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

Summers, Robert S.,Atiyah, P. S.

ISBN 10: 0198257341 / ISBN 13: 9780198257349

Published by Clarendon Press, 1991

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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 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198257341
• ISBN 13: 9780198257349
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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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 at the University of Oxford. Robert S. Summers is at Cornell University.