เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบกฎหมาย	การวิจัยเอกสารจดหมายเหตุทางประวัติศาสตร์
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 19th century; formalised 1900	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (early conceptualisation); Raymond Saleilles and Édouard Lambert (modern discipline, 1900 Paris Congress)	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century
ประเภท	Qualitative legal research method	Qualitative primary-source research
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Zweigert, K., & Kötz, H. (1998). An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed., T. Weir, Trans.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198268598	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	comparative law, legal comparison, comparative jurisprudence, CLA	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research
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.	Historical archival research is a systematic method of investigating the past through the critical examination of primary source documents preserved in archives, libraries, and institutional collections. Researchers locate, access, authenticate, and interpret original records — such as government documents, correspondence, diaries, maps, and institutional files — to reconstruct events, trace processes, and build evidence-based historical arguments. It is foundational to historiography and widely applied across humanities and social science disciplines.