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Analiza prawnoporównawczaLate 19th century; formalised 1900autorstwa Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress)
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Analiza treści prawnych1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)autorstwa Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward
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Porównawcze badania prawnicze doktrynalne19th century origins; modern systematic form 1960s–1998autorstwa Rooted in classical comparative law (Anselm von Feuerbach, early 19th c.); systematised by Zweigert & Kötz (1998)
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Długoterminowa analiza porównawcza prawaLate 20th century (comparative law foundational texts 1960s–1998; longitudinal integration from 1990s onward)autorstwa Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz (comparative law foundation); longitudinal dimension integrated in socio-legal and legal history scholarship
Krytyczne badania doktrynalne prawa1970s–1980s (Critical Legal Studies movement; applied to doctrinal method from 1980s onward)autorstwa Synthesized from Traditional Doctrinal Legal Research and Critical Legal Studies (Roberto Unger, Duncan Kennedy, and others)
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Analiza treści prawnych zorientowana na ewaluacjęLate 20th century; evaluation-focused applications emerged prominently from the 1990s onwardautorstwa Builds on Klaus Krippendorff's content analysis framework and legal scholarship traditions
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Analiza orzecznictwaMedieval English common law; academic formalisation 19th–20th centuryautorstwa Common law tradition (England); systematised in Anglo-American jurisprudence