The article analyses the many actors and initiatives that, in the last decades, have pursued the goal of worldwide harmonization of secured transaction laws, scrutinizing the achievements and the limits of these experiments. In light of such results, the article also outlines the methodological contribution that comparative law can offer to legal change in the sector of secured transactions law, by way of confronting positive law models with meta-legal elements such as culture, society, economy, law-making processes, and geopolitics.

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担保交易和法律变更的模式：比较法的贡献

本文分析了过去几十年来追求全球统一担保交易法的目标，研究这些成就和局限性的众多参与者和举措。根据这样的结果，本文还概述了比较法可以通过对付具有法律，文化，社会，经济，法律等元法律要素的实证模型来为担保交易法领域的法律变革提供方法论上的贡献。制造过程和地缘政治。