Най-цитираните основополагащи методи по тази тема, подредени според реда на тяхното развитие — място, от което да започнете, ако сте нов тук.
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Сравнителен правен анализLate 19th century; formalised 1900от Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress)
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Анализ на правно съдържание1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)от Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward
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Сравнително доктринално правно изследване19th century origins; modern systematic form 1960s–1998от Rooted in classical comparative law (Anselm von Feuerbach, early 19th c.); systematised by Zweigert & Kötz (1998)
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Дългосрочен сравнителноправен анализLate 20th century (comparative law foundational texts 1960s–1998; longitudinal integration from 1990s onward)от Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz (comparative law foundation); longitudinal dimension integrated in socio-legal and legal history scholarship
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Критичен анализ на съдебната практикаLate 1970s–1980s (CLS conference 1977; Unger 1983)от Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement; key figures include Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Unger, Mark Tushnet
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Критично доктринално правно изследване1970s–1980s (Critical Legal Studies movement; applied to doctrinal method from 1980s onward)от Synthesized from Traditional Doctrinal Legal Research and Critical Legal Studies (Roberto Unger, Duncan Kennedy, and others)
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Анализ на правно съдържание, ориентиран към оценкаLate 20th century; evaluation-focused applications emerged prominently from the 1990s onwardот Builds on Klaus Krippendorff's content analysis framework and legal scholarship traditions
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Анализ на съдебна практикаMedieval English common law; academic formalisation 19th–20th centuryот Common law tradition (England); systematised in Anglo-American jurisprudence