Precedent in the United States Supreme Court

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peters, Christopher J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 33
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Constitutional law.; Constitutional Law.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Science.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
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This volume presents a variety of both normative and descriptive perspectives on the use of precedent by the United States Supreme Court.  It brings together a diverse group of American legal scholars, some of whom have been influenced by the Segal/Spaeth "attitudinal" model and some of wh...

Table of Contents:

• Contributors
• Introduction; Christopher J. Peters
• 1 The Dialectic of Stare Decisis Doctrine; Colin Starger
• 2 Did Casey Strike Out? Following and Overruling Constitutional Precedents in the Supreme Court; Larry Alexander
• 3 An Epistemic Defense of Precedent; Deborah Hellman
• 4 Private-Rights Litigation and the Normative Foundations of Durable Constitutional Precedent ; Maxwell L. Stearns
• 5 Group Formation and Precedent; Neal Devins
• 6 Stare Decisis and the Selection Effect; Frederick Schauer
• 7 Methodological Stare Decisis and Constitutional Interpretation; Chad M. Oldfather
• 8 Constitutional Method and the Path of Precedent; Randy J. Kozel
• 9 Originalism, Stare Decisis, and Constitutional Authority; Christopher J. Peters
• Index.