Els mètodes fonamentals més referenciats d'aquest tema, en l'ordre en què es van desenvolupar — un punt de partida si tot just hi arribeu.
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Anàlisi comparativa de dretLate 19th century; formalised 1900per Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress)
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Anàlisi de contingut legal1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)per Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward
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Investigació jurídica doctrinal comparada19th century origins; modern systematic form 1960s–1998per Rooted in classical comparative law (Anselm von Feuerbach, early 19th c.); systematised by Zweigert & Kötz (1998)
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Anàlisi Jurídica Comparativa LongitudinalLate 20th century (comparative law foundational texts 1960s–1998; longitudinal integration from 1990s onward)per Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz (comparative law foundation); longitudinal dimension integrated in socio-legal and legal history scholarship
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Anàlisi crítica de jurisprudènciaLate 1970s–1980s (CLS conference 1977; Unger 1983)per Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement; key figures include Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Unger, Mark Tushnet
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Investigació doctrinal legal crítica1970s–1980s (Critical Legal Studies movement; applied to doctrinal method from 1980s onward)per Synthesized from Traditional Doctrinal Legal Research and Critical Legal Studies (Roberto Unger, Duncan Kennedy, and others)
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Anàlisi de Contingut Legal Centrada en l'AvaluacióLate 20th century; evaluation-focused applications emerged prominently from the 1990s onwardper Builds on Klaus Krippendorff's content analysis framework and legal scholarship traditions
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Anàlisi de jurisprudènciaMedieval English common law; academic formalisation 19th–20th centuryper Common law tradition (England); systematised in Anglo-American jurisprudence