It would certainly seem that the period in which comparative law scholars deplored the marginalization of comparative law has evolved. Comparative law, however, as well as its methodologies, has always been the subject of controversy, its role as well as its position in academia. Today, comparative law scholars themselves, more than in the past, feel the need to offer a critical approach to comparative legal studies. This article aims, moving away from the recent debates and assimilation of comparative law by a method of interpretation, to formulate the demands of a specific methodology and to reconcile the «traditional» and «post-modernist» comparative law scholars. It bears upon comparative law scholars to take the best of the critiques d...