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Comparative law began early in the nineteenth century as a response to practical legislative wants, as “comparative legislation.” Some of the internationally minded German students also reacted against the national emphasis of Savigny’s Historical School. Comparative legal scholarship acquired more educational overtones because the century wore on, and many scholars optimistically anticipated that comparative scholarship would unify and civilize the world’s authorized orders. After World War II, mainstream comparative law had little hope left in its prospects of civilizing the world. The largest impediment in the way of merging the dual disciplines is the truth that they, as all scholarly disciplines, are additionally social communities. Most scholars still wish to identify themselves as “comparatists” or “authorized historians.” The new mixed self-discipline would get rid of outdated ways of doing scholarship in both mom disciplines.

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