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On the Relation between Form and Substance in Law
dc.contributor.authorSoper, Philipen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T20:43:50Z
dc.date.available2010-06-01T20:43:50Z
dc.date.issued2007-03en_US
dc.identifier.citationSOPER, PHILIP (2007). "On the Relation between Form and Substance in Law." Ratio Juris 20(1): 56-65. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73833>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0952-1917en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-9337en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73833
dc.description.abstractIn this paper the author deals with some theoretical aspects of Robert Summers' last book ( Summers 2006 ). In particular, he concentrates on the hazy relationship between form and substance in Summers' theory. In order to analyze some major difficulties entailed in the thesis that form and substance are different and independent things, the author discusses three specific questions: (1) the difference between form and substance; (2) the possibility of a form meant to be value-neutral; (3) how to distinguish a form-centered approach from a formalistic approach when one has to interpret a statute. This last question is dealt with through examples taken from two legal decisions. *en_US
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights© 2007 The Author. Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.titleOn the Relation between Form and Substance in Lawen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelLaw and Legal Studiesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelGovernment, Politics and Lawen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan Law School Hutchens Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA E-mail: psoper@umich.eduen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73833/1/j.1467-9337.2007.00347.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-9337.2007.00347.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceRatio Jurisen_US
dc.identifier.citedreferenceHart, Herbert L. A. 1965. Book Review of The Morality of Law. Harvard Law Review 78: 1281 – 96.en_US
dc.identifier.citedreferenceKennedy, Duncan. 1976. Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication. Harvard Law Review 89: 1685 – 778.en_US
dc.identifier.citedreferenceSummers, Robert S. 1984. Lon L. Fuller. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.en_US
dc.identifier.citedreferenceSummers, Robert S. 2006. Form and Function in a Legal System: A General Study. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.en_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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