Balazs (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) Fekete 
Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law 
A History

This book uses the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn to provide a new vision of the development of European comparative law that will challenge and inspire scholars in the field.



With the  »empathic » use of some ideas from Kuhn »s theories on the history of science – paradigm, paradigm-shift, puzzle-solving research and incommensurability – the book rethinks the modern history of European comparative law from the late 19th century to the modern day.



It argues that three major paradigms determine modern comparative law:

– historical and comparative jurisprudence,

–
droit comparé, and

– post-World War II comparative law.



It concludes that contemporary methodological trends are not signs of a paradigm-shift toward a postmodern and culturalist understanding of comparative law, but that the new approach spreads the idea of methodological plurality.