PERBANDINGAN

HUKUM
TEORI DAN METODENYA

Herlambang P. Wiratraman
2016
 Tujuan Perkuliahan

• Mahasiswa dapat memahami pengertian/pemaknaan perbandingan hukum,

analisis yang dipergunakan dalam membandingkan sistem hukum, baik dari
tinjauan filsafat, budaya, politik dan sosial/budaya-kemasyarakatan.
• Mahasiswa dapat mengenali sistem-sistem hukum yang berkembang di
dunia dan teori-teori yang memberikan dasar untuk mengetahui pergeseran
sistem hukum
• Mahasiswa mampu menjelaskan situasi kekinian atau tren perbandingan
hukum dan menggunakan pendekatan kritis untuk berbagai tujuan
perbandingan.
Alur perkuliahan

• Konsep , Fungsi dan Tujuan Perbandingan Hukum

• Sejarah Perbandingan Hukum
• Metode Perbandingan Hukum
• Resiko/bahaya (tantangan) perbandingan hukum(The perils of
comparative law) dan Keuntungan/nilai lebih perbandingan hukum
(The virtues of comparative law)
• Transplantasi Hukum (Legal transplant)
• Pengantar Keluarga Sistem Hukum
 Tinjauan Literatur (1)

• Alan Watson (1993) Legal Transplants: An Approach to

Comparative Law. Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
• Alan Watson (2007) Comparative Law: Law, Society and Reality.
Vanderplas Publishing
• Konrad Zweigert and Hein Koetz (1998) An Introduction to
Comparative Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mark van Hoecke (ed.) (2004) Epistemology and Methodology of
Comparative Law. Oxford and Portland Oregon: Hart Publishing.
• Peter D. Cruz (1999) Comparative Law in A Changing World.
London/Sidney: Cavendish.
 Tinjauan Literatur (2)

• Werner Menski (2006) Comparative Law in A Global Context: The Legal System
of Asia and Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Esin Örücü (2000) “Critical Comparative Law: Considering Paradoxes for Legal
Systems in Transition.” Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Rechtsvergelijking, Vol.
4.1 June 2000.
• John W Cairns and Olivia F. Robinson (ed.) (2004) Critical Studies in Ancient
Law, Comparative and Legal History. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• Annelise Riles (ed.) (2001) Rethinking The Masters of Comparative Law.
Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• Jan M Smits (ed.) (2006) Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. Glos/UK:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
 Tinjauan Literatur (3)

• Shidarta (2004) “Karakteristik Penalaran Hukum dalan Konteks Keindonesiaan”,

Disertasi Program Doktor Ilmu Hukum. Bandung: Universitas Katolik
Parahyangan.
• Montesquieu (1993) The Spirit of the Laws. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
• Roscoe Pound (1931) The Spirit of the Common Law. Francestown/New
Hamsphire: Marshall Jones Company.
• Mary Ann Glendon, Michael Wallace Gordon, and Christopher Osakwe (1994)
Comparative Legal Traditions: Text, Materials and Cases on the Civil and
Common Law Traditions, with Special Reference to French, German, English
and European Law. 2nd Edition. St. Paul, Minn: West Publishing.
 Konsep
Perbandingan Hukum

• Perbandingan Hukum, apakah itu?

• Metode, disiplin ataukah ilmu?
• Apa yang dipelajari dari Perbandingan
Hukum?
• ‘an intellectual activity with law as its object and comparison as its
process (Zweigert and Kotz, 1977: 2)

• ‘systematic study of particular legal traditions and legal rules on a

comparative basis’ (Cruz 2007: 3) … and ‘….comparative law is
primarily a method of study rather than a legal body of rules’ (Cruz
2007: 5).
‘The tertium comparationis belongs to the paradigmatic
framework of the comparatist and as such forms part of the
conseptual apparatus with which he approaches his field of science
in a primary sense….. Comparability, on the other hand, is part
and parcel of positive legal reality. It is dependent on the identity of
the ontic characteristics of positive (in casu juridical) phenomena
qua juridical phenomena.’

