Overview
- A diversity of scholarly perspectives provides an unique overview of important Supreme Court precedent
- Contributions by top legal scholars makes this the "go-to" reference on the topic
- Provides a comparative framework for debates about precedent in civil-law and emerging legal systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 33)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Barriers to Group Formation on the Supreme Court
- Constitutional Interpretation
- Constitutional Stare Decisis as Dispute Resolution
- Decisis and the Selection Effect
- Dialectic of Stare Decisis Doctrine
- Due Process Clause in the US Constitution
- Due Process Clause of the Constitution
- Epistemic Defense of Precedent
- Group Formation and Precedent
- Judicial Precedent in the USA
- Methodological Stare Decisis
- Normative Foundations Of Constitutional Precedent
- Normative Foundations of Constitutional Precedent
- Normative Foundations of Constitutional Precedent
- Overruling Constitutional Precedents
- Overruling Constitutional Precedents
- Precedent on the United States Supreme Court
- Private Rights Litigation
- Scope of Constitutional Precedent
- United States Supreme Court
- onstitutional Precedent and The Adjudicative Process
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precedent in the United States Supreme Court
Editors: Christopher J. Peters
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7951-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7950-1Published: 21 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7986-9Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7951-8Published: 11 February 2014
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Constitutional Law, Philosophy of Law, Political Science, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History