antidote to purely national legal histories.
Many legal systems share common rules, institutions, legal concepts and ideas.
National legal history explains these features only by reference to national circumstances.

Both legal history and comparative law have good reasons to jointly explore the analytical potential of his concept of legal traditions and possible modifications of it in their academic practice.
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Comparative legal history is the study of law in two or more different places or at different times. As a discipline, it emerged between 1930 and 1960 in response to legal formalism, and builds on scattered uses of legal-historical comparison since antiquity. It uses ,the techniques of legal history and comparative law.