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...

The result model of precedent holds that a legal precedent controls a fortiori cases— those cases, that is, that are at least as strong for the winning side of the precedent as the precedent case itself. This paper defends the result model against some objections by Larry Alexander, drawing on ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law in order to define an appropriate strength ord...