Comparative law aims

The overall picture is of comparative law as an enterprise which is beset by practical limits to achieving understanding.
However, this is seen by comparative lawyers less as a hindrance than as a challenge, indeed a fascinating aspect of their field.

This chapter determines the aims and uses of comparative law.
Comparative law improves communication.
This communicative importance of comparative law can directly affect the professional lives of lawyers and can be an essential aid in providing clients with sound advice.

Comparative Politics Comparative political science (comparative politics) and comparative law are two fields which regularly ignore one another.
In comparative politics textbooks, there are almost no comments on comparative law, and vice versa.
There are only a few articles 86 dealing with the relationship between the fields.

This chapter determines the aims and uses of comparative law

Comparative law improves communication

This communicative importance of comparative law can directly affect the professional lives of lawyers and can be an essential aid in providing clients with sound advice

I Comparative legal science is a relatively young branch of the sciences

One knows that it is the International congress of comparative law in 1900 which is generally regarded as the occasion on which it first came into being

1 From the point of view of a science's evolution, three quarters of a century only constitute one step