Editing Comparative law (section)

==Relationship with other legal subjects==
Comparative law is different from general [[jurisprudence]] (i.e. legal theory) and from [[public international law|public]] and [[private international law|private]] international law. However, it helps inform all of these areas of normativity.

For example, comparative law can help international legal institutions, such as those of the [[United Nations System]], in analyzing the laws of different countries regarding their treaty obligations. Comparative law would be applicable to private international law when developing an approach to interpretation in a conflicts analysis. Comparative law may contribute to legal theory by creating categories and concepts of general application. Comparative law may also provide insights into the question of [[legal transplants]], i.e. the transplanting of law and legal institutions from one system to another. The notion of [[legal transplants]] was coined by [[Alan Watson (legal scholar)|Alan Watson]], one of the world's renowned legal scholars specializing in comparative law. [[Gunther Teubner]] expanded the notion of legal transplantation to include ''legal irritation'': Rather than smoothly integrating into domestic legal systems, a foreign rule disrupts established norms and societal arrangements. This disruption sparks an evolution where the external rule's meaning is redefined and where significant transformations within the internal context are triggered.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Teubner |first=Gunther |date=1998 |title=Legal Irritants: Good Faith in British Law or How Unifying Law Ends Up in New Divergences |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=876950 |journal=The Modern Law Review |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=11–32|doi=10.1111/1468-2230.00125 |ssrn=876950 }}</ref> Lasse Schuldt added that irritation is not spontaneous, but requires institutional drivers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schuldt |first=Lasse |date=2023-09-25 |title=Driving Irritation: Thailand's Supreme Court and the English Roots of Corporate Criminal Liability |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-comparative-law/article/driving-irritation-thailands-supreme-court-and-the-english-roots-of-corporate-criminal-liability/A5C74EAC37FB689A03E54F5EBB6B1409/share/bb0af930ebdb2439ba3e100ae30a2ee0cf5d32ab19310b744e9142b2f1e3b2c5 |journal=Asian Journal of Comparative Law |volume=19 |language=en |pages=142–158 |doi=10.1017/asjcl.2023.29 |s2cid=263007531 |issn=2194-6078}}</ref>


Also, the usefulness of comparative law for [[sociology of law]] and [[law and economics]] (and vice versa) is very large. The comparative study of the various legal systems may show how different legal regulations for the same problem function in practice. Conversely, sociology of law and law & economics may help comparative law answer questions, such as:
* How do regulations in different legal systems really function in the respective societies?
* Are legal rules comparable?
* How do the similarities and differences between legal systems get explained?