Legal formalism is both a descriptive theory and a normative theory of how judges should decide cases. In its descriptive sense, formalists maintain that...

Look up formalism or formalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Formalism may refer to: Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive...

are interested in the correct use of legal concepts. Legal realism was primarily a reaction to the legal formalism of the late 19th century and early 20th...

When identified with legal formalism, legal positivism is opposed to legal realism. Legal positivism, understood as formalism, believes that in most...

Within Christianity, the term legalism is a derogatory term that is loosely synonymous to religious formalism. Formalism is a school of thought in law...

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chart a third way between legal formalism and legal realism. Drawing its name from Hart & Sacks' textbook The Legal Process (along with Hart & Wechsler's...

A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts, which is then used in order to help reach a decision or to apply a legal rule. A legal fiction...

Bentham. Analytical jurisprudence is not to be mistaken for legal formalism (the idea that legal reasoning is or can be modelled as a mechanical, algorithmic...

University of Chicago Law School. He was notable for his advancement of legal formalism, as well as his work in Conflict of Laws, Corporations, and Criminal...