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Philosophical foundations of precedent /

"Philosophical Foundations of Precedent offers a broad, deep, and diverse range of philosophical investigations of the role of precedent in law, adjudication, and morality. The forty chapters present the work of a large and inclusive group of forty-three authors—established contributors and new...

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Other Authors: Endicott, Timothy Andrew Orville (Editor), Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson, 1984- (Editor), Lewis, Sebastian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Philosophical foundations of law.
Subjects:
Stare decisis > Philosophy.
Stare decisis.
Stare decisis > Philosophie.
LAW.
Legal Profession.
Political.
PHILOSOPHY.
Stare decisis
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Law.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Precedent: The What, the Why, and the How / Larry Alexander
  • The Doctrine of Precedent and the Rule of Recognition / Grant Lamond
  • On the Nature of Stare Decisis / Sebastian Lewis
  • Why Precedent Works / Nicholas W. Barber
  • Precedent and Legal Creep: A Cause for Concern? / Adam Rigoni
  • Elements of Precedent / Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson
  • Precedent and Paradigm: Thomas Kuhn on Science and the Common Law / Leah Trueblood and Peter Hatfield
  • Supplanting Defeasible Rules / Barbara Baum Levenbook
  • The Uses of Precedent and Legal Argument / Claudio Michelon
  • The 'Expiscation' of Legal Principles / Luís Duarte d'Almeida
  • The Hermeneutics of Legal Precedent / Ralf Poscher
  • Do Precedents Constrain Reasoning? / Emily Sherwin
  • Precedent, Exemplarity, and Imitation / Amalia Amaya
  • How Does Precedent Constrain? / John Horty
  • Precedent, Contest, and Law: A Logocratic Agony That Fits / Scott Brewer
  • Dog Law: On the Logical Structure (or Lack Thereof) of Distinguishing / Bruno Celano
  • Analogical Reasoning and Precedent / Cass R. Sunstein
  • Precedent and Similarity / Frederick Schauer and Barbara A. Spellman
  • Presumptive Reasons and Stare Decisis / Andrei Marmor
  • An Artefactual Theory of Precedent / Kenneth M. Ehrenberg
  • The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions / Nina Varsava
  • A Precedent-​Based Critique of Legal Positivism / John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky
  • Realism About Precedent / Brian Leiter
  • Precedent and the Source-​Norm Distinction / Fábio Perin Schecaira
  • Precedent as Generalized Second-​Order Reasons / Stephen Perry
  • Reasons Holism and the Shared View of Precedent / Torben Spaak
  • Should Courts Follow Mistaken Statutory Precedents? / Dale Smith
  • Precedent and Law-​Making Powers / Mikołaj Barczentewicz
  • Shaping Our Relationship: The Power to Set a Precedent / Maris Köpcke
  • Constitutionally Erroneous Precedent as a Window on Judicial Law-​Making in the US Legal System / Richard H. Fallon
  • Statutory Interpretation and Binding Precedents in the Civil Law Tradition / Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña
  • The Oracles of Codification: Informal Authority in Statutory Interpretation / Nils Jansen
  • Predictability and Precedent / Hillary Nye
  • Precedent Slippery Slopes / Katharina Stevens
  • 'A Previous Instance': Yamamoto and the Uses of Precedent / Jeremy Waldron
  • Consistency in Administrative Law / Adam Perry
  • Escaping Precedent: Inter-​Legality and Change in Rules of Recognition / Nicole Roughan
  • Hoary Precedents / Matthew H. Kramer
  • Partnering with the Dead to Govern the Unborn: The Value of Precedent in Judicial Reasoning / Heidi M. Hurd
  • Emotions and Precedent / Emily Kidd White.