LEGAL TRADITION AS A BASIS FOR COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE WORLD'S STABLE LEGAL DIVERSITY
https://doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2025-1-74-31-39
Abstract
Introduction. The ideological confrontation of Russia with the "collective West" and the "turn to the East" imply the strengthening of traditional values of its own legal system, as well as a comparative study of the sustainable diversity of law in the countries of the East. It calls for specific studies of particular jurisdictions, but also it requires reflection on the very subject of knowledge through the prism of a multipolar world.
Materials and methods. This problem involves turning to current domestic and foreign scientific literature on the methodology of synchronous and diachronic comparison, as well as its critical analysis using the tools of intellectual and global history.
Research results. According to the author, the main subject of studying the sustainable legal diversity of "non-Western" legal systems should not be law, legal culture or civilization, but rather legal tradition in the sense of an analytical model from the following components: 1) agents of the tradition, 2) forms of law, the basis for its understanding, interpretation, application, 3) typical institutions in the most important areas of legal regulation.
Discussion and significance. The specified model of legal tradition makes it possible to diachronically compare foreign law, explain and classify its diversity based on the ideal types of law in history. This opens up the prospect of cooperation between legal history and comparative law.
About the Author
D. Yu. Poldnikov
MGIMO University and HSE University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry Yu. Poldnikov, Doctor of Sciences (Law), professor, the Department of Legal Theory and Comparative Law
Moscow
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Poldnikov D.Yu. LEGAL TRADITION AS A BASIS FOR COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE WORLD'S STABLE LEGAL DIVERSITY. Journal of Law and Administration. 2025;21(1):31-39. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2025-1-74-31-39
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