The Nature and Authority of Precedent.
An examination of how precedent operates as a common-law doctrine.
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Table of cases; 1 Introduction: the usable past; 2 Why does English law have a doctrine of precedent?; 3 Precedents as reasons; 4 Distinguishing, overruling and the problem of self-reference; 5 Why follow precedent?; Index.