Comparer des méthodes

	Recherche juridique doctrinale comparative	Critique textuelle
Domaine	Méthodes de terrain	Méthodes de terrain
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	19th century origins; modern systematic form 1960s–1998	Antiquity; modern systematic method c. 1850s (Lachmann)
Auteur d'origine	Rooted in classical comparative law (Anselm von Feuerbach, early 19th c.); systematised by Zweigert & Kötz (1998)	Classical philologists (Karl Lachmann foremost in systematic method)
Type	Qualitative legal research design	Humanistic / philological research method
Source fondatrice	Zweigert, K., & Kötz, H. (1998). An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed., T. Weir, Trans.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198268598	West, M. L. (1973). Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts. Teubner. ISBN: 978-3519074014
Alias	comparative-doctrinal method, cross-jurisdictional doctrinal analysis, comparative black-letter law research, CDLR	lower criticism, editorial criticism, philological criticism, manuscript criticism
Apparentées	6	5
Résumé	Comparative doctrinal legal research systematically identifies, expounds, and compares the legal rules, principles, and doctrines governing the same problem across two or more jurisdictions. It combines the internal rigour of doctrinal analysis — mapping the authoritative sources of a single legal system — with the external perspective of comparative law, asking whether different legal systems solve the same social problem in similar or divergent ways and why.	Textual criticism is a systematic philological method for identifying, comparing, and evaluating variant readings across multiple manuscript or print witnesses of a text in order to reconstruct the most accurate version of the original — or the author's intended — text. Applied since antiquity to classical, biblical, and literary works, it remains the foundational editorial method in classical studies, biblical scholarship, medieval studies, and critical editing of literary works.