1. Premise International law and comparative law are traditionally concerned not only with two different fields of legal studies but they are also characterised by two divergent ways of looking at legal phenomena. Indeed, international law presupposes the idea of the universality of law, a uniform law that is not upset by the fragmentation of...

1. Introduction The cue to start reflecting on the connections between comparative law and international law comes from the renewed interest in a `comparative’ approach to international law. Indeed, since the end of the last century, more and more international law scholars have become engaged in shaping ‘Comparative International Law’ as a new field of...