“法律形式主义”在法律史、法社会学、比较法和法律文化研究中都是重要范畴,在法哲学和目前被称为“法律理论”的交叉学科领域也是如此。它在这些不同领域中以不同的意义出现,而在每个领域中,它都是一个有争议的概念而不是个意思明确的固定概念。本词条阐述了此术语的一系列不同用法并对该术语意思之争进行简单介绍。这个词的现代用法源自19世纪晚期和20世纪早期主流学者的著作,他们很重视两种 Legal formalism is an important category in the study of legal history, legal sociology, comparative law and legal culture, as is the field of jurisprudence and the interdisciplinary field now known as “legal theory ”. It appears in different senses in these different areas, and in every area it is a contentious concept rather than a fixed one with definite meaning. This entry describes a series of different uses of the term and gives a brief introduction to the meaning of the term. The modern usage of this term derives from the writings of mainstream scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,