Van Reenen (1995: 420)

 Alan Watson

• ‘… the study of the relationship between legal

systems or between rules of more than one
system… in the context of a historical
relationship… [a study of] the nature of law and
the nature of legal development’ (Watson, 1974:
6-7)

• Watson’s approach: (1) historical relationship;

(2) inner relationship; and (3) ‘same pattern of
development’ theory.
 Sistem dan Tradisi Hukum

• Key distinguishing features: (a) the system’s historical background

and development; (b) its predominant and characteristic mode of
thought; (c) its particularly distinctive institutions; (d) its sources of
law and the way it handles these; and (e) its ideology (Zweigert and
Kotz 1998: 68-73).

• A legal tradition: ‘… deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes

about the nature of law… the role of law in… society and polity, the
proper organization and operation of a legal system, and about the
way law is, or should be made , applied, studied, perfected, and
taught. The legal tradition relates the legal system to the culture of
which it is a partial expression. It puts the legal system into cultural
perspective (Merryman, 1985: 2 in Cruz 2007: 4).
 Tipe Perbandingan Hukum
Five possible groups:

• Comparison of foreign systems with domestic system in order to ascertain

similarities and differences
• Studies that analyses objectively and systematically solutions which various
systems offer for a given legal problem
• Studies that investigate the causal relationship between different systems of
law
• Studies that compare the several stages of various legal systems
• Studies that attempt to discover or examine legal evolution generally according
to periods and systems

Hug (1932) “The History of Comparative Law”,

45 Harvard Law Review 1072
 Pembagian Perbandingan Hukum

• Descriptive Comparative Law

..is the inventory of the systems of the past and present as a whole as well as of
individual rules which these systems establish for the several categories of legal
relations.

• Comparative History of Law

….is closely allied to ethnological jurisprudence, folklore, legal sociology and philosophy
of law.

• Comparative Legislation [comparative jurisprudence]

represents the effort to define the common trunk on which present national doctrines of
law are destined to graft themselves as a result of both of the development of the study
of law as a social science, and of the awakening of an international legal consciousness.

E Lambert in Waston 1974: 3

Pembagian Perbandingan Hukum

• Comparative Nomoscopy
The description of system of law
• Comparative Nomothetics
The analysis of the merits of the system
• Comparative Nomogenetics
Study of the development of the world’s legal ideas and systems

J.H. Wigmore , 1936, in Waston 1974: 3

 Tujuan
Perbandingan
Hukum

• Apa tujuan [studi]

perbandingan hukum?

• Apakah bisa tujuan

tersebut direfleksikan
dengan kebutuhan
anda/profesi?
Bagaimana hal tersebut
bisa dilakukan?
 Esin Örücü (2000)

Objectives:

• Academic study;
• Law reform and policy development;
• A tool for research to reach a universal theory of law;
• The provision of perspective to students;
• An aid to international practice of the law;
• International unification and harmonisation - common core
research;
• A gap-filling device in law courts; and an aid to world peace.

These objectives are sometimes grouped as practical, sociological,

political or pedagogical.
 Zweigert and Kotz (1998)

• An aid to the legislative process

• An instrument of interpretation of the law
• A vehicle for teaching law at university level
• A means of promoting legal unification
• (in Europe) the development of a common private law
 Pengembangan studi-studi
perbandingan hukum?

• Comparative law and legal philosophy (comparative

jurisprudence);
• Comparative law and legal history (historical comparative law or
historico-comparative perspective);
• Comparative law and culture (comparative legal cultures and law
and culture studies); and
• Comparative law and economics.
• Comparative constitutional law
• Comparative administrative law
• Comparative civil law (in the sense of the law of torts, delicts,
contracts and obligations)
• Comparative commercial law (in the sense of business
organizations and trade), and
• Comparative criminal law

Studies of these specific areas may be viewed as micro- or

macro-comparative legal analysis, i.e. detailed comparisons of
two countries, or broad-ranging studies of several countries.