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

P. S. Atiyah,Robert S. Summers

ISBN 10: 0198255772 / ISBN 13: 9780198255772

Published by Clarendon Press November 1987, 1987

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Dust jacket covered in protective mylar sleeve.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study in Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions
• Publisher: Clarendon Press November 1987
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198255772
• ISBN 13: 9780198255772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

P. S. Atiyah is a Sometime Professor of English Law at University of Oxford. R. S. Summers is a McRoberts Professor of Law, Cornell University, and Arthur L. Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at Cambridge University, 1991-92.