Contents
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.
Resources
See Also
- Judiciary
Resources
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
Resources
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
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