Recall from chapter 1 that the Court’s treatment of precedent takes two broad forms, positive interpretation and negative interpretation. First, the Court can interpret a precedent positively by relying on it as legal authority and thus broaden its reach or at least reiterate its continuing legal relevance. When doing so, for example, the Court can indicate that a precedent is controlling or de...

Статья посвящена особенностям понимания библейского прецедентного высказывания КОЗЁЛ ОТПУЩЕНИЯ представителями немецкого и русского лингвокультурных сообществ. Обсуждается вопрос отнесённости названного библеизма к социумно-прецедентным или национально-прецедентным феноменам. При этом отмечаются общие черты различия в понимании русскими немецкими испытуемыми. The paper is devoted to the specifi...

We develop an informational model of judicial decision-making in which deference to precedent is useful to policy-oriented appellate judges because it improves the accuracy with which they can communicate legal rules to trial judges. Our simple model yields new implications and hypotheses regarding conditions under which judges will maintain or break with precedent, the constraining effect that...