Precedent

The Legal History of Precedent

This section provides an overview of Precedent

Concept of Precedent

Note: explore also the meaning of this legal term in the American Ecyclopedia of Law.

Precedent

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on precedent explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

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See Also

• Judiciary

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Further Reading

• The entry “precedent” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press

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See Also

• Legal Biography
• Legal Traditions
• Historical Laws
• History of Law

Further Reading

• Precedent in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
• Precedent in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
• A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly