Comparative Legal History: uma combinação produtiva?

The text intends to discuss the limits and possibilities of Comparative legal history. Although it played an important informative role, the descriptive and na-tionalist legal comparison of the last century finds its limits today. The current Comparative legal history project takes on the new problems of spatial mapping of legal history beyond national histories. The new historical-comparative perspective must, therefore, attenuate the centralist perspective, which dimin-ishes the role of the peripheries and understands their history in terms of the center. Within the frame-work of a European history of public law, the methods are still being refined; cross-reads, improved and syn-chronized. The difficulties of this research project are many, imposed by chronologies, the different weights of political fractures, the question of borders and the difficult legacy of colonialism.Keywords:Comparative legal history; Research methodology in legal history; History of public law; Transnational aspects; European legal experience.*Professor Doutor Catedrático da Università degli Studi di Firenzi, Itália.bernardo.sordi@unifi.it**Doutor em Direito pela Universidade de Brasília. Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFERSA.Professor do IDP, Brasília.raphapeixoto@gmail.comRecebido em 14-7-2022|Aprovado em 14-7-202211Artigo convidado. Nota do tradutor:tradução autorizada pelo autor.Resumo e palavras-chaves elaboradaspelo tradutor.A versão original em italiano foi apresentada no Seminário Diritto: storia e comparazione,realizado