Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study in Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions

This book has a completely original theme, or set of themes. It offers first a new way of analyzing styles of legal reasoning--between more formal and more substantive styles--that is a major contribution to jurisprudence in its own right. The authors then go on to demonstrate in detail
the differences in legal reasoning--and in the legal systems as a whole--between England and America, and suggest that the English is a much more formal system and the American a more substantive. Finally, the book explores a wide range of cultural, institutional, and historical factors
relating to the two legal systems.


Author: P. S. Atiyah, Robert S. Summers
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 09/12/1991
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780198257349

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