เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิเคราะห์กฎหมายเชิงเปรียบเทียบตามแนวแกนเวลา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงตีความ
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 20th century (comparative law foundational texts 1960s–1998; longitudinal integration from 1990s onward)	19th–20th century (Schleiermacher ~1819; Dilthey ~1883; Gadamer 1960; Ricoeur 1969)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz (comparative law foundation); longitudinal dimension integrated in socio-legal and legal history scholarship	Friedrich Schleiermacher; Wilhelm Dilthey; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Paul Ricoeur
ประเภท	Qualitative-interpretive legal research design	Qualitative interpretive method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Zweigert, K., & Kotz, H. (1998). An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198268598	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960 as Wahrheit und Methode). ISBN: 978-0826400185
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	LCLA, diachronic comparative law, longitudinal legal comparison, dynamic comparative legal research	hermeneutics, hermeneutical interpretation, interpretive hermeneutics, philosophical hermeneutics
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	6
สรุป	Longitudinal comparative legal analysis examines how legal rules, doctrines, or institutions develop and diverge across two or more legal systems over an extended period. By combining the spatial dimension of comparative law with the temporal dimension of longitudinal research, it captures not just differences between jurisdictions at a single point but the trajectories of legal change — convergence, divergence, transplantation, and resistance — over years or decades.	Hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative interpretive method for uncovering the meaning of texts, documents, spoken discourse, or human actions. Rooted in 19th-century biblical and legal scholarship and systematised by Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, it operates through the hermeneutic circle: the meaning of a part is understood through the whole, and the meaning of the whole is revised as parts are interpreted. The goal is not to measure or code, but to achieve a deepening, dialogic understanding of the object of interpretation.