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

by P. S. Atiyah, Robert S. Summers

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198257349
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/12/1991
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.93(d)
Lexile:	1700L (what's this?)

About the Author

Oxford University

Cornell University

Editorial Reviews

"An awesome and important original contribution."—Choice

"Not since Holmes and Pollock exchanged their letters has there been such a sustained and absorbing communion of American and legal minds."—Cambridge Law Journal

"A profound book with an original methodology."— International Comparative Law Quarterly

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