Of centers and peripheries of the european legal space: legal comparison from the german perspective

This article examines the evolution and achievements of legal comparison in public law within the European legal space, with particular emphasis on the evolution of German comparative law scholarship and its central topics and countries of interest. More specifically, the article sheds light on the progressive inclusion of the so-called “peripheral” jurisdictions within said scholarship, in order to contrast those developments with other European (especially Italian, French, and Spanish) scholarly groups with respect to the application of interdisciplinary methods and the spread of dedicated journals. By doing so, the article unveils the biases and doctrinal understandings of the law that have led to different outcomes and objectives of public comparative law in the analyzed jurisdictions.