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

by Patrick S. Atiyah and Robert S. Summers

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198257341

ISBN13:9780198257349

Release Date:September 1991

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:458 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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British & Irish Comparative Constitutional Law Drama Education & Reference English Literature Europe Humanities Jurisprudence Law Legal Theory & Systems Linguistics Literature Philosophy Textbooks Wales Words, Language & Grammar

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