Precedents as Rules and Practice
New Approaches and Methodologies in Studies of Legal Precedents
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2021
242 pages
978-3-7489-0829-6 (ISBN)
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Präjudizien haben heute in den unterschiedlichsten Rechtssystemen eine erhebliche Bedeutung für die juristische Entscheidungsfindung. Umso mehr besteht daher das Bedürfnis, deren Entstehungsbedingungen und deren tatsächlichen Einfluss auf die Praxis zu verstehen. Neben dogmatischen Arbeiten wurden in den letzten Jahren vermehrt Studien publiziert, die mit empirischen Methoden sowie sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven der Praxis nationaler wie auch internationaler Gerichte näherkommen wollten. Das gab Anlass verschiedene theoriebezogene wie auch empirische Forschungszugänge, die im Zuge einer Konferenz präsentiert wurden, gemeinsam in einem Buch zu verbinden. So bietet das Buch unter anderem eine Analyse des Einflusses der linguistischen Praxis auf die Entscheidungsbegründungen des EuGH, die Erstellung eines Zitationsnetzwerks sowie ganz generell die Diskussion über den Wert neuer Methoden und Perspektiven in der Arbeit mit und der Forschung zu Präjudizien.
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Content
- Cover
- Introduction: Precedents as Rules and Practice
- 1. Introduction: A New Methodological Framework for Studies of Precedent
- 2. Content
- Part I: Precedent as authority: Broadening the Range of Research Methods
- Part II: Actors and Languages of Precedent: Courts and their Communities
- Part III: Identifying Concepts of Precedents in Legal Systems
- Final Remarks
- Bibliography
- The Weight of Precedent: From Abstract Theorizing to Concrete Application: The case of the ECtHR
- A. Precedent and the law
- B. Operationalizing precedent
- B.I. Network analysis applied to the study of precedent
- B.II. The contributions of network analysis.
- C. Quantitative and qualitative approaches to precedent - stronger together
- C.I. Finding Relevant Precedent
- C.II. Possibilities and Limitations
- D. Conclusion - What is precedent?
- E. Bibliography
- The Practical Construction of Precedent in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
- I Introduction
- II Precedent in theory and practice
- A. The role of case law at ECtHR
- B. Case law citation network analysis
- III. The ECtHR case law citation network
- A. Selection of subset cases
- B. From numerical to judicial authority
- C. Preliminary conclusions
- IV. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Reconstructing Scholarly Authority in International Law
- A. Legal doctrinal orthodoxy
- B. Naturalism revisited
- C. The sociology of authority
- D. Hermeneutic understanding
- E. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Culture Clash: The Sociology of WTO Precedent
- A. Introduction
- B. Three Frames
- I. Jurisprudential
- II. Rationalist
- III. Sociological
- C. Practices of Precedent within Communities of Practice
- D. Revisiting the 'Crisis' of WTO Precedents
- I. Respecting Formalities
- II. Furthering Interests
- III. Culture Clubs
- E. Towards a Sociology of International Precedent
- F. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Reasoning with past cases at the CJEU: linguistic, institutional and systemic constraints
- I. Introduction
- II. The Linguistic Context
- 1. The Law
- 2. The Institution
- III. The Court's Judicial Style
- 1. From a French model to a sui generis style
- 2. Abstract reasoning with past cases
- IV. Constraints Related to Language, the Court's Set-Up and Its Role in the EU Legal System
- 1. Language
- 2. Collegiality and secret deliberations
- 3. Caseload
- 4. Discussion: Legitimacy Through Reasoning
- V. Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Precedents - A Question of Memory
- I. Introduction
- II Storing and Retrieving Decisions at the Court
- A. Storing: Institutional Measures for an Institutional Memory
- a. What Makes a Memory Institutional?
- b. Lawyers at the Court
- c. Facilities of the Court
- d. Panels and Specialization
- e. Archives
- B. Retrieving from Archives
- a. What We Store is What We Retrieve
- b. Retrieving in the Digital Age
- i. Availability and Forgetting
- ii. Lost in Results
- III Curation of Memory
- IV Conclusion: The Court and its Past
- Bibliography
- Precedents in Private Law - A Civil Law Perspective
- A. Introduction
- B. The Position of Early Civil Codes
- C. Theoretical Approaches over Time
- D. Institutional Framework
- I. The Role of Courts in a codified legal system
- II. Organization of the court system and case load
- E. The Motivation of Court Decisions
- I. Introduction
- II. France
- III. Germany and Austria
- F. Access to Court Decisions
- G. Mechanisms to Ensure Consistency of Decisions
- I. France
- II. Germany
- III. Austria
- H. Binding Precedents? - A Search for Traces
- I. Deviation from prior decisions
- II. Precedents as a Means of Concretization of Statutes
- III. Precedents and Leave to Appeal
- IV. Legal Malpractice and State Liability
- I. The "Authority" of Court Decisions
- J. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- The Precedent in the ICC Jurisprudence
- 1. Definition of Precedent in the ICC Statute
- 2. Identification of Precedent in ICC Case-Law
- 3. From Constant Jurisprudence to a Constant Change of Jurisprudence on the Standard of Proof
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
