Philosophical foundations of precedent / Timothy Endicott, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson, Sebastian Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Endicott, Timothy Andrew Orville, editor.

Dan Kristjánsson, Hafsteinn, editor.

Lewis, Sebastian, editor.

Series:

Philosophical Foundations of Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stare decisis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (618 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This fascinating edited volume focuses on the nature and authority of precedent and forms of reasoning that it involves in common law and civil law systems. It addresses fundamental principles as to how and when to act following precedent and reasons for which it may be best to depart from precedent.

Contents:

Cover

Philosophical Foundations of Precedent

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Homage to Bruno Celano

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Central Question and Its Ramifications

Part I The Nature of Precedent

1. Precedent: The What, the Why, and the How

2. The Doctrine of Precedent and the Rule of Recognition

3. On the Nature of Stare Decisis

4. Why Precedent Works

5. Precedent and Legal Creep: A Cause for Concern?

6. Elements of Precedent

7. Precedent and Paradigm: Thomas Kuhn on Science and the Common Law

8. Supplanting Defeasible Rules

Part II Precedent and Legal Argument

9. The Uses of Precedent and Legal Argument

10. The 'Expiscation' of Legal Principles

11. The Hermeneutics of Legal Precedent

12. Do Precedents Constrain Reasoning?

13. Precedent, Exemplarity, and Imitation

14. How Does Precedent Constrain?

15. Precedent, Contest, and Law: A Logocratic Agony That Fits

16. Dog Law: On the Logical Structure (or Lack Thereof) of Distinguishing

17. Analogical Reasoning and Precedent

18. Precedent and Similarity

Part III Precedent and Legal Theory

19. Presumptive Reasons and Stare Decisis

20. An Artefactual Theory of Precedent

21. The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions

22. A Precedent-​Based Critique of Legal Positivism

23. Realism About Precedent

24. Precedent and the Source-​Norm Distinction

25. Precedent as Generalized Second-​Order Reasons

26. Reasons Holism and the Shared View of Precedent

Part IV Precedent and Judicial Power

27. Should Courts Follow Mistaken Statutory Precedents?

28. Precedent and Law-​Making Powers

29. Shaping Our Relationship: The Power to Set a Precedent

30. Constitutionally Erroneous Precedent as a Window on Judicial Law-​Making in the US Legal System.

31. Statutory Interpretation and Binding Precedents in the Civil Law Tradition

32. The Oracles of Codification: Informal Authority in Statutory Interpretation

33. Predictability and Precedent

Part V Effects of Precedent in Morality and Law

34. Precedent Slippery Slopes

35. 'A Previous Instance': Yamamoto and the Uses of Precedent

36. Consistency in Administrative Law

37. Escaping Precedent: Inter-​Legality and Change in Rules of Recognition

38. Hoary Precedents

39. Partnering with the Dead to Govern the Unborn: The Value of Precedent in Judicial Reasoning

40. Emotions and Precedent

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-19-267156-1

0-19-267155-3

OCLC:

1375297336