เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบกฎหมาย	การวิจัยกฎหมายตามหลักคำสอน
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 19th century; formalised 1900	19th century (systematised ~1860s–1880s in common law jurisdictions)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress)	Common law tradition; systematised by jurists such as A.V. Dicey and John Austin
ประเภท	Qualitative legal research method	Legal-analytical research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Zweigert, K., & Kötz, H. (1998). An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed., T. Weir, Trans.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198268598	Hutchinson, T. (2013). Researching and Writing in Law (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455229829
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	comparative law, legal comparison, comparative jurisprudence, CLA	black-letter law research, legal doctrine analysis, analytical jurisprudence, traditional legal scholarship
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	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.	Doctrinal legal research is the foundational methodology of legal scholarship. It systematically identifies, reads, and analyses authoritative legal sources — statutes, case law, constitutional texts, and regulations — to describe, explain, and critique the content and internal logic of legal doctrine. By working within the accepted hierarchy of legal sources, it answers the question 'What is the law?' with analytical rigour and interpretive precision, producing descriptions of settled doctrine and arguments for how ambiguities should be resolved.