ON COMPARATIVE LAW STUDIES IN THE FIELD OF PRIVATE (CIVIL) LAW

The article analyses the origins of comparative civil law studies in Russia starting from the reforms of tsar Peter I. The author understands comparative civil law as a branch of legal science that makes comparative law studies applying the civil law methodology. The civil law methodology is applied by a researcher who studies legal relationship between the parties which are in equal legal position. The analysis of legal rules of various countries, regulating of alike legal relationship in different countries affords to find the best way to regulate the corresponding relationship. The purposes of comparative analysis varied in various periods of the development of Russia. The role of the Institute and the comparative law studies related to civil law are also the subject of the present article. Within the article the author pays attention to tendencies in the foreign civil law regulation such as extraterritorial application of the rules of law, or the effect of the public interest presence.