Product Description: In 2007, the International Association of Constitutional Law established an Interest Group on 'The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges,' to conduct a survey of the use of foreign precedents by Supreme and Constitutional Courts in deciding constitutional cases...read more

Product Description: Although precedent in the International Court of Justice is not binding, the Court relies on its previous judgments as authoritative expressions of its views. In this book, Mohamed Shahabuddeen, a judge in the International Court of Justice, shows the extent to which the Court is guided by previous decisions, and how parties to cases themselves use the Court's decisions when framing and presenting their cases...read more

Product Description: Information support is of great importance in every professional field. It is, inter alia, important to the legal profession. The principles of basic law are eternal and universal, but concepts change from time to time according to the needs of the society and the demand of public interest...read more

Product Description: This is the first publication on the trial proceedings of the International Criminal Court, the ICTY and the ICTR collected in one volume. It covers the essential procedural and evidentiary aspects of trials before the ICC from the beginning of an investigation until the sentence, including appeals, revision, and enforcement of the sentence...read more

Product Description: Analytical jurisprudence has been mostly silent on the role of precedent in legal adjudication. What is the content of a judge's precedent ideology, or the rule of precedent-recognition, by means of which the ratio of a case is to be distinguished from mere dicta? In this study, the author identifies six types of judicial precedent-ideology, and tests them against judicial experiences in the UK, US, France, Italy, Germany and Finland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At least since plato and Aristotle, thinkers have pondered the relationship between philosophical arguments and the "sophistical" arguments offered by the Sophists -- who were the first professional lawyers. Judges wield substantial political power, and the justifications they offer for their decisions are a vital means by which citizens can assess the legitimacy of how that power is exercised...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What is the justification for following precedents? Are judicial pronouncements on precedent rules, or just conventions? Contributors to this book address these and other intriguing questions vital to the understanding and interpretation of precedent and the workings of law.