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The Use of the Comparative Law Method in Classic Pieces by Aristotle and Plato
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The Use of the Comparative Law Method in Classic Pieces by Aristotle and Plato

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  • Antonios Emmanuel Platsas Leeds Beckett University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8100-3611

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https://doi.org/10.12775/CLR.2024.005

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comparative law, comparative constitutional law, Aristotle, Plato, comparative law methodology, Laws, Politics

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The article explores the Platonic roots and the Aristotelian essence of such a leading academic subject as comparative law.  Comparative law is not a creation of the 20th century, even though modern comparative law, as we know it, has indeed matured and developed in the 20th century.  The journey of comparative law commences with Plato and Aristotle, even though it was Aristotle that seems to have placed comparative law on its academic rails through his extensive, systematic, and rigorous comparative exploration of constitutions. Nevertheless, Plato must have inspired his best student, Aristotle, in the examination of comparative legal matter.  Equally, the mastermind and the driving spirit behind the subject of comparative law, as it came to flourish in modernity, seems to have been Aristotle.  Generations of comparative lawyers from Lambert and Salleiles to Zweigert, Kötz, and David effectively cultivated a subject which is quintessentially Aristotelian, despite the subject’s apparent Platonic roots.  This exposition proves, substantiates, and analyses the Aristotelian spirit of our subject, a subject which has inspired the discipline of law, Academia, and the world, the article taking a balanced approach between the subject’s Platonic roots and the subject’s Aristotelian essence.

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Antonios Emmanuel Platsas, Leeds Beckett University

Reader in Comparative Law, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom; email: A.Platsas@leedsbeckett.ac.uk;    
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2024-12-03

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PLATSAS, Antonios Emmanuel. The Use of the Comparative Law Method in Classic Pieces by Aristotle and Plato. Comparative Law Review. Online. 3 December 2024. Vol. 30, pp. 113-139. [Accessed 12 May 2025]. DOI 10.12775/CLR.2024.005.
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