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

This book has a comparatively original theme, or set of themes. It offers, first, a new way of analysing styles of legal reasoning - between more "formal" and more "substantive" styles. This analysis, which is worked out in some detail, is an important contribution to jurisprudence in its own right. The book then goes on to demonstrate in detail the differences in legal reasoning - and in the legal systems as a whole - between England and America, suggesting that the English is a much more "formal" legal system and the American a more "substantive" one. Thirdly, the book explores in detail a wide range of cultural, institutional, and historical factors relating to the two legal systems, an exploration which is not only of value for comparative studies, but also confirms the argument in the first part of the book as to the relative "formality" of the two legal systems. A book for Legal scholars and lawyers in Britain and America; jurists; lawyers in general and students of comparative law.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1987
First published:	September 1987
Authors:	P.S. Atiyah (Sometime Professor of English Law) • R.S. Summers (McRoberts Professor of Law, Cornell University, and Arthur L. Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science)
Dimensions:	240 x 161 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-825577-2
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Comparative law
LSN:	0-19-825577-2
Barcode:	9780198255772

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