เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิจัยเอกสารประวัติศาสตร์เชิงเปรียบเทียบ	การวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบกฎหมาย
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 19th century (archival foundations); mid-20th century (comparative systematic application)	Late 19th century; formalised 1900
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Leopold von Ranke (archival history); Theda Skocpol, Barrington Moore (comparative-historical synthesis)	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress)
ประเภท	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative legal research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Skocpol, T. (1979). States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521294997	Zweigert, K., & Kötz, H. (1998). An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed., T. Weir, Trans.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198268598
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	comparative-historical analysis, cross-national archival research, comparative archival history, CHAR	comparative law, legal comparison, comparative jurisprudence, CLA
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	Comparative historical archival research combines systematic examination of primary archival sources across two or more historical cases — nations, regions, institutions, or time periods — to identify causal patterns, structural similarities, and divergences that single-case histories cannot reveal. It is the method of choice when researchers want to explain why similar or different outcomes emerged across distinct historical contexts using documentary evidence.	Comparative legal analysis is a structured research method that examines how two or more legal systems — whether national, regional, or supranational — address a common legal problem. By placing rules, doctrines, and judicial decisions side by side, researchers identify convergences, divergences, and the underlying societal, historical, and political forces that shape legal solutions. The method is foundational to law reform, harmonisation efforts, treaty drafting, and academic legal scholarship.