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

by Patrick S. Atiyah and Robert S. Summers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198255772
• ISBN13: 9780198255772
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"