Comparative law as a dynamically developing complex discipline: historiographical context and perspectives

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Abstract

Comparative law is very multifaceted, has a huge not only theoretical, but also practical potential. In the context of globalization of legal reality, comparative jurisprudence acts as a tool for modern legal transformations. There is a huge potential in comparative legal research – from modernization of the legal map of the world, the integration of legal systems to the harmonization and unification of legislation.

Modern legal science is unthinkable without comparative legal research and rich potential of the comparative legal method. Comparative law begins with the comparative legal method used in various branches of law. Use of comparison as a research method by ancient and medieval philosophers and lawmakers was only a kind of starting point, a starting point. The emergence of comparative jurisprudence is due to the industrial revolution and industrialization in the course of modernization transformations of state-legal reality. The article defines stages of formation of comparative jurisprudence and their correlation with modernization processes, and proposes the author’s scheme.

The establishment of the International Academy of Comparative Law (MASP) in 1924 was a very promising and important stage in the institutionalization of comparative law. MASP, which celebrates its centenary this year, has become the first international scientific platform bringing together comparative scientists from various countries of the world. It was creation of this non-governmental scientific platform that made it possible to intensify comparative legal research and attract additional interest from the world community to them.

Comparative law is a megadiscipline due to its legal system mosaic, comprehensive multisectoral nature and interdisciplinary theoretical and practical complexity of the tasks being solved.

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Vladimir S. Gorban

Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: gorbanv@gmail.com

Doctor of Law, Head of the Philosophy of Law, History and Theory of State and Law Sector, Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Philosophical and Legal Studies

Russian Federation, 10 Znamenka str., 119019 Moscow

Alexey Yu. Salomatin

Penza State University

Email: valeriya_zinovev@mail.ru

Doctor of Law, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Head of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Political Science

Russian Federation, 40 Krasnaya str., 440026 Penza

Igor I. Butrim

Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: civilaw@igpran.ru

PhD in Law, Leading Researcher of the Procedural Law Sector

Russian Federation, 10 Znamenka str., 119019 Moscow

Natalia V. Makeeva

Penza State University

Email: makeeva-nv@yandex.ru

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Political Science

Russian Federation, 40 Krasnaya str., 440026 Penza

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