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Despite the differences between comparative law and these other legal fields, comparative law helps inform all of these areas of normativity.

For example, comparative law can help international legal institutions, such as those of the United Nations System, in analyzing the laws of different countries regarding their treaty obligations.

Comparative law would be applicable to private international law when developing an approach to interpretation in a conflicts analysis.

Comparative law may contribute to legal theory by creating categories and concepts of general application.

Comparative law may also provide insights into the question of legal transplants, i. e. the transplanting of law and legal institutions from one system to another.

The notion of legal transplants was coined by Alan Watson, one of the world's renowned legal scholars specializing in comparative law.