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Longitudinal Comparative Legal Analysis

Longitudinal comparative legal analysis examines how legal rules, doctrines, or institutions develop and diverge across two or more legal systems over an extended period. By combining the spatial dimension of comparative law with the temporal dimension of longitudinal research, it captures not just differences between jurisdictions at a single point but the trajectories of legal change — convergence, divergence, transplantation, and resistance — over years or decades.

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Sources

  1. Zweigert, K., & Kotz, H. (1998). An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198268598
  2. Siems, M. M. (2014). Comparative Law. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1107026049

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