Given that there is no universally agreed definition of the concept of 'law' in our world today, the approach when trying to comprehend and analyse 'law' in different cultural settings is of great significance.
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Given that there is no universally agreed definition of the concept of 'law' in our world today, the approach when trying to comprehend and analyse 'law' in different cultural settings is of great significance. If it is accepted that 'law' is inevitably culture-specific to a certain extent, the perspectives from which lawyers attempt to analyse 'law' are similarly influenced by their cultural background, along with their theoretical adherence. In the field of comparative law, it thus becomes of crucial importance to adopt a suitable approach in order to appreciate the diverse nature of different legal systems. The three major Western theoretical approaches to law which I will discuss in this essay are natural law, the historical school and legal positivism. While these conceptualisations each theorise law independently, it seems evident that relying exclusively on one of them will provide us with too narrow a scope for studying global law....


