Form and substance in anglo american law a comparative study in legal reasoning legal theory and legal institutions by p s atiyah and robert s summers oxford oxford university press 1987 xx 432 and 5 pp hardback gbp3500 net volume 47 issue 1. Form and substance in anglo american law a comparative study in legal reasoning legal theory and legal institutions p s atiyah and robert s summers a clarendon press publication this book offers a new way of analyzing the formal and substantive styles of legal reasoning and demonstrates differences in the legal reasoning and the legal systems as a whole between england and america. Form and substance in anglo american law a comparative study of legal reasoning legal theory and legal institutions inproceedingsatiyah1987formas titleform and substance in anglo american law a comparative study of legal reasoning legal theory and legal institutions authorp atiyah and r summers year1987 . Form and substance in anglo american law a comparative study of legal reasoning legal theory and legal institutions p s atiyah robert s summers 1987 abstract this article has no associated abstract fix it keywords law categories comparative law in philosophy of law descriptive accounts of legal reasoning in philosophy of law categorize this paper buy this book find it on . This book is a contribution both to legal theory and to comparative studies its principal focus is on what we believe to be major differences in the nature of law and the general style of legal reasoning between england and america which we term formal and substantive respectively in the process of identifying and explaining these differences we have found it necessary to construct a