Legal history, as developed in nineteenth-century continental Europe, has a national tradition, but also a transnational past. During the last two decades, however, a new field of global legal history has emerged, not least as a response to Eurocentrism, methodological nationalism and the current reality of transnational and global law. In this article, I map some historiographic traditions of transnational legal history and the emerging field of global legal history, pointing out some important methodological problems and suggesting a knowledge-historical approach. It ends with a definition of global legal history as a critical history of the production of multinormative knowledge, understood as a process of distributed knowledge production through cultural translation, comprising theory and practice, drawing on a wide range of sources, on a transnational scale, with special attention for the dialectics of glocalisation.

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什么是全球法律史？

在 19 世纪欧洲大陆发展起来的法律史既有民族传统，也有跨国过去。然而，在过去的二十年里，全球法律史的一个新领域出现了，尤其是作为对欧洲中心主义、方法论民族主义以及跨国和全球法律的当前现实的回应。在这篇文章中，我描绘了跨国法律史的一些史学传统和全球法律史的新兴领域，指出了一些重要的方法论问题并提出了一种知识历史方法。它以将全球法律史定义为多规范知识生产的批判史结束，将其理解为通过文化翻译进行分布式知识生产的过程，包括理论和实践，借鉴了广泛的资源，