Literature Analysis: Comparative Law in Germany and the Global South

This dataset accompanies the article “Comparative Law and the Global South Gap: An Empirical Analysis of Comparative Legal Academia in Germany”. It contains five interrelated datasets generated through systematic literature analysis of academic scholarship on comparative law, legal transplants, and sustainable corporate law. The datasets are as follows: Legal Transplants Data (focusing on observed legal transplants in German literature), Comparative Literature Data (focusing on conducted comparisons within German comparative literature), Comparative Authors Data (referencing the Comparative Literature Data connecting it with biographical data on the authors of comparisons with the Global South), Sustainable Corporate Law Data (maps references to foreign legal systems and comparative reasoning in German-language debates on sustainable company law), SCL Scoring (referencing the Sustainable Corporate Law Data and providing a scoring matrix to quantify the engagement with different legal systems). Each dataset contains metadata and qualitative coding to facilitate further analysis. Together, they offer empirical insight into epistemic hierarchies and comparative engagement between Germany and the Global South in legal scholarship.