This book is aimed at analysing how court decisions (precedent) function as a source of law by drawing on the comparison between jurisdictions from all over the world, from different legal families and with diverse legal traditions, including Brazil, China, England & Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Africa and Sweden.
The contributions cover various aspects such as:
The history of precedent;
Formal support for precedent as a source of law;
The binding nature of precedent;
Reporting systems and style of reasoning;
Judges as law-makers.
