Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study in Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198257349)

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, Patrick S. Atiyah
ISBN-10: 0198257341
ISBN-13: 9780198257349
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 09/12/1991
Pages: 458
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.93d