The transformation of higher legal education in the German
states in 1810–1820s has been investigated on the basis of the
new scholarly materials, entered into the scientific use. The author
comes to the conclusion about the interrelation between of pozitivist
and komparativist aspects. At the heart of a complex of disciplines
devoted to comparative legal knowledge of foreign law, was the idea
of comparative law as a relatively independent legal science. Also,
there is the relation of this discipline with the comparative history
of the law.