LEGAL FORMALISM

By SovConn | September 15, 2013

legal formalism,n. The theory that law is a set of rules and principles independent of other political and social institutions. • Legal formalism was espoused by such scholars as Christopher Columbus Langdell and Lon Fuller. Cf. LEGAL REALISM. — legal formalist,n.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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