Nature and authority of precedent, the
Auteur :
Duxbury, Neil
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521713368
Date de publication :
3 avr. 2008
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,1 cm
Poids :
280 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers are able to relax those constraints. In doing so, he shows that no single principle explains the authority of precedent; instead there are a number of arguments which raise rebuttable presumptions in favour of precedent-following.