caa a22 4500 388045728 CHVBK 20180307125037.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020589300062540 doi S0020589300062540 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020589300062540 Samuel Geoffrey Comparative Law and Jurisprudence [Elektronische Daten] [Geoffrey Samuel] This article will propose that comparative law as a discipline should now consolidate itself as an independent subject with its own internal structure. This is not to say that its teachers and professors should abandon, or at least fully abandon, their "gift of freedom”.1 Nor is it to confuse comparative law with other more specific law subjects which may be taught in a comparative way.2 What this article will propose is that comparative law be envisaged as a subject basically operating at two levels (or consisting of two parts). At one level it consists of the now considerable literature on the subject, including of course the work which envisages the subject in terms of legal families. At another level, however, comparative law should be envisaged as being concerned with the theoretical underpinning of the terms "comparative” and "law”. This part, in other words, would deal with these terms as instruments of knowledge. What is it to have knowledge of "law”? And what contribution does "comparison” make to this epistemo-logical question? Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1998 International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/4(1998-10), 817-836 0020-5893 47:4<817 1998 47 ILQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300062540 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300062540 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Samuel Geoffrey NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/4(1998-10), 817-836 0020-5893 47:4<817 1998 47 ILQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge