1.4 Division of Comparative Law

The divisions (the classification's craft): (i) micro vs macro comparison — the specific- institution's study (the consideration doctrine's comparison) vs the whole-system's study (the common-vs-civil law's structures); (ii) the functional levels: the descriptive (the "what is") vs the critical-evaluative (the "what is better"); (iii) the subject's fields: the comparative constitutional, civil, criminal, procedural, commercial law etc.; (iv) the comparison's depth: the surface (the texts' comparison) vs the deep (the legal culture-and-mentalities' comparison); (v) the purpose's division: the scholarly vs the instrumental (the reform-oriented) comparison. Zweigert-and- Kötz's craft: the functional method's discipline (the institutions compared by their FUNCTIONS — the "praesumptio similitudinis": the problems' similarity presumption).