Precedent InflationTransaction Publishers - 371 páginas Precedents are decisions judges have issued in prior cases. In the common law, precedents are used to determine what the outcome of present cases should be, under the doctrine of "stare decisis, "which stipulates that new cases are resolved by applying legal rules developed in the process of deciding past cases. This volume postulates a relationship between the concept of legal precedent and the means that are used to make specific precedents available to the legal profession. The author concentrates specifically on the effect computer databases such as lexis and westlaw will have on the use of precedent in the common law. By tracing the history of law reporting, Professor Brenner demonstrates how the Anglo-American conception of precedent has altered over the past seven hundred years, and that these alterations reflect changes in the means used to distribute precedents. She explains why computers will become the primary means of disseminating precedents and describes the evolution and operation of the two on-line services that provide access to precedents by means of computer terminals and modems. These services--lexis and westlaw-- are operated by private entrepreneurs in the business of providing precedents to the legal profession. Arguing that such services will have a profound effect on the conception and use of precedent, Brenner provides an empirical study of both services to show the effects they have already had, and outlines the conception of precedent that will result from the use of computers as "law reporters." This, she believes, will be a quantitative conception in which judicial decisions will be used in a manner analogous to the use of quantitative data in scientific endeavors. This study, written with a brilliance often reserved for popular writing at its best, is unique in its application of sociology of knowledge principles to the analysis of law reporting in its examination of citations to approximately 25,000 judicial decisions. It will be of special interest to lawyers, sociologists, and policymakers. |
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... earlier decisions as items of interest and perhaps as sources of guidance , but not as something they were required to follow . One author notes that as late as 1800 , Delaware judges spoke " of their personal The Theory 7.
... interest or bias . If a system restricts access to its precedents , it minimizes the risk that such perceptions will arise among the general populace or among non- decision - making personnel within the legal system . Chapter 6 ...
... interest in obtaining this information and their use of it will be determined by the role that the legal system assigns to lawyers . Chapter 3 explains that the early common law closely resembled this scenario . This possibility is , of ...
... the phrase " sociology of knowledge " to denote a discipline that would study the history of ideas ; unfortunately , there was very little interest in this discipline , especially in this country . Although one scholar 23 3: Perspectives.
... interest in the sociology of knowledge among U.S. scholars . This led them to seek out writings on this topic and on related perspectives , and to invent new techniques for implementing its concern with understanding " the relationship ...
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The Study | 47 |
Origins of the Rule of Precedent | 57 |
Development of Case Reporters in England | 69 |
Case Reporting in the United States | 83 |
Case Reporters and the Rule of Precedent | 111 |
LEXIS and WESTLAW | 175 |
Putting Unpublished Decisions Online An Empirical Study | 191 |
The Future of Precedent | 257 |
Postscript | 311 |
Appendices | 313 |
Bibliography | 335 |
Explanatory Note on References | 357 |
Index | 367 |
Case Reporters and the Rule of Precedent in Systems Legitimated by RationalLegal Principles | 155 |
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