E témakör leggyakrabban hivatkozott alapmódszerei kidolgozásuk sorrendjében — kiindulópont, ha most ismerkedik a területtel.
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Összehasonlító jogi elemzésLate 19th century; formalised 1900Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress) nyomán
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Jogi tartalomelemzés1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward nyomán
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Komparatív doktrinális jogi kutatás19th century origins; modern systematic form 1960s–1998Rooted in classical comparative law (Anselm von Feuerbach, early 19th c.); systematised by Zweigert & Kötz (1998) nyomán
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Hosszanti összehasonlító jogi elemzésLate 20th century (comparative law foundational texts 1960s–1998; longitudinal integration from 1990s onward)Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz (comparative law foundation); longitudinal dimension integrated in socio-legal and legal history scholarship nyomán
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Kritikai eseti jogelemzésLate 1970s–1980s (CLS conference 1977; Unger 1983)Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement; key figures include Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Unger, Mark Tushnet nyomán
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Kritikai doktrinális jogi kutatás1970s–1980s (Critical Legal Studies movement; applied to doctrinal method from 1980s onward)Synthesized from Traditional Doctrinal Legal Research and Critical Legal Studies (Roberto Unger, Duncan Kennedy, and others) nyomán
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Értékelésközpontú jogi tartalomelemzésLate 20th century; evaluation-focused applications emerged prominently from the 1990s onwardBuilds on Klaus Krippendorff's content analysis framework and legal scholarship traditions nyomán
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Esettanulmány-elemzésMedieval English common law; academic formalisation 19th–20th centuryCommon law tradition (England); systematised in Anglo-American jurisprudence nyomán