Interpreting Precedents: A Comparative Study (Applied Legal Philosophy)

This book contains a series of essays discussing the uses of precedent as a source of law and a basis for legal arguments in nine different legal systems, representing a variety of legal traditions. Precedent is fundamental to law, yet theoretical and ideological as well as legal considerations lead to its being differently handled and rationalised in different places. Out of the comparative study come the six theoretical and synoptic essays that conclude the volume.

• Law of Judicial Precedent
• Interpreting Statutes: A Comparative Study (Applied Legal Philosophy)
• Precedent in English Law (Clarendon Law Series)
• The Power of Precedent
• The Nature and Authority of Precedent
• Rhetoric and The Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning (Law, State, and Practical Reason)
• Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary
• How Judges Think (Pims - Polity Immigration and Society Series)
• Settled Versus Right: A Theory of Precedent
• The Nature of the Common Law