Comparative law
across time and space to create new institutional forms and doctrinal arrangements.
The field of Comparative Family Law is undergoing rapid development despite initial constraints.
Scholars of comparative law often overlooked family law as an important and distinctive site for the
contestation of norms and values, perhaps because they viewed family law as too political for the
technical inquiry carried out by comparativists. Other scholars characterized the family as a unique
place, the opposite of the market, where traditional rather than modern discourses are at play and
where moral and religious values, often in tension with secular visions, shape legal institutions.
Family law scholars tended to focus on single legal regimes, rarely opening their inquiry to
comparative methods.
3.Actors in CL
The modern founding figure of comparative and anthropological jurisprudence was Sir Henry
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