Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law

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.